If You Liked A Girl's Own Story, Watch These Next
Finished A Girl's Own Story (1984) and want more of the same? These 17 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like A Girl's Own Story, most of them are drama.
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17 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Short History of the Long Road(2019)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.
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2.Palm Trees and Power Lines(2023)
6.3DramaAlso drama
A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.
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3.Electrick Children(2012)
6.4DramaAlso drama
Rachel is a rambunctious girl from a polygamist colony in southern Utah. On Rachel’s 15th birthday, she finds a forbidden cassette tape. Having never seen anything like it before, Rachel plays the cassette tape, and finds glorious rock & roll thereupon. Weeks later, Rachel realizes a miracle has occurred - and the…
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4.The Girl in the Book(2015)
5.8DramaAlso drama
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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5.The Poker House(2008)
6.2DramaAlso drama
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
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6.I Believe in Unicorns(2015)
6.6DramaAlso drama
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
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7.Thirteen(2003)
6.7DramaAlso drama
When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins to take a heavy toll on her and her family.
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8.How to Have Sex(2023)
6.2DramaAlso drama
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.
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9.Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl(1998)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
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11.My Brother the Devil(2012)
6.3DramaAlso drama
Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, whose drug dealing enables “Rash” to provide for his family. Aching to…
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12.Welcome to the Rileys(2010)
6.6DramaAlso drama
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
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13.The Fallout(2021)
7.5DramaAlso drama
In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.
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15.Call Me Crazy: A Five Film(2013)
7.0DramaAlso drama
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
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16.Pretty Boy(2015)
7.5DramaAlso drama
Sean is taken to a motel and is given a prostitute for his 18th birthday by his father. He must sleep with her to "fix" his questionable homosexuality. "Pretty Boy" is a coming of age story of a young bullied teen, Sean, struggling with his sexuality and the hardships of high school. After his father finds some…
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