Movies like High School Lover (2017)
The best movies like High School Lover (2017) are All Summers End (2017), Keith (2008) and Empty Sky (2011). If High School Lover hooked you with its romance and tv movie, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedMidnight Sun (2018)7.8/10 from 3,587 votes
- NewestLove Me Love Me (2026)Released 2026
All Summers End (2017)
A teenager tries to deal with his guilty conscience after his role in a prank that causes the death of his girlfriend's older brother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKeith (2008)
Natalie is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that Keith has something to hide. As the free-spirited Keith shows Natalie how to embrace what life offers, they grow closer -- until a secret tests the bounds of their relationship
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEmpty Sky (2011)
Brought together by music, two high school girls, Samantha and Taylor, begin a secret romantic affair. But when Taylor's mom corners the girls, Taylor seems unwilling to protect the relationship, leaving Samantha to decide if it is worth her heartache to preserve it as she leaves for college.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Marked Men: Rule + Shaw (2025)
Shaw Landon has loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule, a fiery-tempered rebel tattoo artist, doesn’t have time for a good girl pre-med student like Shaw — even if she’s the only one who can see the person he truly is. She lives by other people’s rules; he makes his own. But a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails, and spilled secrets lead to a night neither can forget. Now, Shaw and Rule must figure out how a girl like her and a guy like him are supposed to be together without destroying their love…or each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & 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 thisPrivate Romeo (2011)
When eight male cadets are left behind at an isolated military high school, the greatest romantic drama ever written seeps out of the classroom and permeates their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove and Honor (2013)
When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBefore the Dawn (2019)
A young high school teacher moves to a new town for a fresh start and falls for a troubled student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Chemical Hearts (2020)
When a hopelessly romantic high school senior falls for a mysterious new classmate, it sets them both on an unexpected journey that teaches them about love, loss, and most importantly themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove Everlasting (2016)
Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEverything, Everything (2017)
A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like this1 Mile To You (2017)
After a teenager's friends die in an accident, he finds running allows him to remember them perfectly. Running, however, also brings him notoriety. He is caught between keeping the past alive and making new memories in the present.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSoft Lad (2015)
Twenty-two year old David has it all – he’s young, hot, and he’s just got into the prestigious dance school of his dreams. But he has a secret: for two years he’s been sleeping with his sister’s husband, Jules. After an argument between the two lovers, David throws himself into a one-night stand with Sam, a casual encounter which fast becomes something much stronger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Midnight Sun (2018)
Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEndless Love (2014)
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAkron (2015)
Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving their mothers soon comes to light and threatens to tear them apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPrincess Cut (2015)
A lifelong Carolina farm girl, now in her early 20's, Grace has dreamed all her life of the day when "Mr. Right" slips a Princess Cut diamond on her finger and swears to love her forever. Tonight may be that night as Stewart has something special planned after 15 months together! But when things don't go as planned, and romance crashes down around her, it launches her on a quest, aided by her father, to understand what it means to truly love another person. Will Grace finally discover love or ruin her chances for happiness forever?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
According to Greta (2009)
Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down her demons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfter We Collided (2020)
Tessa finds herself struggling with her complicated relationship with Hardin; she faces a dilemma that could change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like this6 Years (2015)
A young couple bound by a seemingly ideal love, begins to unravel as unexpected opportunities spin them down a volatile and violent path and threaten the future they had always imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSay You Will (2017)
A recent high school graduate cares for his mother and navigates his first relationship in the wake of his father's suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Priceless (2016)
James, down on his luck and desperate for some quick cash, agrees to drive a small truck across country. He soon realizes that he's made a huge mistake and has inadvertently become involved in a dangerous human trafficking ring. The unlikely hero risks it all to shut down the trafficking ring and save the woman he is falling in love with.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Best of Me (2014)
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Walk to Remember (2002)
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWish You Were Here (2025)
After a whirlwind romance ends with him disappearing, a woman discovers that her brief love interest is terminally ill and helps him make the most of his remaining days.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Love Me Love Me (2026)
After her brother's death, June moves to Milan for a fresh start, finding comfort in Will, the perfect honor student at her new international school. But when his troubled best friend James—hiding a dangerous life in clandestine MMA fights—sparks a rivalry that quickly turns into irresistible attraction, June must choose between safety and a love that upends everything she thought she wanted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShe Wants Me (2012)
A neurotic writer working on his new film gets into a tricky situation when an A-list actress shows interest in the role intended for his girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Love Finds You in Valentine (2016)
Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Very Country Christmas (2017)
Jeanette Williams is a busy single parent, trying to make the best life for her and her daughter. With no time to follow current celebrity gossip, Jeanette is unaware of when a Country superstar returns to their small town to escape the intrusive paparazzi and the chaos of fame. A chance meeting between the two have them both letting their guards down and opening their hearts to the possibility of romance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas in Evergreen (2017)
Allie, a veterinarian in Evergreen, reluctantly will spend Christmas with her long-distance boyfriend. Bound for the airport, she has engine trouble, and Ryan, headed to Florida with his daughter Zoe, stops to help. Sure they won’t meet again, they ignore their attraction, and part ways. At the diner, Zoe wishes on a snow globe, and a storm seems to grant her wish.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like High School Lover?
The closest matches to High School Lover are All Summers End (2017), Keith (2008) and Empty Sky (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after High School Lover?
People who watched High School Lover most often go on to All Summers End (2017), Keith (2008) and Empty Sky (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like High School Lover?
Midnight Sun (2018), rated 7.8/10 by 3,587 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like High School Lover?
Love Me Love Me (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like High School Lover?
Yes: All Summers End (2017), Keith (2008) and Empty Sky (2011).
How are movies similar to High School Lover chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside High School Lover, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.