Movies like Frank & Lola (2016)
The best movies like Frank & Lola (2016) are Breathe In (2013), Complete Unknown (2016) and Hateship Loveship (2014). If Frank & Lola hooked you with its drama and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTramps (2016)6.2/10 from 260 votes
- NewestThe Kindness of Strangers (2019)Released 2019
Breathe In (2013)
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisComplete Unknown (2016)
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisHateship Loveship (2014)
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAfter Everything (2018)
When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his world is turned completely upside down. But as their love blossoms amidst the chaos of his treatment, they discover that Elliot's illness is not the real test of their relationship – it's everything else.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Yellow Handkerchief (2009)
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTramps (2016)
A young man and woman find love in an unlikely place while carrying out a shady deal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl from the Song (2017)
A young musician travels to Burning Man, a psychedelic festival in the middle of the Nevada desert, in an attempt to get the impetuous girl he has fallen in love with.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStealing Cars (2016)
A rebellious teenager navigates his way through the juvenile court system.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mobile Homes (2017)
In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hottest State (2007)
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlame (2018)
A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to "The Crucible".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFashionista (2016)
A woman's life takes on unexpected twists after trouble in her marriage leads to a mysterious stranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Buster's Mal Heart (2017)
An eccentric mountain man on the run from the local sheriff recalls the mysterious events that brought him to his present fugitive state.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCherry (2010)
Ivy League Freshman, Aaron Milton (17) gets a different kind of education when he falls for Linda (34) a vivacious former wild-child who has returned to college to straighten out her life. The curriculum gets more challenging when Aaron meets Linda's sarcastic 14 year-old daughter, Beth - who quickly develops a crush on him. The math doesn't work in either direction but the dysfunctional triangle becomes a learning experience for all involved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSand Storm (2016)
A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Better Angels (2014)
At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life on the developing frontier shaped one of our nation’s greatest heroes: Abraham Lincoln. Abe is a thoughtful and quiet boy who spends his days at the side of his beloved mother while learning to work the land from his stern father. When illness takes his mother, Abe's new guardian angel comes in the form of his new stepmother, who sees the potential in the boy and pushes for his further education.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaydream Nation (2011)
Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Bachelors (2017)
After the early death of his wife, a mourning father moves with his teenage son across the country for a private school teaching job. Their lives begin to transform due to two unique women, who help them embrace life and love again
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMercy (2009)
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Bellflower (2011)
Two friends spend all their free time building flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in hopes that a global apocalypse will occur and clear the runway for their imaginary gang "Mother Medusa".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLittle Men (2016)
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake's father, Brian, and Tony's mother, Leonor, threatens to become contentious.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSweet Virginia (2017)
A former rodeo star, now a motel manager, meets a young man who is responsible for the violence that suddenly has seized his small town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Cake Eaters (2007)
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Kindness of Strangers (2019)
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Forgiveness of Blood (2011)
A seventeen-year-old boy and his younger sister’s dreams and aspirations are put on hold when their father is accused of murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPregnant at 17 (2016)
After witnessing a brutal crime, things are finally starting to look up for 17 year old high school dropout Chelsea. She's fallen madly in love with Jeff, an older and accomplished man who is promising to give her the life she can only dream of; there's only one hitch...he's still married! To make matters worse, Chelsea finds out she is pregnant and Jeff wants nothing to do with the baby.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Submergence (2018)
While James More is held captive by terrorists in Somalia, thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, his lover Danny Flinders prepares to dive herself in a submersible into the deep bottom of the ocean, tormented by the memories of their brief encounter in France and her inability to know his whereabouts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisDelirium (2014)
Set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable, she falls in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWildlike (2015)
Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe History of Love (2016)
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Frank & Lola?
The closest matches to Frank & Lola are Breathe In (2013), Complete Unknown (2016) and Hateship Loveship (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Frank & Lola?
People who watched Frank & Lola most often go on to Breathe In (2013), Complete Unknown (2016) and Hateship Loveship (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Frank & Lola?
Tramps (2016), rated 6.2/10 by 260 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Frank & Lola?
The Kindness of Strangers (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Frank & Lola?
Yes: Breathe In (2013), Complete Unknown (2016) and Hateship Loveship (2014).
How are movies similar to Frank & Lola chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Frank & Lola, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.