Movies like The Genius and Love (1987)
The best movies like The Genius and Love (1987) are The Man with Two Brains (1983), Analyze This (1999) and Every Breath You Take (2021). If The Genius and Love hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)7.0/10 from 4,649 votes
- NewestWhat's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)Released 2023
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnalyze This (1999)
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEvery Breath You Take (2021)
A psychiatrist, whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNot as a Stranger (1955)
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wedding Year (2019)
A commitment-phobic 27-year old’s relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhat's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)
Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invitation (2016)
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTemptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)
Judith has known her husband Brice since they were children, but now their marriage is growing stale. Having just completed her graduate work in psychotherapy, she's eager to begin a career as a marriage counselor. She takes an internship at a matchmaking firm for millionaires and meets Harley, a charismatic billionaire investor who makes no effort to hide his attraction to Judith. Although quite resistant at first, eventually Judith succumbs to his charms, placing her marriage in jeopardy and forever altering the course of her life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBetter Living Through Chemistry (2014)
A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisPeople Will Talk (1951)
A successful, unorthodox doctor befriends a young woman with suicidal ideations due to her pregnancy by her ex, a military reservist killed in action.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVivacious Lady (1938)
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAwake (2007)
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMelinda and Melinda (2004)
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wedding Planner (2001)
San Francisco's premiere wedding planner, Mary Fiore is rescued from an accident by the man of her dreams, pediatrician Steve Edison, only to find he is the fiancé of her latest client. As Mary continues making their wedding arrangements, she and Steve are put into a string of uncomfortable situations that force them to face their mutual attraction.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlind Dating (2007)
Danny is a blind man who does not let his impairment get in the way of living his life to the fullest, except when it comes to love. Danny's brother sets him up on a series of blind dates, but all of them go disastrously wrong. Just when Danny is about to give up, he meets Leeza, a nurse who works for Danny's doctor. There is just one catch: Leeza, who is from India, is promised to another man.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHope Springs (2012)
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLeap Year (2010)
When yet another anniversary passes without a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Anna decides to take action. Aware of a Celtic tradition that allows women to pop the question on Feb. 29, she plans to follow her lover to Dublin and ask him to marry her. Fate has other plans, however, and Anna winds up on the other side of the Emerald Isle with handsome, but surly, Declan -- an Irishman who may just lead Anna down the road to true love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaving Silverman (2001)
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Genius and Love?
The closest matches to The Genius and Love are The Man with Two Brains (1983), Analyze This (1999) and Every Breath You Take (2021). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Genius and Love?
Start with The Man with Two Brains (1983), the closest match to The Genius and Love.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Genius and Love?
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), rated 7.0/10 by 4,649 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Genius and Love?
What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to The Genius and Love chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Genius and Love, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.