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10 Best Movies Like Standard Deviation

If you loved Standard Deviation, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
XXY

XXY

2007★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Standard Deviation for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Alex, an intersexed 15-year-old, is living as a girl, but she and her family begin to wonder whether she's emotionally a boy when another teenager's sexual advances bring the issue...

#2
Port Authority

Port Authority

2019★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Standard Deviation for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secr...

#3
Pariah

Pariah

2011★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Standard Deviation for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression....

#4
20,000 Species of Bees

20,000 Species of Bees

2023★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Standard Deviation for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity al...

#5
Boys Don't Cry

Boys Don't Cry

1999★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Standard Deviation for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska....

#6
The Adjuster

The Adjuster

1991★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Standard Deviation for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords....

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