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10 Best Movies Like Urchin

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

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#1
Trainspotting

Trainspotting

1996★ 8.0

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

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane...

#2
Stuart: A Life Backwards

Stuart: A Life Backwards

2007★ 7.4

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

Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers f...

#3
Hummingbird

Hummingbird

2013★ 6.2

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

Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's ide...

#4
Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream

2000★ 8.0

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

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep....

#5
The Football Factory

The Football Factory

2004★ 6.4

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

The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A for...

#6
Less Than Zero

Less Than Zero

1987★ 6.4

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

A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit....

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