Movies like Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976)
The best movies like Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976) are Emmanuelle (1974), Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman (1975) and Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle in Paradise (2000). If Emanuelle in Bangkok 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 ratedMalena (2000)7.6/10 from 2,894 votes
- NewestFifty Shades Freed (2018)Released 2018
- In ItalianEmanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)Also in Italian
- Same seriesEmanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)Black Emanuelle
Emmanuelle (1974)
An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEmmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman (1975)
Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover and American guest are both very puzzled by their openness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisEmmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle in Paradise (2000)
The second installment in the classic Emmanuelle softcore film series to be helmed by director Ura Hee, Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle in Paradise finds actress Holly Sampson in role originated by Sylvia Kristel. This time around, the seductress travels to such locales as Morocco and Japan, landing in passionate trysts at every turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Story of O (1975)
The beautiful O is taken by her boyfriend, Rene, to a bizarre retreat, where she is trained in bondage and sexual perversion...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisEmanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
Intrepid photographer Emanuelle is taken deep into the Amazonian jungle to search for a cannibalistic tribe long believed to be extinct.
Why it matches: Same series: Black Emanuelle · both adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisSister Emanuelle (1977)
Sister Emanuelle and Sister Nanà go to meet Mr. Cazzabriga, who has a problem: his wild-child daughter, Monica, who he wants to send to a Catholic school to remove her from temptations around the house.
Why it matches: Same series: Black Emanuelle · both drama
SnoozefestMovies 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 Blue Lagoon (1980)
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and Richard make a home for themselves surrounded by exotic creatures and nature's beauty. But will they ever see civilization again?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSwept Away (1974)
A wealthy woman's yachting holiday with friends in the Mediterranean Sea takes an unexpected turn when she and one of the boat's crew are stranded on a desert island. Her capitalist beliefs and his communist convictions clash, but during their struggle to survive, social roles are reversed and heated passions come alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSex and Lucía (2001)
Lucía is a young waitress in Madrid who seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island after the loss of her longtime boyfriend. Amidst the fresh air, dazzling sun, and glistening deep blue water, Lucía begins to piece together the dark corners of her past relationship.
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 thisEmmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle Pie (2003)
Brazen beauty Emmanuelle embarks on more saucy sci-fi antics. A young man uses a mind-control power for his own sexual needs. Miss Emmanuelle shows up to give him more than a slap on the wrist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Seduction (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
The Night Porter (1974)
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
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 thisHenry & June (1990)
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Divine Nymph (1975)
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Black Angel (2002)
Livia, the attractive wife of a high-ranking Ministry of the People's Republic official, is accompanied by Ugo, a lawyer, her admirer and her husband's spy, to Venice. There, she is to meet her lover Helmut Schultz, a lieutenant in the infamous SS with whom she is having a passionate love affair. During the journey, Livia retraces the steps of her sexual aberration. But a surprise awaits her in the lagoon city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies 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 & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEmmanuelle 3 (1980)
A fashion photographer and his French models travel to Bangkok.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Malena (2000)
12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is presumed dead, and, through his soul, we see his love for her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBesieged (1998)
While in exile in Italy, an African woman finds herself trying to get back home and free her imprisoned husband. But the only man that can help her do so is in love with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaligula (1979)
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Happy Hooker (1975)
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Eugenie... The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970)
A young woman is lured to an island paradise, where she is drawn into a dark world of pleasure, pain, and murder under the control of a sinister figure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFifty Shades Freed (2018)
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFifty Shades of Grey (2015)
When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair -- and learns that Christian's true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Duke of Burgundy (2015)
Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNewness (2017)
In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Emanuelle in Bangkok?
The closest matches to Emanuelle in Bangkok are Emmanuelle (1974), Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman (1975) and Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle in Paradise (2000). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Emanuelle in Bangkok?
People who watched Emanuelle in Bangkok most often go on to Emmanuelle (1974), Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman (1975) and Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle in Paradise (2000).
What is the highest-rated movie like Emanuelle in Bangkok?
Malena (2000), rated 7.6/10 by 2,894 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Emanuelle in Bangkok?
Fifty Shades Freed (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Emanuelle in Bangkok part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Black Emanuelle, which includes Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) and Sister Emanuelle (1977).
Are there Italian movies like Emanuelle in Bangkok?
Yes: Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977), Sister Emanuelle (1977) and The Voyeur (1994).
How are movies similar to Emanuelle in Bangkok chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Emanuelle in Bangkok, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.