Movies like The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
The best movies like The Only Living Boy in New York (2017) are The Humbling (2014), 5 to 7 (2014) and Down to the Bone (2004). If The Only Living Boy in New York hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest rated5 to 7 (2014)7.1/10 from 428 votes
- NewestThis Is the Night (2021)Released 2021
The Humbling (2014)
Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like this5 to 7 (2014)
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDown to the Bone (2004)
A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lovers (2017)
The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAdoration (2013)
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurning Sands (2017)
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCrown Heights (2017)
When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFugitive Pieces (2008)
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The End of the Tour (2015)
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGod's Pocket (2014)
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Dinner with Hervé (2018)
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBreathe In (2013)
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Intervention (2016)
A weekend getaway for four couples takes a sharp turn when one of the couples discovers the entire trip was orchestrated to host an intervention on their marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGeorgia (1995)
Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer. Unfortunately it is this very obsession — coupled with her self-destructive tendencies and rampant drug abuse — that keeps her spiraling down the drain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisUnwed Father (1997)
9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Alex of Venice (2015)
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt Felt Like Love (2013)
14-year-old Lila spends a languid South Brooklyn summer playing third wheel to her promiscuous friend Chiara and Chiara’s boyfriend Patrick. Eager for her own sexual awakening, Lila gamely decides to pursue the older, thuggish Sammy, rumored to sleep with anyone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNobody Walks (2012)
A young woman's arrival sparks a surge of energy into a laid-back, artistic Los Angeles household, forcing the residents to confront their own fears and desires in an intricate dance of lust, denial and deception.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisChuck (2017)
A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStealing Cars (2016)
A rebellious teenager navigates his way through the juvenile court system.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Benefactor (2015)
A newly married couple are forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of a powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTest Pattern (2021)
A relationship is put to the test after Renesha is sexually assaulted and her boyfriend Evan drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPermanent Midnight (1998)
Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLast Night (2010)
Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague and Joanna encounters the other great love of her life, each is thrust into an evening of temptation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGolden Exits (2018)
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThis Is the Night (2021)
In the summer of 1982, as all of Staten Island anticipates the opening of a blockbuster boxing movie, an Italian-American family must confront its greatest challenges.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Ray & Liz (2018)
On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through a life decided by factors beyond their control. At times shocking and laced with an unsettling humor, three episodes unfold as a powerful evocation of the experience of growing up in a Black Country council flat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this6 Balloons (2018)
Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two-year-old daughter in tow.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLost Girls & Love Hotels (2020)
Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Only Living Boy in New York?
The closest matches to The Only Living Boy in New York are The Humbling (2014), 5 to 7 (2014) and Down to the Bone (2004). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Only Living Boy in New York?
People who watched The Only Living Boy in New York most often go on to The Humbling (2014), 5 to 7 (2014) and Down to the Bone (2004).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Only Living Boy in New York?
5 to 7 (2014), rated 7.1/10 by 428 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Only Living Boy in New York?
This Is the Night (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Only Living Boy in New York?
Yes: The Humbling (2014), 5 to 7 (2014) and Down to the Bone (2004).
How are movies similar to The Only Living Boy in New York chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Only Living Boy in New York, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.