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10 Best Movies Like My Girl

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

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#1
My Girl 2

My Girl 2

1994★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Girl for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do and essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but q...

#2
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

1995★ 6.2

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

Two teen girls, one from the city, one from the country, try to find the hidden gold of Bear Mountain learning about friendship, loyalty and courage on the way....

#3
Hounddog

Hounddog

2008★ 6.4

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

A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley....

#4
Like Mother, Like Daughter

Like Mother, Like Daughter

2017★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Girl for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An attention-craving mother nearing 50, unemployed and living with her pregnant daughter and son-in-law, suddenly finds herself with child, too......

#5
Forever Young

Forever Young

1992★ 6.5

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

A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that he doesn't have to watch his l...

#6
The Pagemaster

The Pagemaster

1994★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Girl for fans of Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he...