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Movies that feel likeEighth Grade (2018)

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

If you loved Eighth Grade, the closest films we have are The Squid and the Whale (2005), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) and Slums of Beverly Hills (1998). All three share Eighth Grade's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Breaking Away (1979).

🍅 99% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bo Burnhamwittyplayfulcontemplativewistful
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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 91%★ 7.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: growing up

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015 · dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
🍅 81%★ 7.7drama · comedyRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: growing up

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

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Slums of Beverly Hills
1998 · dir. Tamara Jenkins
🍅 82%★ 6.7comedy · drama

One thread runs through both: teenage girl

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

In 1976, a teenage girl struggles to cope while living with her neurotic lower-middle-class family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.

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Booksmart
2019 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 96%★ 7.1comedyRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: generation z

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Eighth Grade

Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

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3 Idiots
2009 · dir. Rajkumar Hirani
🍅 94%★ 8.4drama · comedy

Both land wit and play at once

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the "3 idiots" once and for all.

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Rushmore
1998 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 90%★ 7.6comedy · drama

Contemplative and wistful in the same breath

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2016 · dir. Taika Waititi
🍅 97%★ 7.8adventure · comedy · dramaPrime VideoPeacock

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Eighth Grade does

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

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Breaking Away
1979 · dir. Peter Yates
🍅 95%★ 7.7drama · comedy

Drama built on play, twice over

Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends' and parents' annoyance.

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Leave No Trace
2018 · dir. Debra Granik
🍅 100%★ 7.1drama

Common ground: teenage girl

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

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The Bélier Family
2014 · dir. Éric Lartigau
🍅 83%★ 7.3comedy · music · drama

Contemplative comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into music than Eighth Grade does

The whole Bélier family is deaf, except for sixteen year old Paula who is the important translator in her parents' day to day life especially when it comes to matters concerning the family farm. When her music teacher discovers she has a fantastic singing voice and she gets an opportunity to enter a big Radio France contest the whole family's future is set up for big changes.

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American Reunion
2012 · dir. Jon Hurwitz
🍅 45%★ 6.7comedy

Wistful drama in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

The characters we met a little more than a decade ago return to East Great Falls for their high school reunion. In one long-overdue weekend, they will discover what has changed, who hasn’t, and that time and distance can’t break the bonds of friendship.

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The Hand of God
2021 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 83%★ 7.3dramaNetflix

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

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