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10 Best Movies Like Now & Then

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

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#1
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

2006★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Now & Then for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a...

#2
Departure

Departure

2016★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Now & Then for fans of Drama. 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...

#3
St. Elmo's Fire

St. Elmo's Fire

1985★ 6.1

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

Reluctant to let go of college life, a close-knit team of seven friends--irresponsible saxophone player Billy, young Republican Alec, his girlfriend Leslie, struggling journalist K...

#4
Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

2013★ 6.8

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

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words....

#5
Old Boys

Old Boys

2018★ 6.6

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

In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher...

#6
Port Authority

Port Authority

2019★ 6.0

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

Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secr...

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