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Movies Like Growing Young

If you liked Growing Young (2015), a movie directed by Hayley MacFarlane, 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. 1Jules

    Jules (2023)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.

  2. 2Supernova

    Supernova (2020)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Sam and Tusker, partners of 20 years, are traveling across England in their old RV visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with early-onset dementia two years ago, their time…

  3. 3Iris

    Iris (2001)

    ★ 6.4/10

    True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.

  4. 4Where’s Poppa?

    Where’s Poppa? (1970)

    ★ 6/10

    When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears…

  5. 5I'll See You in My Dreams

    I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected…

  6. 6Our Souls at Night

    Our Souls at Night (2017)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Addie Moore and Louis Waters, a widow and widower, have lived next to each other for years. The pair have almost no relationship, but that all changes when Addie tries to make a connection with her neighbour.

  7. 7The Notebook

    The Notebook (2004)

    ★ 7.9/10

    An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is…

  8. 8The Father

    The Father (2020)

    ★ 8.1/10

    A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

  9. 9You're Not You

    You're Not You (2014)

    ★ 7.4/10

    When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a…

  10. 10Freaky Friday

    Freaky Friday (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities…

  11. 11Atonement

    Atonement (2007)

    ★ 7.6/10

    A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

  12. 12What's Eating Gilbert Grape

    What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

    ★ 7.7/10

    Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who…

  13. 13One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

    ★ 8.4/10

    A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

  14. 14Away from Her

    Away from Her (2007)

    ★ 7/10

    Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets…

  15. 15The Rule of Jenny Pen

    The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.

  16. 16Moonshot

    Moonshot (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In a future where Mars is terraformed and colonized by the best humanity has to offer, two very different college students wind up joining forces and sneak onboard a space shuttle to the red planet in order to be…

  17. 17The Secret of NIMH

    The Secret of NIMH (1982)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to…

  18. 18Knox Goes Away

    Knox Goes Away (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son. But to do so, he must race against the…

  19. 19In the Land of Women

    In the Land of Women (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10

    After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live…

  20. 20Head Full of Honey

    Head Full of Honey (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.

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