Movies Like After What Happened at the Library
If you liked After What Happened at the Library (2025), a drama movie directed by Syra McCarthy, 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.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
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Speak (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaFreshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles…
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Any Day Now (2012)
★ 7/10Also dramaIn the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the…
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Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaYears after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t…
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Stomp the Yard (2007)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaAfter the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his…
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Pariah (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
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Boy Erased (2018)
★ 7/10Also dramaJared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his…
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Frankie & Alice (2010)
★ 6/10Also dramaA drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
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Thirteen (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaWhen 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins…
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Kids (1995)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaYoung Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels…
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Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
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If I Stay (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaMia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her…
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaPennsylvania, 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…
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The Girl in the Book (2015)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaThe story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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Lovelace (2013)
★ 6/10Also dramaStory of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
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Disgrace (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaDisgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect…
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Richard Jewell (2019)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaRichard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime…
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What Maisie Knew (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaIn New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new…
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Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.