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10 Best Movies Like Being 17

If you loved Being 17, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Love, Simon

Love, Simon

2018★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Being 17 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the i...

#2
Beach Rats

Beach Rats

2017★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Being 17 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his ow...

#3
As You Are

As You Are

2016★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Being 17 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of di...

#4
Get Real

Get Real

1998★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Being 17 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Sensitive rural town model student Steven Carter hides his gay feelings, except with his neighbor and best friend Linda. Suddenly his desperate search for partners leads to a blind...

#5
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2012★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Being 17 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, b...

#6
Hidden Kisses

Hidden Kisses

2016★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Being 17 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Nathan, 16, lives alone with his father Stephane. A newcomer in high school, he is invited to a party and falls in love with Louis, a boy in his class. They find themselves out of ...

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