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10 Best Movies Like Childhood's End

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

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#1
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

2008★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Childhood's End for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be ...

#2
An Education

An Education

2009★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Childhood's End for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much old...

#3
Laggies

Laggies

2014★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Childhood's End for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think abou...

#4
Departure

Departure

2016★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Childhood's End for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexua...

#5
The First Time

The First Time

2012★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Childhood's End for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A spark of attraction smolders, then ignites, between two teens from different high schools who meet by chance at a party....

#6
Albatross

Albatross

2011★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Childhood's End for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating co...

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