Movies like The Lost Coast (2008)
The best movies like The Lost Coast (2008) are Akron (2015), The Falls (2012) and Ciao (2008). If The Lost Coast hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThose People (2015)6.8/10 from 354 votes
- NewestNorwegian Dream (2023)Released 2023
Akron (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 thisThe Falls (2012)
RJ and Chris were both born and raised in the Mormon Church. Both have pretty girlfriends, were Eagle Scouts at a young age and have perfect academic records. Now, it’s their turn to serve a mission and experience the Mormon rite of passage. Unknown to them, serving a mission will not only open the doors to strangers’ households – where they preach the Gospel – but it will open up secrets in their own lives — and feelings that they’ve long kept buried.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCiao (2008)
A man learns that his late friend had a secret online lover who is on the way from Italy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisRole/Play (2010)
A recently outed soap opera actor crosses paths with a recently divorced gay marriage activist, forcing them to confront the price of fame and the fickle nature of celebrity within the gay community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Mario (2018)
Mario is a promising young footballer in Switzerland on his way to the top, closing in on the success he and his father always dreamed of. But when the talented striker Leon joins the team, they'll get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love, as rumours and prejudice threaten their careers and everything they've managed to build.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhere Are You Going, Habibi? (2015)
Ibrahim, a young German of Turkish descent, leads a double life, living with his tradition-bound family and spending his days looking for a respectable job. But outside his parent's apartment, Ibo (as he's called by his family and friends) is a confident gay man who works in a sex shop and is on the hunt for Mr. Right.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Straight Man (2014)
Lewis is a closeted gay man throwing a bachelor party for his straight best friend and secret crush, Cooper. After a night of drunken sex together, the two men decide to meet in the same hotel suite on the same night each year to hook up and catch up. Over the course of twelve years, we see four additional nights that depict how the two men grow and how their friendship changes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Falls: Covenant of Grace (2016)
Chris and RJ, former Mormon missionaries who fell in love seven years ago, are struggling to make their relationship work amid conflicts with their families and their faith. Determined to finally find closure and put the past behind them, the two men set in motion a quest for unconditional love that ultimately leads to the very top of the LDS leadership.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
From Beginning to End (2009)
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJust a Question of Love (2000)
After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He's afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThose People (2015)
On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShared Rooms (2016)
A romantic comedy that brings together three interrelated tales of gay men seeking family, love and sex during the holiday season.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Is It Just Me? (2010)
A socially shunned columnist finds his romantic match online, but messaging under the wrong account causes his sleazy roommate’s picture to be forwarded, creating an identity mix-up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisNorwegian Dream (2023)
Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly gay and a member of the workers union. Robert is hiding his sexual orientation from the other Polish immigrant workers. When Ivar helps the Polish to start a strike for better working conditions at the factory, Robert has to choose between money or love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Monster Pies (2013)
Mike has felt alienated and alone for as long as he can remember, until a new boy arrives at his school - awakening feelings and a world of possibilities he'd never before dared to dream of.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBig Eden (2000)
Henry Hart is a young gay artist living in New York City. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry puts his career on hold and returns home to the small town of Big Eden, Montana, to care for him. While there, Henry hopes to strike up a romance with Dean Stewart, his high-school best friend for whom he still has feelings. But he's surprised when he finds that Pike, a quiet Native American who owns the local general store, may have a crush on him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBad Boy Street (2012)
Two men embark on an unconventional romance in Todd Verow's sexy Parisian-set drama. Claude finds a young man passed out in the street and, taking pity on him, decides to take him to his apartment to safely sleep. Awakening the next morning, the sexy stranger soon makes a play for his forty-something host, kick-starting a passionate romance. But will the chance meeting develop into more than just lust or will the pair's differences drive them apart? An accomplished, serious and very modern gay romance .
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Beautiful Something (2015)
Four diverse gay men navigate art, sex and love in one sublime night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Eyes Wide Open (2009)
A middle-aged Orthodox Jew, Aaron, living and working in Jerusalem with his wife and children, meets a homeless 19-year-old student. Aaron offers to give Ezri work as his assistant at his family's butcher shop. The two men grow close and their attraction becomes sexual. Aaron must now confront his own sexuality, his feelings for Ezri, and his obligations to his family and faith.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRetake (2016)
A lonely, middle-aged man hires a male prostitute to recreate a road trip from his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Hawaii (2013)
Eugenio spends the summer looking after his aunt and uncle’s house - a place that once belonged to him - while seeking inspiration for a screenplay he is writing. Martín, currently unemployed, offers to handle various repairs around the house. The two met long ago as children but had not seen each other since. However, their renewed connection is built on deception: Martín has nowhere to sleep but lies to Eugenio about it, while Eugenio seems interested in Martín as something more than just a friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEast Side Story (2006)
Diego is a gay but closeted Hispanic chef living in East Los Angeles who works in the restaurant operated by his grandmother. Frustrated by the secretive lifestyle he shares with his similarly closeted lover, Pablo, Diego finds himself attracted to Wesley, one of the openly gay Caucasian men he feels are gentrifying his neighborhood. Their relationship pushes Diego to consider the possibility of a life he had never imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Steel (2015)
Daniel, a successful TV journalist living life in the fast lane, has fallen into a deep depression. His seemingly perfect life suddenly collapses under him when panic attacks force him to deal with himself and his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Do (2012)
A gay Brit living in New York is deprived of his immigration status, and risks losing his family and life in the U.S. He marries his lesbian best friend to remain in the country and stay with his family, but things get complicated when he meets the love of his life and is forced to make an impossible choice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Rock Haven (2007)
The coastal California community of Rock Haven is the perfect place for cute eighteen-year-old Brady and his loving mother to begin a fresh start. Their mission: to spread the word of the Lord. But while roaming the beach one day, Brady meets Clifford, a young man who is the complete opposite of him: outgoing and athletic as well as incredibly handsome. Their initial encounter stirs up feelings of homo desire that Brady has been suppressing. Once Clifford makes it clear that their attraction is mutual, Brady's conflicting feelings of religious obligation and natural impulse go into overdrive, and the two young men must navigate their confusion, lust and beliefs in order to come to a mutual understanding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
In from the Side (2022)
Mark, a new and inexperienced rugby club member, finds himself drawn to Warren, a seasoned first team player. When a series of happenstances at an away fixture lead to a drunken encounter, Mark and Warren unwittingly embark on a romantic affair they struggle to hide from their partners and teammates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristopher and His Kind (2011)
In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBreaking Fast (2020)
Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy who surprises Mo by offering to break fast with him during the holy month of Ramadan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoy Culture (2006)
A successful gay male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships with his two roommates and an older, enigmatic male client.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Home at the End of the World (2004)
Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Lost Coast?
The closest matches to The Lost Coast are Akron (2015), The Falls (2012) and Ciao (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Lost Coast?
People who watched The Lost Coast most often go on to Akron (2015), The Falls (2012) and Ciao (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Lost Coast?
Those People (2015), rated 6.8/10 by 354 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Lost Coast?
Norwegian Dream (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Lost Coast?
Yes: Akron (2015), The Falls (2012) and Ciao (2008).
How are movies similar to The Lost Coast chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Lost Coast, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.