Movies like But I'm a Cheerleader
But I'm a Cheerleader (2000) is a comedy movie directed by Jamie Babbit. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Do Revenge (2022)
★ 6.4 · 1,049 votes · Comedy, Thriller, Romance
A dethroned queen bee at a posh private high school strikes a secret deal with an unassuming new student to enact revenge on one another’s enemies.
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2. Love, Simon (2018)
★ 8.0 · 6,358 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
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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3. Imagine Me & You (2006)
★ 7.6 · 1,144 votes · Drama, Comedy, Romance
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.
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4. Leviticus (2026)
★ 6.8 · 597 votes · Horror, Romance
Two teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most: each other.
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5. Maurice (1987)
★ 7.6 · 637 votes · Drama, Romance
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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6. Chasing Amy (1997)
★ 6.7 · 1,614 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
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7. Show Me Love (1998)
★ 7.1 · 616 votes · Comedy, Romance, Drama
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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8. The Half of It (2020)
★ 7.1 · 1,633 votes · Comedy, Romance, Drama
Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
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9. Demolition (2016)
★ 6.9 · 2,647 votes · Comedy, Drama
An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets.
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10. Happiest Season (2020)
★ 7.1 · 1,353 votes · Romance, Comedy
A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.
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11. Alex Strangelove (2018)
★ 6.6 · 1,592 votes · Comedy, Drama
Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.
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12. Love Don't Co$t a Thing (2003)
★ 7.7 · 737 votes · Comedy, Drama, Family
A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.
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13. Just One of the Guys (1985)
★ 6.4 · 351 votes · Comedy, Romance
When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as a guy so well that she is soon making friends with the boys at school, including the attractive Rick, who becomes her new best friend. But her gender-swapping makes things difficult when she falls in love with him.
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14. Beautiful Thing (1996)
★ 7.3 · 363 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.
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15. Am I OK? (2024)
★ 6.3 · 368 votes · Comedy, Romance, Drama
Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she's moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos.
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16. Behind the Candelabra (2013)
★ 6.6 · 856 votes · Drama, Romance
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
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