Movies like Gayby (2012)
The best movies like Gayby (2012) are Happythankyoumoreplease (2011), Friends with Kids (2012) and Obvious Child (2014). If Gayby hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCrazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)7.3/10 from 9,663 votes
- NewestIs This Thing On? (2025)Released 2025
Happythankyoumoreplease (2011)
Six New Yorkers navigate love, commitment, and adulthood. When struggling novelist Sam takes in an abandoned boy he meets on the subway, his life begins to intertwine with a talented singer who challenges his bachelor ways. Meanwhile, his best friend Annie battles alopecia while torn between two drastically different men, and a long-term couple faces a crossroads that could alter their future together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFriends with Kids (2012)
In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of parenthood without significantly curbing their personal freedom. However, when Julie and Jason both become involved with others, they discover that they secretly harbor romantic feelings for each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisObvious Child (2014)
An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEvery Day (2010)
Ned is in the throes of a mid-life crisis. His work as a writer on an outrageous, semi-pornographic TV show is less than satisfying. His fifteen year old son has just told him he is gay and his eleven year old is afraid of, well pretty much everything. When his wife, Jeannie, moves her sick and embittered father from Detroit into their home in NY, it puts added stress on an already strained marriage. And when a sexy female co-worker puts the moves on Ned, the temptation sends him spiraling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisEnough Said (2013)
Eva is a divorced soon-to-be empty-nester wondering about her next act. Then she meets Marianne, the embodiment of her perfect self. Armed with a restored outlook on being middle-aged and single, Eva decides to take a chance on her new love interest Albert — a sweet, funny and like-minded man. But things get complicated when Eva discovers that Albert is in fact the dreaded ex–husband of Marianne...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Switch (2010)
Kassie is a smart, fun-loving single woman who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally’s objections, decides it’s time to have a baby – even if it means doing it herself… with a little help from a charming sperm donor. But, unbeknownst to her, Kassie’s plans go awry because of a last-minute switch that isn’t discovered until seven years later… when Wally gets acquainted with Kassie’s cute, though slightly neurotic, son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIs This Thing On? (2025)
As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex faces middle age and an impending divorce, seeking new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess confronts the sacrifices she made for their family—forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDan in Real Life (2007)
Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTogether Together (2021)
When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaze (2001)
Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend Callie. She leans on Lyle for help, and before long he's Lamaze coach, pinch-hitting father-to-be and in love with Callie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Greenberg (2010)
Roger Greenberg, a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother. He's stranded there—since he doesn't drive—until his brother's assistant, Florence, comes to his rescue. She's as much a lost soul as he is, and the pair form a significant connection—giving Roger a much-needed reason to be happy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Best You Can (2025)
Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, just as her world is turned upside down by the arrival of sharp but chronically underachieving security guard Stan Olszewski in this smart rom-com that reunites Bacon and Sedgwick on screen for the first time in 20 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPeace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBe Somebody (2016)
Pop superstar Jordan Jaye has a big dream he just wants to live like a regular teenager. When he's chased down by some excited female fans, he finds a perfect hideout and a reluctant new friend from a small town, high-school art student, Emily Lowe. Despite being from different worlds, they soon discover they have way more in common than they ever imagined. Over the course of several days, the two embark on an unexpected journey of friendship, first love and self-discovery -- proving that maybe opposites really do attract.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSleeping with Other People (2015)
Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife Partners (2014)
A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisCrazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDrinking Buddies (2013)
Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeginners (2011)
Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Blind Brother (2016)
Love for the same woman causes conflict between an over-achieving blind athlete and the brother who made him that way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll Relative (2014)
Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGrace (2018)
A famous writer begins suffering from a crippling case of writer's block. His agent sends him a strange, belligerent woman to be his new assistant, hoping the change will inspire him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big Sick (2017)
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoing the Distance (2010)
Erin and Garrett are very much in love. When Erin moves to San Francisco to finish her journalism degree and Garrett stays behind in New York to work in the music industry, they gamely keep the romance alive with webcams and frequent-flyer miles. But just when it seems the lovers will soon be reunited, they each score a big break that could separate them for good.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEasier with Practice (2009)
Davy is a 28-year-old writer on a road trip to promote his unpublished collection of short stories. A random phone call in Davy's motel room from a mysterious, sexy woman named Nicole leads to a series of phone sex sessions that surprisingly over time become emotionally and sexually satisfying for the shy writer. Later, when he meets a former girlfriend, he must try to choose between them, but only if he can arrange a meeting with his reclusive phone mate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Post Grad (2009)
Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins hilariously out of control when she’s forced to move back home with her eccentric family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisEverything Is Free (2017)
Ivan is a US painter residing in Colombia. His best friend, Christian, and younger brother, Cole, come to visit. Somewhere along the way, Ivan and Cole hit it off although Cole is not gay. Will older brother Christian be okay with that?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Threesome (2025)
Connor has a threesome with his long-time crush Olivia and an alluring stranger named Jenny. It surprisingly serves as the spark to a full blown relationship with Olivia, until both women end up pregnant and all three are thrust into a difficult journey toward new realities that none of them could have expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFling (2008)
An attractive young couple's open relationship is stretched to the breaking point when each partner finds themselves falling in love with other people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)
Follows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Gayby?
The closest matches to Gayby are Happythankyoumoreplease (2011), Friends with Kids (2012) and Obvious Child (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Gayby?
People who watched Gayby most often go on to Happythankyoumoreplease (2011), Friends with Kids (2012) and Obvious Child (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Gayby?
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), rated 7.3/10 by 9,663 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Gayby?
Is This Thing On? (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Gayby?
Yes: Happythankyoumoreplease (2011), Friends with Kids (2012) and Obvious Child (2014).
How are movies similar to Gayby chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Gayby, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.