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10 Best Movies Like Straight Up

If you loved Straight Up, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Making Love

Making Love

1982★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straight Up for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men....

#2
Bros

Bros

2022★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straight Up for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two gay men are possibly, probably, stumbling towards love. Maybe. They're both very busy....

#3
Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey

1988★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straight Up for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to find h...

#4
Looking: The Movie

Looking: The Movie

2016★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straight Up for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships ...

#5
Kissing Jessica Stein

Kissing Jessica Stein

2002★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straight Up for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Jessica, a Jewish copy editor living and working in New York City, is plagued by failed blind dates with men, and decides to answer a newspaper's personal advertisement. The advert...

#6
The Incredible Jessica James

The Incredible Jessica James

2017★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Straight Up for fans of Comedy & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date....

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