If You Liked Dallas Buyers Club, Watch These Next
Finished Dallas Buyers Club (2013) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Dallas Buyers Club, most of them are drama, history.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
2.The Miseducation of Cameron Post(2018)
6.9DramaAlso drama
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus…
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3.Parkland(2013)
6.2HistoryDramaAlso history and drama
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the…
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4.Midnight Cowboy(1969)
7.5DramaAlso drama
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
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5.The Normal Heart(2014)
7.7DramaAlso drama
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
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7.A Million Little Pieces(2019)
6.2DramaAlso drama
A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
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8.Adventures of a Mathematician(2021)
6.1DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer.
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9.Frankie & Alice(2010)
6.0DramaThrillerAlso drama
A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
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10.Walking Tall: Lone Justice(2007)
5.8ActionThrillerCrimeAlso drama
In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, Kate is only wounded, and her boyfriend Nick believes there is a…
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11.Boys Don't Cry(1999)
7.4CrimeDramaAlso drama
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
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13.J. Edgar(2011)
6.2DramaCrimeHistoryAlso drama and history
As the face of law enforcement in the United States for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career, and his life.
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14.No Man of God(2021)
6.6CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama and history
The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.
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15.Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire(2009)
7.3DramaAlso drama
In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and…
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16.The Constant Gardener(2005)
7.0DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
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18.Oranges and Sunshine(2010)
6.9DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought…
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19.My Friend Dahmer(2017)
6.5HistoryDramaCrimeAlso history and drama
Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.
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20.Nickel Boys(2024)
6.6DramaHistoryAlso drama and history
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
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