Movies like I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)
The best movies like I Love You Phillip Morris (2010) are Boys Don't Cry (1999), Save the Cinema (2022) and The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000). If I Love You Phillip Morris hooked you with its comedy and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013)8.0/10 from 26,931 votes
- NewestDragon (2025)Released 2025
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSave the Cinema (2022)
The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre from closure. Alongside then Mayor of Carmarthen Richard Goodridge, they enlisted the help of Steven Spielberg, securing a special premiere of Jurassic Park.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000)
A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood and professional success. At various stages of life's disarray, these young men share humorous and tragic relationships and always have each other to rely on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJeffrey (1995)
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes that being celibate is the only option to protect himself. As fate would have it, shortly after his declaration of a sex-free existence, he meets the handsome Steve Howard, his dream man -- except for his HIV-positive status. Facing this dilemma, Jeffrey turns to his best friend and an outrageous priest for guidance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ladykillers (2004)
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLos Frikis (2024)
Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It's there that they create their own utopia to live and play music freely.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Con artist Lawrence Jamieson is a longtime resident of a luxurious coastal resort, where he enjoys the lavish fruits of his deceptions -- that is, until a competitor, Freddy Benson, shows up. When the new guy's lowbrow tactics impinge on his own sophisticated work and believing him to be the infamous conman 'The Jackal', Lawrence resolves to get rid of him. Confident of his own duplicitous talents, he challenges Freddy to a winner-takes-all competition: whoever swindles their latest mark, American heiress Janet Colgate, out of $50,000 first can stay, while the other must leave town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPlainclothes (2025)
In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he's surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Birdcage (1996)
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMasquerade (2022)
Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorcycle accident, squanders his youth in idleness. His life changes when he meets Margot, who lives off scams and amorous manipulations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDragon (2025)
Raghavan transforms from a school topper into a “bad boy” to score girls in college, but ends up a heartbroken dropout. He then cons his way into a successful finance career, but the lies keep building and maintaining the facade proves tricky.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPride (2014)
In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHouse of Boys (2009)
It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home and a job at the "House of Boys", a bar-cum-brothel run by a strict Madame who has an eye for what his punters crave. Frank works his way up from barman to on-stage dancer and falls in love with some of his housemates, Jake. The first intimations of what is described as 'the gay cancer', casts a long shadow over Frank's tight-knit group of friends. Yet despite the troubles that cloud the hopes and dreams of young Frank, his perseverance, along with support from a willing doctor, will carry him through.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe To Do List (2013)
Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Brothers Bloom (2009)
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMambo Italiano (2003)
When an Italian man comes out of the closet, it affects both his life and his crazy family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTangerine (2015)
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBPM (Beats per Minute) (2017)
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBoogie Nights (1997)
In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAmerican Hustle (2013)
A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hangover (2009)
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. Launching a frantic search for Doug, the trio perseveres through a nasty hangover to try to make it to the church on time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDallas Buyers Club (2013)
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies 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 thisI, Tonya (2017)
Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Gigolo (2015)
Fung looks like a super-heartthrob and was born with a special endowment, making him the high school idol. He was expelled from school when he was caught fighting on campus. When his mom, the sole provider of his family with her poultry business, had to stop working due to her back problems, Fung decides to support his family financially. And from that moment, his life takes on a tumultuous change…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMagic Mike (2012)
Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCall Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss (2004)
The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor and eventually became a prostitute for a well-known Los Angeles madam. She took over her boss' operation and soon was raking in $300,000 a month by hiring only the most beautiful and highest-class hookers and catering to wealthy Hollywood types, European and American corporate executives and Arab sheiks. Her operation was broken up by Los Angeles police in 1993, and she eventually went to prison for income-tax evasion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
For Love or Money (2019)
What started off as a whirlwind romance takes an unexpected turn when Mark discovers his beautiful bride-to-be is plotting against him. In cahoots with an old school buddy, they hatch a plan to take half of Mark’s £20 million fortune and use it for their own happy ending. What they don’t realize is that Mark is one step ahead of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like I Love You Phillip Morris?
The closest matches to I Love You Phillip Morris are Boys Don't Cry (1999), Save the Cinema (2022) and The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after I Love You Phillip Morris?
People who watched I Love You Phillip Morris most often go on to Boys Don't Cry (1999), Save the Cinema (2022) and The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000).
What is the highest-rated movie like I Love You Phillip Morris?
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), rated 8.0/10 by 26,931 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like I Love You Phillip Morris?
Dragon (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like I Love You Phillip Morris?
Yes: Boys Don't Cry (1999), Save the Cinema (2022) and The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000).
How are movies similar to I Love You Phillip Morris chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside I Love You Phillip Morris, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.