Movies Like Boys Town
If you liked Boys Town (1938), a drama movie directed by Norman Taurog, 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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The Boys of St. Vincent (1994)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaThe true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
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Doubt (2008)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaIn 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
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Fatima (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaIn 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World…
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Small Things Like These (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaIn 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit…
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House of Strangers (1949)
★ 7/10Also dramaRuthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business…
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The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area…
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The Confession (2011)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA unique story of redemption and an exploration of good and evil featuring a hit man and a priest.
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The Man Without a Face (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaJustin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of…
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Evelyn (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaDesmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it…
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Newsies (1992)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike…
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The Parts You Lose (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAn unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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Oliver Twist (1948)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaWhen 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin…
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Won't Back Down (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaJamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for…
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaThe story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
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No One Would Tell (1996)
★ 7/10Also dramaShy sixteen-year-old Stacy Collins can't believe that the most popular guy in school, an attractive athlete named Bobby Tennison, is interested in her. At first she is flattered by his constant attention, but then he…
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The Children Act (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaIn the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
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New Jersey Drive (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaJason and Midget are two young, black teenagers living in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favourite pastime is that of everybody in their neighbourhood: stealing cars and…
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A Perfect World (1993)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaA kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaBased on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.