Movies like Toxico (2023)
The best movies like Toxico (2023) are My Little Loves (1974), Before Sunset (2004) and Time to Leave (2005). If Toxico hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBefore Sunset (2004)7.8/10 from 3,991 votes
- NewestNino (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchMy Little Loves (1974)Also in French
My Little Loves (1974)
Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBefore Sunset (2004)
Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTime to Leave (2005)
Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man Who Loved Women (1977)
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMe, Myself and Mum (2013)
How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillaume's tragicomic battle from the young age of eight, as he adopts the role of a girl then of a homosexual... until, aged 30, he meets the woman who, after his mother, will become the other woman in his life. Beyond this story of a heterosexual coming-out, the film tells the tale of an actor who never stopped loving women, maybe even a little too much.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSebastian (2024)
Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSorry Angel (2018)
At once an intimate chronicle of a romance and a sprawling portrait of life in early 1990s France following the intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and much-younger university student who is just beginning to live. Brought together by chance, the two men find themselves navigating a casual fling that gradually deepens into a tender, transformative bond.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMoulin Rouge! (2001)
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNino (2025)
Nino is a young man on a journey to reconnect with the world and himself in the streets of Paris, following the suggestion of his doctors. In three days, he will face a major challenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night Eats the World (2018)
After waking up to find himself all alone in an apartment where a massive party was being held the night before, Sam is immediately forced to face a terrifying reality: the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonsieur Aznavour (2024)
From his poor childhood to his rise to fame, from his triumphs to his failures, from Paris to New York, discover the exceptional journey of an artist. Intimate, intense, fragile and indestructible, devoted to his art until the very end, here is one of the most immortal singers of all time: MONSIEUR AZNAVOUR.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMasculin Féminin (1966)
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSign of the Lion (1962)
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Got Life! (2017)
Aurore has separated, just lost her job, and learns that she is going to be a grandmother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGigi (1958)
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSafety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Toxico?
The closest matches to Toxico are My Little Loves (1974), Before Sunset (2004) and Time to Leave (2005). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Toxico?
Start with My Little Loves (1974), the closest match to Toxico.
What is the highest-rated movie like Toxico?
Before Sunset (2004), rated 7.8/10 by 3,991 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Toxico?
Nino (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Toxico?
Yes: My Little Loves (1974), Time to Leave (2005) and The Man Who Loved Women (1977).
How are movies similar to Toxico chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Toxico, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.