Movies like The Boy in the Dress (2014)
The best movies like The Boy in the Dress (2014) are Jack (1996), Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008). If The Boy in the Dress hooked you with its drama and family, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSubmarine (2011)7.4/10 from 1,668 votes
- NewestChristmas...Again?! (2021)Released 2021
Jack (1996)
Born with a rare condition that makes him age four times faster than normal, ten-year-old Jack Powell looks like a forty-year-old man. After years of homeschooling, he enters public school for the first time, eager to make friends and live like any other kid—only to discover that growing up too fast means learning some of life’s hardest lessons early.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDiary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)
Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAngus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEaten by Lions (2018)
Omar and Pete are half brothers. When their parents are eaten by lions they embark on a journey to find Omar's real father. What follows is a funny, heart-warming journey of self-discovery for both boys...in Blackpool. The Choudray family represents a truly contemporary example of modern multicultural Britain - but what will the brothers make of their eccentric newfound family? Will they be going to Mecca or Mecca bingo? In contrast to the old fashioned stereotypes about Blackpool, the comedy is sharp, current and non-stop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Cider with Rosie (2015)
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
My Brother Chases Dinosaurs (2019)
As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he is almost ashamed of him, especially since he met Arianna, the first love of his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlinded by the Light (2019)
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beat Beneath My Feet (2014)
Teenage boy Tom lives with his single mum in a flat in South London. Into the flat below moves Steve, an anti-social former Rock God who faked his death 8 years ago. Tom agrees not to reveal his secret on condition that he teaches him the dark arts of Rock Guitar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bad Education Movie (2015)
Mr Wickers takes his class on a final trip to Cornwall, which descends into chaos as they encounter a local separatist group.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBillionaire Boy (2016)
The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Mr. Stink (2012)
Chloe recedes into herself due to her family's uncaring attitude towards her. When she meets Mr. Stink, a smelly man, she invites him to live in her garden shed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Ratburger (2017)
A girl rescues a rat which a malevolent salesman wants to turn into a burger and feed the local schoolchildren with.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Cemetery Junction (2010)
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGarage (2007)
Due to a learning disability, Josie's life in a tiny town revolves around a menial job taking care of a garage that could close at any day. Things start to change, however, when David, the son of his boss' girlfriend, comes to work with him. Josie hangs out with David and his teenage friends, bringing them beer, and despite being a grown man himself, finds that the new company lifts his spirits. But his simple-mindedness blinds him to some potential legal dangers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrandpa's Great Escape (2018)
Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When his family can no longer look after him, he is moved to Twilight Towers, an old people's home. It soon becomes clear that Miss Dandy is running Twilight Towers for her own ulterior motives, and it is up to Grandpa and grandson Jack to make a daring escape. Failure could have the direst of consequences, but success will give Grandpa a final chance to relive his past and take to the sky once again in his beloved Spitfire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Bill (2015)
What really happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years'? Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPapadopoulos & Sons (2012)
Following his ruin in the latest banking crisis, a self-made millionaire reluctantly re-unites with his estranged freewheeling brother to re-open the abandoned fish and chip shop they shared in their youth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Midnight Gang (2018)
When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself on the miserable children's ward of St Hugo's Hospital, where he is greeted by a terrifying-looking porter and wicked matron. But things aren't as bad as they seem and Tom is soon to embark on the most thrilling journey of a lifetime!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Foster (2011)
Looking to adopt a child and unable to conceive a child of their own, the Morrisons' lives are turned upside down when a seven-year-old boy unexpectedly shows up on their doorstep.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatrick (2018)
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHorrid Henry: The Movie (2011)
When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him forming an unlikely alliance with Moody Margaret, the infuriating girl next door, and his irritating little brother Perfect Peter, outwitting corrupt school Inspectors and toppling an evil Headmaster, winning a talent contest and facing his ultimate nemesis with no way out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHorrible Histories: The Movie — Rotten Romans (2019)
Brainy Roman teenager Atti is always coming up with schemes, but one ultimately goes too far, angering Emperor Nero. As punishment, the lad is exiled to the cold wet province of Roman Britain on the fringe of the Roman Empire. Whilst there, Atti is captured by—and eventually befriends—Orla, a feisty Celt. When he's returned to his regiment, he's horrified to find himself pitted against Orla and her tribe at the Boudican revolt's Battle of Watling Street.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisSubmarine (2011)
15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGangsta Granny (2013)
A young boy is bored spending time with his dull grandma until he discovers she's an international Jewel thief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
The Drummer and the Keeper (2017)
The Drummer and the Keeper tells the story of the unlikely friendship formed between two young men: Gabriel, a reckless young drummer who revels in rejecting society’s rules and Christopher, a 17-year-old with Asperger’s Syndrome, who yearns to fit in. This heartwarming story shows the strength of the human bond in the face of adversity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Rock the House (2011)
Dave Peterson is a successful and handsome career-driven attorney who barely spends time with his teenage daughter, Karen. Their routine regularly consists of Dave choosing work over spending time with her, and Karen retreating into her journal or iPod. When Dave opens up his 25th high school reunion invitation to see photos of himself - a person he no longer resembles - he begins reconnecting with old friends, including members of his old high school band, The Groaners. Suddenly Dave begins to find ways to spend more time with Karen, and, for the first time, he puts his career on hold.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Alley Cats Strike (2000)
A group of hip retro teenage outsiders become involved in an interschool bowling rivalry.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas...Again?! (2021)
Rowena "Ro" is a high-spirited 11-year-old hoping to add more spunk to her Christmas celebrations when her parents’ divorce is going anything but smoothly.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Boy in the Dress?
The closest matches to The Boy in the Dress are Jack (1996), Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Boy in the Dress?
People who watched The Boy in the Dress most often go on to Jack (1996), Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Boy in the Dress?
Submarine (2011), rated 7.4/10 by 1,668 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Boy in the Dress?
Christmas...Again?! (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Boy in the Dress?
Yes: Jack (1996), Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008).
How are movies similar to The Boy in the Dress chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Boy in the Dress, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.