Movies like Tenderness and the Third Person (2017)
The best movies like Tenderness and the Third Person (2017) are Rosa's Wedding (2020), The Last Sunrise (2026) and Cria! (1976). If Tenderness and the Third Person hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLa Bola Negra (2026)8.0/10 from 215 votes
- NewestLa Bola Negra (2026)Released 2026
- In SpanishRosa's Wedding (2020)Also in Spanish
Rosa's Wedding (2020)
Rosa is about to turn 45 and realises that she's always lived her life to serve everyone else. So she decides to leave it all behind, take charge of her life and fulfil her dream of starting her own business.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Sunrise (2026)
Ry, a college student with a chronic illness, escapes to Mallorca for the summer with her mother, where she unexpectedly falls for a local and begins to embrace living in the moment. But as her condition worsens and long-hidden family secrets come to light, everything she has found before summer's end is threatened.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCria! (1976)
Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisAdvantages of Travelling by Train (2019)
After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like this32 Malasana Street (2020)
Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid, Spain, 1976. While political turmoil ravages the streets all over the country, the Olmedo family arrives in the big city and settles into their new apartment. They soon discover that they are not the only ones roaming its corridors.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTell Me What You Want (2024)
After his father's death, Eric Zimmerman travels to Spain to oversee his company's branches. In Madrid, he falls for Judith and engage in an intense, erotic relationship full of exploration. However, Eric fears his secret may end their affair.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Barefoot Contessa (1954)
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then star in, his next big picture. But as the producer's possessive nature and the realities of stardom weigh on Maria, she seeks a genuine lover with whom she can escape.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNo Rest for the Wicked (2011)
Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and eliminate the witness. Meanwhile, Chacón a judge in charge of investigating the triple murder, meticulously advances in the search for the murderer. Santos and Chacon soon discover that what seemed a simple case of drug trafficking is actually something far more dangerous.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBitter Christmas (2026)
During a long December holiday weekend, a woman, whose mother has recently died, throws herself into work as a form of escape. Her relentless pace is interrupted when a panic attack forces her to take a break.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVenus (2022)
Lucía, a club dancer on the run, takes refuge in a sinister building on the outskirts of Madrid where her sister Rocío lives with her daughter Alba.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Flower of My Secret (1995)
Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKiki: Love to Love (2016)
Through five stories, the movie addresses sex and love: Paco and Ana are a marriage looking for reactivate the passion of their sexual relations, long time unsatisfied; Jose Luis tries to recover the affections of his wife Paloma, sit down on a wheelchair after an accident which has limited her mobility; Mª Candelaria and Antonio are a marriage trying by all way to be parents, but she has the trouble that no get an orgasm when make love with him; Álex try to satisfy Natalia's fantasies, while she starts to doubt if he finally will ask her in marriage; and finally, Sandra is a single woman in a permanent searching for a man to fall in love. All them love, fear, live and explore their diverse sexual paraphilias and the different sides of sexuality, trying to find the road to happiness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Bola Negra (2026)
The intertwined lives of three men in three different eras, three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain, and legacy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAll Hail (2022)
A famous TV weatherman, Miguel Flores, becomes public enemy number one when he fails to predict a terrible hailstorm. He is forced out of the big city, Buenos Aires, fleeing the capital for his birthplace of Córdoba. The result will be a voyage of rediscovery that is as absurd as it is human.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Crack: Inception (2019)
Madrid, Spain, 1975; shortly after the end of the Franco dictatorship. Six months after the mysterious death of his lover, a prestigious tailor, a married woman visits the office of the young Germán Areta, a former police officer turned private detective, to request his professional services.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrayers for the Stolen (2021)
Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll About My Mother (1999)
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAbzurdah (2015)
A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Can Seriously Damage Your Health (1997)
Madrid, 1965. When The Beatles arrive in the city, Diana goes to great lengths to meet them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Tenderness and the Third Person?
The closest matches to Tenderness and the Third Person are Rosa's Wedding (2020), The Last Sunrise (2026) and Cria! (1976). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Tenderness and the Third Person?
Start with Rosa's Wedding (2020), the closest match to Tenderness and the Third Person.
What is the highest-rated movie like Tenderness and the Third Person?
La Bola Negra (2026), rated 8.0/10 by 215 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Tenderness and the Third Person?
La Bola Negra (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Tenderness and the Third Person?
Yes: Rosa's Wedding (2020), Cria! (1976) and Advantages of Travelling by Train (2019).
How are movies similar to Tenderness and the Third Person chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Tenderness and the Third Person, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.