Movies like Bad Timing (1980)
The best movies like Bad Timing (1980) are The Woman Next Door (1981), The Touch (1971) and Last Tango in Paris (1972). If Bad Timing hooked you with its mystery and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Tenant (1976)7.6/10 from 1,282 votes
- NewestLust, Caution (2007)Released 2007
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
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Touch (1971)
A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with an American archaeologist, unaware of his emotional scars as a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe School of Flesh (1998)
Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided, and sometimes hindered, by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Heat and Dust (1983)
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLust, Caution (2007)
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisArdor (2002)
In revenge for her husband's infidelity, a young beautiful housewife, Mi-heun, starts an affair with an attractive young doctor, In-gyu. Despite her husband's efforts to regain her love and the disapproval by the conservative little town, Mi-huen gradually finds happiness and satisfaction in the affair and decides to turn her back on her quiet life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Passenger (1975)
David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlow-Up (1966)
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDead Ringers (1988)
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Tenant (1976)
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
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
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2007)
An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of a beautiful blond woman dressed in white that he sees there. but it appears that she may have died years before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Track 29 (1988)
Years after a desperate teenage Linda gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin, a young man claiming to be her long-lost son. Linda embraces Martin and in him finds a welcome reprieve from her unhappy marriage to the neglectful Henry. But soon Martin grows violent and becomes obsessed with Henry -- a philandering man whose only offspring is an expansive model train set that devours his waking hours.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Year of the Quiet Sun (1984)
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Obsession (1976)
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDamage (1992)
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lover (1992)
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ear (1990)
Government bureaucrat Ludvik becomes suspicious after several colleagues disappear and he overhears something strange at a cocktail party. Returning home with his wife, Anna, he finds their house under surveillance and spends a fraught night worrying about his possible arrest in the morning. Marital difficulties come to light as Ludvik and his wife attempt to act normal in front of the cameras while dredging up their problems out of sight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBitter Moon (1992)
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKnife in the Water (1962)
On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDressed to Kill (1980)
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoxing Helena (1993)
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but a horrific accident leaves her at his mercy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisCaptives (1994)
A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Belly of an Architect (1987)
Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSee the Sea (1997)
Sasha, a young British woman, is living with her baby daughter at Ile d'Yeu, a peaceful beach community. A stranger appears. Her name is Tatiana, she's passing through, and pitches her tent in Sasha's yard. The two women build an odd rapport, and tension builds as events unfold.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Eureka (1983)
After striking it rich on a large gold strike, a prospector retires to the quiet life on a Caribbean island but ends up coping with an alcoholic wife, a headstrong daughter, and Miami mobsters who want to build a casino.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Bad Timing?
The closest matches to Bad Timing are The Woman Next Door (1981), The Touch (1971) and Last Tango in Paris (1972). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Bad Timing?
People who watched Bad Timing most often go on to The Woman Next Door (1981), The Touch (1971) and Last Tango in Paris (1972).
What is the highest-rated movie like Bad Timing?
The Tenant (1976), rated 7.6/10 by 1,282 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Bad Timing?
Lust, Caution (2007) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Bad Timing?
Yes: Heat and Dust (1983), Eyes Wide Shut (1999) and Blow-Up (1966).
How are movies similar to Bad Timing chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Bad Timing, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.