Movies like Soft
If Soft's mix of friendship, coming of age and lgbt teen stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Soft's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Giant Little Ones
2019 · Directed by Keith Behrman · 93 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, coming of age
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
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Boy Erased
2018 · Directed by Joel Edgerton · 115 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age, lgbt teen
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…
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The Fabelmans
2022 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 151 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age · From the same decade (2020s)
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him…
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Almost Famous
2000 · Directed by Cameron Crowe · 124 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age
In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and…
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Mr. Church
2016 · Directed by Bruce Beresford · 104 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: friendship
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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The Outsiders
1983 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 91 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age
In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival…
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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
2019 · Directed by Marielle Heller · 109 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: friendship
An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers.
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Paranoid Park
2007 · Directed by Gus Van Sant · 85 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: coming of age
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".