Movies like Babewatch 9 (2000)
The best movies like Babewatch 9 (2000) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Lifeguards (2024). If Babewatch 9 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 3,241 votes
- NewestThe Lifeguards (2024)Released 2024
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 thisThe Lifeguards (2024)
A strict rule following high school senior joins a group of country club lifeguards. He quickly discovers they focus their energy on goofing off and throwing parties. Over the summer, Mike learns to have fun for the first time.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Aquamarine (2006)
Two teenage girls discover that mermaids really do exist after a violent storm washes one ashore. The mermaid, a sassy creature named Aquamarine, is determined to prove to her father that real love exists, and enlists the girls' help in winning the heart of a handsome lifeguard.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRadio Inside (1994)
As two brothers fall in love with the same woman they must come to grips with the accidental death of their father in this sensitive drama set in Miami.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The To Do List (2013)
Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisAge of Summer (2018)
A determined teenage boy struggles to find acceptance within the Jr. Lifeguards of Hermosa Beach while juggling relationships and challenges in the summer of 1986.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Wonder Wheel (2017)
The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSweetheart (2021)
A socially awkward, environmentally-conscious teenager named AJ is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her painfully 'normal' family, where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Billie Blue (2023)
Follow the summer of Billie's 16th birthday, a lifeguard at the water park, with her two best friends, Rosine and Juliette, as well as her perfect big sister, Annette. Billie's summer is quickly turned upside down when she falls in love with a charming cycling champion.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Lifeguard (2013)
Leigh, feeling unfulfilled, quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She takes a job as a lifeguard, regresses into adolescent behavior, and begins a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager, leading to consequences for everyone involved.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisDrown (2015)
Len is a Surf Lifesaving champion, a legend in the cloistered surf club just like his father. When the younger, faster, and fitter Phil arrives at the club, Len’s legendary status starts to crumble. Then Len sees Phil arriving in the company of another man. Phil is gay.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Lifeguard (1976)
Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school reunion, he sees his old girlfriend who is now a divorced mother. After falling in love with her, Rick considers changing his career and lifestyle.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Elena (2011)
After suffering a heart attack, a wealthy elderly Russian man plans to will most of his estate to his estranged daughter. However, his wife has other plans.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBaywatch (2017)
Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit. Together, they uncover a local criminal plot that threatens the future of the Bay.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGuarded Secrets (1997)
A lifeguard gets in over his head when he meets a mobster and his beautiful wife.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Lovers and Other Relatives (1974)
Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Chlorine and the Firefighter (1974)
This 1974 film is dedicated by the Chlorine Institute to the public interest. It is specifically intended to assist firefighters and other emergency services. The techniques demonstrated are appropriate for emergency use; different circumstances might require modified or additional procedure. The information is drawn from sources believed to be reliable. The Institute, its members any organizations cooperating in the development of this film, jointly or severally, cannot be responsible for how the information is used and must make this legal disclaimer. This is a 1960s era, color movie about Chlorine and emergency workers… specifically, firefighters. The film is intended to show firefighters what chlorine is, what a chlorine emergency might involve, how a company can plan ahead and how an emergency can be handled safely.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Snack Shack (2024)
Inseparable best friends AJ and Moose decide to run the local pool's snack shack after their plan to sell home-brewed beer goes down the drain. Things take a turn when they meet Brooke, an effortlessly cool lifeguard who puts their big plans, and friendship, at risk.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Man I Love (1997)
This is a combination coming out and first love story. The swimmer and diver Lucard is interested in attractive Martin. The film follows the characters' coming out with all its difficulties, the bitter-sweet pleasures of first love and the dreadful moment when one comes down to reality and realizes that one's beloved friend has a hard way to go yet. The positive message the film tries to transmit is the somewhat common motto "Live each day of your life as if it were your last."
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Pool Days (1993)
Justin, a 17-year old entering his final year of high school, gets a job as a life guard at a fitness center. Surrounded by hard bodies of both sexes and instructed by his boss to keep an eye on the steam room to report any men having sex, Justin begins to divine the direction his erotic feelings point. In separate incidents, Vicky and Russell, two older co-workers, hit on him. He tries out responses to both, and then must figure out what to do with his new self-knowledge.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Malibu Shark Attack (2009)
An underwater earthquake generates a tsunami that strikes Malibu, bringing a hunting pack of prehistoric-looking goblin sharks to the surface. Although the beach is evacuated before the big wave strikes, a group of lifeguards and a crew of construction workers are stranded in the high water and have to fight the sharks to get to dry land.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Babewatch 9?
The closest matches to Babewatch 9 are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Lifeguards (2024). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Babewatch 9?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Babewatch 9.
What is the highest-rated movie like Babewatch 9?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,241 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Babewatch 9?
The Lifeguards (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Babewatch 9?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Lifeguards (2024).
How are movies similar to Babewatch 9 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Babewatch 9, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.