Movies like Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister (2014)
The best movies like Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister (2014) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Apartment (1960). If Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)8.5/10 from 4,648 votes
- NewestThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022)Released 2022
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 thisThe Apartment (1960)
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThree to Tango (1999)
Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistakenly believes that Oscar is gay and has him spy on his mistress Amy. Oscar goes along with it and ends up falling in love with Amy.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMiss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile city, a series of fortunate circumstances lead her to meet Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous and dazzling American jazz singer whose life is a chaos ruled by indecision, a continuous battle between love and fame.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrice Tag (2013)
Two young people of different nationalities fall madly in love. However, everything changes when the profession of one of them is revealed.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Detour (1967)
When a road construction detour forces former lovers Boyan and Neda to cross paths after seventeen years, they are compelled to spend a day traveling together toward Sofia. Their idealistic romance in the 1950s contrasts with their current lives as disillusioned, middle-aged professionals. As they talk, they confront the personal and social choices that led to their eventual separation.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
There's Something About Mary (1998)
For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisObsessed (2014)
A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Absolute CinemaMovies 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 thisI Love My Wife (1970)
Young surgeon becomes bored with his wife and family, he has a very successful career, but even with having so much in life, he feels empty and goes through a series of brief and meaningless relations with attractive women.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Avatharam (2014)
Madhavan Mahadevan, who comes into the city from a village to see off his sister-in-law and her daughter after the death of his elder brother, an upright Customs Officer (KB Ganesh Kumar). While running around to claim the insurance money, he comes to know that his brother was actually murdered by the underworld don Irumbanakkal John (Joy Mathew).
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Secret Call (1931)
The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indiscretions of the clients of a big-city hotel. She also finds romance in the form of handsome Tom Blake (Richard Arlen). The huge cast of characters comes in handy for the film's multitude of subplots, none of which ever get their wires crossed. Peggy Shannon acquits herself nicely in her first major role, but by the end of the decade her career was in decline.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer and family man named Dan O'Mara. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Microscope (1988)
The first film in Rudolf Thome's "Forms of Love" trilogy is the most incisive. It's a comedy-drame chronicling the ups and downs in the relationship of an unmarried couple (Adriana Altaras, Vladimir Weigl). When she tries to persuade him that they should have a child, he escapes the controversy by becoming preoccupied with his new aquarium and microscope. Their struggles to settle their differences and accept new responsibilities are presented intelligently, realistically and with low-key wit and irony.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Say It Isn't So (2001)
Boy meets girl; boy falls in love (and had wild, non-stop sex) with girl; boy loses girl... when they discover they are brother and sister! But when he learns that he's the victim of the ultimate case of mistaken identity, the lovesick young man -- whom everyone still thinks is after some taboo thrills -- must race across the country to stop her from marrying another man.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMulligans (2008)
When Tyler Davidson brings his college buddy Chase home for the summer holidays a secret is revealed that threatens to tear his perfect family apart.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Room (2003)
Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world being torn apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisFeelings (2003)
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022)
This comical love story follows the story of A.J. Fikry, whose life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history and now his prized possession, a rare edition of Poe poems, has been stolen. He’s given up on people and even the books in his store offer another reminder that the world is changing too rapidly. But when a mysterious package arrives at the store, it gives Fikry the chance to make his life over and see things anew.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwo Moon Junction (1988)
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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What are the best movies like Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister?
The closest matches to Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Apartment (1960). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister.
What is the highest-rated movie like Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister?
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), rated 8.5/10 by 4,648 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister?
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Apartment (1960).
How are movies similar to Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Forbidden Affairs 2: My Wife's Sister, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.