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Movies that feel like LOL (2012)

If you loved LOL, the closest films we have are It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010), The Spectacular Now (2013) and Show Me Love (1998). All three share LOL's contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 14% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 4.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Lisa Azueloscontemplativewittyplayfulromantictenderwistful
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010 Β· dir. Anna Boden
πŸ… 58%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Common ground in both: growing up and teen movie

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

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The Spectacular Now
2013 Β· dir. James Ponsoldt
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: teenager

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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Show Me Love
1998 Β· dir. Lukas Moodysson
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· romance Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: growing up

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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Cousins
2019 Β· dir. Mauro Carvalho
β˜… 6.3comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Contemplative and witty in the same breath

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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Love, Simon
2018 Β· dir. Greg Berlanti
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.5comedy Β· drama Β· romance

One thread runs through both: teen movie

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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Licorice Pizza
2021 Β· dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.1drama Β· comedy Β· romance

Both land play and romance at once

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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A Summer's Tale
1996 Β· dir. Γ‰ric Rohmer
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.6romance Β· drama Β· comedy

Tender where it counts, wistful underneath

Awaiting his girlfriend LΓ©na’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends β€” and flirts heavily with β€” two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie SolΓ¨ne, making for a rather complicated situation when LΓ©na finally arrives.

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10 Things I Hate About You
1999 Β· dir. Gil Junger
πŸ… 72%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· romance Β· drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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.

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Booksmart
2019 Β· dir. Olivia Wilde
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.1comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: teenager

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as LOL

Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

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Moonrise Kingdom
2012 Β· dir. Wes Anderson
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.7comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Comedy built on wit, twice over

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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Clueless
1995 Β· dir. Amy Heckerling
β˜… 6.9comedy Β· romance

Playful romance in both cases

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

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Let the Sunshine In
2017 Β· dir. Claire Denis
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Romantic drama, and it commits to that

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

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