Movies like Toy Play (2020)
The best movies like Toy Play (2020) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Johanne Sacreblu (2025). If Toy Play hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrue Romance (1993)7.5/10 from 3,245 votes
- NewestThe Serpent's Skin (2026)Released 2026
The Hot Spot (1990)
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrue Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJohanne Sacreblu (2025)
Mexico's response to the French film Emilia Pérez. The real life of French people in a musical made by people in Mexico. It tells the epic tale of baguettes, croissants, stinky cheese, and the difficulties of not taking daily showers.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
National 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: Similar story and style · both romance
Johanne Sacreblu: ahora es más personal (2025)
Johanne Sacreblu discovers that she is the chosen one of an old prophecy and her mission is to go in search of a sacred bread known as the Croaguette to restore glory to France.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Law of Desire (1987)
Pablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPre-Drink (2017)
Alexe is a young trans woman, and Carl a gay man. Best friends since forever, an evening spent together destabilizes Alexe, when both decide to have sex together for the first time.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Serpent's Skin (2026)
Two young women form a romantic bond after discovering they have supernatural powers. Their insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their exes and begins feeding on their friends. As the bodies pile up, it becomes up to the women to face their pasts and stop the growing evil.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Anything's Possible (2022)
Anything’s Possible is a delightfully modern Gen Z coming-of-age story that follows Kelsa, a confident high school girl who is trans, as she navigates through senior year. When her classmate Khal gets a crush on her, he musters up the courage to ask her out, despite the drama he knows it could cause. What transpires is a romance that showcases the joy, tenderness, and pain of young love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTamara (2016)
The story of a lawyer's journey to overcome her fears and social boundaries in order to transition.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Stardust (TBA)
The story of Sabrina Stardust, a transfemme artist trying to make ends meet while dealing with an unstable addict girlfriend, a new love, and an unsuccessful side hustle as a camgirl
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Miss Man (2019)
A man's discovery of his own sexuality against all odds and finding himself in the process.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Transgender Love (2016)
Documentary following six trans men and women in Scotland as they struggle to find love and maintain existing relationships.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Temporal Fate (2022)
A time traveling trans woman turns back time to save the woman she spent the night with from death.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Lala & Poppy (TBA)
A love story between a trans woman and a trans man navigating their transitions and relationship in a traditional fisherman’s colony.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Escaping Gravity (2013)
To finally gain her father's acceptance, transsexual Leonie decides to return masqueraded as a man to the world of her childhood: the funfair. Though even the old owner of the ghost train has something to hide.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
A Song Without Home (2026)
After 11 years confined to her family home, Adelina flees from a Georgian village to Vienna in search of the freedom to be herself. As she builds a new life, she faces a past that refuses to let her go. Through immersive imagery and the mother-daughter bond, A Song Without Home paints a layered portrait of belonging and the complexity of freedom beyond physical liberation.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Transamerica (2005)
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDía de la visibilidad cis (2021)
A showcase of the efforts towards the inclusion of cis people in alternate reality. (A parody made by trans people.)
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Queen of Hearts (2019)
The story of ten trans girls who form a co-op theatre to be able to stop working as prostitutes. The protagonists tell us their dreams, show their daily struggles and share their experiences and realities to be accepted and belong to society as well.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Memories Revealed (2019)
Over the course of 10 months, a camera travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Hanover, Germany to meet with Magalí, María Belén, Ivana and Carla, the founding members of the Archivo De La Memoria Trans Argentina, the first existing Trans Archive in the world. Taking the shape of a photo-novel, the documentary not only recounts the founding members lives as trans women under the Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), the AIDS epidemy, state repression and mass assassinations but also years of fighting for their rights, sorority and the exaltation of life and laughter in times of death. Filming each one of them is filming them embracing their new role as curators, archivists and historians while a collection of 7,000 photos goes through the filter of their memories.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
A.M.O.R. Ante mucho odio revolución (2018)
This is the love story of Shirley and Luciana. The first marriage between two trans women in Latin America, thanks to the gender identity and marriage equality laws in Argentina.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Toy Play?
The closest matches to Toy Play are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Johanne Sacreblu (2025). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Toy Play?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Toy Play.
What is the highest-rated movie like Toy Play?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,245 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Toy Play?
The Serpent's Skin (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Toy Play?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and National Anthem (2024).
How are movies similar to Toy Play chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Toy Play, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.