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10 Best Movies Like Forward, Young People!

If you loved Forward, Young People!, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Nine Days

Nine Days

2021★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forward, Young People! for fans of Drama & Fantasy. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own....

#2
Northfork

Northfork

2003★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forward, Young People! for fans of Drama & Fantasy. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley ...

#3
Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

1974★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forward, Young People! for fans of Drama & Fantasy. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan....

#4
The Shepherd

The Shepherd

2023★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forward, Young People! for fans of Drama & Fantasy. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely....

#5
40 Acres

40 Acres

2025★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forward, Young People! for fans of Drama & Fantasy. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now stru...

#6
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

1973★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forward, Young People! for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Me...

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