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10 Best Movies Like The Promising Boy

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

#1
Traffic

Traffic

2000★ 7.1

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

An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal w...

#2
Malcolm X

Malcolm X

1992★ 7.5

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

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then ...

#3
The Vampire Lovers

The Vampire Lovers

1970★ 6.3

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

In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog who...

#4
The Bet

The Bet

1971★ 4.2

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

A young woman leaves her older husband, the owner of a village mill, for a truck driver whom she met while he was in their village by business. While trying to find him, she experi...

#5
Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

2023★ 8.0

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

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

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

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....