Movies like I Want You (2012)
The best movies like I Want You (2012) are Three Steps Above Heaven (2010), Sorry If I Call You Love (2014) and Love, Rosie (2014). If I Want You hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest rated¿Quieres ser mi novia? (2026)8.6/10 from 209 votes
- Newest¿Quieres ser mi novia? (2026)Released 2026
- In SpanishThree Steps Above Heaven (2010)Also in Spanish
- Same seriesThree Steps Above Heaven (2010)Three Steps Above Heaven
Three Steps Above Heaven (2010)
Babi, a sheltered upper-class girl, and Hache, a reckless rebel obsessed with illegal motorcycle races, fall into a forbidden love that pulls them deeper into passion and risk.
Why it matches: Same series: Three Steps Above Heaven · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSorry If I Call You Love (2014)
A successful, attractive, intelligent and brilliant advertising executive is longing to finally find emotional stability in his life, and decides to propose to his girlfriend. After she refuses his proposal, his life takes a turn when a new young lady enters his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove, Rosie (2014)
Since the moment they met at age 5, Rosie and Alex have been best friends, facing the highs and lows of growing up side by side. A fleeting shared moment, one missed opportunity, and the decisions that follow send their lives in completely different directions. As each navigates the complexities of life, love, and everything in between, they always find their way back to each other - but is it just friendship, or something more?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMe Before You (2016)
Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAfter (2009)
Manuel, Ana and Julio get together in a warm summer night after not having seen each other for a while and set off to explore the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Loving (2017)
Laura and Carlos love each other as if every day was the last, and perhaps that first love intensity is what will tear them apart a year later.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Red Thread (2016)
Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bride (2015)
Based on the famous play "Bodas de sangre" (Blood Wedding) by Federico García Lorca, La novia tells the story of a passionate love triangle. A bride leaves her groom, no longer able to withstand the surging desires of her lover, Leonordo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTake My Eyes (2003)
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this¿Quieres ser mi novia? (2026)
Javi and Lu's relationship faces dangerous territory as old and new temptations emerge: a young woman reigniting Javi's chemistry and a mature man pursuing Lu. Through humor, entanglements, and surprises, their love is tested.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like this3some (2009)
In an attempt to help his friend Marcos with his impotence, Jaime sets up him up with another friend Josita. But the sex date fails, and so he comes in to help. What first appears to be just another sexual experience for all three evolves to a full romantic relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStockholm (2013)
The story of the encounter between a boy and a girl. He confesses that he fell in love with her at first sight, but she does not believe him. However, as they walk through the night in Madrid, they share their desires, secrets, and maybe a few little lies. But soon the film brings us back to the harsh reality of power struggles, psychological games and conflicts between the sexes. Stockholm thus offers an incredible reading of the relations between young people today.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEl verano que vivimos (2020)
Year 1998. Isabel, a journalism student, is forced to do her internship in the newspaper of a small Galician coastal town in order to finish her degree. When she arrives, she wants to start investigating as soon as possible, to demonstrate everything she has learned in order to become a real journalist. But the position she is assigned is the last one she expected: the writing and management of the obituaries that reach the newsroom. But this, which might seem boring at first, becomes the door to an investigation that will take her through different parts of the Spanish geography in search of an impossible love story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDark Blue Almost Black (2006)
Jorge feels suffocated by his menial job but can't break free of the obligations that keep him stuck — until he meets a woman who shakes his life up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrain Drain (2009)
Emilio, a shy, not too brilliant pupil at a humble local secondary school, has always harboured a secret love for Natalia, the cutest, brightest girl in the class. On the last day of the school year, when he finally decides to declare his love, Natalia is awarded a scholarship to study Medicine at Oxford. It would seem that all is lost for Emilio, but his drop-out school-pals are not ready to throw in the towel. After faking qualifications and scholarships, this band of brainless nuts land in Oxford, causing havoc in the normally peaceful campus existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy First Time (2012)
Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of the tank, for six months, they will live a love against which nothing can be, the true, the big one that marks a life forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOur Lovers (2016)
Carlos is a professionally frustrated screenwriter, and Irene is not sure what she wants to do with her life. When Irene meets Carlos at a coffee shop, she approaches him and, although she doesn't know him, proposes to play a game.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn Family I Trust (2019)
Bea is a successful architect who lives in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her boyfriend and boss, Víctor, a CEO of an important company. During a night celebration of an important contract signed to make a skyscraper designed by Bea, in the bar appears the famous TV reporter and anchorwoman Rebecca Ramos, Victor's personal erotic fantasy. Not measuring the consequences of her actions due to the alcohol she drank, Bea makes a meeting between Víctor and Rebecca. When to the next day she wakes up, Víctor proposes to wed Bea and she accepts, but after she arrives to the job, Bea learns about a videotape where Víctor and Rebecca make the love in a car that it's in all TV channels. In front of all CEOs during a full meeting, Bea slaps Víctor and destroys her design, being fired from the job. Looking for a break, she travels her natal coastal town, Santa Clara, just to discover that her rest isn't so easy as it seems: her eccentric, free-spirited and eternal smiling mother ...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dark Side of the Heart 2 (2001)
The sequel to the blockbuster Argentinean smash hit. After ten years, Oliverio is still intrigued by the works of great poets and continues to search for true love. When he meets the beautiful Miranda, she suggests that they both move in together and find jobs. Oliviero, however, leaves Miranda in search of his first love Ana who he met ten years prior. Once in Barcelona, he realizes that Ana's life has drastically changed and their love is in the past. Soon, he meets poet and circus performer, Alejandra. Oliviero becomes smitten and desperately tries bond with her, but she makes things a little more difficult that he ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Tearsmith (2024)
Adopted together after a tough childhood in an orphanage, Nica and Rigel realize that unexpected but irresistible feelings pull them together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJust a Little Chemistry (2015)
Fan girl finds herself torn between the attraction for her film idol and her best male friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisUn amor (2023)
Upon settling in the countryside village of La Escapa, Nat accepts a disturbing sexual proposal by neighbour Andreas, paving the way for a self-consuming passion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIce 2 (2020)
What happens in fairy tales after the wedding of the prince and princess? Figure skater Nadia and hockey player Sasha got married and more than anything else they dream of a child. True, the price they will have to pay for this dream will be unimaginably high. After such upheavals, it seems impossible to count on a happy ending. But if you think so, you do not know anything about real tales...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Misfits Club (2014)
Valeria has just moved to Madrid after her parent's separation. What at first seems a bad start for her new life becomes the beginning of an amazing life experience. New friendships, a city full of possibilities, first love...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove at First Kiss (2023)
The story of Javier who, at the age of 16, while kissing a girl for the first time, realized that he had a gift of romantic clairvoyance. Javier can see the future... and he finally knows who the love of his life is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFor a Handful of Kisses (2014)
A girl. A boy. A love story. But also about dreams, fears, life, true love, friendship and how we deal with it. And a secret between them...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Other Side of the Bed (2002)
When Paula leaves her mate Pedro, he misses her and looks for comfort with his best friends, Javier and Sonia. Paula is having an affair with Javier. Pedro tries to find who is the secret lover of Paula, and hires a private eye. Meanwhile, while comforting Pedro, Sonia has a one night stand with him and Javier thinks she is cheating on him with her lesbian friend Luzia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like this10,000 Km (2014)
Two people in love, two apartments - one in Barcelona and another in Los Angeles - and the images of their past, present and future. Can love survive 10,000 km?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)
Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEndless Love (2014)
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 matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like I Want You?
The closest matches to I Want You are Three Steps Above Heaven (2010), Sorry If I Call You Love (2014) and Love, Rosie (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after I Want You?
People who watched I Want You most often go on to Sorry If I Call You Love (2014), Love, Rosie (2014) and Me Before You (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like I Want You?
¿Quieres ser mi novia? (2026), rated 8.6/10 by 209 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like I Want You?
¿Quieres ser mi novia? (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Is I Want You part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Three Steps Above Heaven, which includes Three Steps Above Heaven (2010).
Are there Spanish movies like I Want You?
Yes: Three Steps Above Heaven (2010), Sorry If I Call You Love (2014) and After (2009).
How are movies similar to I Want You chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside I Want You, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.