Movies Like Like Sugar on the Tip of My Lips

If you liked Like Sugar on the Tip of My Lips (2011), a movie directed by Minji Kang, 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
The Man in the Moon (1991)
★ 7.4/10
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets…
2
Sense and Sensibility (2026)
★ 7.3/10
A charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood.
3
Lovely & Amazing (2002)
★ 6.1/10
An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own…
4
12 Feet Deep (2018)
★ 6/10
Two sisters are trapped under the fiberglass cover of an Olympic sized public pool and must brave the cold and each other to survive the harrowing night.
5
Cruel Intentions (1999)
★ 6.8/10
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he…
6
City Lights (1931)
★ 8.2/10
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
7
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
★ 7.9/10
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
8
Thirteen (2003)
★ 6.7/10
When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins…
9
Sight (2023)
★ 6.4/10
Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, who was blinded by her stepmother, Wang…
10
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
★ 6.3/10
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
11
Me Before You (2016)
★ 7.9/10
Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years…
12
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
★ 7.7/10
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who…
13
All of You (2025)
★ 6.3/10
Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?
14
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)
★ 7.6/10
Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.
15
Steel Magnolias (1989)
★ 7.2/10
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
16
Senseless (1998)
★ 6.2/10
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
17
Paris, Texas (1984)
★ 8.1/10
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
18
Atonement (2007)
★ 7.6/10
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
19
Twitches (2005)
★ 6.7/10
Twins separated at birth, Camryn and Alex meet by chance for the first time on their 21st birthday and discover they're witches with the power to save their homeland of Coventry from the evil that threatens it. But…
20
How to Be a Latin Lover (2017)
★ 6.9/10
An aging Latin lover gets dumped by his sugar mama and must fend for himself in a harsh world.