Movies like Young and Wild (2012)
The best movies like Young and Wild (2012) are Outside (2021), One in a Thousand (2020) and She Said, She Said (2013). If Young and Wild 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 ratedWith Every Heartbeat (2011)7.1/10 from 393 votes
- NewestFitting In (2024)Released 2024
- In SpanishOne in a Thousand (2020)Also in Spanish
Outside (2021)
Set in Seattle, OUTSIDE examines the intersection of two lives: Ramzi, an agoraphobic young artist living a hermetic existence in his downtown apartment, and Ana, a lonely undergrad moonlighting as an escort as they begin an unlikely friendship and romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
One in a Thousand (2020)
Set in a community of project houses, Iris, a young woman with a tough past, meets Renata and feels immediately attracted to her. A tender coming of age story about friendship and first love in a hostile environment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
She Said, She Said (2013)
A lesbian couple on the brink of divorce divide their possessions in mediation and through each object, we get a glimpse of their relationship and the sometimes humorous and sexy power that objects can hold on our lives and emotions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
With Every Heartbeat (2011)
After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.
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 thisDry Martina (2018)
Martina was a famous singer in Argentina during the late 90s, who's become completely frigid and disenchanted with love. The arrival of a so-called sister, alongside her attractive boyfriend, compel Martina to go to Chile with one objective in mind: getting back her libido.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Too Late to Die Young (2019)
During a very dry summer in an isolated community far from the city. Sofia, Clara and Lucas face their first loves and fears, while preparing the New Year's party, without knowing that nature threatens them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Tiger Milk (2017)
As school ends and summer break begins, 14-year-old best friends Nini and Jameelah roam Berlin searching for love, freedom, and new experiences. While Jameelah’s family faces the threat of deportation back to Iraq, the girls try to focus on enjoying their youth. However, their summer takes a dark turn when they witness a terrible crime, putting their unshakeable bond to the test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Quiet (2019)
Martin and Charly spend their time making rap music. One night they find a loaded gun on a hill, while Sol searches for her lost dog. Although apparently unrelated, these stories are intimately linked, forming a portrait of teenagers in their difficult passage to adulthood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Free Zone (2005)
Rebecca, an American who has been living in Jerusalem for a few months now, has just broken off her engagement. She gets into a cab driven by Hanna, an Israeli. But Hanna is on her way to Jordan, to the Free Zone, to pick up a large sum of money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisTurn Me On, Dammit! (2011)
In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Maid (2009)
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJeune Femme (2017)
Broke, with nothing but her cat to her name and doors closing in her face, Paula is back in Paris after a long absence. As she meets different people along the way, there is one thing she knows for sure: she's determined to make a new start and she'll do it with style and panache.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnimals (2019)
Longtime friends and party lovers Laura and Tyler navigate life and love in Dublin, Ireland but find themselves drifting apart when Laura becomes engaged.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSworn Virgin (2015)
Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMacadam Stories (2015)
Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHadewijch (2009)
A troubled young woman is thrown out of a convent and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSkate Kitchen (2018)
Camille's life as a lonely suburban teenager changes dramatically when she befriends a group of girl skateboarders. As she journeys deeper into this raw New York City subculture, she begins to understand the true meaning of friendship as well as her inner self.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSanctuary (2015)
Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDaphne (2017)
Daphne is a young woman negotiating the tricky business of modern life. Caught in the daily rush of her restaurant job and a nightlife kaleidoscope of new faces, she is witty, funny, the life of the party. Too busy to realise that deep down she is not happy. When she saves the life of a shopkeeper stabbed in a failed robbery, the impenetrable armour she wears to protect herself begins to crack, and Daphne is forced to confront the inevitability of a much-needed change in her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDog Days (2001)
Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNobody Knows I'm Here (2020)
Memo lives on a remote Chilean sheep farm, hiding a beautiful singing voice from the outside world. A recluse with a glittery flair, he can't stop dwelling on the past, but what will happen once someone finally listens?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCloser to the Moon (2014)
A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of bank robbers to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSister My Sister (1994)
A true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a new dimension as their overbearing employer discovers a sexual fever between the two sisters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMammal (2016)
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFitting In (2024)
A teenage girl gets diagnosed with a reproductive condition that upends her plans to have sex and propels her into exploring unusual methods to have a sex life, challenging her relationships with everyone in her life, but most importantly, herself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReal Women Have Curves (2002)
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this10,000 Saints (2015)
A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Young and Wild?
The closest matches to Young and Wild are Outside (2021), One in a Thousand (2020) and She Said, She Said (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Young and Wild?
People who watched Young and Wild most often go on to Outside (2021), One in a Thousand (2020) and She Said, She Said (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Young and Wild?
With Every Heartbeat (2011), rated 7.1/10 by 393 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Young and Wild?
Fitting In (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Young and Wild?
Yes: One in a Thousand (2020), Dry Martina (2018) and Too Late to Die Young (2019).
How are movies similar to Young and Wild chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Young and Wild, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.