Movies Like Almost Popular

If you liked Almost Popular (2025), a comedy movie directed by Nayip Ramos, 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
Bottoms (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up…
2
Booksmart (2019)
★ 7/10Also comedy
Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to…
3
Incoming (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
Their first week of high school. The biggest party of the year. Mistakes will be made as four teenage boys navigate a night of mayhem and debauchery.
4
The Last American Virgin (1982)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
5
American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules (2020)
★ 6/10Also comedy
It's Senior year at East Great Falls. Annie, Kayla, Michelle, and Stephanie decide to harness their girl power and band together to get what they want their last year of high school.
6
Heathers (1989)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
7
Fired Up! (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Popular high schoolers and best friends Shawn and Nick decide to ditch football camp for cheerleader camp. For the girls and for the glory.
8
Sleepover (2004)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
Desperate to improve their social status, four best friends enter into an all-night scavenger hunt against the popular clique in their school.
9
Driver's Ed (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
A group of teens hit the road in a stolen driver's ed car, racing against time to help a lovesick high school senior track down his college-freshman girlfriend and win her back.
10
Work It (2020)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy
A brilliant but clumsy high school senior vows to get into her late father's alma mater by transforming herself and a misfit squad into dance champions.
11
Mean Girls (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy
New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called ‘The Plastics,’ ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen…
12
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
13
Easy A (2010)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning…
14
Banana Split (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
After a messy breakup with her high school boyfriend, April strikes up an unexpected platonic friendship with his new girlfriend, Clara.
15
Spa Weekend (2026)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Four lifelong friends realize that somewhere between careers, relationships, families, and everyday responsibilities, they’ve forgotten how to take care of themselves and each other. Burned out and overdue for a break…
16
Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
Unjustly accused of staging a spooky practical joke complete with ghosts, Daphne, Velma, Fred and Shaggy are suspended from Coolsville High. To clear their names, they team up to solve the supernatural mystery…and head…
17
Mac & Devin Go to High School (2012)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
A comedy that follows two high school students -- one overachiever struggling to write his valedictorian speech, the other a senior now going on his 15th year of school.
18
#realityhigh (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy
When nerdy high schooler Dani finally attracts the interest of her longtime crush, she lands in the cross hairs of his ex, a social media celebrity.
19
Jawbreaker (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy
When an exclusive clique of teenage socialites accidentally murder their best friend on the morning of her birthday, the three girls responsible conspire to hide the truth.
20
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on…