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10 Best Movies Like When I Grow Up

If you loved When I Grow Up, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Re/cycle

Re/cycle

2019★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Grow Up for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were ...

#2
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

1994★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Grow Up for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his p...

#3
Funny Farm

Funny Farm

1988★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Grow Up for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farm...

#4
Viva! Django

Viva! Django

1971★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Grow Up for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who raped and killed his wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He discovers the man knows who committe...

#5
Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet

1958★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Grow Up for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor....

#6
The World of Apu

The World of Apu

1959★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When I Grow Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding....