Movies like The Trophy Wives Club (2012)
The best movies like The Trophy Wives Club (2012) are Henry & June (1990), The Hot Spot (1990) and True Romance (1993). If The Trophy Wives Club hooked you with its romance, these 23 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Special Day (1977)8.1/10 from 810 votes
- NewestRude to Love (2024)Released 2024
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 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 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 thisRevolutionary Road (2008)
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Thrill of It All (1963)
A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOne Last Fling (1949)
A jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Downloading Nancy (2008)
When Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in the form of Louis Farley. Nancy and Louis, both wounded souls, take comfort in one another through e-mail, pictures, and promises of perverse sexual encounters.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Green Widow (1968)
A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
All's Well, Ends Well (1992)
Three brothers living with their father fib and play pranks to win parental approval for themselves and their romances.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Special Day (1977)
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe April Fools (1969)
Newly-promoted if none too happily married Howard Brubaker leaves a rowdy company party early with the stunning Catherine, whom it turns out is herself unhappily married — to the boss. They spend an innocent night in New York becoming more and more attracted to each other, so that when Catherine announces she intends to leave her husband and return to Paris, Howard asks to go along too.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMontenegro (1981)
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in Stockholm with her Swedish husband and family. Her behavior is bizarre, perhaps mad: she poisons the dog's milk and advises the dog not to drink it; she sets the sheets afire as her husband sleeps; she crawls under the dining table to sing. While detained at airport customs for carrying pruning shears, she meets a young Yugoslav woman and goes with her to a Gypsy enclave where she's fought over, takes a lover, helps with the sordid entertainment at a bar, and returns home more dangerous than before. The film also tells parallel stories of Marilyn's daughter becoming a junior homemaker as the young immigrant practices her striptease.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Rude to Love (2024)
Momoko, an elegant housewife, meticulously maintains her home and attends to her husband, but her devoted care masks an emotional rift between them that blurs the line between love and obsession.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Brothers' Woman (1943)
City girl Emma marries the farmer Nicklas but gets involved in a love triangle with his brother Ragnar.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Brief Encounter (1945)
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFar from Heaven (2002)
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLittle Children (2006)
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA 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
Alice (1990)
Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisZandalee (1991)
Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johnny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lunchbox (2013)
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Trophy Wives Club?
The closest matches to The Trophy Wives Club are Henry & June (1990), The Hot Spot (1990) and True Romance (1993). Below are 20 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Trophy Wives Club?
Start with Henry & June (1990), the closest match to The Trophy Wives Club.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Trophy Wives Club?
A Special Day (1977), rated 8.1/10 by 810 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Trophy Wives Club?
Rude to Love (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Trophy Wives Club?
Yes: Henry & June (1990), The Hot Spot (1990) and True Romance (1993).
How are movies similar to The Trophy Wives Club chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Trophy Wives Club, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.