Movies like Schoolgirls Growing Up (1972)
The best movies like Schoolgirls Growing Up (1972) are Campus Swingers (1972), Sex Life in a Convent (1972) and 14 and Under (1973). If Schoolgirls Growing Up hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDeep End (1971)7.0/10 from 253 votes
- NewestKinds of Kindness (2024)Released 2024
- In GermanCampus Swingers (1972)Also in German
- Same seriesCampus Swingers (1972)Schoolgirl Report
Campus Swingers (1972)
A fake documentary about the sex lives of teenage girls.
Why it matches: Same series: Schoolgirl Report · both comedy & drama
Sex Life in a Convent (1972)
120 schoolgirls live in a Catholic boarding school for girls together with nuns, who teach them, but secular teachers are also employed here. Behind the conservative façade of decency, discipline and order, there are unsuspected sexual abysses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
14 and Under (1973)
This episodic film is a close relative of Wolf Hartwig's schoolgirl report movies, made by the same people, in a similar style, around similar topics. However, this one specifically focuses on the coming-of-age aspects, to an extent that it also touches on delicate issues such as paedophilia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSelf Service Girls (1975)
A series of vignettes depict different sexual fantasies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Dorothea's Revenge (1974)
Dorothea, a 16-year-old bourgeois girl from Hamburg, plays with her friends of both sexes, imitating the production of adult movies. In the end, pretending to make sex-scenes is not satisfying enough, and with a street professional, Dorothea is initiated in hard sex.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Girls at the Gynecologist (1971)
In this one we look at the cases of a number of young women and their plumbing problems as seen through the eyes of the narrator, a moralizing but well meaning gynaecologist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Private School Girls (1972)
A beautiful bevy of ravishing coeds who share a room -and each other- for the duration of their educational year. But the sizzling action doesn´t end when summer vacation begins. It just gets hotter! For the voluptous vixens plan to compete with each other for the steamiest summer on record. And you can be sure that they will "go to any lengts" with any man to win!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Pretty Smart (1987)
In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the Mediterranean. She vents her anger by rebelling against the cruel and sicko headmaster. When she discovers that he has been secretly photographing them naked and profiting from the pictures, she rallies the other girls and gets revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
But Forever in My Mind (1999)
Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his virginity—wants to make his move on the girl he likes, despite her being already his friend's girlfriend and not knowing that her best friend harbors feelings for him—while clashing also with his parents, onetime Sixties radicals who look down on the kids' aimless political commitment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNorman... Is That You? (1976)
Ben and Beatrice Chambers discover that their son Norman is gay and so Ben is intent on setting him right.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Yesterday Girl (1967)
A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Class of '44 (1973)
During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. They went their separate ways when they graduated from high school in 1944. Benjie joins the Marines as Hermie and Oscy enter college. There, Hermie falls head over heels for another freshman named Julie, and the two old friends deal with a troublesome fraternity president who is in charge of hazings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Puberty Blues (1981)
Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLittle Thirteen (2012)
The everyday lives of teenagers, coming from various social backgrounds. For them, sexuality has become a substitute for love, resulting from emotional neglect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeep End (1971)
London, England. Mike, a fifteen-year-old boy, gets a job in a bathhouse, where he meets Susan, an attractive young woman who works there as an attendant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBilitis (1977)
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a teenage girl during summer vacation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHomevideo (2011)
Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy breaking up to be there for him. Jakob focuses on class dream-girl Hannah, without much luck. His secret recording of himself masturbating gets into class bullies Henry and Erik's hands through the mother's thoughtlessness. The rascals blackmail Jakob and post the video on the Internet. After a raging lecture phase, dad stands up for Jakob, but his life is already wrecked more than anyone realizes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Doctor...the Schoolgirl (1976)
Claudia, a perky eighteen year-old girl, is crushed when her step mother prevents her from going on a vacation to London. She discovers her step mother is having an affair with a doctor and so, with the help of her friends, sets about getting her revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
A Real Young Girl (1976)
Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisYoung Girls in Ecstasy (1974)
The friends who attended the same boarding school meet and take turns telling their recent romantic experiences. These turn out to be as varied as they are crisp, from the initiation of a student by a teacher to the misunderstanding in the company of a lord, through the false English but true seducer, the swimmer obsessed with his physical condition and, obviously, love in a group (Le Chat Qui Fume).
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Tender Cousins (1980)
Teenage Julien loves his teenage cousin Julia among flowers in summer of '39 France.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHooking Up (2020)
Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the road trip come to light, the unlikely pair force one another to confront their issues, discovering that there might actually be more to love than just sex.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFamily Weekend (2013)
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSomewhere in Queens (2023)
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Soup (1992)
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKinds of Kindness (2024)
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Clique (2008)
A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFor a Good Time, Call... (2012)
College "frenemies" Lauren and Katie move in together after losing a relationship and rent control, respectively. Sharing Katie's late grandmother's apartment in New York City, the girls bicker with each other until one fateful night, when Katie's noisy bedroom activities make Lauren barge in and discover a dirty little secret. This revelation brings them closer together, and Lauren (the brains) and Katie (the talent) concoct a wildly successful business venture. As profits swell, the girls reevaluate their hopes and dreams and realize that just because someone pees in your hair in college doesn't mean she won't be your best friend 10 years later.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDesperate Living (1977)
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Schoolgirls Growing Up?
The closest matches to Schoolgirls Growing Up are Campus Swingers (1972), Sex Life in a Convent (1972) and 14 and Under (1973). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Schoolgirls Growing Up?
People who watched Schoolgirls Growing Up most often go on to Sex Life in a Convent (1972), 14 and Under (1973) and Self Service Girls (1975).
What is the highest-rated movie like Schoolgirls Growing Up?
Deep End (1971), rated 7.0/10 by 253 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Schoolgirls Growing Up?
Kinds of Kindness (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Schoolgirls Growing Up part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Schoolgirl Report, which includes Campus Swingers (1972).
Are there German movies like Schoolgirls Growing Up?
Yes: Campus Swingers (1972), Sex Life in a Convent (1972) and 14 and Under (1973).
How are movies similar to Schoolgirls Growing Up chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Schoolgirls Growing Up, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.