
Movies that feel likePrayers for Bobby (2009)
If you loved Prayers for Bobby, the closest films we have are I'm Still Here (2024), The Look of Silence (2014) and City of Men (2007). All three share Prayers for Bobby's contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist (1997).
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If Prayers for Bobby hit the spot, these will too

Both are working the same pair: a true story, grief

The same mix in both: stillness, then scale
The difference: Sits closer to documentary than Prayers for Bobby does

The same preoccupation in both: parents and children
The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than Prayers for Bobby does

Common ground: a true story

One thread runs through both: suicide


Both keep coming back to the same thing: suicide


Tv movie with a pulse of scale, in both cases


Both are built on the same subject: grief

Contemplative history in both cases
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