Movies like Muses 2 (2024)
The best movies like Muses 2 (2024) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000). If Muses 2 hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrue Romance (1993)7.5/10 from 3,241 votes
- NewestJohanne Sacreblu (2025)Released 2025
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 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 thisWater Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)
In 1970s Germany, Léopold, a 50-year-old businessman, picks up and seduces 20-year-old Franz, who swiftly moves into his apartment. The dynamic between them intensifies with the sudden arrival of their ex-girlfriends.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShortbus (2006)
In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBye Bye Love (1974)
Two young people undertake a doomed summer road trip through Japan, which in turn reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Better Than Chocolate (1999)
Not long after moving into her own place, Maggie finds herself with two unsolicited roommates: her recently divorced mother, Lila, and her young brother. The timing is especially bad, considering Maggie has fallen hard for an attractive woman, Kim, only hours before they move in. What could be a nonissue becomes increasingly complicated -- since Maggie's family is unaware of her sexual orientation, and Maggie is not open to sharing that information.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJohanne Sacreblu (2025)
Mexico's response to the French film Emilia Pérez. The real life of French people in a musical made by people in Mexico. It tells the epic tale of baguettes, croissants, stinky cheese, and the difficulties of not taking daily showers.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Mapa de la geografía emocional (2024)
A reflection on love and identity with detours towards magical realism, which winks at the oral tradition of coastal populations and introduces us to Leo, a young 21-year-old sailor who revisits his relationship with Jimena after his great-aunt reminds him of his favorite myth from when he was a child: the story of the nereids.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Square Circle (1996)
An abducted and sexually abused girl has her traditional views towards sexuality changed after finding refuge and kindness with a trans woman.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Relapse (2015)
When given the ultimatum to take estrogen to combat a life threatening eating disorder, Cole must choose between his love for his wife and his personal truth as trans man.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Valves (TBA)
Verony, a young dancer, accompanies her partner, Marte, a photographer, through his gender transition. Together, they embark on a road trip to the northern coast of Peru, where they spend New Year's Eve with Marte's family.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
That's Hentaitainment! Ijo Sex Daizenshu (1991)
Three sketches each from a different director: (1) a dancer who is attracted to lesbians; (2) a call girl who is accosted by a cruel man; (3) a male transvestite - the hentai of the title - exposed at a sunny place.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Temporal Fate (2022)
A time traveling trans woman turns back time to save the woman she spent the night with from death.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Under My Skin (2020)
Denny, a free spirit and artist falls for Ryan, a straight laced lawyer. When Denny questions gender their love is tested.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The First Time (2020)
A trans lesbian has a Zoom date during the pandemic.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Surf, Sand and Sex (1994)
Six women on a beach tell each other their fantasies. These stories are shown to us as little sex vignettes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Open Up to Me (2013)
At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual energy that is hard to define.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Something Must Break (2014)
A gritty story taking place in Stockholm, about the passionate love between the self-abusive Sebastian who wants to be a woman, and the easy-going Andreas who is certainly not gay.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Open (2010)
OPEN is a hallucinogenic journey through gender, identity, the body, love and how those can be shared by two people. The film consists of interlocking stories lines- the first about two trans women in a pandrogynous relationship in which they simultaneously receive plastic surgery treatments to mirror each other's features to ideally form into a single person. The second story follows a trans man and his new (cisgender) boyfriend as they run away from home and push against their own personal boundaries while dealing with his unexpected pregnancy.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Boy Meets Girl (2014)
In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlood Lust (2022)
A starving vampire seeks a new path forward after swearing off human blood. They are approached by another of their kind who hands them a map, pointing them in the direction of a witch in the woods who resides over a vampire brood. It is in her body, they are told, that they can find the succor they need, both to stay alive and, possibly, to become free.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Spooky Sunday (2024)
Trans couple Abby and Aidan are moving into their first apartment. They both struggle with dysphoria in different ways and jokingly wish they could swap bodies to make things easier. When this wish is realized through supernatural intervention, they are given the option to decide whether they'd like to stay swapped, or return to their original bodies.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Muses 2?
The closest matches to Muses 2 are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Muses 2?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Muses 2.
What is the highest-rated movie like Muses 2?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,241 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Muses 2?
Johanne Sacreblu (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Muses 2?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Shortbus (2006).
How are movies similar to Muses 2 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Muses 2, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.