Movies Like Lookin'
If you liked Lookin' (2025), a movie directed by Cooper Dalbo, 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.
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Alex Strangelove (2018)
★ 6.6/10Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A…
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Fitting In (2024)
★ 6.5/10A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life…
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Palm Trees and Power Lines (2023)
★ 6.3/10Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted…
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Bros (2022)
★ 6.6/10Two gay men are possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They're both very busy.
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Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
★ 6.6/10Angela Arden is a washed up, has-been singing star who is trapped in a hateful marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. In an attempt to escape her marriage so that she can be with a hunky layabout, she poisons her…
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Behind the Candelabra (2013)
★ 6.6/10Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
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A Friend of Dorothy (2025)
★ 7/10Dorothy is a lonely widow whose body is failing, but her mind remains as bright as ever. When 17-year-old JJ accidentally kicks his football into her garden, he upends Dorothy's daily routine of pills, prunes, and…
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But I'm a Cheerleader (2000)
★ 7.1/10Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she…
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Real Women Have Curves (2002)
★ 6.1/10In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned…
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Heartstopper Forever (2026)
★ 7.2/10It's a new school year for the Truham-Higgs gang. As Nick and Charlie's relationship deepens, their thoughts turn to life after the last bell rings.
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The 4:30 Movie (2024)
★ 5.9/10In the summer of 1986, three sixteen year old friends spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local multiplex. But when one of the guys also invites the girl of his dreams to see the latest comedy, each of…
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The Map That Leads to You (2025)
★ 6.7/10Heather is a young woman traveling Europe with friends before starting her perfectly planned life. A chance meeting with Jack sparks an unexpected romance that leads to deep emotional discovery. As secrets and life…
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My Old Ass (2024)
★ 6.8/10An 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. But when Elliott’s "old ass" starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn't…
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Pariah (2011)
★ 6.9/10A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
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Beautiful Thing (1996)
★ 7.3/10During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.
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Another Gay Movie (2006)
★ 5.9/10Andy is your typical All-American eighteen-year-old gay virgin. Like everyone else, he's dying to have sex. Totally out of the closet and mad-crazy horny, this naïve high school senior is caught in that awkward vortex…
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Beach Rats (2017)
★ 6.1/10On the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour…
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Leviticus (2026)
★ 6.8/10Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other.
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
★ 6.8/10A group of Southern-California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.
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No Hard Feelings (2023)
★ 6.7/10On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To…