← Back to Review

10 Best Movies Like The Black Balloon

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

#1
Pride

Pride

2007★ 6.6

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

Coach Jim Ellis shocks the community and changes lives when, aided by a local janitor, he sets out to form Philadelphia's first black swim team. But the odds are against them as th...

#2
City Island

City Island

2009★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Black Balloon for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought h...

#3
The Honor List

The Honor List

2018★ 5.8

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

Four girls sink a time capsule in a lake with a list of things they want to do before graduation, but they all go separate ways before graduating. When a tragedy strikes, they reun...

#4
Re-Animator

Re-Animator

1985★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Black Balloon for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re...

#5
Greenland

Greenland

2020★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Black Balloon for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of citi...

#6
The Exorcist

The Exorcist

1973★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Black Balloon for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life....