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10 Best Movies Like Bad Child

If you loved Bad Child, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Pregnancy Project

The Pregnancy Project

2012★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Child for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of p...

#2
Palindromes

Palindromes

2005★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Child for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revo...

#3
Mom at Sixteen

Mom at Sixteen

2005★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Child for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pregnant sixteen year old Jacey's well-meaning mother forces her to keep the birth a secret and decides to raise the baby as her own....

#4
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Child for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality....

#5
Radiance

Radiance

2017★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Child for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world....

#6
Juno

Juno

2007★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bad Child for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child....

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