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10 Best Movies Like The Young Strangers

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

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#1
Family Romance, LLC

Family Romance, LLC

2019★ 6.2

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

Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 1...

#2
Café Lumière

Café Lumière

2004★ 6.7

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

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregna...

#3
The Pumpkin Eater

The Pumpkin Eater

1964★ 6.7

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

Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatib...

#4
Ice Castles

Ice Castles

2010★ 6.3

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

Young, beautiful, talented Alexis Winston comes from nowhere to become a figure skating superstar. But her rise to stardom isn’t easy. She has to push herself, reinvent herself, an...

#5
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

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

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

#6
Blue Chips

Blue Chips

1994★ 6.1

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

Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boost...

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