Movies like Paradise: Hope (2013)
The best movies like Paradise: Hope (2013) are Paradise: Faith (2013), Import/Export (2007) and Paradise: Love (2012). If Paradise: Hope hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Whale (2022)7.8/10 from 5,019 votes
- NewestThe Cut (2025)Released 2025
- In GermanParadise: Faith (2013)Also in German
- Same seriesParadise: Faith (2013)Paradise Trilogy
Paradise: Faith (2013)
For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.
Why it matches: Same series: Paradise Trilogy · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisImport/Export (2007)
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise: Love (2012)
On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.
Why it matches: Same series: Paradise Trilogy · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDog Days (2001)
Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWestern (2017)
A group of German construction workers set out for a foreign construction site in the Bulgarian province. The strange country awakens adventure feelings among the men. At the same time, they are confronted with their prejudices and mistrust. For two of the men, a nearby village becomes the stage for a competition for the recognition and favor of the village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrothers of the Night (2016)
Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that's all they had. What comforts them, so far from home, is the feeling of being together. But the nights are long and unpredictable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sparta (2022)
Ewald moved to Romania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree existence. But the distrust of the villagers is soon awoken. And Ewald is forced to confront a truth he has long suppressed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRimini (2022)
Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnveiled (2005)
Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. So what happens after a few month in which she has tried to come to terms with a situation which is actually an insufferable one for her? How does Fariba live not only in this external state of exile but also in an inner state of exile? The term "in orbit" is officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Day & Night (2010)
An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Michael (2011)
Although to the outside world he seems like a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in a room in his soundproof basement.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisL'Animale (2018)
Riding on their tuned-up bikes, Mati and her posse of male friends intimidate their neighborhood and harass the girls. In their village, they rule. But when her closest pal Sebastian falls in love with Mati and her enemy Carla unexpectedly turns into a friend, Mati is in danger of losing her standing among her male friends. Meanwhile Mati’s parents have a decision to make: What's more important, appearances or reality?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Bare (2015)
A young woman's friendship with a drug-dealing drifter evolves into a lesbian romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLillian (2019)
Lillian, stranded as an emigrant in New York, wants to walk back to her native Russia. Determined, she sets out on the long journey. A road movie across the United States into the cold of Alaska. The chronicle of a slow disappearance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Chambermaid Lynn (2015)
Lynn Zapatek, a chambermaid in a large hotel, has a deathly fear of human interaction yet she craves intimacy. A chance encounter prompts her to emerge from her cocoon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Wild (2016)
An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHotel (2004)
When Irene takes a position at a hotel deep in the woods of the Austrian Alps, she soon discovers the girl she replaced vanished without a trace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHoliday (2014)
A drama set in turbulent, turn-of-the-millennium Ecuador and centered on a young man who begins to develop complicated feelings for Juano after he saves him from a beating.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Little Thirteen (2012)
The everyday lives of teenagers, coming from various social backgrounds. For them, sexuality has become a substitute for love, resulting from emotional neglect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAngels Wear White (2017)
In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Wen, one of the victims, finds that her troubles have only just begun. Trapped in a world that offers them no safety, Mia and Wen will have to find their own way out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAngels with Dirty Wings (2009)
Three women - no moral. Morality is the excuse for those who don't dare to live their truth.Michaela, Gabriela and Lucy are angels of vice. On their motorbikes they ride through the countryside to live their pleasure. They could see a lot, but only see themselves. They call themselves angels but they are angels with dirty wings. To be a full member in the exile paradise of angels, Lucy has to prove herself and stand the tests. The new film of Roland Reber and Mira Gittner is an anthem of immorality. A holy song of egoism and a painful study about our time and a generation who rent their feelings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Eden (2013)
After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. What begins as a night of promise quickly turns into a nightmare when she is abducted and imprisoned outside Las Vegas as a sex slave.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWetlands (2013)
Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the conventional bourgeois ethic. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves. But there she finds Robin, a male nurse who will sweep her off her feet...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFish Tank (2009)
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cut (2025)
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Crush (1993)
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTo the Bone (2017)
A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Whale (2022)
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHow to Have Sex (2023)
Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlay Misty for Me (1971)
A brief fling between a late-night radio disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening turn when another woman enters the picture.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Paradise: Hope?
The closest matches to Paradise: Hope are Paradise: Faith (2013), Import/Export (2007) and Paradise: Love (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Paradise: Hope?
People who watched Paradise: Hope most often go on to Import/Export (2007), Dog Days (2001) and Western (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Paradise: Hope?
The Whale (2022), rated 7.8/10 by 5,019 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Paradise: Hope?
The Cut (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Paradise: Hope part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Paradise Trilogy, which includes Paradise: Faith (2013) and Paradise: Love (2012).
Are there German movies like Paradise: Hope?
Yes: Paradise: Faith (2013), Import/Export (2007) and Paradise: Love (2012).
How are movies similar to Paradise: Hope chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Paradise: Hope, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.