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10 Best Movies Like Young Cassidy

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

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#1
The Informer

The Informer

1935★ 6.8

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

Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over in America with his girlfriend....

#2
Hidden Agenda

Hidden Agenda

1990★ 7.0

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

In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish du...

#3
Parked

Parked

2010★ 6.6

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

Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred ...

#4
Belfast

Belfast

2021★ 7.0

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

Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in i...

#5
Home Run

Home Run

2013★ 6.2

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

A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties f...

#6
Genius

Genius

2016★ 6.5

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

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,...

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