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Movies to Watch in Your 20s

25 Films That You Absolutely Have to Watch in Your 20s

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Your 20s are a maddening, exciting, and confusing time in your life when you've upgraded from slurping pot noodle between lectures to figuring out how to pay your rent with your entry-level internship. Juggling the pressures of building a career and finding "the one," you might end up dazed and confused. Luckily, film is excellent soul medicine for the countless quarter-life crisis sufferers out there. Plenty of films capture the struggles of becoming a functional adult, often with wit and honesty. From indie rom-coms like Garden State to energetic blockbusters like The Devil Wears Prada, there's a film out there that will make you feel less alone.

Read on to discover a list of quintessential movies for surviving and thriving as a 20-something.

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