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Movies Like By His Will

If you liked By His Will (2021), a drama movie directed by Uriel Torten, 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. 2The Little Prince(ss)

    The Little Prince(ss) (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    When Gabriel, a 7-year-old Chinese kid who loves ballet, becomes friends with Rob, another Chinese kid from school, Rob’s dad gets suspicious about Gabriel's feminine behavior and decides to intervene.

  3. 3Kiss 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…

  4. 4Tea and Sympathy

    Tea and Sympathy (1956)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife.

  5. 5My 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…

  6. 6What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew (2013)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

  7. 7Mammal

    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…

  8. 8Most

    Most (2003)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.

  9. 9The Short History of the Long Road

    The Short History of the Long Road (2019)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new…

  10. 10Tigertail

    Tigertail (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

  11. 11Boy Erased

    Boy Erased (2018)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his…

  12. 12Pink Narcissus

    Pink Narcissus (1971)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    An outrageous erotic poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful boy prostitute who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives a series of interlinked narcissistic fantasies populated by matadors…

  13. 13Gracie

    Gracie (2007)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

  14. 14Boys Don't Cry

    Boys Don't Cry (1999)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

  15. 15The Crush

    The Crush (1993)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

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

  16. 16Come Sunday

    Come Sunday (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.

  17. 17The Swan

    The Swan (2023)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story.

  18. 18The Giver

    The Giver (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

  19. 19The Fabelmans

    The Fabelmans (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him…

  20. 20Girl in the Box

    Girl in the Box (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

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