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10 Best Movies Like The Children's Hour

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

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#1
Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen

2021★ 6.3

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

Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for...

#2
The Man Without a Face

The Man Without a Face

1993★ 6.6

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

Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinera...

#3
Bang Bang You're Dead

Bang Bang You're Dead

2003★ 7.1

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

A troubled and bullied high school student fights against judgement from his community after threatening to bomb the football team....

#4
A Kid Like Jake

A Kid Like Jake

2018★ 6.0

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

On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them t...

#5
Detachment

Detachment

2011★ 7.6

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

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school ...

#6
Giant Little Ones

Giant Little Ones

2019★ 7.1

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

Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th...

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