Movies like Elegy (2008)
The best movies like Elegy (2008) are The Yellow Handkerchief (2009), Forty Shades of Blue (2005) and My Life Without Me (2003). If Elegy 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 ratedTwo Lovers (2008)6.9/10 from 971 votes
- NewestAli and Nino (2016)Released 2016
The Yellow Handkerchief (2009)
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisForty Shades of Blue (2005)
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
My Life Without Me (2003)
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove n' Dancing (2009)
When a bored-with-life English teacher meets a West Coast Swing champion dancer, they have an instant connection. Both feel that the other can fulfill what was missing in their lives. Jake and Jessica must try to elude all obstacles, romantic or otherwise, to stay focused on the goal – winning the World Title and winning each other. Will they give in to the pressure or come out like champs?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mother (2003)
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisLaurel Canyon (2003)
When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSurrender (2003)
An erotic drama that submerges an innocent new arrival to the City of Angels in the intoxicating double life of her charismatic lesbian dominatrix housemate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTwo Lovers (2008)
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove in the Time of Cholera (2007)
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cake Eaters (2007)
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
A man becomes obsessively jealous of his pianist wife and her violinist companion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Mercy (2009)
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Damage (1992)
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDelta of Venus (1995)
A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisAsylum (2005)
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnd While We Were Here (2012)
Trapped in a loveless marriage, a troubled writer experiences a sexual awakening when she meets a carefee American in Italy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBliss (1997)
On his wedding day, Joseph nervously admits that his wife is not quite like other women. But his beautiful bride is more than just the "impulsive, compulsive, obsessive" woman he thinks he knows. And when Joseph discovers she is hiding troubling secrets, it sends them both on a sexual odyssey that will either destroy or redeem their relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAutumn in New York (2000)
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to reevaluate what they want out of life, even as fate threatens to steal away their future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNiagara, Niagara (1998)
An outsider and a young woman plagued by Tourette's syndrome meet and together journey to Canada.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Conversations with Other Women (2006)
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to the present.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJaded (1998)
When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned than just a party-and she's central to the action.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008)
Fisher Willow is the disliked Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting those around her. After returning from studies overseas, Fisher falls in love with Jimmy, the down-and-out son of an alcoholic father and an insane mother who works at a store on her family's plantation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisAdoration (2009)
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisAli and Nino (2016)
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShout (1991)
A new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMap of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009)
A Japanese assassin falls in love with the Spanish wine seller she was hired to kill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies 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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Elegy?
The closest matches to Elegy are The Yellow Handkerchief (2009), Forty Shades of Blue (2005) and My Life Without Me (2003). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Elegy?
People who watched Elegy most often go on to The Yellow Handkerchief (2009), Forty Shades of Blue (2005) and My Life Without Me (2003).
What is the highest-rated movie like Elegy?
Two Lovers (2008), rated 6.9/10 by 971 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Elegy?
Ali and Nino (2016) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Elegy?
Yes: The Yellow Handkerchief (2009), Forty Shades of Blue (2005) and My Life Without Me (2003).
How are movies similar to Elegy chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Elegy, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.