Movies like Anticipation (1982)
The best movies like Anticipation (1982) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Road to Nowhere (2010). If Anticipation hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrue Romance (1993)7.5/10 from 3,244 votes
- NewestThe Next Three Days (2010)Released 2010
The 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 thisTrue 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 thisRoad to Nowhere (2010)
A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Loves of Carmen (1948)
Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Next Three Days (2010)
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisZouzou (1934)
Aspiring stage actress Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Dangerous Love Affairs (1959)
Juliette de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont are a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But when Valmont meets the beautiful young Marianne at a ski resort, he breaks the one rule of his unconventional marriage: never fall in love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Man Alone (1955)
A gunfighter, stranded in the desert, comes across the aftermath of a stage robbery, in which all the passengers were killed. He takes one of the horses to ride to town to report the massacre, but finds himself accused of it. He also finds himself accused of the murder of the local banker, and winds up hiding in the basement of a house where the local sheriff, who is very sick, lives with his daughter.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Space Mutiny (1988)
A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisPretty Poison (1968)
A troubled arsonist spins a tale of espionage to a captivating girl, who becomes enthralled and entangled in his dangerous fantasies, leading to unexpected murder and chaos that change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFun (1994)
Hillary and Bonnie meet one morning by the side of the road. They become fast friends, share their secrets, and, on a rising wave of frenzy, later that afternoon, murder an old woman. They did it, they say later, for fun.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Catchfire (1990)
A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSoldier's Girl (2003)
This true story, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a transgender nightclub performer, was misunderstood by his fellow soldiers and eventually led to his murder.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMotives (2004)
A highly successful business tycoon who is married to his ideal wife. Things get twisted awry when the man has an adulterous affair.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Mermaids (2003)
Mermaid sisters hunt down their father's human killer... and deal with their own personal relationships with the humans.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Saino (1988)
A couple leaves a city to go the village where a lot of conflict waiting to tear them completely.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Haunted (1995)
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNet Games (2003)
The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His close friend and colleague Ray Walters suggests Adam to visit the porn site cyber chat.net, where lonely people have erotic conversation. Adam meets Angel, a luscious woman and hacker while his wife is visiting her rapist in the prison with her therapist as part of her treatment. When Adam decides to finish his virtual affair with Angel, he is chased and blackmailed by the deranged sexy killer.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Embrace of the Vampire (1995)
An 18-year-old college freshman is seduced by a handsome vampire lover who introduces her to a dark world of carnal desires.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisDr. Renault's Secret (1942)
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Flesh and Bone (1993)
Haunted by memories of his father murdering a family, Arlis Sweeney prefers to keep to himself, focusing his energy on his work. One day, the traumatic past that eats away at him returns when he meets Kay Davies, a woman connected to the bloody event. Against all odds, Arlis and Kay fall in love; however, when his father, Roy, reappears in his life -- with the coldhearted Ginnie in tow -- Arlis must deal with his past demons.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLeave Her to Heaven (1945)
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Anticipation?
The closest matches to Anticipation are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Road to Nowhere (2010). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Anticipation?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Anticipation.
What is the highest-rated movie like Anticipation?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,244 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Anticipation?
The Next Three Days (2010) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Anticipation?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Road to Nowhere (2010).
How are movies similar to Anticipation chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Anticipation, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.