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Movies Like The Blue Boy

If you liked The Blue Boy (1994), a drama and mystery movie directed by Paul Murton, 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. 1FX's A Christmas Carol

    FX's A Christmas Carol (2019)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.

  2. 2A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol (1984)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he…

  3. 3It's a Wonderful Life

    It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

    ★ 8.3/10Also drama

    George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas…

  4. 4Scrooge

    Scrooge (1951)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a…

  5. 5The Sixth Sense

    The Sixth Sense (1999)

    ★ 8/10Also mystery and drama

    Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

  6. 6Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery

    Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set…

  7. 7An American Christmas Carol

    An American Christmas Carol (1979)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose…

  8. 8A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol (1938)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he…

  9. 9Verity

    Verity (2026)

    ★ 6.9/10Also mystery

    Lowen Ashleigh, hired to ghostwrite for best-selling author Verity Crawford, uncovers Verity's autobiographical notes, and becomes involved in what may prove to be a lethal conspiracy.

  10. 10I'll Be Home for Christmas

    I'll Be Home for Christmas (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Jackie Foster, a dynamic Assistant District Attorney and single mom, is looking forward to wrapping up her latest case and spending Christmas with Gracie, her adorable and precocious, eight-year old daughter. But when…

  11. 11How Sarah Got Her Wings

    How Sarah Got Her Wings (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on…

  12. 12The Deep End of the Ocean

    The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery

    A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.

  13. 13The Christmas Shoes

    The Christmas Shoes (2002)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second…

  14. 14Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

  15. 15Dream Lover

    Dream Lover (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and mystery

    Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…

  16. 16A Bramble House Christmas

    A Bramble House Christmas (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim…

  17. 17Enemy

    Enemy (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10Also mystery

    A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

  18. 18Brand Upon the Brain!

    Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery

    After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

  19. 19Deep Water

    Deep Water (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and mystery

    A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.

  20. 20Mothers' Instinct

    Mothers' Instinct (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly…

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