Movies like Transfixed 2 (2019)
The best movies like Transfixed 2 (2019) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Nobody's Perfect (1981). If Transfixed 2 hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDon't Be Bad (2015)7.8/10 from 1,060 votes
- NewestDirty Sanchez (2026)Released 2026
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 thisNobody's Perfect (1981)
Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Different for Girls (1997)
Paul and Kim meet when their vehicles collide. Paul is fascinated with the attractive Kim. It turns out that the two were childhood friends in Catholic boys' school, but back then, before the operation, Kim was named Karl.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThem (2023)
A grieving husband struggles to come to terms with his wife's passing. Following a night-time visit to her grave, he picks up a transgender sex worker.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
In the Room (2015)
This sensitive and sensual film draws together several narratives spanning several decades, all of them transpiring in the same room of the same Singaporean hotel — and all of them involving sex.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Love, Lust and Ecstasy (1981)
Ari can’t satisfy his wife Sara. He crashes his speedboat into a cliff and winds up in Switzerland for rehabilitation in what may or may not have been a suicide attempt. Alex, commissioned to paint Sara’s portrait by Ari, becomes Sara’s house guest and sex partner in Ari’s absence. Teresa, Ari’s secretary and ex-lover, is jealous of Sara’s relationship with Alex and schemes to break them up.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
It Gets Better (2012)
Three intersecting stories of transgender romance explore the boundaries of love, culture and identity across three generations.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Boy Meets Girl (2014)
In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRomeos (2011)
Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgender person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the confident and gorgeous, Fabio. The two develop a romantic relationship that tests the boundaries of love. ROMEOS forgoes stereotypes and conventions to offer an honest and humorous examination of the most basic of human conditions: friendship, sex, and love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night, Angel and Our Children (1994)
Serap, who has been living in the darkest streets of Beyoglu, is a charming woman in her 20s. A beautiful woman's way of prostitution and prostitution living in the back streets of Beyoglu as a person intersects with him when a magical love begins. Hakan tries to take the pimp of Serap as a madman. The man who doesn't have the job can't do it. One day when Serap finds his lover Hakan in a scene he never thought possible, his whole life is deeply shaken. Serap will now be in a different life, running for different purposes.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Njan Marykutty (2018)
A transgender woman’s journey in a society stigmatizes gender transformation. Will Marykutty come out victorious while shredding all the taboos associated with transsexuality?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Sadomania (1981)
Soon after newlyweds Olga and Michel set foot on the grounds of a notorious women's prison, they're arrested by topless guards and ushered behind bars where the warden quickly dismisses Michel but demands that Olga do a little time.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisSaint Jack (1979)
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn France Michelle Is a Man's Name (2020)
Michael, a young trans man, returns home after years of estrangement from his parents. Set against the backdrop of the American West, this short film explores fatherhood, rituals of male bonding, and what it means to identify as a trans man in contemporary America.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Zombadings 1: Patayin sa Shokot si Remington (2011)
A boy cursed to turn gay when he grows up must sort out his feelings for the girl he loves and the boy – his best friend – he is suddenly lusting after, come to terms with his homophobia, and escape a psycho gay killer on the loose.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom (2012)
Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated by his brother Bruce — usually on film — his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
SnoozefestMovies like thisSex, Shame and Tears 2 (2022)
Twenty years have passed since those two apartments in the heart of Mexico City were the battlefield of a war of the sexes between Ana, Carlos, Andrea, Miguel, Tomás and María. All that is left of those apartments are memories and the image of Tomás' dead body at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Their lives have changed, their families have grown and new and unexpected characters have come to unsettle their daily lives and trigger a chain of events that will make them realize that modesty has been replaced by public disclosure; sex is only an app away; but love...love is still something elusive that everyone in today's banal and chaotic world is seeking.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInclinación sexual al desnudo (1982)
Beachtown summer sexcapades of a lesbian couple that shoots porn, their transsexual porn director who falls for a man and her female assistant who has the hots for her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Don't Be Bad (2015)
A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThings We Dare Not Do (2020)
In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman, a fraught decision in a country shrouded in machismo and transphobia.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Transfixed 2?
The closest matches to Transfixed 2 are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Nobody's Perfect (1981). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Transfixed 2?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Transfixed 2.
What is the highest-rated movie like Transfixed 2?
Don't Be Bad (2015), rated 7.8/10 by 1,060 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Transfixed 2?
Dirty Sanchez (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Transfixed 2?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Different for Girls (1997).
How are movies similar to Transfixed 2 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Transfixed 2, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.