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Movies Like Sunstroke

If you liked Sunstroke (2009), a movie directed by Lili Horvát, 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. 1The Crush

    The Crush (1993)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

  2. 2Thirteen

    Thirteen (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When 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…

  3. 3Riding in Cars with Boys

    Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

    ★ 6.7/10

    In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

  4. 4Anna

    Anna (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

  5. 5Palm Trees and Power Lines

    Palm Trees and Power Lines (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted…

  6. 6Laggies

    Laggies (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to…

  7. 7The Fallout

    The Fallout (2021)

    ★ 7.5/10

    In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.

  8. 8An Education

    An Education (2009)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a…

  9. 9Dirty Dancing

    Dirty Dancing (1987)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly…

  10. 10Black Box

    Black Box (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10

    After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.

  11. 11Juno

    Juno (2007)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

  12. 12Lazareth

    Lazareth (2024)

    ★ 6/10

    Lee is an aunt whose life mission is to protect her orphaned nieces, Imogen and Maeve, from a self-destructing world, raising them in isolation until an outsider threatens their peaceful existence.

  13. 13If I Stay

    If I Stay (2014)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Mia 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…

  14. 14Backlight

    Backlight (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Several characters who are each at critical stages of their lives are strangely impelled towards an uncharted lake in the middle of the desert where they all have the opportunity to save each other.

  15. 15The Experiment

    The Experiment (2010)

    ★ 6.4/10

    20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

  16. 16Carrie

    Carrie (2002)

    ★ 6.2/10

    An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she…

  17. 17Gimme Shelter

    Gimme Shelter (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10

    After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.

  18. 18LOL

    LOL (2012)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's…

  19. 19Family

    Family (2018)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Kate Stone is career-focused with a brash attitude that keeps relationships at an arm's length. When her estranged brother calls asking her to baby-sit her tween niece Maddie, Kate reluctantly agrees to help. But…

  20. 20The Outrun

    The Outrun (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and…

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