Movies like V: The Hot One (1978)
The best movies like V: The Hot One (1978) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Little Children (2006). If V: The Hot One hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Special Day (1977)8.1/10 from 810 votes
- NewestBabygirl (2024)Released 2024
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 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 thisLittle Children (2006)
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFar from Heaven (2002)
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrief Encounter (1945)
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSummer Things (2002)
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisAngels and Insects (1995)
In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and Eugenia begin a torrid romance, but as the couple become closer, the young scientist begins to realize that dark, disturbing things are happening behind the closed doors of the Alabaster manor.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Thrill of It All (1963)
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAlice (1990)
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLeaving (2009)
A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll's Well, Ends Well (1992)
Three brothers living with their father fib and play pranks to win parental approval for themselves and their romances.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBabygirl (2024)
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisDesire (2002)
A couple is set in their monotonous life until the husband has a homosexual affair with a young male prostitute. Suspicious of her husband, the wife seeks the truth and eventually ends up in bed with the same young man. Their desire has a new meaning.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets Tiffany Maxwell who offers to help him reconnect with his wife if he will do something very important for her in exchange.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Royal Affair (2012)
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMontenegro (1981)
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
House on the Rocks (1974)
Elena, the wife of a very rich man, spends the summer on an island in the Aegean Sea, doing archaeological research. One day her son comes to visit her son from her first marriage. The sea, the sun, the shepherds with ancient half-lingual rites, a handsome youth, not yet an old woman - no one remembered what happened in Ancient Greece ...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Rude to Love (2024)
Momoko, an elegant housewife, meticulously maintains her home and attends to her husband, but her devoted care masks an emotional rift between them that blurs the line between love and obsession.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
A Higher Law (2023)
Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina tries to keep him under control, but she loses her own sense of control in this process.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
A Special Day (1977)
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like V: The Hot One?
The closest matches to V: The Hot One are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Little Children (2006). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after V: The Hot One?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to V: The Hot One.
What is the highest-rated movie like V: The Hot One?
A Special Day (1977), rated 8.1/10 by 810 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like V: The Hot One?
Babygirl (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like V: The Hot One?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Little Children (2006).
How are movies similar to V: The Hot One chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside V: The Hot One, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.