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10 Best Movies Like We Couldn't Become Adults

If you loved We Couldn't Become Adults, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Memories

Memories

1995★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Couldn't Become Adults for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Three back-to-back anime films by three different directors make up this sci-fi trilogy three years in the making....

#2
My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday

My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday

2016★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Couldn't Become Adults for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Takatoshi Minamiyama majors in art at an university in Kyoto. On the train to the school, he sees Emi Fukuju and falls in love with her at first sight. Gathering up all his courage...

#3
Parasyte: Part 1

Parasyte: Part 1

2014★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Couldn't Become Adults for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat murders'. High school student Izumi Shinichi has a parasite living off him, havi...

#4
Love Forecast

Love Forecast

2015★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Couldn't Become Adults for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Whenever elementary school teacher Kang Joon-soo falls in love, he always gives too much of himself to the relationship. Yet despite that, he ends up being the one getting dumped b...

#5
Eye Without a Face

Eye Without a Face

2021★ 3.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Couldn't Become Adults for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Agoraphobic young man Henry, living with a Youtuber and struggling actor Eric, hacks the webcams of young women, and suspects that one of them is a serial killer....

#6
GANTZ:O

GANTZ:O

2016★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to We Couldn't Become Adults for fans of Animation. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading a...