Movies like The Sweet East (2023)
The best movies like The Sweet East (2023) are Sid Is Dead (2023), The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2024) and Natural Born Pranksters (2016). If The Sweet East hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDìdi (弟弟) (2024)7.2/10 from 253 votes
- NewestSlanted (2026)Released 2026
Sid Is Dead (2023)
The story of a socially invisible high school senior who, after slipping up and getting the school's biggest bully suspended, realizes he may only have two weeks left to experience everything he's ever missed out on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2024)
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Natural Born Pranksters (2016)
The world’s three most notorious, ballsy, and outrageous pranksters come together for the first time to unleash the most epic pranks in an outrageous feature-film event. Jam-packed with cameos from some of YouTube’s biggest stars, watch as Roman Atwood, Dennis Roady, and Vitaly Zdorovetskiy take fearlessness and unbelievable social experiments to the next level.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisI'll Be Right There (2024)
Wanda wants to take care of everyone in her life. She barely has time for herself, not that she would know what to do with it anyway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Fucktoys (2025)
AP’s got a curse and it’s really fucking up her vibe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Downtown Owl (2023)
In 1983 Owl, North Dakota, the lives of three residents – elderly Horace, who spends his afternoons reminiscing in the local coffee shop; teenage Mitch, depressed backup quarterback star player-power-horse; and newly appointed high school English teacher Julia – along with those of the town's other residents, are upended by a historic whiteout blizzard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Unknown Country (2023)
A grieving woman embarks on an unexpected road trip as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss and seeks to understand her place in the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Dìdi (弟弟) (2024)
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNational Anthem (2024)
A 21-year old construction worker in rural New Mexico joins a community of queer ranchers and rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Sorry, Baby (2025)
Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her alma mater. A ‘bad thing’ happened to Agnes a few years ago and, since then, despite her best efforts, life hasn’t gotten back on track.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGreener Grass (2019)
Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAdam (2019)
Adam, an awkward teen, spends a summer with his older sister, who is part of New York City's lesbian and trans activist scene. He meets the girl of his dreams but can't figure out how to tell her he's not the trans man she thinks he is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Vulcanizadora (2025)
Two friends venture into a Michigan forest to fulfill a disturbing pact, but when their plan goes horribly wrong, the haunting consequences of their failure begin to surface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
In late-'90s suburbia, lonely teenager Owen meets Maddy, who introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives, as their view of reality begins to crack.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQuiz Lady (2023)
A brilliant but tightly wound, gameshow-obsessed young woman, Anne, and her estranged, train-wreck of a sister, Jenny, must work together to help cover their mother's gambling debts. When Anne's beloved dog is kidnapped, they set out on a wild, cross-country trek to get the cash the only way they know how: by turning Anne into a bona-fide gameshow champion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHard Truths (2024)
Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSlanted (2026)
An insecure Chinese-American teenager undergoes experimental surgery to appear white, hoping to secure the prom queen title and peer acceptance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Old Ass (2024)
An 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. But when Elliott’s "old ass" starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn't do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what's becoming a transformative summer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)
Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The People's Joker (2024)
An aspiring clown grappling with her gender identity combats a fascistic caped crusader.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPotato Dreams of America (2021)
A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the 90s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Pitching Tents (2017)
In a working-class town in 1984, a high school senior's future creates a tug-of-war between his no-nonsense father and his crackpot guidance counselor until an encounter with a goddess helps him uncover his true destiny.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Rez Ball (2024)
After losing their star player, a high school basketball team rooted in Native American culture must unite to keep their state championship dreams alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFremont (2023)
Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDown Low (2023)
A repressed gay man develops an unlikely friendship with a young masseur who teaches him to embrace life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Love My Dad (2022)
A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisPonyboi (2025)
Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSasquatch Sunset (2024)
In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant journey over the course of one year. These shaggy and noble giants fight for survival as they find themselves on a collision course with the ever-changing world around them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGive Me Liberty (2019)
When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Sweet East?
The closest matches to The Sweet East are Sid Is Dead (2023), The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2024) and Natural Born Pranksters (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Sweet East?
People who watched The Sweet East most often go on to Sid Is Dead (2023), The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2024) and Natural Born Pranksters (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Sweet East?
Dìdi (弟弟) (2024), rated 7.2/10 by 253 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Sweet East?
Slanted (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Sweet East?
Yes: Sid Is Dead (2023), The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2024) and Natural Born Pranksters (2016).
How are movies similar to The Sweet East chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Sweet East, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.