15 Movies Like But What If This Is Love?
Loved But What If This Is Love?? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
#1
Your Heart Will Be Broken
High school student Polina is saved from bullying at her new school and makes a deal with the main bully Bars: he must pretend to be her boyfriend and protect her, and she must do everything he says. During this game, the couple develops real feelings, but her family and classmates have reasons to separate the lovers.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to But What If This Is Love?.
#2
Your Fault: London
Nick and Noah are both embarking on life-changing adventures that are threatening to pull them apart—Nick in business with his father and Noah starting a fresh chapter at Oxford University. Now living separate lives, and meeting new people, they find themselves entangled in temptations, rivalries, and betrayals and their bond is tested like never before. As secrets unravel and temptation rises, they must fight to hold onto each other—or risk losing everything.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked But What If This Is Love?.
#3
After
Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa's guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious and brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself -- and what she wants out of life.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked But What If This Is Love?.
#4
Love Me Love Me
After her brother's death, June moves to Milan for a fresh start, finding comfort in Will, the perfect honor student at her new international school. But when his troubled best friend James—hiding a dangerous life in clandestine MMA fights—sparks a rivalry that quickly turns into irresistible attraction, June must choose between safety and a love that upends everything she thought she wanted.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked But What If This Is Love?.
#5
You Drive Me Crazy
Alisa moves into a spacious apartment in St. Petersburg, where the mirror starts to malfunction, showing the young lodger a parallel reality of the same apartment. Only it is not Alisa who lives in this parallel reality, but the party animal Ivan. Will the young people be able to recognize true love and will they be able to unite their worlds in order to meet in reality and simply touch each other?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to But What If This Is Love?.
#6
Stalker
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to But What If This Is Love?.
#7
Purple Hearts
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked But What If This Is Love?.
#8
Russian Nymphet: Temptation
A Russian teen turns the tables on her fashion photographer. Suddenly he doesn't like being the one on camera!
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to But What If This Is Love?.
#9
Come and See
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to But What If This Is Love?.
#10
After Ever Happy
As a shocking truth about a couple's families emerges, the two lovers discover they are not so different from each other. Tessa is no longer the sweet, simple, good girl she was when she met Hardin — any more than he is the cruel, moody boy she fell so hard for.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked But What If This Is Love?.
#11
The Ascent
During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to But What If This Is Love?.
#12
Fib the Truth
A couple in love spends time away from civilization, but the sudden arrivals of the younger sister and then the girl's ex-boyfriend violate the country idyll.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to But What If This Is Love?.
#13
Newness
In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked But What If This Is Love?.
#14
Endless Love
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked But What If This Is Love?.
#15
Gabriel's Inferno: Part III
The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked But What If This Is Love?.