Movies like To the Stars (2019)
The best movies like To the Stars (2019) are My First Summer (2020), First Girl I Loved (2016) and Lorelei (2020). If To the Stars hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMy First Summer (2020)8.0/10 from 290 votes
- NewestGirls Like Girls (2026)Released 2026
My First Summer (2020)
Isolated on a remote property, 16-year-old Claudia finds her world transformed when a spirited girl named Grace wanders into her garden.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisFirst Girl I Loved (2016)
Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend, Clifton—who has always harbored a secret crush on her—he does his best to get in the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLorelei (2020)
A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAWOL (2017)
A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBloomington (2010)
A former child actress attends college in search of independence and ends up becoming romantically involved with a female professor. Their relationship thrives until an opportunity to return to acting forces her to make life-altering decisions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMore Beautiful for Having Been Broken (2020)
Three women’s lives intersect at a lakeside resort and are forever changed by the love of a special needs boy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Days of Mercy (2018)
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLoving Annabelle (2007)
Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBare (2015)
A young woman's friendship with a drug-dealing drifter evolves into a lesbian romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWildlife (2018)
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGirls Like Girls (2026)
After her mother's passing, 17-year-old Coley navigates new feelings of intimacy with Sonya in rural Oregon, where both girls must overcome their mutual uncertainties and self-doubt to embrace their connection.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPorcupine Lake (2017)
During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Tahara (2020)
Two best friends attend the funeral of a Hebrew school classmate who died by suicide and accidentally damage their friendship beyond repair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
It Felt Like Love (2013)
14-year-old Lila spends a languid South Brooklyn summer playing third wheel to her promiscuous friend Chiara and Chiara’s boyfriend Patrick. Eager for her own sexual awakening, Lila gamely decides to pursue the older, thuggish Sammy, rumored to sleep with anyone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFreeheld (2015)
New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Marine Story (2010)
Marine officer Alexandra is tough enough to kick any guy's ass in a bar fight, but there's one opponent she can't beat: military policy. When she returns to her conservative hometown from Iraq with a mysterious personal life, she finds herself charged with preparing a tempestuous teenage girl to boot camp.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTell It to the Bees (2019)
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Perfect Ending (2012)
This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Short History of the Long Road (2019)
Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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
Sweetness in the Belly (2019)
Orphaned in Africa as a child, Lilly escapes to England as a refugee, fleeing civil war in Ethiopia. Lost in this cold new world, Lilly embraces the immigrant community in London, attempting to reunite people with their scattered families. But as her friend Amina discovers, Lilly's mission isn't purely selfless: a passionate lost love affair is revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe World to Come (2021)
In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove Finds You in Charm (2015)
A young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrincess Cyd (2017)
High school athlete Cyd Loughlin lives alone with her depressive father in South Carolina, perpetually longing to get away from it all. When her aunt, famous novelist Miranda Ruth, agrees to host her for a few weeks during the summer, Cyd jumps at the opportunity. While there, she falls for a girl in the neighborhood, even as she and her aunt gently challenge each other in the realms of sex and spirit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClementine (2019)
Reeling from a one-sided breakup, heartbroken Karen breaks into her ex’s lakehouse. There, she strikes up a complicated relationship with provocative younger woman Lana.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHope Springs Eternal (2018)
A teen's cancer diagnosis makes her more popular at school, so when she goes into remission, she decides to conceal the news.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLooking for Her (2022)
Taylor is headed home for the holidays and her family is finally ready to meet her girlfriend "Jess". The only problem is, Jess isn't really her girlfriend. Taylor holds open auditions for someone to play the part for the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
4 Minute Mile (2014)
A teenager overcomes odds to run a 4-minute mile race.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSnapshots (2018)
Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not getting any younger and her daughter Patti worries about Rose being all alone, but the stubborn matriarch will not sell. There are memories here that she doesn’t want to leave. These come flooding back one weekend during a visit from Patti and granddaughter Allison, when a long-forgotten roll of film reminds Rose of the summer she met and fell in love with the bold and beautiful Louise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like To the Stars?
The closest matches to To the Stars are My First Summer (2020), First Girl I Loved (2016) and Lorelei (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after To the Stars?
People who watched To the Stars most often go on to My First Summer (2020), First Girl I Loved (2016) and Lorelei (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like To the Stars?
My First Summer (2020), rated 8.0/10 by 290 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like To the Stars?
Girls Like Girls (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like To the Stars?
Yes: My First Summer (2020), First Girl I Loved (2016) and Lorelei (2020).
How are movies similar to To the Stars chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside To the Stars, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.