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10 Best Movies Like To Be

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

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#1
A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey

1961★ 7.0

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

While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mother remarr...

#2
Stop Making Sense

Stop Making Sense

1984★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to To Be for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by...

#3
Rock 'n' Roll High School

Rock 'n' Roll High School

1979★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to To Be for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration....

#4
Mac & Devin Go to High School

Mac & Devin Go to High School

2012★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to To Be for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A comedy that follows two high school students -- one overachiever struggling to write his valedictorian speech, the other a senior now going on his 15th year of school....

#5
Early to Bed

Early to Bed

1941★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to To Be for fans of Animation. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Donald has to get up early, but everything seems to be working to keep him awake. His loudly ticking alarm clock resists several attempts to quiet it. Donald ultimately swallows it...

#6
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

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