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Movies Like Girlfriend Boyfriend

If you liked Girlfriend Boyfriend (2012), a drama and comedy movie directed by Yang Ya-che, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Your Name Engraved Herein

    Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)

    ★ 7.9/10Also romance and drama

    In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.

  2. 2You Are the Apple of My Eye

    You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011)

    ★ 7.4/10Also romance and comedy

    A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Shen Chia-yi. The only member of the group who claims not to is Ko Ching-teng, but he ends up loving her as…

  3. 3Tall Girl

    Tall Girl (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also comedy and drama

    Jodi, the tallest girl in her high school, has always felt uncomfortable in her own skin. But after years of slouching, being made fun of, and avoiding attention at all costs, Jodi finally decides to find the…

  4. 4Flesh and the Devil

    Flesh and the Devil (1926)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is…

  5. 5Blue Gate Crossing

    Blue Gate Crossing (2002)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    Yueh-chen has an obsession with her classmate Shihao, but is too shy to confess to him directly. She sends in her best friend, Kerou, to act as a go-between, and Shihao ends up falling for Kerou, who is not sure what…

  6. 6The Longest Ride

    The Longest Ride (2015)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance

    The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.

  7. 7Laggies

    Laggies (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    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…

  8. 8Persuasion

    Persuasion (2007)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    Anne Elliot was once in love with Frederick Wentworth, a commander in the Royal Navy who was rejected by her snobby parents eight years ago. When the family hits hard times and are forced to rent out their mansion to…

  9. 9L.A. Without a Map

    L.A. Without a Map (1999)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and comedy

    An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a…

  10. 10You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

    You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…

  11. 11What's Love Got to Do with It?

    What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedy

    Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

  12. 12Home Again

    Home Again (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and drama

    Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.

  13. 13The First Time

    The First Time (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and comedy

    A spark of attraction smolders, then ignites, between two teens from different high schools who meet by chance at a party.

  14. 14West Side Story

    West Side Story (1961)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.

  15. 15The Sleeping Dictionary

    The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition…

  16. 16Flipped

    Flipped (2010)

    ★ 8/10Also romance and drama

    When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

  17. 17The Magic of Ordinary Days

    The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

  18. 18Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night (1996)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and comedy

    Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.

  19. 19The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure

    The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure (2010)

    ★ 6.1/10Also comedy and romance

    One year after their royal wedding, King Edvard and Queen Paige of Denmark receive an invitation to attend the wedding of Princess Myra of Sangyoon. Upon their arrival, Paige finds Myra is unhappy with her arranged…

  20. 20Lucas

    Lucas (1986)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama

    A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends – Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love – fall for each other.

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