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10 Best Movies Like Growing Up

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

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#1
Free Hands

Free Hands

2010★ 5.5

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

Barbara is a filmmaker who has been working in the prison environment for a few years now. She is preparing a film written and directed by long-term inmates in a prison in the proj...

#2
Six: Inside

Six: Inside

2009★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Growing Up for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animati...

#3
Hello

Hello

2013★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Growing Up for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

I wouldn't answer if I were you' Hello is the story of a young lady who falls prey to an evil killer.. alone in her apartment, eagerly awaiting the return of her boyfriend, the pho...

#4
Strange Object

Strange Object

2020★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Growing Up for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Afri...

#5
Nullarbor

Nullarbor

2011★ 7.3

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

An animated road-movie set across the vast and barren landscape of Australia's Nullarbor Plain....

#6
Ultraman Hayata: The Lost Films

Ultraman Hayata: The Lost Films

2005★ 10.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Growing Up for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

This DVD set have all The Ultraman pre-release lost films, recorded in 8mm, and release officialy in 2005 with a photobook....