Movies like My Mistress (2014)
The best movies like My Mistress (2014) are Secretary (2002), Romance (1999) and Surrender (2003). If My Mistress hooked you with its romance and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Piano Teacher (2001)7.3/10 from 1,374 votes
- NewestCuriosa (2019)Released 2019
Secretary (2002)
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRomance (1999)
Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSurrender (2003)
An erotic drama that submerges an innocent new arrival to the City of Angels in the intoxicating double life of her charismatic lesbian dominatrix housemate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisL'ennui (1998)
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove (2015)
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLady Chatterley (2006)
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Mistress (2007)
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Duke of Burgundy (2015)
Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisClose My Eyes (1991)
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisIntimacy (2001)
Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows her and learns about her. This eventually disrupts their relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & 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 romance & drama
The Caged Flower (2013)
Yoriko Jun turned Miyuki Fukashi’s sensual novel with the same name into a movie. An ordinary office lady and a boy meet on the Internet, they get into a master-slave relationship and are drowned in a world of pleasure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisAntares (2004)
A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA French Gigolo (2008)
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married to Fanny, an ambitious young woman who has opened her own hairdressing salon in partnership with her friend Rosalie. Marco/Patrick is not a male prostitute at heart: in fact he does the job in order to support his wife's business. Which doesn't prevent Judith, an elegant tele-shopping presenter who buys his services, from falling in love with him. But when Fanny learns what Marco does and with whom, she first gets mad but soon starts interfering in their affair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisDesire (2011)
In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cécile, a character who symbolizes desire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCuriosa (2019)
A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Look Down (2008)
A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisPerpetual (2015)
Sebastian explores his sexuality and seeks for sex/love online. He meets Jacob, older and more experienced, who takes him to a sex club. In the new and frightening surroundings Sebastian has his first sexual experience and in their subsequent meetings love sprouts, at least for Sebastian. Outside the darkness of intense togetherness, the reality penetrates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
An Affair of Love (1999)
A man and a woman meet to fulfill her sexual fantasy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNymphomaniac: 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 thisBeautiful Kate (2009)
Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories of his childhood many involving his beautiful twin sister and his older brother. These memories awaken long-buried secrets from the family's past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Piano Teacher (2001)
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNathalie... (2004)
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDiary of a Nymphomaniac (2008)
A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisVenus in Fur (2013)
An enigmatic actress may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's play.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFour Lovers (2010)
Mutual attraction leads two married couples to swap bedtime partners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisYoung Adam (2003)
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like My Mistress?
The closest matches to My Mistress are Secretary (2002), Romance (1999) and Surrender (2003). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after My Mistress?
People who watched My Mistress most often go on to Secretary (2002), Romance (1999) and Surrender (2003).
What is the highest-rated movie like My Mistress?
The Piano Teacher (2001), rated 7.3/10 by 1,374 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like My Mistress?
Curiosa (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like My Mistress?
Yes: Secretary (2002), Surrender (2003) and Sleeping Beauty (2011).
How are movies similar to My Mistress chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside My Mistress, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.