Movies like 20th Century Girl

“20th Century Girl (2022) is a 2020s Korean coming-of-age romantic-drama that frames a late-90s adolescent knot as its organizing subject. It stages the core conflict — watching a peer for a friend while confronting emergent desire — with tight framing, film grain and chiaroscuro-inflected interiors. The film argues that small, ethically weighted choices define adolescent interiority and leaves a Han-tinged, bittersweet residue.”