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10 Best Movies Like Tex

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

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#1
The Outsiders

The Outsiders

1983★ 7.2

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

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny...

#2
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

2003★ 7.3

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

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she ...

#3
The True Adventures of Wolfboy

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

2019★ 5.9

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

Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother....

#4
Boy Erased

Boy Erased

2018★ 7.0

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

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be pe...

#5
Sarah's Oil

Sarah's Oil

2025★ 8.1

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

Sarah Rector, a Black girl born in early 20th-century Oklahoma Indian Territory, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith proves right. As greedy...

#6
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

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