Movies Like Now and Then (1995)

Now and Then is a 1995 comedy, drama, romance film from Lesli Linka Glatter with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. and Me Without You.

Comedy Drama Romance

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

2023

When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

7.2

MagicScore

Me Without You

2001

During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.

6.4

MagicScore

Triple Dog

2010

On the night of a sleepover, a group of teenage girls venture out in a competitive game of challenging dares. As the antics escalate, and the dares become more extreme, the girls unravel the truth behind a former student's rumored suicide.

5.7

MagicScore

Aya of Yop City

2013

While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking and flirting with boys. Their ambition is to follow Plan C: Combs, Clothes and Chasing Men! But big trouble comes to town when Adjoua realizes she’s pregnant, and the baby’s father is the spoiled son of one of the richest and most feared men in the whole country.

7.2

MagicScore

Laggies

2014

Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to, Megan is comfortable lagging a few steps behind - while her friends check off milestones and celebrate their new grown-up status. When her high-school sweetheart proposes, Megan panics and- given an unexpected opportunity to escape for a week - hides out in the home of her new friend, 16-year old Annika and Annika's world-weary single dad Craig.

6.1

MagicScore

Suncoast

2024

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

6.7

MagicScore

Skate Kitchen

2018

Camille's life as a lonely suburban teenager changes dramatically when she befriends a group of girl skateboarders. As she journeys deeper into this raw New York City subculture, she begins to understand the true meaning of friendship as well as her inner self.

6.7

MagicScore

Water Lilies

2007

Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.

6.5

MagicScore

Wild Chicks in Love

2007

Five teenage girls navigate the twists and turns of their complicated emotional lives, and learn the secrets of the heart through their friendship.

6.4

MagicScore

#10

Puppylove

2013

When a free-spirited girl befriends a young teenager, they leave childhood behind to embrace a dangerous world of clubbing and sex with strange men.

5.7

MagicScore

#11

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

6.6

MagicScore

#12

Whip It

2009

In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.

6.7

MagicScore

#13

How to Have Sex

2023

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

6.2

MagicScore

#14

The Wild Chicks and Life

2009

The Wild Chicks are slowly growing out of their youthful gang years and have to face the worries of growing up on the sidelines of a big class trip before graduation.

6.0

MagicScore

#15

The Virgin Suicides

2000

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

7.1

MagicScore

#16

Priscilla

2023

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

6.8

MagicScore

#17

Slums of Beverly Hills

1998

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

6.3

MagicScore

#18

Girl Asleep

2015

The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen she can't bear to leave her childhood, it contains all the things that give her comfort in this incomprehensible new world. She floats in a bubble of loserdom with her only friend Elliott, until her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party and she's flung into a parallel place; a world that's weirdly erotic, a little bit violent and thoroughly ludicrous - only there can she find herself.

6.0

MagicScore

#19

Sleeping with Other People

2015

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

6.3

MagicScore

#20

Persepolis

2007

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

7.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Now and Then?

The top films similar to Now and Then by MovieMagicScore are Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (7.2), Me Without You (6.4), Triple Dog (5.7). Each shares comedy/drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Now and Then worth watching?

Now and Then holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 460 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Now and Then?

Now and Then (1995) is a comedy, drama, romance film directed by Lesli Linka Glatter, starring Christina Ricci, Rosie O'Donnell, Thora Birch.

Where can I find more recommendations like Now and Then?

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About movies like Now and Then

This ranked list pairs Now and Then (1995), a comedy and drama and romance film from Lesli Linka Glatter, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Christina Ricci take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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