Movies like Sound of the Sea (2001)
The best movies like Sound of the Sea (2001) are The Embalmer (2002), Me, You, Them (2000) and Earth (1996). If Sound of the Sea 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 ratedThe Sea Inside (2004)7.6/10 from 1,060 votes
- NewestThe Red Thread (2016)Released 2016
- In SpanishEarth (1996)Also in Spanish
The Embalmer (2002)
Peppino, a diminutive taxidermist with a reputation for sleaziness, meets Valerio, a handsome if artless much younger man fascinated by the trade. Peppino offers him a large salary to be his assistant—the job burgeoning into a budding friendship he mistakes for something more. When Valerio gets a girlfriend, their fledgling romance will be threatened by an insanely jealous third wheel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMe, You, Them (2000)
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEarth (1996)
A mysterious exterminator falls in love with two women who live in a distinctive wine-producing region in Spain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bride (2015)
Based on the famous play "Bodas de sangre" (Blood Wedding) by Federico García Lorca, La novia tells the story of a passionate love triangle. A bride leaves her groom, no longer able to withstand the surging desires of her lover, Leonordo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & 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: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAngels of Sex (2012)
Carla and Bruno believe they have answers for everything until Rai appears in their lives, an attractive and mysterious young who lives outsidethe rules. In this story about love and friendship, boundaries dissolve by the rhythm of funkyand break to offer a provocative, exciting and deeply touching vision about romantic relationships.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sea Inside (2004)
Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOpen Your Eyes (1997)
Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTake My Eyes (2003)
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTalk to Her (2002)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSex and Lucía (2001)
Lucía is a young waitress in Madrid who seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island after the loss of her longtime boyfriend. Amidst the fresh air, dazzling sun, and glistening deep blue water, Lucía begins to piece together the dark corners of her past relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)
As young children, Otto and Ana become best friends, leading to the marriage of Ana's mother to Otto's father. When Otto and Ana become teenagers, they begin a sexual relationship, which they hide from their parents. The two fall deeply in love and seem destined to spend the rest of their lives together. However, their relationship is tested when Otto's mother dies and the two are separated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVolver (2006)
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hanged Man (2009)
Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Live Flesh (1997)
When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Red Thread (2016)
Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisY Tu Mamá También (2001)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLovers: A True Story (1991)
A torrid affair between a recently discharged serviceman and an attractive widow leads to murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCarmen (2003)
A French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Carmen, who has enchanted José, a young soldier, awakening his most fervent passions leading to tragedy. A path chained to obsession, jealousy, betrayal, and blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBroken Embraces (2009)
Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDark Blue Almost Black (2006)
Jorge feels suffocated by his menial job but can't break free of the obligations that keep him stuck — until he meets a woman who shakes his life up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJamon Jamon (1992)
José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like this3some (2009)
In an attempt to help his friend Marcos with his impotence, Jaime sets up him up with another friend Josita. But the sex date fails, and so he comes in to help. What first appears to be just another sexual experience for all three evolves to a full romantic relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLucky Star (1997)
Rafael, a lonely 40-something butcher, saves a pregnant Marina from an assault by her boyfriend Daniel. Rafael agrees to take Marina in and they happily raise the child together. Years later, Daniel re-enters their lives and turns them upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLaura is Alone (2003)
Laura is a young and independent girl who is trying to find her way between two men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
The Other Side of the Bed (2002)
When Paula leaves her mate Pedro, he misses her and looks for comfort with his best friends, Javier and Sonia. Paula is having an affair with Javier. Pedro tries to find who is the secret lover of Paula, and hires a private eye. Meanwhile, while comforting Pedro, Sonia has a one night stand with him and Javier thinks she is cheating on him with her lesbian friend Luzia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBelle Époque (1992)
In 1931, a young soldier deserts from the army and falls into a country farm, where he is welcomed by the owner due to his political ideas. Manolo has four daughters, Fernando likes all of them and they like him, so he has to decide which one to love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the City of Sylvia (2007)
A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dark Side of the Heart 2 (2001)
The sequel to the blockbuster Argentinean smash hit. After ten years, Oliverio is still intrigued by the works of great poets and continues to search for true love. When he meets the beautiful Miranda, she suggests that they both move in together and find jobs. Oliviero, however, leaves Miranda in search of his first love Ana who he met ten years prior. Once in Barcelona, he realizes that Ana's life has drastically changed and their love is in the past. Soon, he meets poet and circus performer, Alejandra. Oliviero becomes smitten and desperately tries bond with her, but she makes things a little more difficult that he ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Christmas (2009)
Alejandro and Aurora, two young students, leave Santiago and are on their way to spend Christmas with family in Aurora. At the foot of the Andes, the frustrations of Alejandro and Aurora’s doubts about her sexual identity cause tension. The two teens are on the verge of collapse when they discover the presence of a young girl, Alicia, a fragile girl of sixteen years who has fled her home. Gathered around an improvised Christmas tree, Alejandro and Aurora are fascinated by the enigmatic Alicia, who is becoming the object of their desire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Sound of the Sea?
The closest matches to Sound of the Sea are The Embalmer (2002), Me, You, Them (2000) and Earth (1996). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Sound of the Sea?
People who watched Sound of the Sea most often go on to The Embalmer (2002), Me, You, Them (2000) and Earth (1996).
What is the highest-rated movie like Sound of the Sea?
The Sea Inside (2004), rated 7.6/10 by 1,060 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Sound of the Sea?
The Red Thread (2016) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Sound of the Sea?
Yes: Earth (1996), The Bride (2015) and Angels of Sex (2012).
How are movies similar to Sound of the Sea chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Sound of the Sea, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.