Movies like White Heat (1981)
The best movies like White Heat (1981) are Henry & June (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Hot Spot (1990). If White Heat hooked you with its romance, these 23 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
- NewestPartridge and Moulding Want To Get Laid (2026)Released 2026
Henry & 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: 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 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 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: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecrets of the Kama Sutra: Nirvana (1999)
Full softcore movie starring Chloe Nicole as a wife who's starting to act a little bolder in the bedroom, so her husband hires a private investigator
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Take Me (1991)
Milk's husband dies on their wedding night while having sex. He returns as a ghost as she attempts to get her life back on track whilst choosing between two new men in her life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
A Housewife Named Candy (2006)
Two best friends Nora and Candy have grown up to have very different lifestyles. Candy still in her glory days is a party girl while Nora is now a devoted housewife. When Candy decides to swap her lifestyle with Nora s for one day everyone s fantasies are fulfilled as the ladies enjoy an erotic night as sexy housewives with new husbands
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Celestina (1976)
An adaptation of the tragicomedy "Calisto y Melibea", attributed to Fernando de Rojas.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Love Letters from the Engadine (1938)
Constance, the young widow of a wealthy American, gets a love letter from the Engadine region, signed by the famous guide Toni Anewater she had met during a holiday in the previous year. Constanze and her friend Dorothy therefore go to Switzerland for winter sports. But identical love letters to other ladies in London, Paris and Rome have been sent. Toni does not know anything about the letters. Everything seems to be a cunning of the hotel owner to attract tourists.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Carnal Cravings (2006)
A sex therapist shows women how to please their mates and how to get more pleasure in return. Their male counterparts aren't quite sure about the transformations, they are unsure about the fantasies their women are bringing home. Putting lust back into the relationship becomes the priority for these beautiful couples. Along the way, they learn more about each other.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Anora (2024)
A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIntimacy (2001)
Failed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows her and learns about her. This eventually disrupts their relationship.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhosted (2023)
GHOSTED is a British romantic comedy drama film in which an aspiring actress falls for a man on their first date.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Pleasure Palace (1973)
Love develops between a young woman employee and a customer at a very unusual photo shop, which invites men in to take pictures of naked women. When the store owner tries to use his photo shop to blackmail the young lovers, their united front thwarts him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Caledonian Road (2017)
Caledonian Road follows Seb, who decides to meet up with Corey one rainy night. Seb has never slept with a boy before, and plans to fulfil some dream of conquering his desire. Little does he know what’s in store for him when he enters Corey’s house, as he’s thrown into a strangely unreal night.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Partridge and Moulding Want To Get Laid (2026)
Two low-life idiot flatmates seek to get some action after purchasing a sexual enhancing cream claimed to make them irresistable to women.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Friends with Benefits (2011)
Dylan is done with relationships. Jamie decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichés of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction - but without any emotional attachment.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBare Witness (2002)
Professional killer Gav Reed commits a grave mistake allowing himself to be videotaped (as she always does, for a documentary she hopes to sell to Hollywood about the real nocturnal 'eldest business' there) by Julie Spencer, one of Max 'Slim' Reuter's hookers and porn actresses, whom he had sex with before - and while making a most incriminating call about his murder attempt at a high society campaign party for mayor Garland's electoral challenger Mary Washington, where the bullet is however caught by councilor Frank Constantine, who also survives. Gav's client, businessman Ian Hunter, who was videotaped earlier, has his girl Marina shoot Gav and then Julie, later Slim who. Rough but effective police detective Killian investigates, helped by Julie's friend Carly Marsh, and unravels even more sordid connections.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Usotsuki Paradox (2013)
Shunsuke has fallen for his colleague Hinako, but she is engaged albeit in a long-distance relationship. She and her boyfriend meet on the odd weekends. She feels lonely at times. When one evening they are both working late and still in the office Shunsuke throws caution to the win, reveals his feelings, makes a pass and plants a kiss on Hinako. Things should make their natural progression from there if nature takes its course, but then again they chart a different course.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976)
A reporter travels the world's hot spots, looking for lurid stories that usually involve her sexual participation in gaining those behind-the-scenes exclusives.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisErotic Seductions (2007)
Playgirl Carrie and her college teacher Jack debate the worth and depth of sexual and romantic relationships while enthusiastically field-testing their theories.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Playboy: Erotic Fantasies II (1992)
Softcore titillation is aimed at frustrating both sexes until both are ready, willing, and able to dive to whatever conclusion and gratification both are capable of. Blind participants have a better time.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like White Heat?
The closest matches to White Heat are Henry & June (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Hot Spot (1990). Below are 20 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after White Heat?
Start with Henry & June (1990), the closest match to White Heat.
What is the highest-rated movie like White Heat?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,244 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like White Heat?
Partridge and Moulding Want To Get Laid (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like White Heat?
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How are movies similar to White Heat chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside White Heat, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.