Movies like Big Man On Campus: Max (2026)
The best movies like Big Man On Campus: Max (2026) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Sidelined 2: Intercepted (2025). If Big Man On Campus: Max 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 3,246 votes
- NewestSidelined 2: Intercepted (2025)Released 2025
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 thisSidelined 2: Intercepted (2025)
Freshman star quarterback Drayton struggles with the weight of expectations after a devastating setback, while dancer Dallas begins to question the future she thought she wanted. As their high school relationship begins to unravel under the pressures of distance and self-discovery, they’ll learn that the bravest versions of themselves emerge when they let life redirect them.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDown to You (2000)
College coeds in New York City, Al, the son of a celebrity chef, and Imogen, a talented artist, become smitten the second they lay eyes on one another at a bar. However, the road to happiness is not a smooth one. Outside forces, including a predatory porn star who wants to lure Al into her bed, threaten to pull apart the young lovers before their romance has a chance to really flourish.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLoser (2000)
On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty professor.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBoys and Girls (2000)
Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they meet in college, the uptight Ryan and the free-spirited Jennifer find that their differences bind them together and a rare friendship develops.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCompatible (2018)
Two college students hit it off after their first class together and discover that they have almost everything in common.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Forever A Never (2025)
Two best friends, about to marry others, write wedding speeches for each other, reflecting on what it truly means to love and if they’ve been expressing it right all along.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Wealthy American, Jervis Pendleton has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, and anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Several years later, he visits her at school, while still concealing his identity, and—despite their large age difference—they soon fall in love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGoing Greek (2001)
Loner freshman Jake Taylor is forced to join the wildest fraternity on campus when the frat brothers refuse to accept his geeky cousin/roommate unless Jake agrees to pledge with him. As the semester progresses, Jake struggles to maintain his grades as well as his affair with Paige, a beautiful sophomore who hates all fraternities. Through naked scavenger hunts, sorority ass-signings and all night
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
American Desi (2001)
College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned Indian roommates.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
P.S. (2004)
Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSuburban Fantasy (2022)
On the night before he is set to leave his Rhode Island home to study photography in New York City, Rocco must decide how much he's willing to give up to follow his dreams.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Local Boy Makes Good (1931)
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Let's Get Married (1926)
College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout old woman who deals in hymnals. She turns out to be devoutly drunk and a saloon brawler, leading to Billy's imprisonment. He tells his fiancée he's doing missionary work on a pacific island. He escapes and persuades her to marry him, all the while dodging the police who pursue him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
108 Stitches (2014)
With baseball being the last thing on these player's minds, and dealing with one of the longest losing streaks in college history, the team of misfits comes to the realization that the school, led by the corrupt and unethical President of the University, has plans to disband the entire program. Hilarity ensues as they have one afternoon to execute a plan to fill the stadium, sign the top recruit on the planet, and help send their coach out with a bang.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Simmering Savant (2023)
An insecure college student becomes the talk of campus when he suffers a head injury and miraculously becomes a world-class chef.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Slackers (2002)
Dave, Sam and Jeff are about to graduate from Holden University with honors in lying, cheating and scheming. The three roommates have proudly scammed their way through the last four years of college and now, during final exams, these big-men-on-campus are about to be busted by the most unlikely dude in school. Self-dubbed Cool Ethan, an ambitious nerd with a bad crush, enters their lives one day and everything begins to unravel.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisVan Wilder: Freshman Year (2009)
It is freshman year at Coolidge College and Van Wilder is ready to party. To his dismay, all the girls have taken a vow of chastity and the dean rules the school. Van embarks on a crusade to land the campus hottie, Kaitlin, and liberate his school from sexual oppression and party dysfunction.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like this100 Women (2002)
A young man returns to his ex-girlfriend and true love to discover the source of her increasing depression. As the young man earnestly tries to help his girlfriend through her troubles, their love begins to bloom.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisthe long weekend (o' despair) (1989)
The film follows three couples, one gay, one lesbian and one heterosexual, spending a weekend together.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006)
When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Big Man On Campus: Max?
The closest matches to Big Man On Campus: Max are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Sidelined 2: Intercepted (2025). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Big Man On Campus: Max?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Big Man On Campus: Max.
What is the highest-rated movie like Big Man On Campus: Max?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,246 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Big Man On Campus: Max?
Sidelined 2: Intercepted (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Big Man On Campus: Max?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Sidelined 2: Intercepted (2025).
How are movies similar to Big Man On Campus: Max chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Big Man On Campus: Max, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.