Movies Like Factory Kids

If you liked Factory Kids (2023), a movie directed by Elijah Debot, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Love and Monsters (2020)
★ 7.3/10
Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite…
2
Kinky Boots (2005)
★ 6.7/10
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the…
3
The Machinist (2004)
★ 7.5/10
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
4
Sucker Punch (2011)
★ 6.2/10
A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a group of fellow inmates, she embarks on a quest to collect five mystical…
5
Transamerica (2005)
★ 7/10
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
6
Maurice (1987)
★ 7.6/10
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
7
Leviticus (2026)
★ 6.8/10
Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other.
8
Pride (2014)
★ 7.7/10
In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
9
Mala Noche (1987)
★ 6.1/10
Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the object of his affections — including a shared language — his desire…
10
Modern Times (1936)
★ 8.3/10
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
11
mid90s (2018)
★ 7.5/10
In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop.
12
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
★ 6.2/10
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions…
13
Dolls (1987)
★ 6.4/10
A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion.
14
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
★ 7/10
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
15
RoboCop (2014)
★ 5.9/10
In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in…
16
Other People (2016)
★ 6.4/10
David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the…
17
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
★ 6.9/10
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in…
18
Naked (1993)
★ 7.3/10
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
19
Urchin (2025)
★ 6.7/10
Mike, a rough sleeper in London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Along the way, he encounters unexpected chances for a fresh start.
20
THX 1138 (1971)
★ 6.4/10
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As…