
Movies that feel like Beautiful Boy (2018)
If you loved Beautiful Boy, the closest films we have are Blind Chance (1987), Corpus Christi (2019) and On My Skin (2018). All three share Beautiful Boy's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
If Beautiful Boy hit the spot, these will too

Both are built on the same subject: psychological drama
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Common ground: psychological drama
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The same preoccupation in both: biography
The difference: None of the unease Beautiful Boy is built on

One thread runs through both: a true story
The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Beautiful Boy does

Both land stillness and unease at once
The difference: Leans harder into crime than Beautiful Boy does

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Unsettling drama in both cases

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Both keep coming back to the same thing: fathers and sons

Common ground: fathers and sons

Both are built on the same subject: biography

The shared currency is unease
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