Movies like Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The best movies like Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) are The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). If Suddenly, Last Summer hooked you with its thriller and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)7.9/10 from 1,217 votes
- NewestWetherby (1985)Released 1985
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976)
When a widowed mother falls in love with an American sailor, her troubled young son is pressured by the bullying leader of his clique to seek revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLong Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy day in August 1912 becomes the backdrop for domestic decline.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBaby Doll (1956)
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby Doll's 20th birthday, the day that they are supposed to consummate their marriage, he faces interference from business rival Silva Vacarro, who plots to seduce Baby Doll away from Meighan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll That Heaven Allows (1955)
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFourteen Hours (1951)
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThese Three (1936)
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNever Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMommie Dearest (1981)
Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSplendor in the Grass (1961)
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisReflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Entertainer (1960)
Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWritten on the Wind (1956)
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business, his irresponsible son, Kyle, is an alcoholic playboy, and his daughter, Marylee, is the town tramp. Mitch harbors a secret love for Kyle's unsatisfied wife, Lucy -- a fact that leaves him exposed when the jealous Marylee accuses him of murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPeyton Place (1957)
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLadies in Retirement (1941)
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen's eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora's home, tensions soon lead to murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
The Glass Menagerie (1973)
An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Bigger Than Life (1956)
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Rose Tattoo (1955)
A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPete 'n' Tillie (1972)
A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough to stop his philandering from continuing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the full force of the bitterness, dysfunction, and animosity that defines their marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Glass Menagerie (1950)
An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Secret Ceremony (1968)
A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisObsession (1976)
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with a neighbor Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisÉl (1953)
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWetherby (1985)
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Suddenly, Last Summer?
The closest matches to Suddenly, Last Summer are The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Suddenly, Last Summer?
People who watched Suddenly, Last Summer most often go on to The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962).
What is the highest-rated movie like Suddenly, Last Summer?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), rated 7.9/10 by 1,217 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Suddenly, Last Summer?
Wetherby (1985) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Suddenly, Last Summer?
Yes: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962).
How are movies similar to Suddenly, Last Summer chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Suddenly, Last Summer, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.