Movies like Cinderella (2004)
The best movies like Cinderella (2004) are The Hot Spot (1990), Henry & June (1990) and True Romance (1993). If Cinderella hooked you with its romance, these 23 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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Quick picks
- Highest ratedManhattan (1979)7.7/10 from 2,710 votes
- NewestThe Lovers (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 this...And God Created Woman (1956)
18-year-old orphan Juliette's unbridled appetite for pleasure shakes up all of St Tropez; her sweet but naïve husband Michel endures beatings, insults, and mambo in his futile attempts to tame her wild ways.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl Next Door (1999)
There's someone peeping through windows so Arthur has been asked to watch the neighbour's eighteen year old daughter while her parents are away. Soon their mutual attraction develops into something that Arthur later regrets.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Lover (1992)
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisManhattan (1979)
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like this36 Fillette (1988)
A 14-year-old pursues romance with a man while vacationing with her family in Switzerland.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLolita (1962)
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Girl Next Door (1987)
Middle-aged married journalist goes to the beach resort of Búzios, in Brazil, to write a book. Gradually, he falls in love with his neighbor's daughter, a beautiful teenager much younger than he, ignoring the social implications.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Lovers (2026)
An animated thriller about the romantic tension between a seafood chef and a siren, set in a dark fantasy Philippines.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Pigs Have Wings (1977)
Rome, 70s. Rocco and Antonia, high school students, meet during a political rally. The two young people share age, political ideas, dissatisfaction with their parents. Moreover, by attending, they realize they have fallen in love. It is the discovery of sex and passion. After some time, however, their relationship goes into crisis.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Underwater Love (2011)
35-year-old Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She’s about to be married to her boss, Taki, but one day, she encounters a kappa – a water sprite found in Japanese folklore – and learns that the creature is in fact the reborn form of Aoki, an old crush who’d drowned when they were 17.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Naturals: Adorable (1996)
Harris produced and directed television programs for Playboy Television between 1995 and 1999, such as Ron Harris' Camera Up-Close & Dangerous, Ron Harris' Star Shapes, a series of seven one-hour specials and Naturals a series of five one-hour specials.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Naturals: Untouched (1996)
Ron Harris produced and directed television programs for Playboy Television between 1995 and 1999, such as Ron Harris' Camera Up-Close & Dangerous, Ron Harris' Star Shapes, a series of seven one-hour specials and Naturals a series of five one-hour specials.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Henry John and the Little Bug (2009)
Dinner time in a remote home of a prairie family turns nightmarish when a band of blood spattered outlaws break through the front door in search of food, horses, and women. Nothing is as it seems in this constantly twisting genre bender.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Me, My Daughter, and Love (1974)
Quoting the novel (Lolita) by Vladimir Nabokov, the film revolves around (Ahmed), who owns a hotel in Alexandria and falls in love with (Siham) and her teenage daughter Sahar, with whom he retrieves memories from his childhood, and after leaving Alexandria, Ahmed travels to Cairo, and there the conflict between mother and daughter revolves around Ahmed's love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
M*nem did it! (2025)
In a zombie post apocalyptic Argentina, during the presidence of Menem, Zombina and Zombieta are going through a relationship crisis. All seems lost until their latest victim decides to help them.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Siren (2014)
A young woman’s mundane life is turned upside down when she meets a sensuous older Spanish woman, who is passing through the sleepy English coastal town she lives in.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Fulaninha (1986)
Movie director in his forties and in existential crisis falls in love with an unknown teen girl he sees walking down the streets, without knowing she's the daughter of the woman he's having a relationship with.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
BASIUM (2019)
Two girls anticipate their first kiss
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
LOVE BITES (2026)
Dina, a shy and awkward artist who is waiting for Jen, a loud and sporty jock, to arrive at the art gallery they are going to have their first date. First dates can be hard, but not as hard as the end of the world. While they are enjoying their evening, the unthinkable happens, the dead have started to rise and have the potential to ruin the night. Can Dina and Jen battle the dead and make it to a second date?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Laços (2023)
Helena wants to propose to Leticia, until tragedy strikes in their lives: they both have a car accident and end up dying. Now they both need to rest, but Helena suffers from wanting to propose while her beloved tries to convince her to move on to the other plane without revealing what has happened. Leticia, having already accepted death, understands what is happening and subtly tries to make Helena understand that it is necessary to leave. In the course of the story, while each of them deals with their own internal conflicts, the apartment they used to live in begins to be emptied so that new people can move in.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Cinderella?
The closest matches to Cinderella 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 Cinderella?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Cinderella.
What is the highest-rated movie like Cinderella?
Manhattan (1979), rated 7.7/10 by 2,710 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Cinderella?
The Lovers (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Cinderella chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Cinderella, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.