For fans of Richard Linklater: what to watch, read & play next

Three teenage boys chasing their first real summer — awkward, eager, and utterly convinced everything matters.

Six young people piecing together one wild night, full of unexpected connections and relationship fallout.

A romantic triangle on a college campus where identity quietly shifts under the pressure of new feelings.

Two college friends traveling Europe become rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman.

Two boys on the edge of adulthood in a dying Texas town, aching with boredom, lust, and the pull of elsewhere.

A young man left behind while friends move on, caring for a difficult father and searching for direction.

A time-travel premise used gently — really a story about fathers, sons, and savoring the everyday.

College schemers facing their last exam season, where shortcuts and real feelings finally collide.

Two ambitious friends in showbiz whose different fortunes slowly reshape a lifelong bond across decades.

A twenty-something drifter in a city apartment, ambition deferred, living on friends and late nights.

90s high-school hustlers whose small underground economy quietly outgrows their ability to control it.

Childhood friends who swore they'd conquer the world together, life testing every promise along the way.

Three old friends reunited after thirty years, a shared secret from youth finally demanding a reckoning.

Three teenage buddies in 1970s Los Angeles getting into low-stakes trouble, propelled by friendship and restless energy.

Two people reunited after decades apart — a late-life romance built on what time kept and what it buried.

A boy who showed one act of kindness finds his life quietly upended by the city's hidden underclass.

Four unlikely colleagues swap conflicting memories of the same decade, each story as unreliable as the teller.

A woman steps back into her quiet hometown for a month and rediscovers a slower, more human pace of living.

Two strangers on opposite sides of WWI, each trying to hold onto humanity across an unbridgeable distance.

A lone visitor on an isolated vessel uncovers dark secrets beneath a vision of utopian grandeur.

College survivors of one traumatic night return to school — the horror now different, the stakes more personal.

An interactive thriller that holds up a mirror to the viewer's own psychology and hidden desires.

A retired lawman dragged back into a corrupt city — a character study built on regret and reluctant duty.

A bouncer races to rescue a kidnapped friend — a story of loyalty told through relentless action.

A boy's summer on Nantucket in 1942, the war distant, first love and lost innocence filling its place.

A Swiss boarding school where young writers tangle with ambition, romance, and a murder — charged, literary, enclosed.

Two young women loose in pre-WWII Europe, bumbling through the Continent with infectious, unchecked optimism.

Children of immigrants on the 1893 prairie, grown up and now asking what the next generation will inherit.

A teenager who stops his meds feels like himself again — until a mentor pushes him somewhere unexpected.

Two best friends in 1919 Boston using hidden abilities to survive in a world that wants to lock them up.

Young people facing an apocalyptic countdown band together on a last desperate rescue mission.

A graphic memoir of ordinary high-school days seen in retrospect, recast by what one classmate would become.