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10 Best Movies Like 17 Years Old and Over

If you loved 17 Years Old and Over, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years Old and Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

#2
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years Old and Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#3
Hardball

Hardball

2001★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years Old and Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of gettin...

#4
A Dry White Season

A Dry White Season

1989★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years Old and Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody....

#5
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years Old and Over 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...

#6
The Truth About Emanuel

The Truth About Emanuel

2013★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 17 Years Old and Over for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother....

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