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10 Best Movies Like My Childhood

If you loved My Childhood, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Napoleon

Napoleon

1927★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Childhood for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through th...

#2
My Way Home

My Way Home

1978★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Childhood for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he ...

#3
My Ain Folk

My Ain Folk

1973★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Childhood for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When Jamie's maternal grandmother dies, he and his brother Tommy are separated - Tommy is taken off to a welfare home and Jamie goes to live with his other grandmother and uncle. H...

#4
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

2025★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Childhood for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure...

#5
The Isle

The Isle

2000★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Childhood for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love wi...

#6
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Childhood for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...