Movies like Earthlings in Love (2026)
The best movies like Earthlings in Love (2026) are Fast Girls (2012), Eleanor the Great (2025) and I Believe in Unicorns (2015). If Earthlings in Love hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedWhere Hope Grows (2014)7.9/10 from 232 votes
- NewestMy Father's Table (2026)Released 2026
- In JapanesePassion (2008)Also in Japanese
Fast Girls (2012)
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEleanor the Great (2025)
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Believe in Unicorns (2015)
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPassion (2008)
A young couple's announcement of their engagement to their friends is followed by a series of interactions and conflicts that forces everyone to reflect on their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWon't Back Down (2012)
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHead Full of Honey (2018)
A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll Together Now (2020)
An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrand Upon the Brain! (2007)
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLady Driver (2020)
When a rebellious teen embarks on a solo summer journey to connect with her roots, she finds herself in a new world, geared up for the ride of her life, and discovers she had the drive in her all along.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAdopt a Highway (2019)
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a 3rd strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn’t recognize – including trying to learn how to use the internet – he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could be his chance at redemption.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHurry Sundown (1967)
A ruthless Southern opportunist tries to buy his cousin's land, and when thwarted, brings several tragedies to the lives of his loved ones.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisImagine (2012)
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Whispering Star (2015)
A feminine android delivers packages to scattered humans throughout the galaxy. With years to spare, the android and us have time to contemplate the meaning of being human.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Rifleman (2023)
A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhere Hope Grows (2014)
Calvin Campbell is a former professional baseball player sent to an early retirement due to his panic attacks at the plate. Even though he had all the talent for the big leagues, he struggles with the curveballs life has thrown him. Today, he mindlessly sleepwalks through his days and the challenge of raising his teenager daughter. His life is in a slow downward spiral when it is suddenly awakened and invigorated by the most unlikely person – Produce, a young-man with Down syndrome who works at the local grocery store.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisRadium Girls (2020)
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Assault (2014)
After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she can't remember in her fight for justice. Based on the true story of the Steubenville, Ohio rape case.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHere (2024)
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOmaha (2025)
A young girl and her brother are awoken by their father and loaded into the car on an early morning in 2008. As they road trip across the American West, she discovers the truth about their seemingly spontaneous journey.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Father's Table (2026)
A wife diagnosed with a condition that stops her from cooking! Cooking for the first time in his life is hard enough... But penalty points if it tastes bad, and 10 points mean DIVORCE?!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Lovely Death (2026)
Three friends determined to die are denied by death itself and sent to uncover the truth behind a mass poisoning at Hongpyeong Pension. As hidden secrets and suspicions emerge among the survivors gathered there, Yeon begins to cling desperately to life, causing a painful rift with Irim, who still longs for them to die together. When the true killer finally strikes again, Yeon barely survives, forever marked by death’s shadow.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
You Rain Down on Me (2026)
In a society where teenagers are required to receive a vaccine against romantic feelings, Ido falls in love with Eunha, a transfer student.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
You and Me In Low Angle (2021)
It's been a long time since Leila, a costume girl, hasn't seen her father. A number of photos of Mr. Leila taken when he was a child made Leila investigate things from a low point of view. The promise to meet again came and again ended up disappointed. Until one point he found evidence of the presence of the father in his daily life. From a different point of view.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
All The Stars Are Dead (TBA)
Four actors in pursuit of stardom perform fleeting events, contemplating the stars for inspiration and looking down at the pixels that break down their characters. Dedicated to rehearsing tirelessly, they leave the group only to engage in the ritual of the everyday. The master-student relationship becomes strained when one of them challenges the rules and abandons the project forever, provoking a profound reflection on their art and dedication.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Girl with the Instagram (2019)
Nagyvárad, Hungary, 1944. From February to June, Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl, wrote a diary describing the harsh conditions of her life under Nazi occupation. How would she have told her story if she had used Instagram?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Wild Eyes: The Woman of the Prince (2026)
Eun Woo infiltrates the palace to kill Crown Prince Lee Hyun, only to fall in love with him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Coming SoonMovies like thisFrying Pans (2016)
The story about seller frying pans, who dreamed of the stars ...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Momok (2021)
Being scolded while playing, three children plot small revenge on an old lady. A decision they regret later.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
High Hopes (2021)
Sylvester tries to capture Tweety while Granny takes some much needed “me-time.”
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Earthlings in Love?
The closest matches to Earthlings in Love are Fast Girls (2012), Eleanor the Great (2025) and I Believe in Unicorns (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Earthlings in Love?
Start with Fast Girls (2012), the closest match to Earthlings in Love.
What is the highest-rated movie like Earthlings in Love?
Where Hope Grows (2014), rated 7.9/10 by 232 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Earthlings in Love?
My Father's Table (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like Earthlings in Love?
Yes: Passion (2008) and The Whispering Star (2015).
How are movies similar to Earthlings in Love chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Earthlings in Love, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.