Movies like Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival (2024)
The best movies like Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival (2024) are The Hot Spot (1990), Henry & June (1990) and True Romance (1993). If Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival hooked you with its romance, these 23 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)7.6/10 from 14,240 votes
- NewestIbadah & Cinta (2026)Released 2026
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 thisA Lot Like Love (2005)
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to... lovers?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhite nights (2014)
A rich irresponsible boy shows a different feeling towards a fresher at the university. He suddenly vanishes taking money from the girl´s bank. The girl goes in search of the boy to get her money. The film has a turning point which is surprising.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Something Wild (1986)
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne True Loves (2023)
Emma and Jesse are living the perfect life together, until Jesse disappears in a tragic helicopter crash on their first wedding anniversary. Four years later, Emma has found happiness again and is about to marry her best friend when Jesse resurfaces, turning her world upside down and leaving her torn between two great loves.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Silence (1963)
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThat Touch of Mink (1962)
Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Horse Whisperer (1998)
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJourney to Italy (1954)
Married for eight years with no children, Brits Katherine and Alex Joyce are driving to Italy, their ultimate destination just outside of Naples to sell the villa they have just inherited from his uncle, the villa where they will be staying during their time there. On the drive, they come to the realization that this trip marks the first time that they have truly been alone together, and as such don't really know one another in the true sense.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisY Tu Mamá También (2001)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChasing Liberty (2004)
The President's daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger, who also happens to be working undercover for her father.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisL'Âge d'or (1930)
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPalm Swings (2017)
After moving to Palm Springs, a young married couple puts their love to the test when they discover that their neighbors are swingers.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisForces of Nature (1999)
Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like this10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)
A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Love in the Villa (2022)
A young woman takes a trip to romantic Verona, Italy, after a breakup, only to find that the villa she reserved was double-booked, and she'll have to share her vacation with a cynical British man.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnywhere Somewhere Nowhere (2014)
Lee and his friend plan to travel round the island of Taiwan when they both face their biggest challenges in life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Wild Hippie Orgy (1967)
A bunch of hippies have a wild party.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Ibadah & Cinta (2026)
A secular young man raised in Australia undergoes a profound spiritual awakening after falling in love with the daughter of a prominent Islamic scholar, only for their matrimonial aspirations to be jeopardized by a pre-arranged betrothal mandated by her traditionalist family.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Two Syllables Behind (2005)
Zuzana is an attractive and likable art student who works alongside her studies because she would like to start a life of her own. Like many young people, she is trying to find what would fulfill her, what she would like to do, find out who she would like to live with. She runs away from one lover in Bratislava to another in Paris, she is at work when she should be at school, she sleeps when she should be at home, she travels the world. She simply often feels two syllables behind. And not just literally when working in dubbing, but figuratively in his own life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival?
The closest matches to Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival 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 Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival.
What is the highest-rated movie like Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival?
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), rated 7.6/10 by 14,240 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival?
Ibadah & Cinta (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), Henry & June (1990) and True Romance (1993).
How are movies similar to Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Return to Frisky Summer 1: The Arrival, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.