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10 Best Movies Like Tomboy

If you loved Tomboy, 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 Tomboy 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
Reinventing Marvin

Reinventing Marvin

2017★ 6.6

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

Telling the true story of Marvin Bijou, a young boy from a working-class family in a small village, who suffers constant bullying at school and home for being ‘different’ – too sen...

#3
My Little Princess

My Little Princess

2011★ 6.5

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

Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer ...

#4
Heaven Will Wait

Heaven Will Wait

2016★ 7.0

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

Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet...

#5
The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees

2008★ 7.5

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

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationshi...

#6
Petite Maman

Petite Maman

2021★ 7.1

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

After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new f...

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