10 Best Movies Like When I Was 12
If you loved When I Was 12, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Rocks
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was 12 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and...

Hellion
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was 12 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father m...

Babylon
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was 12 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

Mammal
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was 12 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

Wander Darkly
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was 12 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in ord...

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Was 12 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality....