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Movies Like Coming of Age

If you liked Coming of Age (2011), a movie directed by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Safety of Objects

    The Safety of Objects (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband…

  2. 2Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

    Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)

    ★ 7/10

    A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

  3. 3Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  4. 4Love & Sex

    Love & Sex (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back…

  5. 53 Days in Quiberon

    3 Days in Quiberon (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10

    1981, Quiberon, a small village on the coast of Brittany, France. Hilde Fritsch arrives to visit her old friend who has retreated to a spa hotel to escape the daily pressures of her life. Her friend is world-famous…

  6. 6Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  7. 7Lucky Them

    Lucky Them (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…

  8. 8The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  9. 9My Brilliant Career

    My Brilliant Career (1979)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

  10. 10Petals on the Wind

    Petals on the Wind (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10

    This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.

  11. 11I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  12. 12Iron Jawed Angels

    Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

  13. 13Holy Lands

    Holy Lands (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…

  14. 14The Ron Clark Story

    The Ron Clark Story (2006)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional methods, including his…

  15. 15Love, Marilyn

    Love, Marilyn (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed more material, each of the actresses…

  16. 16The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure

    The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10

    One year after their royal wedding, King Edvard and Queen Paige of Denmark receive an invitation to attend the wedding of Princess Myra of Sangyoon. Upon their arrival, Paige finds Myra is unhappy with her arranged…

  17. 17Chasing Papi

    Chasing Papi (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Playboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici, meticulous lawyer Lorena and bored…

  18. 18The Trouble with Angels

    The Trouble with Angels (1966)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and…

  19. 19Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  20. 20Sky

    Sky (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

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