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10 Best Movies Like The Children Are Watching Us

If you loved The Children Are Watching Us, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Red Beard

Red Beard

1965★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children Are Watching Us for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic unde...

#2
Shoeshine

Shoeshine

1946★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children Are Watching Us for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll...

#3
Zabriskie Point

Zabriskie Point

1970★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children Are Watching Us for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a ...

#4
Day of Wrath

Day of Wrath

1943★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children Are Watching Us for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft...

#5
Miracle in Milan

Miracle in Milan

1951★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children Are Watching Us for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the or...

#6
Bashu, the Little Stranger

Bashu, the Little Stranger

1991★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children Are Watching Us for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the Iran-Iraq War, Bashu, a young boy loses his house and all his family. Scared, he sneaks into a truck that is leaving the area. He gets off the truck in the Northern part...