Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 15, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Last Summer

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

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#1
Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil

1998★ 6.5

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

One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wante...

#2
Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman

1985★ 7.0

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

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molin...

#3
Prick Up Your Ears

Prick Up Your Ears

1987★ 6.7

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

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes...

#4
Boy Erased

Boy Erased

2018★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Summer 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
My Brother the Devil

My Brother the Devil

2012★ 6.4

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

Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older broth...

#6
Tea and Sympathy

Tea and Sympathy

1956★ 7.0

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

A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife....

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