
10 Best Movies Like Stand by Me
If you loved Stand by Me, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Hardball
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Stand by Me for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

Hands of Stone
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Stand by Me for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives....

The Coach
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Stand by Me for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Contemporary Russia. After he flubs a penalty kick, a humiliated national soccer player quits the game. He flees to a small town, where he decides to coach their local team....

Living
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Stand by Me for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Fate brings ordeals to characters that find themselves immersed in deep crisis; they must seek the strength to cope with adversity. In a remote and cold region of Russia, Galya, a ...

A Driver for Vera
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Stand by Me for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private ch...

Imperial Dreams
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Stand by Me for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Ang...