Movies like Stay as You Are (1978)
The best movies like Stay as You Are (1978) are The Debut (1977), The Woman Next Door (1981) and Fear of Fear (1976). If Stay as You Are 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 ratedA Special Day (1977)8.1/10 from 810 votes
- NewestThird Person (2014)Released 2014
- In ItalianThe Key (1983)Also in Italian
The Debut (1977)
The delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Woman Next Door (1981)
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFear of Fear (1976)
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Key (1983)
In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLast Tango in Paris (1972)
A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dark Side of Love (1984)
The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLaura (1979)
A blinded French sculptor completes a statue of a friend's daughter by using his sense of touch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Appassionata (1974)
Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeduction (1973)
After returning to Catania after a long period of time, Giuseppe reunites with his old lover, Caterina. Her 15 year-old daughter, Graziella begins to seduce her mother's lover and he soon breaks down and begins an affair with her. As time passes Caterina begins having sneaking suspicions about Giuseppe's & Graziella's relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Tender Cousins (1980)
Teenage Julien loves his teenage cousin Julia among flowers in summer of '39 France.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisPassionate Partners (1993)
Kreola arrives in Santa Domingo to join her photographer husband Andy. Although Andy is initially jealous of Marco, who is in town looking for his missing girlfriend who did not return from Santa Domingo with her coworkers after a girls getaway. When Kreola and Andy site the missing girl Iris in the company of their gruff, dominating sea captain Leon, Andy suggests Kreola distract him so that Marco has a chance of getting Iris back. Kreola scoffs at this but eventually does fall under Leon's spell. Andy's writer friend Jo Ann blames the island atmosphere for the tendency for puritanical Westerners to reject their inhibitions. When Andy and Marco cannot free their women from Leon's influence, things get drastic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Conversation Piece (1974)
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBilitis (1977)
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a teenage girl during summer vacation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisWrong Move (1975)
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Innocent (1976)
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDevil in the Flesh (1986)
An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisRapture (1965)
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & 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: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Night Porter (1974)
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Man and a Woman (1966)
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeau Pere (1981)
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSwept Away (1974)
A wealthy woman's yachting holiday with friends in the Mediterranean Sea takes an unexpected turn when she and one of the boat's crew are stranded on a desert island. Her capitalist beliefs and his communist convictions clash, but during their struggle to survive, social roles are reversed and heated passions come alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLady Chatterley's Passions (1989)
A widowed English heroine recalls her life, from marriage to an affair with the gamekeeper.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
A Nos Amours (1983)
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLittle Lips (1978)
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Jungle Fever (1991)
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Move (2004)
While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia, a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the big city where he lives. The ghost of the beloved and sexual object of desire Italia chases him in his memories.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThird Person (2014)
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisUnfaithful (2002)
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMiddle of the Night (1959)
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Stay as You Are?
The closest matches to Stay as You Are are The Debut (1977), The Woman Next Door (1981) and Fear of Fear (1976). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Stay as You Are?
People who watched Stay as You Are most often go on to The Debut (1977), The Woman Next Door (1981) and Fear of Fear (1976).
What is the highest-rated movie like Stay as You Are?
A Special Day (1977), rated 8.1/10 by 810 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Stay as You Are?
Third Person (2014) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Stay as You Are?
Yes: The Key (1983), Last Tango in Paris (1972) and The Dark Side of Love (1984).
How are movies similar to Stay as You Are chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Stay as You Are, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.