Movies like Barefoot and Pregnant 37 (2010)
The best movies like Barefoot and Pregnant 37 (2010) are Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (2016), The Ones Below (2016) and Pink Flamingos (1972). If Barefoot and Pregnant 37 hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Piano Teacher (2001)7.3/10 from 1,375 votes
- NewestFlint-Friction (Short-Film) (2025)Released 2025
Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (2016)
Ali Wong might be seven-months pregnant, but there’s not a fetus in the world that can stop this acerbic and savage train of comedy from delivering a masterful hour of stand-up.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ones Below (2016)
A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in downstairs, until a dinner party between them ends in a shocking accident.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPink Flamingos (1972)
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAli Wong: Hard Knock Wife (2018)
Pregnant again, Ali Wong returns to Netflix in her second original stand-up comedy special and gets real on why having kids is not all it's cracked up to be.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCall Jane (2022)
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rain People (1969)
When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Assessment (2025)
In a climate change-ravaged world, a utopian society optimizes life, including parenthood assessments. A successful couple faces scrutiny by an evaluator over seven days to determine their fitness for childbearing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVillage of the Damned (1995)
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEve's Bayou (1997)
Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaged (1950)
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAnything for Jackson (2020)
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Prowler (1951)
Los Angeles, California. A cop who, unhappy with his job, blames others for his work problems, is assigned to investigate the case of a prowler who stalks the home of a married woman.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPolyester (1981)
Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine Fishpaw turns to the bottle as her life falls apart -- until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow. Originally screened with "Odorama" scratch and sniff cards so the audience could (at their own risk) smell along with the film.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhere the Heart Is (2000)
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside, and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. Eventually, some eccentric but kindly strangers 'adopt' Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPalindromes (2005)
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt's Alive (1974)
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever scared. And it's easily scared.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisManny & Lo (1996)
A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCocoon: The Return (1988)
The reinvigorated elderly group that left Earth comes back to visit their relatives. Will they all decide to go back to the planet where no one grows old, or will they be tempted to remain on Earth?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe L-Shaped Room (1962)
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFor Keeps (1988)
Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pregnant. Unwilling to go through an abortion or an adoption — despite their parents' pleas — Darcy and Stan decide to sacrifice their college experiences and degrees in order to keep and raise the baby. After a quick marriage, the two realize it won't be as easy as they thought.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Fetish (2010)
When the son of an alleged killer inherits a "blue movie" that may be the key to solving a 50 year old murder, he finds himself drawn into a forbidden world of sexual obsession. But the closer he gets to the heart of the mystery, the more the past threatens to reach out into the present and reveal terrifying truths that lead him to the brink of madness.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Control Alt Delete (2010)
A moody romantic comedy exploring fetishism, addiction and love in the information age. As Lewis struggles to integrate his public and private personas, he realizes he may not be the only one harboring a dirty little secret.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Vanilla (2017)
Look around. Everything you see and touch can taste like vanilla.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Flint-Friction (Short-Film) (2025)
Torn between love and justice, a young charismatic superhero must choose to focus on his girl friend and arch nemesis.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Rainbow Girls (2025)
As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an audacious heist targeting the city’s most exclusive luxury brands.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Charon (2021)
"Charon" follows a restaurant owner (Jason Shidiskis) and his wife (Liesl Cruz) going through their daily lives while expecting a child when the unexpected occurs.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SoulMaid (2007)
Loosely based on the classic story of Sleeping Beauty, this irreverent gay fairy tale for modern audiences follows a man named Moses, whose frequent seizures are characterized by the appearance of Glintentica, a spurned Goddess planning her return to earth. Problems arise when Glintentica becomes determined to take over the soul of David, Moses' new love interest.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
On the Doll (2007)
A lurid, dark look into the lives of sex workers, where victims of child abuse deal with the consequences later in life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Piano Teacher (2001)
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCrash (1996)
A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Barefoot and Pregnant 37?
The closest matches to Barefoot and Pregnant 37 are Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (2016), The Ones Below (2016) and Pink Flamingos (1972). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Barefoot and Pregnant 37?
Start with Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (2016), the closest match to Barefoot and Pregnant 37.
What is the highest-rated movie like Barefoot and Pregnant 37?
The Piano Teacher (2001), rated 7.3/10 by 1,375 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Barefoot and Pregnant 37?
Flint-Friction (Short-Film) (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Barefoot and Pregnant 37?
Yes: Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (2016), The Ones Below (2016) and Pink Flamingos (1972).
How are movies similar to Barefoot and Pregnant 37 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Barefoot and Pregnant 37, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.