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Movies Like The Giants

If you liked The Giants (2011), a drama and adventure movie directed by Bouli Lanners, 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. 1Palmer

    Palmer (2021)

    ★ 8.1/10Also drama

    After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to…

  2. 2Hot Summer Nights

    Hot Summer Nights (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    In 1991, a sheltered teenager comes of age during a wild summer on Cape Cod, getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying, and eventually realizing that he's in way over his…

  3. 3Moonlight

    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…

  4. 4Wasteman

    Wasteman (2026)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Taylor's hopes for a fresh start post-parole are jeopardised by cellmate Dee's arrival. As Dee takes Taylor under his wing, a vicious attack tests their bond, forcing Taylor to choose between protecting Dee and his own…

  5. 5River's Edge

    River's Edge (1986)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to…

  6. 6Thoroughbreds

    Thoroughbreds (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, they devise a plan to kill Lily's abusive stepfather by hiring a…

  7. 7Beautiful Boy

    Beautiful Boy (2018)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

  8. 8Braven

    Braven (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.

  9. 9The Florida Project

    The Florida Project (2017)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

  10. 10Hellion

    Hellion (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for…

  11. 11Close

    Close (2022)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.

  12. 12Kids

    Kids (1995)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

  13. 13Blood Father

    Blood Father (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An ex-con reconnects with his estranged teenage daughter while fighting to keep her alive after she becomes a target of violent drug dealers.

  14. 14Mammal

    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…

  15. 15Antigang

    Antigang (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    As a rowdy team of detectives clashes with their disciplined new boss, they must catch a vicious band of robbers who are wreaking havoc on their city.

  16. 16My Own Private Idaho

    My Own Private Idaho (1991)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and…

  17. 17Blow

    Blow (2001)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.

  18. 18Layer Cake

    Layer Cake (2004)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...

  19. 19What Doesn't Kill You

    What Doesn't Kill You (2008)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.

  20. 20The Party Is Over

    The Party Is Over (2018)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Despite their differences, Celeste and Sihem quickly become inseparable. The common will to get out of drugs seals their fusional friendship. This will be as much a force as an obstacle when, transferred from the…

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