Movies like Mother Knows Best (2014)
The best movies like Mother Knows Best (2014) are True Romance (1993), The Hot Spot (1990) and Stolen Kisses (1968). If Mother Knows Best hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAli: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)7.7/10 from 475 votes
- NewestYet Another Affair to Remember! (2024)Released 2024
True Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hot Spot (1990)
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStolen Kisses (1968)
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBreakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAli: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHarold and Maude (1971)
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Love America (2022)
Lisa, a single woman, decides to take a chance on love again by catapulting her life from Paris to Los Angeles. Her children flew the coop and her famous, yet absent mother just passed, so Lisa needs a big change. She reunites with her best friend Luka, who found success in America but is struggling to find his own prince charming. Luka embarks on a mission to give Lisa a fresh start by creating a profile for her on a dating website.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisHot Bubblegum (1981)
Further adventures of Bobby, Benji, and Huey in their pursuit of sex in the 50's. While preparing for their final exams, they try to work out if it's better to be going steady with one girl, and if changing girlfriends all the time leads to too many complications. This leads to frustrations with girls who wont go all the way, and problems with girls will go all the way with anyone!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisYoung Love (1987)
While his parents are on holiday, Huey and his buddies borrow their car and go out. After pursuing a gang of girls, Huey crashes the car, and discovering that the repairs will cost a small fortune, the boys must get jobs to pay for the repairs before Huey's parents get home. The boys all land jobs as porters in the Beachfront Hotel, where their minds are taken off their problems by girls!!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSummer Things (2002)
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTim (1979)
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to Tim's innocence and magnetism, begins to teach him all about life - and love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGreen Chair (2005)
When she falls in love with a handsome minor, a South Korean housewife finds herself at the center of a sexual scandal and hounded by hungry tabloid journalists. She vows to cut him out of her life but then he reaches the age of legal consent.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
A Cinderella Story (2004)
Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll Things Fair (1995)
In 1943 Malmö, 15-year-old Stig is attracted to his teacher Viola, 22 years his senior, who, drawn to his youth and innocence, believes the lad is a God-sent relief from her miserable marriage to a drunken, unfaithful lout.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll That Heaven Allows (1955)
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLemon Popsicle 9: The Party Goes On (2001)
This movie is a sequel to the saga of movies about 3 guys in the middle of the 50's during their sex urges and other funny incidents.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Another Affair to Remember! (2023)
Jean-Jacques Garbo is deeply dismayed by his wife's infidelity when he suddenly has inklings of another love affair.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
For Love One Dies (1972)
A hyper sensitive film student falls in love with an older woman.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Flirting with Forty (2008)
A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Dodsworth (1936)
A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYet Another Affair to Remember! (2024)
To reconcile her sins, Mrs. Garbo invites her friend, Bovete-Berta to a tea party and engages in gossip. But her husband, Jean-Jacques, unexpectedly gets a visit ...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mother Knows Best?
The closest matches to Mother Knows Best are True Romance (1993), The Hot Spot (1990) and Stolen Kisses (1968). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mother Knows Best?
Start with True Romance (1993), the closest match to Mother Knows Best.
What is the highest-rated movie like Mother Knows Best?
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), rated 7.7/10 by 475 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mother Knows Best?
Yet Another Affair to Remember! (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mother Knows Best?
Yes: True Romance (1993), The Hot Spot (1990) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).
How are movies similar to Mother Knows Best chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mother Knows Best, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.