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10 Best Movies Like The Forty-Year-Old Version

If you loved The Forty-Year-Old Version, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
10,000 Saints

10,000 Saints

2015★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Comedy & Drama & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled ...

#2
Beats

Beats

2019★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Drama & Music. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An agoraphobic hip-hop prodigy and a disgraced former music manager cross paths in Chicago’s South Side and help each other face demons of their pasts....

#3
Grace of My Heart

Grace of My Heart

1996★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Comedy & Drama & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Philadelphia teenager Edna Buxton wins a talent contest during the early rock 'n' roll era, changes her name to Denise Waverly and moves to New York City to make it big. Though she...

#4
School Dance

School Dance

2014★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Comedy & Drama & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

High schooler Jason has found his dream girl—the gorgeous Anastacia. There’s just one problem: she doesn’t know he exists. If he can win a spot on the school’s hottest dance crew, ...

#5
Deconstructing Harry

Deconstructing Harry

1997★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result....

#6
Gypsy

Gypsy

1962★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Forty-Year-Old Version for fans of Comedy & Drama & Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee....

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