Movies like Everyone Else
If Everyone Else hooked you with its drama and romance, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
Paths (2017)
Andreas and Martin share all the ups and downs of everyday life, and their son is maturing. A cautious approach to the traces of a long relationship. The love story of two people. Not about how they come together, not a phase they go through, but all of their shared experiences: all the years between the first kiss and today.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Elementary Particles (2006)
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring for her affairs, Michael, a molecular biologist, is more interested in genes than women, while Bruno is obsessed with his sexual desires, but mostly finds his satisfaction with prostitutes. But Bruno's life changes when he gets to know the experienced Christiane. In the meantime, Michael meets Annabelle, the love of his youth, again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPingpong (2006)
The film shows the apparently intact world of a middle class family, whose harmonious façade crumbles due to the unexpected visit of their relative Paul, a young man of 16 years. Paul arrives looking for love and support after the suicide of his father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
303 (2018)
Two university students gain insight into life and love as they get to know each other during a road trip across Europe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwo Mothers (2013)
The unexpected difficulty of becoming mothers through the means of artificial insemination slowly erodes the relationship between Katja and Isabella.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Loneliest Planet (2012)
Backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains, walking for hours, an engaged couple and their tour guide trade anecdotes and play games to pass the time, until a momentary misstep, that takes only two or three seconds, changes everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisHead-On (2004)
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLabel Me (2019)
Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match in Lars: a kind, affluent professional with a growing personal interest in Waseem. This gripping tale of transactional identity explores the tactical exchange of trust and intimacy in a partnership, and the divisions between immigrants and their host countries in contemporary Europe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Palermo Shooting (2008)
After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOff Beat (2004)
Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Shadow of Women (2015)
Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisPassages (2023)
Tomas and Martin are a gay couple living in Paris whose marriage is thrown into crisis when Tomas impulsively begins a passionate affair with young schoolteacher Agathe. But when Martin begins an affair of his own, Tomas must confront life decisions he may be unprepared—or unwilling—to deal with.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Frontier of Dawn (2009)
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
From Beginning to End (2009)
Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTransit (2018)
In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFree Fall (2013)
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLeaving (2009)
A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGoodbye First Love (2011)
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBetween Summer and Fall (2018)
17-year-old Lena falls in love with Eva, her older brother's new girlfriend. With a lot of witty dialogue "Between Summer and Fall" tells the story of how two people slowly grow close to each other even though they were not looking for love. The film paints a picture of two young women caught between their own insecurity and their desire for a connection and a place in the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
About Us (2017)
Two young students, Matheus and Diego, experience their first love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Secret Love: The Schoolboy and the Mailwoman (2005)
A 17 year old boy falls in love with a 37 year old woman. As if this wouldn't be enough they are of different social classes and she is married.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Things to Come (2016)
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFinsterworld (2013)
The film tells different stories in a kind of parallel Germany about love, affection and hatred.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Disenchanted (1990)
A worldly French teen is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Not Easily Broken (2009)
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)
Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNine Lives (2005)
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lost Husband (2020)
Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife in a Year (2020)
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Everyone Else?
The closest matches to Everyone Else are Paths, The Elementary Particles, Pingpong.
How are movies similar to Everyone Else chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Everyone Else, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.
Are there German movies like Everyone Else?
Yes: Paths, The Elementary Particles, Pingpong.