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10 Best Movies Like The Summer I Turned 15

If you loved The Summer I Turned 15, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
I Walk the Line

I Walk the Line

1970★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Summer I Turned 15 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love wi...

#2
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Summer I Turned 15 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#3
Boxcar Bertha

Boxcar Bertha

1972★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Summer I Turned 15 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the tw...

#4
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Summer I Turned 15 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

#5
Some Velvet Morning

Some Velvet Morning

2013★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Summer I Turned 15 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle th...

#6
Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

1971★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Summer I Turned 15 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the sma...

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