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Movies Like The Dam

If you liked The Dam (2016), a drama movie directed by Brendon McDonall, 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. 1Pretty Boy

    Pretty Boy (2015)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Sean is taken to a motel and is given a prostitute for his 18th birthday by his father. He must sleep with her to "fix" his questionable homosexuality. "Pretty Boy" is a coming of age story of a young bullied teen…

  2. 2Mammal

    Mammal (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…

  3. 3My Brother the Devil

    My Brother the Devil (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic…

  4. 4Flow

    Flow (1996)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A filmmaker talks about his work and love life with an unseen friend behind the camera. We also watch four of his short films.

  5. 5Kiss of the Spider Woman

    Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills…

  6. 6Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and…

  7. 7The Boys in the Band

    The Boys in the Band (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.

  8. 8From Straight A's to XXX

    From Straight A's to XXX (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her…

  9. 9The Human Voice

    The Human Voice (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.

  10. 10May December

    May December (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

  11. 11Here

    Here (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

  12. 12Moonlight

    Moonlight (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his…

  13. 13Cardboard Boxer

    Cardboard Boxer (2016)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.

  14. 14Beast

    Beast (2026)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal…

  15. 15Canvas

    Canvas (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.

  16. 16The Adjuster

    The Adjuster (1991)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.

  17. 17Heatwave

    Heatwave (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

  18. 18A Month in the Country

    A Month in the Country (1987)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to…

  19. 19Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon

    Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique beginning to their love affair, the…

  20. 20Fucktoys

    Fucktoys (2025)

    ★ 9/10Also drama

    AP’s got a curse and it’s really fucking up her vibe.

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