Movies like Eighth Grade
If Eighth Grade's mix of adolescence, identity crisis and coming of age stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Eighth Grade's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah
2023 · Directed by Sammi Cohen · 103 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teenage girl, middle school · Also comedy and drama
Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
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Lady Bird
2017 · Directed by Greta Gerwig · 94 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, teenage girl · Also drama and comedy · From the same decade (2010s)
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to…
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
2023 · Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig · 106 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: adolescence, coming of age · Also comedy and drama
When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
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Welcome to the Dollhouse
1996 · Directed by Todd Solondz · 88 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age · Also comedy and drama
An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school.
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The Kings of Summer
2013 · Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts · 95 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age · Also comedy and drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Three restless teenagers run away to the woods for the summer, determined to escape their parents and live by their own rules. In a hidden clearing, they build a makeshift house and attempt to create an independent…
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Blinded by the Light
2019 · Directed by Gurinder Chadha · 117 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age · Also drama and comedy · From the same decade (2010s)
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986 · Directed by John Hughes · 103 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all…
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Status Update
2018 · Directed by Scott Speer · 106 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: social media · From the same decade (2010s)
After being uprooted by his parents' separation and unable to fit into his new hometown, a teenager stumbles upon a magical app that causes his social media updates to come true.
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Boy Erased
2018 · Directed by Joel Edgerton · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age · From the same decade (2010s)
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…