Movies like Going Under (2004)
The best movies like Going Under (2004) are Savage Grace (2007), Lie with Me (2005) and Shame (2011). If Going Under hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedMysterious Skin (2005)7.7/10 from 1,399 votes
- NewestI Want Your Sex (2026)Released 2026
Savage Grace (2007)
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on Antony, who is homosexual. As Barbara tries to "cure" Antony of his sexuality -- sometimes by seducing him herself -- the groundwork is laid for a murderous tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLie with Me (2005)
Happily unattached, the sexually voracious Leila satisfies her desires with a host of rapidly changing bed partners, unconcerned about the emotional consequences. But that all changes when she meets an artist looking for a deeper commitment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisShame (2011)
Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisErotica: Moonlight (2008)
These three stories are about sex, relationships and fantasy. A couple in their 30's is looking to satisfy their sexual fantasies, so they invite a nurse to join them for a threesome. A nurse falls in love with the wrong man, an old doctor friend. A young kid meets a troubled girl outside a club.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrash (1996)
A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBare Sex (2003)
2 couples and a single guy really, engage in a naughty game of truth or dare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Luscious (1999)
When a passionate young model convinces her boyfriend, a painter, to take to the canvas to renew their sexual chemistry, their erotic, uninhibited masterpieces command the attention of the art world. Smothered in paint, the couple slip and slide into a new realm of their relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Female Perversions (1996)
An ambitious female attorney wallows in excess and meaningless sex with both male and female partners, while dealing with her personal life problems including helping her kleptomaniac sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Dangerous Method (2011)
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Principles of Lust (2003)
Crippled by his writer's block, Paul enters into a new, exciting relationship with risk-taking Billy and super-sexy Juliette. As it becomes increasingly tangled, however, he must choose one of them over the other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Container (2006)
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in Mary's stomach. The water breaks. It floods into me. I can't close the lid. My heart is full."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007)
A secretary is introduced to the world of BDSM by her boss. She becomes his personal slave as they take a walk on the wild side of experimentations. This film is based on main actress Rinako Hirasawa’s personal experiences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
About Cherry (2012)
18-year-old Angelina shuffles between school, a dead-end job, her exploitative boyfriend, and home, where her life consists of cleaning up after her alcoholic mother and protecting her younger sister from their menacing stepfather. After arranging an escape to San Francisco with her best friend Andrew, she soon finds herself dating a coke-addicted attorney and becoming immersed in the local porn industry, mentored by lesbian director Margaret, who has more than just a professional interest in Angelina's talents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Girlfriend Experience (2009)
Chelsea is an in-demand call girl whose $2,000 an hour price tag allows her to live in New York's lap of luxury. Besides her beauty and sexual skill, Chelsea offers her clients companionship and conversation, or, as she dubs it, "the girlfriend experience." With her successful business and a devoted, live-in boyfriend, Chelsea thinks she has it made... until a new client rocks her world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisErotic Seductions (2007)
Playgirl Carrie and her college teacher Jack debate the worth and depth of sexual and romantic relationships while enthusiastically field-testing their theories.
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Beauty Rope Cosmetology (1983)
A wealthy college girl is snatched off the streets by a pair of S&M professionals. They methodically break her will with the extensive use of bondage and erotic devices. But who has hired them and for what perverse reason?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Swingers (2002)
Despite Diana's insecure nature, she and her husband Julian agree with the idea to sexually experiment with another couple. They put out an ad on the net to which the well experienced Alex and Timo react. We follow Diana and Julian as they prepare for the arrival of Alex and Timo, who they have invited to their home for the weekend. Diana is nervous. As soon as she is confronted with the self-confident and ravishingly sexy Alex, her insecurity increases even more. Timo seems disinterested, a sharp contrast to the boyish excitement of Julian. But as night falls and their sexual exploration begins, we notice Timo may not be as casual as he initially seemed and Diana on the other hand contains hidden strength. And so we realize there's more to 'Swingers' than just sex. Swingers: could your relationship stand the test?
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SnoozefestMovies like thisI Want Your Sex (2026)
When a naive young man becomes the sexual muse for a renowned and provocative artist, his dream job quickly turns dangerous as he is drawn into an obsessive world of power, betrayal, and murder.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMysterious Skin (2005)
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisHouse of 1000 Pleasures (1974)
Marcel is a taxi driver who luckily pickups a gorgeous woman who begins to undress herself while in the back seat. Soon she leads him to a Private Club where he can pick any woman he wants to satisfy his sexual fantasies. After he enjoys a few exciting moments with 2 lovely ladies he is introduced to the many characters that make up the Private Club and begins enjoying the sexual games. The Private Club isn't all that's on Marcel's mind though as he is madly in love with Lisa who he met in Paris.
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The Story of Richard O (2007)
Prey to his desire for women, Richard O. explores the sinuous mysteries of eroticism in a Paris full of summer inhabitants in the torrid month of August.
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Sinner: The Secret Diary of a Nymphomaniac (1973)
Linda comes to the big city in search of fun and excitement. What she finds is exploitation and abuse at the hands of a succession of sleazy guys. Searching for love, she enters into a lesbian relationship with a beautiful countess, discovers drugs and swingers' parties and starts acting in porno movies. She also begins to write a secret diary...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies 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: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScandalous Sex (2004)
A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must overcome an ambitious sorority bitch and corrupt college dean.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJailbait (2004)
Randy commits a crime that would normally get him probation and a hefty fine, but in the "three-strikes" world of justice, he finds himself locked up for 25 years. His cellmate Jake is a congenial yet remorseless lifer who casually informs Randy that he slit his wife's throat because she slept with another man just three months after they exchanged vows. Jake recognizes Randy's fear and offers him advice on how to make it in prison. But it soon becomes clear that Jake has much more than mentoring in mind as he takes Randy under his wing. "Jailbait" sets a darkly cerebral tone, juxtaposing brutality with the unattainable ideal of intimacy in the harshest of psychological environments. For these two men so yearning to be anything but who they are and where they are, power is the goal, and it's never clear who truly holds it right up to the last unsettling moment
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Preaching to the Perverted (1997)
A computer wizard infiltrates a London sex club to get evidence for a shutdown, but falls for the proprietress.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisThe Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Going Under?
The closest matches to Going Under are Savage Grace (2007), Lie with Me (2005) and Shame (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Going Under?
People who watched Going Under most often go on to Savage Grace (2007), Lie with Me (2005) and Shame (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like Going Under?
Mysterious Skin (2005), rated 7.7/10 by 1,399 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Going Under?
I Want Your Sex (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Going Under?
Yes: Savage Grace (2007), Lie with Me (2005) and Shame (2011).
How are movies similar to Going Under chosen?
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