Movies like Pure Desire 7 (2019)
The best movies like Pure Desire 7 (2019) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Girl Next Door (2004). If Pure Desire 7 hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrue Romance (1993)7.5/10 from 3,246 votes
- NewestSerá que rola? (2024)Released 2024
The 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 thisThe Girl Next Door (2004)
Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn star. As Danielle's past catches up with her, Matthew's love for her forces him to re-evaluate his goals.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lover (1992)
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAkvaariorakkaus (1993)
Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, Saara has another brief affair back in her old home town.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Cashback (2007)
After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMaking Love (1982)
A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Man in Love (1987)
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Harvest (2011)
Breathtaking in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but ever increasingly passionate affair that develops between two simple farmhands. Life on a farm is all that sullen teen Marco knows- leading a perfunctory and quiet life of working, going to school and avoiding the advances of girls. However, his self-imposed solitude ends when curly-haired Jakob, rejecting the banking world for farming, arrives to train on the farm. Although initially cautious and tentative with each other, it is soon obvious that the unspoken sexual tension is becoming increasingly hard to resist - something a spontaneous trip to Berlin. Proving that true love can blossom in even the most unlikely of places, Harvest is as rich and rewarding as it is heart-warming.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLong-Term Relationship (2006)
Tired of the unsatisfying singles scene, Glenn answers a personal ad and meets Adam, a handsome Southern man seeking a long-term relationship. The two hit it off immediately, but their initial attraction is soon put to the test. Glenn's gay friends say he'd be happier playing the field again, but his straight pals encourage him to work at the budding relationship.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Private Lessons (1981)
Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and sitter to look after him when Phillip's father is out of town for the summer on a "business" trip. But Mr. Filmore's unscrupulous chauffeur, Lester Lewis, takes advantage of Phillip's crush on Nicole to hire her to seduce the youth, then draws her into a plot to fake her own death in a blackmail scheme aimed to drain Phillip's trust fund.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSong to Song (2017)
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisElegy (2008)
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHappily (2021)
Tom and Janet have been happily married for years. But a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, a lot of questions, and a tense couples' trip with friends who may not actually be friends at all.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisRendez-vous (1985)
Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes involved with three men: a mild-mannered real-estate agent who offers her stability, a bad-boy actor who lives dangerously on the edge, and an intense theater director who casts her in a production of “Romeo and Juliet.” As opening night approaches, the emotional extremes of Nina’s love life fuel her art.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisHarry and Max (2004)
Two brothers, Harry and Max, who are both teen idols, come to terms with their dysfunctional family past and deep affection for each other
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Zandalee (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 thisBlue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBy the End of the Night (2018)
Karim, 30, drives every night. One day at dawn, he drives his last client - a foreign artist, the same age than him. Karim feels irresistibly attracted towards this young man. What he feels will start questioning who he thought he was.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Pure Desire 7?
The closest matches to Pure Desire 7 are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Girl Next Door (2004). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Pure Desire 7?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Pure Desire 7.
What is the highest-rated movie like Pure Desire 7?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,246 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Pure Desire 7?
Será que rola? (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Pure Desire 7?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and The Girl Next Door (2004).
How are movies similar to Pure Desire 7 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Pure Desire 7, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.