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Movies that feel likeLady Bird (2017)

Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

If you loved Lady Bird, the closest films we have are Mean Girls (2004), The Edge of Seventeen (2016) and Eighth Grade (2018). All three share Lady Bird's contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Slums of Beverly Hills (1998).

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Mean Girls
2004 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 84%★ 7.1drama · comedyParamount+

High school tribes and self-invention skewered with quotable wit

The difference: Broad satire — no mother-daughter ache underneath the jokes

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

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The Edge of Seventeen
2016 · dir. Kelly Fremon Craig
🍅 94%★ 7.3comedy · dramaPrime Video

A prickly, self-sabotaging teen heroine written with real affection

The difference: More conventional teen-movie shape — the family thread runs shallower

Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.

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Eighth Grade
2018 · dir. Bo Burnham
🍅 99%★ 7.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Adolescent embarrassment observed so closely it hurts to watch

The difference: Younger and more anxious — cringe with far fewer laughs

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.

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

A self-absorbed senior forced to grow up by someone else's reality

The difference: Cancer sits at its center — whimsy shading into real sorrow

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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Little Women
2019 · dir. Greta Gerwig
🍅 95%★ 7.8drama · romanceHulu

Greta Gerwig working the same nerve twice

The difference: Easier on the wit than Lady Bird

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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

Semi-autobiographical girlhood in a family that embarrasses and sustains

The difference: Scrappier '70s raunch — looser and less precisely observed

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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The Spectacular Now
2013 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 92%★ 7comedy · drama · romanceMax

The same two preoccupations: growing up, and high school student

The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than Lady Bird does

Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

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Queen
2014 · dir. Vikas Bahl
🍅 90%★ 8.1comedy · drama

The same preoccupation in both: friendship

Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.

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The Squid and the Whale
2005 · dir. Noah Baumbach
🍅 91%★ 7.3comedy · dramaNetflix

Baumbach's own broken family, remembered with wit that draws blood

The difference: Colder and crueler — the parents here are hard to forgive

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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American Pie
1999 · dir. Paul Weitz
🍅 62%★ 7comedy · romanceParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: loss of virginity

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom.

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20th Century Girl
2022 · dir. Bang Woo-ri
🍅 86%★ 7.4romance · dramaNetflix

Two things both keep coming back to: teenage girl and first love

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Lady Bird does

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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Moonrise Kingdom
2012 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 93%★ 7.7comedy · drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

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