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Ranked by tone match
Movies like The Holy Boy (2025)
10 films to watch after The Holy Boy, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.
A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.
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1Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Fit 59%Shares Drama and Thriller with The Holy Boy.
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.
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2Super Dark Times (2017)
Fit 57%Shares Drama and Thriller with The Holy Boy.
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
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The Crow (1994)
Fit 54%Shares Fantasy and Thriller with The Holy Boy.
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.
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4Ken Park (2003)
Fit 45%Shares Drama and Thriller with The Holy Boy.
Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.
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5Little Nikita (1988)
Fit 44%Shares Drama and Thriller with The Holy Boy.
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
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6Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
Fit 44%Shares Drama and Thriller with The Holy Boy.
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
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7Coffy (1973)
Fit 43%Shares Thriller and Drama with The Holy Boy.
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
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8Bully (2001)
Fit 42%Shares Drama and Thriller with The Holy Boy.
A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Bobby, who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years.
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9Get Carter (2000)
Fit 40%Shares Drama and Thriller with The Holy Boy.
Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a murder. With this knowledge, Carter sets out to kill all those responsible.
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10Foxfire (1996)
Fit 40%Shares Drama and Thriller with The Holy Boy.
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.
