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Movies Like Happy Trigger

If you liked Happy Trigger, a movie directed by Philipe Lonestar, 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. 1Twenty Something

    Twenty Something (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Follows Gia, who has to deal with the challenges and insecurities of "adulting" during her 21st birthday.

  2. 2Girl Asleep

    Girl Asleep (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10

    The world is closing in on Greta Driscoll. On the cusp of turning fifteen, she can’t bear to leave her childhood; it contains all the things that give her comfort in an incomprehensible new world. She floats in a…

  3. 3The Substance

    The Substance (2024)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

  4. 4Sometimes I Think About Dying

    Sometimes I Think About Dying (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way…

  5. 5I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  6. 6To Write Love on Her Arms

    To Write Love on Her Arms (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10

    The story follows 19-year-old Renee who has always loved fairy tales: the idea of a princess, a hero and a happily ever after. But Renee’s life is that of a darker tale: she’s a young woman battling addiction…

  7. 7In Good Company

    In Good Company (2004)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naive supervisor Carter Duryea, who is half his age. Matters are made…

  8. 8Come See Me in the Good Light

    Come See Me in the Good Light (2025)

    ★ 7.1/10

    In an intimate and joyful story of love in the face of loss, celebrated poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley find strength—and unexpected hilarity—in what might be their final year together.

  9. 9Lady Bird

    Lady Bird (2017)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to…

  10. 10American Teen

    American Teen (2008)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.

  11. 11The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  12. 12Real Women Have Curves

    Real Women Have Curves (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In 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…

  13. 13Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  14. 1421 & Over

    21 & Over (2013)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Brilliant student Jeff Chang has the most important interview of his life tomorrow. But today is still his birthday, what starts off as a casual celebration with friends evolves into a night of debauchery that risks to…

  15. 15The Souvenir

    The Souvenir (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

  16. 16Laggies

    Laggies (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10

    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…

  17. 17Frances Ha

    Frances Ha (2013)

    ★ 7.3/10

    An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

  18. 18All of You

    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?

  19. 19The Truth About Emanuel

    The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

  20. 20Curve

    Curve (2016)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.

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