Movies like Devil in the Flesh (1986)
The best movies like Devil in the Flesh (1986) are The Dark Side of Love (1984), Beau Pere (1981) and Last Tango in Paris (1972). If Devil in the Flesh hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHis Secret Life (2001)7.3/10 from 610 votes
- NewestThe Last Mistress (2007)Released 2007
- In ItalianThe Dark Side of Love (1984)Also in Italian
The 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 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 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 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 thisThe Dreamers (2003)
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies 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
His Secret Life (2001)
When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRomance (1999)
Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisJulia (1999)
Giulia is an independent young woman who is prepared to offer her body and her spirit against all the religious taboos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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 thisClose My Eyes (1991)
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Mistress (2007)
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThat Malicious Age (1975)
Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Real Young Girl (1976)
Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents' house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTender 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 thisBetty Blue (1986)
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFelicity (1978)
Felicity studies at a remote Roman Catholic boarding school in Australia. Consumed by curiosity about sex and heavily indulging in popular erotic novels as well as a lesbian affair with her friend Jenny, she yearns for a real-world experience.
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
The Corruption (1986)
Anna, a beautiful lawyer's wife, feels abandoned by her husband and grows closer to their maid, Angela. The maid convinces Anna to try increasingly daring erotic games.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMelissa P. (2005)
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisL'ennui (1998)
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLuna (1979)
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Voyeur (1994)
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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 & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBelle de Jour (1967)
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisLady of the Night (1986)
Angelina is tired of long serious relationships. One day she is brutally raped and she changes dramatically. Suddenly she is getting involved in more and more dangerous relations with unknown men until her behavior leads to a fatal crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Pola X (1999)
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTurkish Delight (1973)
Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Eric has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStay as You Are (1978)
A married Roman landscape architect starts an affair with a young woman who might be a shadow from his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Devil in the Flesh?
The closest matches to Devil in the Flesh are The Dark Side of Love (1984), Beau Pere (1981) and Last Tango in Paris (1972). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Devil in the Flesh?
People who watched Devil in the Flesh most often go on to The Dark Side of Love (1984), Beau Pere (1981) and Last Tango in Paris (1972).
What is the highest-rated movie like Devil in the Flesh?
His Secret Life (2001), rated 7.3/10 by 610 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Devil in the Flesh?
The Last Mistress (2007) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Devil in the Flesh?
Yes: The Dark Side of Love (1984), Last Tango in Paris (1972) and Seduction (1973).
How are movies similar to Devil in the Flesh chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Devil in the Flesh, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.