10 Best Movies Like Bottoms Ranked

Summary

• Bottoms is a satirical comedy from director Emma Seligman that follows two lesbian teens who form an all-girls fight club at their school to get closer to their crushes.
• The movie shares similarities with Plan B, another film that explores the themes of female friendship and the challenges of growing up in a rapidly changing world.
• Like Heathers did for Gen X and Mean Girls for millennials, Bottoms is a defining teen comedy for Gen Z.

Viewers looking for more movies like Bottoms will be glad to know there is a long tradition of satirical teen comedies to pick from. Many teen LGBTQ+ movies are rom-coms, Bottoms sets itself apart by being a biting black comedy that skewers teen movie ropes. Directed by Emma Seligman in her debut, Bottoms follows two lesbian high school girls, PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) who begin an underground fight club to meet girls.

Though the protagonists have entirely different motivations, this premise is similar to Fight Club, and like the cult classic David Fincher movie, Bottoms has a chaotic yet fitting ending. However, this is where the similarities between the two films end, as Fight Club is all about hypermasculinity, and Bottoms looks at female agency and sexuality from a queer perspective. It explores these themes through an intense and over-the-top angle that highlights the unpredictable nature of young adulthood. And while Bottoms is a wholly unique film, there are plenty of fantastic movies about young people with a similar tone and ideas.

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Bottoms is a sex comedy film that follows two high school girls determined to hook up with cheerleaders before they graduate. To accomplish this, they decide to start a fight club to power their way up to the top of the food chain.

Director Emma Seligman Release Date August 25, 2023 Cast Rachel Sennott , Ayo Edebiri , Havana Rose Liu , Kaia Gerber , Nicholas Galitzine , Dagmara Dominczyk , Marshawn Lynch Runtime 92 Minutes

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The teen sex comedy Bottoms makes the pitfalls of high school, first love, and fight clubs into the funniest movie to come out in recent years.

10 Shiva Baby (2020)

Emma Seligman And Sennott’s First Pairing

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Director Emma Seligman Release Date April 2, 2021 Cast Rachel Sennott , Fred Melamed , Polly Draper , Molly Gordon

Shiva Baby is Emma Seligman’s feature film debut and the breakout movie for Rachel Sennott. Now with Bottoms, it’s clear that this is an actor-director collaboration that needs to keep happening. Shiva Baby deals with the same issues of finding oneself, romance, and relationships, but where Bottoms‘ cringiness comes from its bone-crunching violence, Shiva Baby‘s comes from intense, uncomfortable social situations.

Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri are friends in real life and, before
Bottoms
, co-starred in the Comedy Central miniseries
Ayo and Rachel Are Single
.

In the film, Danielle (Sennott) has to attend sit shiva with her extended family and friends (and some enemies). She is constantly jostled from room to room, avoiding questions about her future career and her present romances, giving Shiva Baby a tight, claustrophobic atmosphere. Sennott is much more subdued in this film, but it’s a great way to see another version of how Seligman depicts young, harried women.

9 But I’m A Cheerleader (1999)

A 1990s Satire And Coming Out Story That Defined Its Era

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Megan, a high school cheerleader, is sent to a conversion therapy camp called True Directions by her conservative parents after they suspect she might be a lesbian. At the camp, Megan initially struggles to accept her identity but soon finds herself developing feelings for fellow camper Graham. As the camp’s absurd methods and the counselors’ hypocrisy become apparent, Megan and the other campers band together to resist the program.

Director Jamie Babbit Release Date August 11, 2000 Cast Natasha Lyonne , Clea DuVall , RuPaul Charles , Cathy Moriarty , Melanie Lynskey , Eddie Cibrian , Wesley Mann , Richard Moll , Douglas Spain Runtime 85 Minutes

But I’m a Cheerleader is a 1999 cult LGBTQ+ satirical comedy. In the film, Megan Bloomfield (Natasha Lyonne), is the titular cheerleader who is forced to go to conversion therapy camp after her family and friends believe her to be a lesbian, despite Megan insisting she isn’t. It’s at camp that Megan learns she is indeed queer, and comes to embrace her sexuality. The movie is a comedy far ahead of its time and pokes holes in many dated conceptions about LGBTQ+ people.

The film brings a lot of levity and humor to a topic that, especially at the time, was talked about in grave tones.

Bottoms takes a lot of inspiration from But I’m a Cheerleader, and Seligman knows it, as Josie and her crush, Isabel (Hannah Rose Liu) go to a restaurant called, “But I’m a Diner”. Both films are send-ups of classic coming-of-age movies, though But I’m a Cheerleader has a bit more to say about cinema in the ’80s and ’90s considering when it came out. The film brings a lot of levity and humor to a topic that, especially at the time, was talked about in grave tones.

8 Booksmart (2019)

A Hilarious Buddy Comedy That Takes Place Over One Night

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Booksmart is a comedy film directed by Olivia Wilde and follows two studious and by-the-book high school seniors who decide on their final day of school to shake up the formula and break some rules. Having lamented missing four potential years of fun and friendship, the best friends attempt to cram four years of the “high school experience” into a single night. 

Director Olivia Wilde Release Date May 24, 2019 Cast Lisa Kudrow , Michael Patrick O’Brien , Beanie Feldstein , Diana Silvers , Will Forte , Eduardo Franco , Kaitlyn Dever , Mason Gooding , Jessica Williams , Molly Gordon , Noah Galvin , Jason Sudeikis , Billie Lourd , Skyler Gisondo Runtime 105 minutes Budget $6million Expand

Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever star in Booksmart, the female-driven (and superior) answer to Superbad, is a unique and hilarious look at the end of the high school era for two girls. Molly (Feldstein) and Amy (Dever) have graduated from high school without enjoying any of the fun and risky behavior their classmates have been partaking in, only to find out their peers still got into top-notch colleges too. This motivates the girls to have one wild night of adventure to capture the high school experience.

Like Bottoms, Booksmarts‘ chaotic energy and absurdism escalate constantly throughout the movie until its thrilling finale at the party. The film takes many cues from teen comedies and examines some LGBTQ+ themes, though it’s never a defining trait of the characters. Booksmart is raunchy and incredibly funny the entire run, but there’s a very important thematic core about friendship and not getting caught up in other people’s perceptions.

7 Plan B (2021)

A Raunchy Road Comedy Of Two Friends Learning About Themselves

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Director Natalie Morales Release Date May 28, 2021 Cast Bobby Tisdale , Mason Cook , Hana Hayes , Kuhoo Verma , Victoria Moroles , Josh Ruben , Michael Provost

In Hulu’s Plan B, a sheltered girl named Sunny (Kuhoo Verma) is pressured into throwing a party by her friend Lupe (Victoria Moroles), but when Sunny accidentally has unprotected sex, the two friends go on a road trip to get her the Plan B medication. It’s a much more difficult trip than either girl would have guessed, and they meet a cast of odd characters and new friends along the way. It’s also an eerily prescient look at how difficult finding birth control would become only a year later with the overturn of Roe v. Wade in America.

Plan B isn’t necessarily satirizing anything specifically, in the way of Bottoms, but it’s still an outrageous and provocative tale about female friendship. Movies like Plan B and Bottoms are both about two young friends whose carefully laid plans quickly get out of control. Plan B operates in a much more sympathetic tone, and its message more hopeful, particularly towards the end.

6 Do Revenge (2022)

A Former Cool Girl Takes Her Revenge On A School

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Camilla Mendes and Maya Hawke star in Do Revenge, a Netflix comedy film about two high schoolers that after experiencing social bullying on a spectacular scale, become social outcasts. When Drea (Mendes) has a private video of hers leaked out across the internet by her boyfriend, her social life and brand are irreparably tarnished, leaving her outside her prior social circle. Eleanor (Hawke) experiences a similar situation when her bully, a girl named Carissa (Ava Capri), spreads a rumor that she tried to hold her down and kiss her. When the two form an unexpected friendship, they plan to “do revenge” against each other’s bullies in an elaborate scheme to tear them down.

Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson Release Date September 16, 2022 Cast Camilla Mendes , Maya Hawke , Sophie Turner , Rish Shah , Sarah Michelle Gellar , Austin Abrams , Eliza Bennett , Ava Capri Runtime 118 minutes Budget $10 million

Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke star in this black teen comedy. Loosely based on Strangers on a Train, Do Revenge follows a queen bee of a school, Drea (Mendes), who gets sunk to the bottom of her high school’s pecking order after lewd photos of her are released by her former boyfriend. Drea teams up with perpetual outcast Eleanor (Hawke) to regain her social standing and take revenge on the people who brought her down.

Do Revenge
is filled with homages to
Mean Girls
and
Heathers
, but is distinctly modern in its sensibilities.

Do Revenge is filled with homages to Mean Girls and Heathers, but is distinctly modern in its sensibilities. The internet and social media are key themes of the film, as are the way those things warp young women’s perceptions of themselves and others. Like Bottoms, Do Revenge is not afraid to be hard-edged and rude and a lot of the comedy has an enjoyably wicked bite to it.

5 Heathers (1989)

The Original Teen Movie Satire

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Director Michael Lehmann Release Date March 31, 1989 Cast Winona Ryder , Christian Slater , Shannen Doherty , Lisanne Falk , Kim Walker , Penelope Milford Runtime 103 minutes Budget $3 million

For all the ways Heathers has aged poorly, it remains a critical part of the black comedy teen movie canon. In the film, starring two of the biggest young names of the era, Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, a high schooler named Veronica (Ryder) meets a new student at school, J.D. (Slater). J.D. is a misanthropic murderer and, together, he and Veronica slash their way through the students of their Ohio high school.

It is a total send-up of the aspirational teen films of the era, particularly the movies of John Hughes. Instead of presenting high school as a nostalgic, melodramatic place, Heathers depicts it in all its weird and cynical glory. The satire is pretty harsh stuff and the darker elements of the film are the basis of what movies like Bottoms have been built upon.

4 Election (1999)

A Satirical Look At Politics And High School

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Directed by Alexander Payne, 1999’s Election is a Dark Comedy involving a high school election, focusing on the president of the student body. The film stars Matthew Broderick as a High School Social Studies teacher that ends up heading a scheme to disparage a popular girl (played by Reese Witherspoon) from winning the election.

Director Alexander Payne Release Date April 23, 1999 Cast Reese Witherspoon , Matthew Broderick , Chris Klein Runtime 103minutes

Alexander Payne’s Election centers around a high school election season, and takes the fight for student president to concerning, albeit hilarious heights. Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is an overachieving high school student running for president and Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) is a teacher who despises her. To stick it to the young woman, he backs a rival candidate for the position, escalating a war between everyone at each step.

With plenty of raunchy R-rated comedy to boot,
Election
, like
Bottoms
, continuously raises the tension and the stakes of the film until everything boils over into chaos.

Beyond sex, romance, relationships, and fitting in, Bottoms is also about how important minor high school issues can seem like the end of the world. In both films, small tribulations are made into mountainous problems from which they snowball into something extremely dark. With plenty of raunchy R-rated comedy to boot, Election, like Bottoms, continuously raises the tension and the stakes of the film until everything boils over into chaos.

3 Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

A Bloody Catastrophe Of A Night With Friends

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Bodies Bodies Bodies is a comedy/horror/thriller from 2 AM. When Bee (Maria Bakalova) travels to a hurricane party with her girlfriend Sophie (Amanda Stenberg), they find themselves surrounded by affluent 20-somethings with very different world views. When the party finally kicks off amidst the coming storm, the debauchery leads to a game of “Bodies Bodies Bodies.” However, when a power outage occurs during the game, and a murder occurs in its stead, the party takes a turn for the deadly.

Director Halina Reijn Release Date August 5, 2022 Cast Pete Davidson , Maria Bakalova , Rachel Sennott , Chase Sui Wonders , Amandla Stenberg , Lee Pace , Myha’la Herrold Runtime 95 minutes Budget $90 million

Bodies Bodies Bodies is part of a tragically underrepresented genre of LGBTQ+ horror films and, like Bottoms, this movie also features Rachel Sennott, though only in a supporting role. In the film, a group of Gen Z college friends get together for a house party while a hurricane rages outside. To pass the time, they drink and play a murder mystery game called “Bodies Bodies Bodies”, which turns out to be more real than anyone could have guessed.

Like Bottoms, Bodies Bodies Bodies has a high corpse count and the kills are as ridiculous and shocking here as they are in the former. The chaotic bloodiness in both films comes with a healthy dose of humor, making it both grisly and hilarious to watch unfold. Bodies Bodies Bodies is a movie that charts the awkwardness of getting together with conflicting friends and how old relationships and rivalries can rear their heads at the worst times.

2 Assassination Nation (2018)

A Hyper-Violent And Stylish Take On The Teen Movie

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Assassination Nation is a black comedy thriller directed by Sam Levinson. The film follows four high school girls in the town of Salem who become the target of mass hysteria and violence after a hacker leaks private information about the residents.

Director Sam Levinson Release Date September 21, 2018 Cast Bella Thorne , Odessa Young , Colman Domingo , Maude Apatow , Anika Noni Rose , Abra , Suki Waterhouse , Joel McHale , Hari Nef Runtime 110 minutes

In Assassination Nation, a town devolves into violence and chaos when a computer hacker leaks people’s personal secrets across the web. Hidden relationships and crimes are exposed as neighbor turns on neighbor in a bloody carnival until the four friends at the center are made scapegoats and forced to fight for their lives. It’s the second movie by Sam Levinson and has the distinctive style and energy that made Euphoria a hit.

The friend group in
Assassination Nation
goes through hell to save each other, overcoming trust issues and deceptions in the digital world.

Assassination Nation is one of the few teen satires able to match Bottoms in terms of carnage and violence, though Assassination Nation feels a bit meaner and more visceral. The friend group in Assassination Nation goes through hell to save each other, overcoming trust issues and deceptions in the digital world. The bonds the characters share after overcoming formidable trials is a critical theme of the film, as it is in Bottoms.

1 Mean Girls (2004)

Tina Fey’s Hilarious Take On Teen Movies

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Mean Girls tells the story of Cady (Lindsay Lohan), a teen girl who falls in with the wrong crowd. After returning to the USA after spending her childhood in Africa, Cady infiltrates her school’s group of mean girls, befriending the conniving Regina George (Rachel McAdams) and her cronies. However, Cady finds the high school hierarchy to be far more complicated than she had imagined, drawing her into a game of manipulation and deceit that threatens her reputation.

Director Mark Waters Release Date April 30, 2004 Cast Amy Poehler , Lacey Chabert , Tina Fey , Rachel McAdams , Amanda Seyfried , Lindsay Lohan Runtime 97 minutes Budget $17 million

With Tina Fey at the helm, Mean Girls was always going to be funny, but it wasn’t guaranteed to be the generational hit that it ended up becoming. Mean Girls follows Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan), a formerly home-schooled teen who is new to North Shore High School, where she inadvertently befriends the “Plastics”, the ruling triumvirate of the school led by their Julius Caesar, Regina George (Rachel McAdams). It’s a laugh riot and culturally important film, defining the millennial generation like Heathers did for Gen X and Bottoms for Gen Z.

Any teen comedy satire owes a debt to Mean Girls; Bottoms as much as any. This female-led movie is fascinated by the toxic relationships that can develop between girls in high school. Bottoms takes that idea and stretches it to an absurd point, but Mean Girls is where it starts.

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