Movies like Boyhood
Boyhood (2014) is a drama movie directed by Richard Linklater. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)
★ 7.4 · 400 votes · Music, Documentary
The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.
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2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
★ 7.8 · 11,530 votes · Drama
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
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3. The Breakfast Club (1985)
★ 7.7 · 8,778 votes · Comedy, Drama
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.
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4. A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
★ 7.4 · 7,701 votes · Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
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5. The Son (2022)
★ 6.8 · 611 votes · Drama
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
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6. The Color Purple (2023)
★ 7.0 · 383 votes · Drama
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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7. 13 Going on 30 (2004)
★ 6.8 · 5,702 votes · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some magic wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can't be a better life. But soon Jenna realizes that adult life isn’t as easy as she hoped for.
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8. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
★ 7.7 · 8,528 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
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9. American Beauty (1999)
★ 8.0 · 13,451 votes · Drama
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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10. Dead Poets Society (1989)
★ 8.3 · 13,055 votes · Drama
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
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11. Mean Girls (2004)
★ 7.2 · 9,733 votes · Drama, Comedy
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
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12. American Pie (1999)
★ 6.7 · 8,732 votes · Comedy, Romance
At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom.
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13. Scream (1996)
★ 7.4 · 8,317 votes · Crime, Horror, Mystery
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
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14. Easy A (2010)
★ 6.8 · 7,589 votes · Comedy
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
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15. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
★ 7.6 · 5,616 votes · Comedy
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
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16. Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
★ 7.3 · 24,064 votes · Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego Spider-Man as a new threat, the Vulture, emerges.
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17. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
★ 7.6 · 9,205 votes · Comedy, Romance, Drama
On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.
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18. Superbad (2007)
★ 7.3 · 8,444 votes · Comedy
Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
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19. The Fabelmans (2022)
★ 7.6 · 2,909 votes · Drama
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
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20. The Glass Castle (2017)
★ 7.1 · 923 votes · Drama
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
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