Movies like Affairs (2025)
The best movies like Affairs (2025) are Henry & June (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Hot Spot (1990). If Affairs 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 3,244 votes
- NewestThem (2023)Released 2023
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 thisMy Mistress (2014)
After the death of his father, a 16-year-old boy struggles with anger and instability, distancing himself from his mother. His search for escape leads him to a lonely dominatrix living nearby, a woman accustomed to giving and controlling pain. Drawn to her world, he seeks both solace and love, while she finds herself pulled into a bond that neither expected but both need.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisCougar Hunting (2011)
Tells the tale of three buddies in their 20's whose love-lives are in shambles. They go to Aspen to pursue the booming trend of dating cougars: hot older women who prey on hot young guys.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Anna Karenina (1935)
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA View of Love (2010)
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThat Hamilton Woman (1941)
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMaggie's Plan (2016)
Maggie's plan to have a baby on her own with a sperm donor is derailed when she falls in love with John, an older married professor, destroying his volatile marriage to the brilliant and impossible Georgette. But three years later, married to John with one daughter, Maggie is out of love and in a quandary: what do you do when you suspect your man and his ex-wife are actually perfect for each other?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMILF (2018)
Three childhood friends - Elise, Sonia and Cecile - leave for a summer in the South of France to help clear Cecile’s holiday house before it is put up for sale. There, they soon become the prime targets of three horny young men, for whom these single forty-year-old women are much more attractive than girls their age.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisArisan Brondong (2010)
Geng socialite mother; Lolita was a widow who became entrepreneurs due to expensive boutiques treasure Gono-gini ex-ex-husband, Anis rather an idiot, and Uut fat, often hold joint gathering costly. By the time the three get together, the mortal enemy of Lolita, Misye, while gathering brought a popcorn (the term to refer to youth aged bear) named Erik. Misye gaze is believed to be a challenge for Lolita, which eventually terkompori and with Anis and Uut, holding auditions looking for popcorn at the shop.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJewel Robbery (1932)
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels deals with the tedium of her aristocratic Vienna life with a long line of lovers. Her rich husband, Franz, seems oblivious. As she's just about to end her latest affair, the baroness gets a much-needed dose of adrenaline when she becomes the target of a charismatic thief. After staging a daring robbery, he makes off with not only the baroness's ring but also her heart.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParama (1985)
The journey of a woman from a mere homemaker to a woman seeking her self identity. This search for self identity is sparked off by a young bohemian photographer, with whom she falls in love while he photographs her for a magazine doing her daily chores.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Love Punch (2014)
Retirement at last! Middle-aged and divorced, company owner Richard Jones is looking forward to a worry-free existence as he arrives at his office on his last day of work. Much to his dismay, he discovers that the management buyout of his company was fraudulent. The company is now bankrupt and the employee pension fund — including his own — has been embezzled. Enlisting the help of his ex-wife Kate, Richard sets out to track down the shady businessman behind the fraud.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSweet Bird of Aquarius (1970)
A TV cameraman is having marital problems with his beautiful blonde wife. He comes up with the idea of going to a nudist camp as a way to help with their marital and sexual problems.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Them (2023)
A grieving husband struggles to come to terms with his wife's passing. Following a night-time visit to her grave, he picks up a transgender sex worker.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Cherry-Red (2007)
Anna and Marie are two women who could possibly love each other, but each must decide if she is willing to throw away her old life in pursuit of this new overwhelming feeling.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Valet (2022)
World famous movie star Olivia faces a PR disaster when a paparazzi snaps a photo of her with her married lover, Vincent. The hard-working valet Antonio accidentally appears in the same photo and is enlisted to pose as Olivia’s new boyfriend as a cover-up. This ruse with Olivia thrusts Antonio into the spotlight and unexpected chaos.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRoxanna (2002)
When Roxanna discovers her fascination with lesbian sexuality, she finds herself dragged deeper and deeper into it. This leaves her at odds with her boyfriend, with tragic results.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Dois + Dois (2021)
Diogo and Emília have been together for 16 years. They have a teenage daughter and undergo a tedious phase. However, everything turns upside down when they find out their best friends, Ricardo and Bettina, have an open marriage. More than that: they are swingers, are super cool about this choice, and try to convince the other couple that it is possible to be quite happy with this liberal lifestyle. This news comes like a bolt from the blue. After reacting badly to the idea, Emília gets excited and convinces Diogo to, at least, go to a party with Ricardo and Betina's "gang". And that is when a series of events that will shake the couple's boring little life starts. Will they set their jealousy aside and become supporters of this practice?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Cougar School (2009)
Karen leaves Zack to go on the hunt with her Step Mother for wealthy younger men.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Affairs?
The closest matches to Affairs 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 Affairs?
Start with Henry & June (1990), the closest match to Affairs.
What is the highest-rated movie like Affairs?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,244 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Affairs?
Them (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Affairs?
Yes: Henry & June (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Hot Spot (1990).
How are movies similar to Affairs chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Affairs, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.