Movies like Shéhérazade (2018)
The best movies like Shéhérazade (2018) are A Tale of Love and Desire (2021), Spy(ies) (2009) and Double Lover (2017). If Shéhérazade hooked you with its drama and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedCustody (2018)7.5/10 from 747 votes
- NewestA Place to Fight For (2023)Released 2023
- In FrenchA Tale of Love and Desire (2021)Also in French
A Tale of Love and Desire (2021)
Ahmed, 18, is French of Algerian origin. He grew up in the Parisian suburbs. On the benches of the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian full of energy recently arrived from Tunis. While discovering a body of sensual and erotic Arabic literature that he never knew existed, Ahmed falls deeply in love with this girl, and although literally overwhelmed by desire, he will try to resist it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpy(ies) (2009)
In London, an airport baggage handler is forced by French and British intelligence agents to seduce the wife of a businessman with ties to Syrian terrorists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisDouble Lover (2017)
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEscape from Raqqa (2019)
Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, so he plans with some friends a high-risk extraction operation to get his family back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLover for a Day (2017)
After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he is living with his new girlfriend - a young woman her age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOut in the Dark (2012)
Two young men — a Palestinian grad student and an Israeli lawyer — meet and fall in love amidst personal and political intrigue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy First Time (2012)
Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of the tank, for six months, they will live a love against which nothing can be, the true, the big one that marks a life forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Unknown Girl (2016)
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can't identify the young woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSouvenir (2016)
A former European song contest singer, fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young, aspiring boxer. Together, they decide she should attempt a comeback.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Witnesses (2007)
Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMöbius (2013)
An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Mother's Rage (2013)
A mother and her daughter, Conner, embark on a journey to Conner's new school - both unaware of how many "bumps" they may find along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Frontier of Dawn (2009)
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
24 Days (2014)
When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisM (2017)
Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract, and they fall in love. But Mo carries a secret burden…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Blooms (2019)
Martin, in a last ditch hope, comes to meet Léa in Paris. They are both twenty-five and shared their first love story together. They are both now striving to mature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Custody (2018)
Miriam and Antoine have recently separated. While she’s willing to permit their 17-year-old daughter Josephine to decide living arrangements for herself, Miriam is desperate to keep her youngest, 11-year-old Julien, away from his father. But the magistrate rules in favour of joint custody, and suddenly the boy is thrown directly into the middle of an escalating parental conflict, where it seems inevitable that sides must be chosen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMr & Mme Adelman (2017)
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAntarctica (2008)
Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to turn 30, who still hasn't found himself, and his free-spirited best friend Miki, who both end up inadvertently dating the same handsome journalist, Ronen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Air (2018)
Louk is deep as the sea. Manja is pure as the air. Her love means: No fear. No lie. No trace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The String (2009)
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrench Blood (2015)
Marco Lopez, a former Neo-Nazi and skinhead, tries to leave his violent, racist and hateful past behind him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisRise (2022)
Elise thought she had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising career as a ballet dancer. It all falls apart the day she catches him cheating on her with her stage backup; and after she suffers an injury on stage, it seems like she might not be able to dance ever again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJealousy (2013)
The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director’s son Louis and Anna Mouglalis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReal Love (2019)
Forbach, East of France, today. Mario, a man without much ambition, except where love is concerned, is back to square one after his wife left home. He now must raise his two adolescent daughters by himself, while going through some sort of a teenage crisis of his own. 14-year-old Frida blames her father for their mother's leaving and she develops ambivalent feelings towards her new girlfriend. 17-year-old Niki will soon leave home. Until then, she lives the good life. Mario can't help but lose the women he loves. Yet they must all agree to let one another go.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJust the Two of Us (2023)
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Place to Fight For (2023)
Greg is a police lieutenant; he must collect informations on eco-activists, infiltrating them for months. Myriam, a young free woman, is fighting to save a forest from the building of a dam. They meet and fall in love on the Zone. A beautiful life, a joy that Greg discovers, despite the risks of being unmasked. For each of them, time is short: soon everything will disappear.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAsylum (2005)
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn Secret (2014)
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Truth About Emanuel (2013)
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Shéhérazade?
The closest matches to Shéhérazade are A Tale of Love and Desire (2021), Spy(ies) (2009) and Double Lover (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Shéhérazade?
People who watched Shéhérazade most often go on to A Tale of Love and Desire (2021), Spy(ies) (2009) and Double Lover (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Shéhérazade?
Custody (2018), rated 7.5/10 by 747 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Shéhérazade?
A Place to Fight For (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Shéhérazade?
Yes: A Tale of Love and Desire (2021), Spy(ies) (2009) and Double Lover (2017).
How are movies similar to Shéhérazade chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Shéhérazade, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.