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10 Best Movies Like Growing Pains

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

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#1
Fitting In

Fitting In

2024★ 6.5

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

A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her rel...

#2
Beginners

Beginners

2011★ 6.8

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

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following ...

#3
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#4
Keith

Keith

2008★ 7.0

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

Natalie is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even...

#5
After Everything

After Everything

2018★ 6.6

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

When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his world is turned completely upsi...

#6
Kiss and Cry

Kiss and Cry

2017★ 7.3

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

A romantic drama based on the story of Carley Allison, a promising 18 year old figure skater and singer who made medical history in her fight against a rare 1 in 3.5 billion type o...

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