Movies like The Maid (2014)
The best movies like The Maid (2014) are Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022), With Every Heartbeat (2011) and Clement (2001). If The Maid 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 ratedPortrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)8.1/10 from 3,102 votes
- NewestWinter Spring Summer or Fall (2024)Released 2024
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)
Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWith Every Heartbeat (2011)
After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisClement (2001)
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Disobedience (2018)
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their fortuitous and happy reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSummerland (2020)
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAn Education (2009)
Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Summer of Love (2005)
In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWeekend (2011)
After a drunken house party with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a gay club. Just before closing time he picks up Glen but what's expected to be just a one-night stand becomes something else, something special.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOn Chesil Beach (2018)
In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWe'll Take Manhattan (2012)
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Blue 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 thisA Moment in the Reeds (2018)
Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house so it can be sold. Tareq, a recent asylum seeker from Syria, has been hired to help with the work, and when Leevi's father has to return to town on business, the two young men establish a connection and embark on a romance set against the idyllic Finnish summer. However, looming over this chance encounter, is the father's imminent return to the lake house, the continuation of Leevi's studies abroad as well as Tareq's complex relationship with his family in Syria.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOur Love Story (2016)
A fine arts student meets an attractive bartender, and the two women begin an intimate relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPortrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLove Blooms (2019)
Martin, in a last ditch hope, comes to meet Léa in Paris. They are both twenty-five and shared their first love story together. They are both now striving to mature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
45 Years (2015)
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStuff (2015)
Trish and Deb Murdoch are in a rut. After 14 years together and raising two daughters, they find themselves in a mid life crisis where grief and attraction threaten their domestic nucleus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
A Single Man (2009)
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, is the story of a British college professor who dwells on the past and cannot see his future. We follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters ultimately lead him to decide if there is a meaning to life after the death of his long time partner, Jim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGod's Own Country (2017)
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCarol (2015)
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Days of Mercy (2018)
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPorcupine Lake (2017)
During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Vita & Virginia (2019)
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the two forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly contemporary marriages.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTell It to the Bees (2019)
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLie with Me (2023)
An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. Once there, he meets his first love’s son, Lucas. Memories come rushing back to him: irrepressible attraction, bodies becoming one in the heat of desire, a passion that can never be revealed… His first love’s name was Thomas. They were 17.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Mother (2003)
A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWinter Spring Summer or Fall (2024)
Remi and Barnes, two very different teenagers, meet by chance in the winter of their senior year, then spend four days together over the course of a year that will change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFire with Fire (1986)
A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTime Is Up (2021)
Vivien, an accomplished student with a passion for physics, and Roy, a troubled young man, are involved in an accident that forces them to reclaim their lives one minute at the time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGame of Love (2022)
Follows Vivien and Roy as their love story continues and leads them to Roy’s childhood home in Sicily to prepare for the sale of the family estate. During the visit, a mysterious woman arrives and befriends Vivien, much to Roy’s displeasure. Tensions build and lines are crossed as secrets from Roy’s past force the couple to face aspects of their relationship they did not know existed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Maid?
The closest matches to The Maid are Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022), With Every Heartbeat (2011) and Clement (2001). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Maid?
People who watched The Maid most often go on to Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022), With Every Heartbeat (2011) and Clement (2001).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Maid?
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), rated 8.1/10 by 3,102 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Maid?
Winter Spring Summer or Fall (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Maid?
Yes: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022), Disobedience (2018) and Summerland (2020).
How are movies similar to The Maid chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Maid, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.