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Movies Like The Kite

If you liked The Kite (2016), a romance and drama movie directed by Lasse Nielsen, 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. 1Pretty Boy

    Pretty Boy (2015)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Sean is taken to a motel and is given a prostitute for his 18th birthday by his father. He must sleep with her to "fix" his questionable homosexuality. "Pretty Boy" is a coming of age story of a young bullied teen…

  2. 2Departure

    Departure (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from…

  3. 3You Are Not Alone

    You Are Not Alone (1978)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    Young teenager Bo is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth. Lonely and scared, he finds a soulmate in the headmaster's son Kim with whom he…

  4. 4Autumn in New York

    Autumn in New York (2000)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to…

  5. 5Restless

    Restless (2011)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and romance

    Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.

  6. 6I Can't Think Straight

    I Can't Think Straight (2008)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla…

  7. 7The 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.

  8. 8A Perfect Ending

    A Perfect Ending (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect…

  9. 9An Education

    An Education (2009)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a…

  10. 10Lovely, Still

    Lovely, Still (2009)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.

  11. 11I Still Believe

    I Still Believe (2020)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance

    The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.

  12. 12Canvas

    Canvas (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to create again.

  13. 13The Little Prince(ss)

    The Little Prince(ss) (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    When Gabriel, a 7-year-old Chinese kid who loves ballet, becomes friends with Rob, another Chinese kid from school, Rob’s dad gets suspicious about Gabriel's feminine behavior and decides to intervene.

  14. 14Past Lives

    Past Lives (2023)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

  15. 15A Walk to Remember

    A Walk to Remember (2002)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as…

  16. 16The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

  17. 17Old Fashioned

    Old Fashioned (2014)

    ★ 6.4/10Also romance and drama

    A reformed frat boy opens an antique store in a college town and falls for the free-spirited girl who moves into the apartment above his shop. In time, this unlikely pair fall into a traditional courtship.

  18. 18The Vow

    The Vow (2012)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved…

  19. 19The Secret: Dare to Dream

    The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

  20. 20A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

    A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama

    Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live…

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