Movies like Clara, an Indecent Story (2022)
The best movies like Clara, an Indecent Story (2022) are The Hot Spot (1990), Henry & June (1990) and True Romance (1993). If Clara, an Indecent Story hooked you with its romance, these 23 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrue Romance (1993)7.5/10 from 3,246 votes
- NewestTo Barcelona, Forever (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchThe Spanish Apartment (2002)Also in French
The Hot Spot (1990)
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHenry & June (1990)
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrue Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Sun Also Rises (1957)
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTo Barcelona, with Love (2025)
Erica, an American translator, secretly revises a novel set in Barcelona. Everything is fine until bookstore owner Nico invites the credited author, Anna, to the city for a book-signing.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
To Barcelona, Forever (2025)
As Anna travels back to Barcelona, reuniting with Erica to celebrate her engagement to Nico, she meets a charming farmer and accidentally finds herself "engaged" to save his family's legacy.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Caresses (1998)
Eleven episodes portray different encounters in Barcelona during the course of a single night towards the end of the millennium.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Susanna (1996)
An irresponsible young Spaniard having spent 6 months in jail for embezzlement gets a job as a waiter in a bar restaurant and becomes involved in a stolen goods racket.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Si te hubieses casado conmigo (1948)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Barcelona (1994)
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Spanish Apartment (2002)
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAnita Takes a Chance (2001)
Fifty-something widow Anita loses her lifetime dream job as a cinema attendant when the new owner wants to tear down the old theater and build a trendy multiplex in its stead. Depressed at first, Anita finds comfort in watching the shirtless hunks on the theater's construction site. She befriends a married excavator operator, Antonio, and the two start their secret candlelit trysts in the site's office cabin. But soon Anita learns that excavators are only needed in the early phase of a construction project...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Turn Right Barcelona (2018)
Four close friends from different family backgrounds navigate unrequited love, grow apart and soon reunite in Barcelona for one friend's wedding.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
If They Tell You I Fell (1989)
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). These tales mix war stories, local gossip, comic book characters, fantasy and real events. The "aventis" told in this film are told in flashback. In the mid 80s, 45 or so years after the age of the "aventis," a doctor and a nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers in a hospital) identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the "aventis" of their childhood and adolescence. Besides the interesting flashbacks - a chronical of the Civil War in a "typical" Barcelona microcosm itself, the discovery of this body (belonging to someone long presumed dead) leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts, several decades later
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Barcelona Christmas Night (2015)
Multiple love stories unfold in Barcelona during Christmas's Eve.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMama, I'm in Love with Pamela Anderson (2023)
When single mother Maria discovers her seven-year-old son José has fallen in love with Pamela Anderson, she summons all her powers of invention to ensure Pamela responds.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
EVOL A Love Story In Reverse (2011)
Athens & Barcelona, two cities, two love stories, two languages, two realities, two couples that will never meet, two years anniversary... or is it all one?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Barcelona: A Love Untold (2016)
Ely, a young man who can't get over Celine, his past love, meets Mia, a young woman who escaped from a painful past in the Philippines and is trying her luck to rebuild her life in Spain. They meet. They fall in love. But can they overcome the hurt of the past to have a future together?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Lockdown in Barcelona (2022)
March 2020. The roomates leave with their families and Artur is left on one's own thinking that this lockdown will only lasts fifteen days. In the apartment next door, Cèlia lives in a similar situation. In these difficult moments they begin to become close, but always keeping in mind that she has a partner.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Signs of Love (2007)
Sayaka Miyamoto (Nao Matsushita) and Keita Fukushima (Terunosuke Takezai) attend the same university and believe their love for each other will never end. However, as time goes by and they graduate, their future starts to part as they both begin moving forward to capture their own dreams. Now in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain, the former lovers cross paths once again.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Angels of Sex (2012)
Carla and Bruno believe they have answers for everything until Rai appears in their lives, an attractive and mysterious young who lives outsidethe rules. In this story about love and friendship, boundaries dissolve by the rhythm of funkyand break to offer a provocative, exciting and deeply touching vision about romantic relationships.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEmma (2024)
When Anna moves into a new apartment, she meets Emma, a girl she's instantly drawn to—one who harbors secrets she could never have imagined.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Clara, an Indecent Story?
The closest matches to Clara, an Indecent Story are The Hot Spot (1990), Henry & June (1990) and True Romance (1993). Below are 20 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Clara, an Indecent Story?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Clara, an Indecent Story.
What is the highest-rated movie like Clara, an Indecent Story?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,246 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Clara, an Indecent Story?
To Barcelona, Forever (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Clara, an Indecent Story?
Yes: The Spanish Apartment (2002).
How are movies similar to Clara, an Indecent Story chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Clara, an Indecent Story, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.