Movies like Straight Up (2020)
The best movies like Straight Up (2020) are Crush (2022), Eating Out (2004) and Fire Island (2022). If Straight Up hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLove, Simon (2018)8.0/10 from 6,376 votes
- NewestJim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer (2026)Released 2026
Crush (2022)
When an aspiring young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she's been harboring a long-time crush on. But she soon finds herself falling for an unexpected teammate and discovers what real love feels like.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEating Out (2004)
After getting dumped by his slutty girlfriend, Caleb falls in love with Gwen. However, thanks to Caleb's roommate, Gwen thinks he's gay and sets him up with her roommate, Marc.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisFire Island (2022)
A group of queer best friends gather in the Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter. However, desires, dramas, drink and drugs push their bonds to the limits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer (2026)
When Heterosis, a mysterious virus that turns gay men straight, sweeps through the Parisian gay scene, Jim, the six-packed sovereign of the Gym Queens, goes from Pride royalty to social outcast. With only Lucien, a freshly-out twink with more heart than abs, still by his side, Jim must race to find a cure before the disease erases the community that once worshipped him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLove, Simon (2018)
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBros (2022)
Two gay men are possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They're both very busy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnother Gay Movie (2006)
Andy is your typical All-American eighteen-year-old gay virgin. Like everyone else, he's dying to have sex. Totally out of the closet and mad-crazy horny, this naïve high school senior is caught in that awkward vortex between child and adult. Much to the dismay of his mom (who wonders why all her carrots and cucumbers keep disappearing), Andy spends much of his private time practicing for the big moment when he'll finally take the plunge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Astronaut Lovers (2024)
Pedro arrives at the coast and reunites with Maxi, whom he hasn't seen since childhood. Hoping to make his ex-girlfriend jealous, Maxi asks Pedro to pretend to be his boyfriend. Pedro agrees, amused, but fails to realize that this game could turn into reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAlex Strangelove (2018)
Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow to Date Billy Walsh (2024)
Archie has been in love with his best friend Amelia for as long as he can remember. Just when he builds up the courage to declare his feelings, she falls head over heels for Billy Walsh, a new American transfer student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Thing About Harry (2020)
Two high school enemies, uber-jock Harry and out-and-proud Sam, are forced to share a car ride to their Missouri hometown for a friend's engagement party on Valentine's Day. Things take a turn when Sam learns Harry has come out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEating Out: The Open Weekend (2011)
Sexy couple Zack and Benji decide to have an “open” weekend to partake in the smorgasbord of available men on their vacation to a gay getaway in Palm Springs. When Zack runs into his ex-boyfriend Casey at the resort, they both do their best to look like they are having a good time. How could they not, when they are surrounded by cute, frisky guys with six-packs and very little clothing?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisJust Sex, Nothing Personal (2018)
When Serhiy asks his girlfriend to marry him, he is met with a sound rebuff and an unflattering critique of his poor performance in bed. Broken-hearted and with his world almost falling apart, Serhiy takes a macho decision to spend the New Year holiday with his friend, Vasyl in Prague. After a fairly dismal night in a strip club, Serhiy meets striptease dancer, Diana, who offers to show him the way to become a sex super hero. But his ex-girlfriend seems to be standing in the way of realising his dream. We follow Serhiy's further hot - and ever hotter - adventures in Prague.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)
Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDating Amber (2020)
Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the military, while Amber dreams of moving to the liberal hub of London. The plan seems solid, but as their arrangement begins to fall apart, Eddie’s denial gets deeper as Amber realizes that a perilous future awaits her best friend unless she intervenes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOh, Hi! (2025)
Iris and Isaac's first weekend away as a couple is going so well — until Isaac mentions he didn’t know they were a couple. Convinced she's met her perfect guy and that he's just confused, Iris goes to increasingly ridiculous and irrational lengths to prove to Isaac that they are meant to be together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBottoms (2023)
Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTo All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)
Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLayla (2025)
When Layla, a struggling Arab drag queen, falls in love for the first time, they lose and find themself in a transformative relationship that tests who they really are.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Adam & Steve (2005)
Adam and Steve are two gay youths who have a one-night stand that ends embarrassingly. Nearly two decades later, Adam, now a Manhattan tour guide, and Steve, a psychiatrist, meet again -- but neither remembers the other from years before. The two begin dating, even playing matchmaker for their friends Michael and Rhonda, but their promising relationship hits a major snag when Adam and Steve finally recall their past connection.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove or Whatever (2012)
Corey had it all - a successful career, bags of charm and, most of all, a bright future with his boyfriend. But, when his other half commits the ultimate betrayal and dumps him for a woman, he embarks upon a wild journey of self-discovery. Soon, he meets a potentially perfect new guy but first he needs to make some life-changing choices.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
From Zero to I Love You (2019)
Pete is a gay man from Philadelphia whose fear of intimacy leads him to getting involved with married men. His father Ron, and his soon-to-be step mom, Pamela, are on him to find someone who's actually available and to settle down. Instead, he finds a man named Jack who is fifteen years into a perfect marriage with two beautiful children and an enviable wife. This will force both men to confront what they really want in their romantic lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Mascarpone: The Rainbow Cake (2024)
Three years have passed, Antonio and Luca are seeing each other for the first time since Denis's death. Luca, who has hit rock bottom after the death of his friend, was lucky enough to meet Tancredi, his current boyfriend, ...while Antonio has focused on his work, so much so that he is now a well-known chef in a pastry shop. It is clear that there is still a special relationship between the two, but Antonio mistakes Luca's affection for something more and does everything he can to ruin his relationship with Tancredi, even though Cristina does not approve of his behavior. Will Antonio learn to leave the past behind in order to fully experience what the future has to offer him?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Half of It (2020)
Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBearCity 2: The Proposal (2012)
Following the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York, Roger proposes to his boyfriend Tyler , and the gang embarks on a road trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts for Bear Week.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Eat With Me (2014)
When Emma moves in with her estranged, gay son, the pair must learn to reconnect through food where words fail, and face the foreclosure of the family’s Chinese restaurant and a stubborn fear of intimacy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
The Escort (2015)
Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJust Friends? (2009)
A sweet reunion turns heavy when Min-soo's fear forces him to hide his love with two words: "just friends."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Down Low (2023)
A repressed gay man develops an unlikely friendship with a young masseur who teaches him to embrace life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Incredible Jessica James (2017)
Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Straight Up?
The closest matches to Straight Up are Crush (2022), Eating Out (2004) and Fire Island (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Straight Up?
People who watched Straight Up most often go on to Crush (2022), Eating Out (2004) and Fire Island (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like Straight Up?
Love, Simon (2018), rated 8.0/10 by 6,376 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Straight Up?
Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Straight Up?
Yes: Crush (2022), Eating Out (2004) and Fire Island (2022).
How are movies similar to Straight Up chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Straight Up, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.