Movies like Girls Like Girls (2026)

Name: Girls Like Girls
Released: 2026

10 films to watch after Girls Like Girls, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

After her mother's passing, 17-year-old Coley navigates new feelings of intimacy with Sonya in rural Oregon, where both girls must overcome their mutual uncertainties and self-doubt to embrace their connection.

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Carol (2015)

Fit 72%

Shares Romance and Drama with Girls Like Girls.

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
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Departure (2016)

Fit 66%

Shares Drama and Romance with Girls Like Girls.

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 his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires and, finally, each other.
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Turtles All the Way Down (2024)

Fit 61%

Shares Drama and Romance with Girls Like Girls.

17-year-old Aza Holmes tries be a good daughter, a good friend, and a good student, all while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts that she cannot control. When she reconnects with Davis, her childhood crush, Aza is confronted with fundamental questions about her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope.
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A Perfect Ending (2012)

Fit 59%

Shares Drama and Romance with Girls Like Girls.

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 ending is still in reach.
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The Object of My Affection (1998)

Fit 52%

Shares Drama and Romance with Girls Like Girls.

A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
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Love Everlasting (2016)

Fit 51%

Shares Romance and Drama with Girls Like Girls.

Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
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Me Before You (2016)

Fit 50%

Shares Drama and Romance with Girls Like Girls.

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 prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.
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The Notebook (2004)

Fit 38%

Shares Romance and Drama with Girls Like Girls.

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.
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Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)

Fit 37%

Shares Romance and Drama with Girls Like Girls.

Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?
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The Way We Were (1973)

Fit 35%

Shares Drama and Romance with Girls Like Girls.

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.