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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
Winter Spring Summer or Fall

Winter Spring Summer or Fall

2024★ 7.2

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

Remi and Barnes, two very different teenagers, meet by chance in the winter of their senior year, then spend four days together over the course of a year that will change their li...

#2
Life in a Year

Life in a Year

2020★ 8.2

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

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left....

#3
You Are the Apple of My Eye

You Are the Apple of My Eye

2011★ 7.4

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

A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Shen Chia-yi. The only member of the group who claims not to is Ko Ching...

#4
Our Times

Our Times

2015★ 7.4

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

Office worker Truly Lin goes on a journey through her memories. 20 years ago, she had a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the c...

#5
The Kissing Booth

The Kissing Booth

2018★ 7.2

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

When teenager Elle's first kiss leads to a forbidden romance with the hottest boy in high school, she risks her relationship with her best friend....

#6
Under the Hawthorn Tree

Under the Hawthorn Tree

2010★ 7.8

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

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a...

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