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10 Best Movies Like The Young & Evil

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

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#1
Kids

Kids

1995★ 6.9

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

A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights....

#2
Buddies

Buddies

1985★ 8.2

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

David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and fa...

#3
The Normal Heart

The Normal Heart

2014★ 7.7

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

The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in t...

#4
Crank: High Voltage

Crank: High Voltage

2009★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Young & Evil for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep work...

#5
Where the Day Takes You

Where the Day Takes You

1992★ 6.1

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

King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts as a mentor to troubled kids su...

#6
Shank

Shank

2009★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Young & Evil for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from his fellow gang members despite their often violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them, be they unsuspecting shoppers, ...

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