Movies like Beautiful Beings (2022)
The best movies like Beautiful Beings (2022) are Jitters (2010), Sparrows (2015) and Borstal Boy (2001). If Beautiful Beings hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMysterious Skin (2005)7.7/10 from 1,399 votes
- NewestB.O.Y.: Bruises of Yesterday (2024)Released 2024
Jitters (2010)
An unexpected first kiss causes Gabriel to feel the electrifying "jitters" of love and lust with the free-spirited Marcus; a perfect way to end a Summer studying abroad. Realizing he is gay, Gabriel returns home and is immediately scrutinized by his family and friends who notice he’s different. But as the school year launches with Gabriel distracted with parties and his friends’ own dramas, Marcus returns, reigniting the hot, thrilling emotions of one’s first crush. Jitters fires head-first into the topsy-turvy world of first love with an attractive cast and pulsating soundtrack, making it a smartly refreshing journey into the queer, teen experience.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSparrows (2015)
The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBorstal Boy (2001)
Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeartstone (2016)
A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thór and Kristján experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLet Me Fall (2018)
When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags them both into a world of drugs, which brings serious consequences for each of them, and their relationship. Twelve years later their paths cross again, and a reckoning between them becomes unavoidable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
B.O.Y.: Bruises of Yesterday (2024)
A 16-year-old boy who spend summer with his grandparents falls in love with an older young man but when tragedy strikes, he falls into a dark hole of self-harm, lust, and loneliness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Noi the Albino (2003)
17 year old Nói drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Nói dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Íris, a city girl who works in a local gas station. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisParadise Is Burning (2023)
Left to their own devices by their absent mother, Laura and her two sisters revel in the excitement of freedom, letting their days unfold without the constraints of adult supervision. However, when Laura receives a call that threatens to place them in foster care, she frantically searches for a substitute mother to avoid this fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Zappa (1983)
Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is Mulle, a cheerful and more childish working-class boy. All three seem friends at first, but gradually Steen starts pushing Mulle away while pulling the impressionable Bjørn with him towards more and more violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mysterious Skin (2005)
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Harvesters (2018)
South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThey Have Escaped (2014)
Two troubled youths break out of their halfway house and make their way to one's home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A White, White Day (2019)
In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnd Breathe Normally (2018)
At the edge of Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula, two women’s lives will intersect – for a brief moment – while trapped in circumstances unforeseen. Between a struggling Icelandic mother and an asylum seeker from Guinea-Bissau, a delicate bond will form as both strategize to get their lives back on track.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVirgin Mountain (2015)
Fúsi finds comfort in the familiarity of his routines, until an involuntary dance class forces him to encounter the real world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHoliday (2014)
A drama set in turbulent, turn-of-the-millennium Ecuador and centered on a young man who begins to develop complicated feelings for Juano after he saves him from a beating.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Rams (2015)
In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisCenter of My World (2016)
A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBoy Erased (2018)
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 family, friends, and faith.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSami Blood (2017)
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe County (2019)
A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Brotherhood (2009)
Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is uncovered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoy A (2008)
Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But when a local newspaper unearths his past, Jack must cope with the anger of citizens who fear for the safety of their children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFor My Brother (2014)
The two brothers Aske and Bastian live with their father, Lasse, in a world of fear, violence and alcohol but the brothers' strong and close relationship means everything. Aske must serve his father's sexual needs, as well as paying customers and his father's friend, Hans. Aske tries everything to keep his little brother out of it all so that he won't experience the same as himself. But one day Bastian is abused by their father. The brothers choose to move to Norway, far away in the beautiful mountains. Their friendship outshines everything! They are together and far away from their evil father...
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisYou Are Not Alone (1978)
Young teenager Bo is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth. Lonely and scared, he finds a soulmate in the headmaster's son Kim with whom he forms a bond of friendship... that slowly grows into something more.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAngels of the Universe (2000)
The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Under the Tree (2017)
When Baldvin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man Who Loved Yngve (2008)
It’s November 1989 and the world is changing. So is Jarle, who attends Kongsgård High School in Stavanger. He plays the guitar/lead singer in a local punk band, has a great girlfriend, and has the coolest best friend. But it's all about to change when Yngve enters the classroom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWoman at War (2018)
Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMetalhead (2013)
A young girl in 1990s Iceland is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Beautiful Beings?
The closest matches to Beautiful Beings are Jitters (2010), Sparrows (2015) and Borstal Boy (2001). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Beautiful Beings?
People who watched Beautiful Beings most often go on to Jitters (2010), Sparrows (2015) and Borstal Boy (2001).
What is the highest-rated movie like Beautiful Beings?
Mysterious Skin (2005), rated 7.7/10 by 1,399 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Beautiful Beings?
B.O.Y.: Bruises of Yesterday (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Beautiful Beings chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Beautiful Beings, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.