Movies like The Souvenir: Part II (2021)
The best movies like The Souvenir: Part II (2021) are The Souvenir (2019), Bergman Island (2021) and Malcolm & Marie (2021). If The Souvenir: Part II 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 ratedPortrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)8.1/10 from 3,105 votes
- NewestLove Letters (2025)Released 2025
- Same seriesThe Souvenir (2019)The Souvenir
The Souvenir (2019)
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
Why it matches: Same series: The Souvenir · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBergman Island (2021)
An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMalcolm & Marie (2021)
As a filmmaker and his girlfriend return home from his movie premiere, smoldering tensions and painful revelations push them toward a romantic reckoning.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSnapshots (2018)
Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not getting any younger and her daughter Patti worries about Rose being all alone, but the stubborn matriarch will not sell. There are memories here that she doesn’t want to leave. These come flooding back one weekend during a visit from Patti and granddaughter Allison, when a long-forgotten roll of film reminds Rose of the summer she met and fell in love with the bold and beautiful Louise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this45 Years (2015)
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHot Milk (2025)
Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose’s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a wheelchair. But in the sultry atmosphere of this sun-bleached town Sofia, who has been trapped by her mother’s illness all her life, finally starts to shed her inhibitions, enticed by the persuasive charms of enigmatic traveller Ingrid.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPortrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisEmpire of Light (2022)
The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe History of Sound (2025)
In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnrelated (2008)
A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisJulieta (2016)
The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSimple Passion (2021)
A man and a woman are brought together by chance for several months. He is younger than she is, married, Russian, officially a diplomat stationed in Paris. She is a beautiful teacher and researcher, with her feet firmly on the ground. The film follows the evolution of their love, from the beginning to end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadeline's Madeline (2018)
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAli & Ava (2022)
Sparks fly after Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s tenants whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness while Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. As the pair begin to form a deep connection they have to find a way to keep their newfound passion from being overshadowed by the stresses and struggles of their separate lives and histories.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJanet Planet (2024)
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPorto (2017)
Jake and Mati are two outsiders in the northerly Portuguese city of Porto who once experienced a brief connection. A mystery remains about the moments they shared, and in searching through memories, they relive the depths of a night uninhibited by the consequences of time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisPieces of a Woman (2020)
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMiss Julie (2014)
Over the course of a midsummer night in 1890s Ireland, the unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove Letters (2025)
Céline, 32, is expecting her first child. But Céline is not pregnant. In three months, it is Nadia, her wife, who will give birth to their daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisElizabeth Is Missing (2019)
Maud's best friend Elizabeth has disappeared, but as she tries to solve the mystery, dementia threatens to erase all the clues, giving the search a poignant urgency.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAmour (2012)
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBefore Midnight (2013)
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHoard (2024)
The story follows Maria – a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident, Michael, inspires her to revisit the childhood memories and passions that she has repressed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Carol (2015)
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisColumbus (2017)
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCertified Copy (2010)
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDisobedience (2018)
New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their fortuitous and happy reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlice (2020)
Alice, a perfect wife and mother, lives happily with her husband and child until the day she discovers he is living a double life that has ruined her financially and left her a single mother. Alice fights back and dives into a world beyond anything she has ever known.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisPink Wall (2019)
Six scenes. Six years. Six moments that shaped the relationship of Jenna and Leon. Pink Wall examines what defines us, the pressures of gender expectations, and our perpetual struggle between life and ambition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
At a media-swamped party to celebrate his seventieth birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Souvenir: Part II?
The closest matches to The Souvenir: Part II are The Souvenir (2019), Bergman Island (2021) and Malcolm & Marie (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Souvenir: Part II?
People who watched The Souvenir: Part II most often go on to Bergman Island (2021), Malcolm & Marie (2021) and Snapshots (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Souvenir: Part II?
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), rated 8.1/10 by 3,105 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Souvenir: Part II?
Love Letters (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Is The Souvenir: Part II part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to The Souvenir, which includes The Souvenir (2019).
Are there English movies like The Souvenir: Part II?
Yes: The Souvenir (2019), Bergman Island (2021) and Malcolm & Marie (2021).
How are movies similar to The Souvenir: Part II chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Souvenir: Part II, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.