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Movies that feel likeMoonrise Kingdom (2012)

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.

If you loved Moonrise Kingdom, the closest films we have are The Spectacular Now (2013), It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010) and Love, Simon (2018). All three share Moonrise Kingdom'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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The Spectacular Now
2013 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 92%★ 7comedy · drama · romanceMax

One thread runs through both: growing up

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

Both are built on the same subject: growing up

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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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Rushmore
1998 · dir. Wes Anderson
🍅 90%★ 7.6comedy · drama

Wes Anderson working the same nerve twice

The difference: Easier on the romance than Moonrise Kingdom

When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.

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

Contemplative and romantic in the same breath

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

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

Both land tenderness and wistfulness 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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Cousins
2019 · dir. Mauro Carvalho
★ 6.3comedy · romance · drama

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

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

Playful drama in both cases

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

Contemplative romance, and it commits to that

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

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

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

Drama built on tenderness, twice over

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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10 Things I Hate About You
1999 · dir. Gil Junger
🍅 72%★ 7.4comedy · romance · dramaDisney+

Wistful romance in both cases

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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