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10 Best Movies Like The Skeleton Twins

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

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#1
Louder Than Bombs

Louder Than Bombs

2015★ 6.5

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

Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isab...

#2
You Can Count on Me

You Can Count on Me

2000★ 6.9

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

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town....

#3
Love Streams

Love Streams

1984★ 7.2

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

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart....

#4
My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho

1991★ 7.1

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

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel fro...

#5
The Cement Garden

The Cement Garden

1993★ 6.7

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

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a b...

#6
Uncle Frank

Uncle Frank

2020★ 7.3

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

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly jo...

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