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Movies that feel like10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

If you loved 10 Things I Hate About You, the closest films we have are Show Me Love (1998), It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) and Love, Simon (2018). All three share 10 Things I Hate About You's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Summer's Tale (1996).

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Show Me Love
1998 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 93%★ 7.5comedy · romance · drama

Small-town teenage longing finds its way toward an unlikely, tender connection

The difference: A quiet Swedish coming-out story, not a Shakespeare-inspired high-school scheme

Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

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It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010 · dir. Anna Boden
🍅 58%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romance

A wry, tender voice carries someone through a genuinely rough patch

The difference: A psychiatric-ward drama, not a scheming high-school love plot

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

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Love, Simon
2018 · dir. Greg Berlanti
🍅 92%★ 7.5comedy · drama · romanceMax

Hidden feelings finally come out amid the messy social order of high school

The difference: A closeted teen's coming-out story, not an opposites-attract scheme

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.

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A Summer's Tale
1996 · dir. Éric Rohmer
🍅 98%★ 7.6romance · drama · comedyMax

Tangled romantic entanglements complicate what should be simple feelings

The difference: A talky French summer romance, not a teen comedy with a matchmaking scheme

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

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Juno
2007 · dir. Jason Reitman
🍅 93%★ 7.4comedy · drama · romance

Sharp teenage wit masks real vulnerability underneath the wisecracks

The difference: A pregnancy dramedy, not a class-clash high-school romance

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

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Punch-Drunk Love
2002 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 79%★ 7.3romance · drama · comedy

An awkward, guarded person finds unexpected romance despite the odds

The difference: An anxious adult character study, not a spirited teen ensemble comedy

A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

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The Spectacular Now
2013 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 92%★ 7comedy · drama · romanceMax

An unexpected romance nudges someone toward growing up a little

The difference: A quieter alcoholism-tinged drama, not a spirited class-clash comedy

Sutter, a popular party animal, unexpectedly meets the introverted Aimee after waking up on a stranger's lawn. As Sutter deals with the problems in his life and Aimee plans for her future beyond school, an unexpected romance blossoms between them.

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Moonrise Kingdom
2012 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 93%★ 7.7comedy · drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

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Licorice Pizza
2021 · dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
🍅 90%★ 7.1drama · comedy · romanceRent or buy

First love navigates its way through awkwardness toward something real

The difference: A sprawling 1970s coming-of-age odyssey, not a tight high-school scheme

The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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LOL
2012 · dir. Lisa Azuelos
🍅 14%★ 4.4drama · comedy · romancePeacock

Teen romance plays out under the watchful, frustrated eyes of parents

The difference: A social-media-era ensemble drama, not a single scheming courtship

In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.

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A Walk to Remember
2002 · dir. Adam Shankman
🍅 30%★ 7.3drama · romance

An unlikely high-school romance deepens into something more serious than expected

The difference: A tearjerker terminal-illness plot, not a witty class-clash comedy

When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

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Cousins
2019 · dir. Mauro Carvalho
★ 6.3comedy · romance · drama

Both are built on the same subject: growing up

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

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