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10 Best Movies Like When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam

If you loved When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
In the Dust of the Stars

In the Dust of the Stars

1976★ 4.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a mysterious planet. Once there, they are warmly welcomed by an alien race, but are soon suspicious of what is really occurring on t...

#2
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"

Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"

1898★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish....

#3
Main Krishna Hoon

Main Krishna Hoon

2013★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

In answer to an orphan boy's prayers, the divine Lord Krishna comes to Earth, befriends the boy, and helps him find a loving family....

#4
Re-Animated

Re-Animated

2006★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam for fans of Fantasy & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jimmy is the kid everybody ignores and uses. One day, he gets into a freak accident. The only way for him to survive is a brain transplant. He gets the brain of Milt Appleday, a fa...

#5
Gunpowder

Gunpowder

1985★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be ...

#6
Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet

1990★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When You’re Grown Up, Dear Adam for fans of Drama & Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, N...