Movies like Couture (2025)
The best movies like Couture (2025) are Henry & June (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Hot Spot (1990). If Couture 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 3,241 votes
- NewestFetish in E(x)ile (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchThe Piano Teacher (2001)Also in French
Henry & 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 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 thisNine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Piano Teacher (2001)
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWedding Daze (2006)
After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of love that both have been looking for all along.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Little Thief (1988)
In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer she meets in prison—will help her learn from her mistakes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBed and Board (1970)
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Slopes of Triglav (1932)
Miha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbing. Frustrated Minka insists on the festivity, where she finds herself in a company of older hiker. However, all ends happily, as Minka and Miha, after many smaller adventures, meet at the top of Mount Triglav, where they sign the marriage contract, but also confirming their love for the mountains. In addition to its charming story, the movie features footage of picturesque Slovenian mountains.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Little Death (2014)
A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecretary (2002)
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLe Divorce (2003)
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisFetish in E(x)ile (2025)
They met onstage at the Mr Leather Russia contest. One of them won the title, the other won the titleholder. 'A tale of two Doms', gay fetish and BDSM activists who tried to make a difference. But soon their world came crashing down.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
High Conquest (1947)
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Son of the White Mountain (1930)
The mountain guide and ski instructor Hans Turri has been hired by the tourist Gregory Milacz to make a route in the mountains. Both are caught by a storm, so while Milacz is waiting at the Concordia Hut, Turri returns to the valley again. On the way back, Milacz has disappeared. Suspicions turn against Turri as a murder suspect for the jealousy he might have for the beautiful Mary Dulac. To get rid of the accusation of murder, Turri sets out to find Milacs. There is a French version of the film (Les chevaliers de la montagne), shot the same year by the same team but with different actors.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Love Letters (1983)
After discovering a box of old love letters sent to her mother by a mysterious stranger, Anna, a young radio deejay, begins a torrid affair with a married man. Burning attraction brings them together, but the reality does not come close to the passion expressed in the letters.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Hole-in-law (2020)
An omnibus movie about the jealousy of a man who can't stand the fact that his favorite woman slept with another man in two episodes. Episode 1 At a drinking party led by Jae-hoon, movie director Sang-min meets Hye-jin. Sang-min compliments and sleeps with her favorite Hye-jin while watching her movie. The next morning, Hye-jin's friend Mina left early because of her job, Jae-hoon and Sang-min, who were watching a movie together in Hye-jin's bed are attracted by the atmosphere and curiosity and enjoy 2 to 1. Episode 2 Sang-min meets his school friend Ji-eun at the club. When his foreign friend James showed interest in Ji-eun, Sang-min suddenly became interested in Ji-eun. That night, Sang-min finds out that Ji-eun slept with James, and visits Ji-eun's house with complex emotions mixed with like, anger and jealousy and confesses that he likes her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Mountain Guide Lorenz (1943)
Stephan, the son of an old-school mountain guide, is seduced by a city beauty. He leaves his mother, siblings, and girlfriend and travels to Zurich. But his dream quickly falls apart. Remorseful, he returns to the mountains, where his bride and a test of his mettle await him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
He Lives by Night (1982)
A killer wears women's clothing and stalks women that wear white fish-net stockings
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Hustler White (1996)
Reminiscent of Sunset Boulevard, the action is transposed from the silver screen's old backlots to contemporary male prostitution and the pornographic industry.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)
After many adventures, a young female switchboard operator starts a love relationship with a serious young man. But while he's away on business, she gets lonely and succumbs to her colleague's passes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScandalous Sex (2004)
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Couture?
The closest matches to Couture are Henry & June (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Hot Spot (1990). Below are 20 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Couture?
Start with Henry & June (1990), the closest match to Couture.
What is the highest-rated movie like Couture?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,241 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Couture?
Fetish in E(x)ile (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Couture?
Yes: The Piano Teacher (2001), The Little Thief (1988) and Bed and Board (1970).
How are movies similar to Couture chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Couture, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.