Movies like Hotel America (1981)
The best movies like Hotel America (1981) are Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022), Blind (2017) and What the Day Owes the Night (2012). If Hotel America hooked you with its romance and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLife in a Year (2020)8.2/10 from 2,027 votes
- NewestPurple Hearts (2022)Released 2022
- In FrenchWhat the Day Owes the Night (2012)Also in French
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)
Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlind (2017)
A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat the Day Owes the Night (2012)
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love story develops between Jonas and Emilie, which is soon unsettled by the conflicts troubling the country.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove Affair(s) (2020)
Vacations in the French countryside. Daphne, three months pregnant, finds herself alone to welcome Maxime, her boyfriend François’ cousin. François had to leave in a hurry for Paris to cover for a sick colleague. For four days, while waiting for his return, Daphne and Maxime get to know each other and share very intimate stories that bring them closer...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife in a Year (2020)
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMoonlight Mile (2002)
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Golden Bowl (2000)
Wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie live a refined life in Europe, surrounded by art. Maggie marries impoverished Italian Prince Amerigo, while Adam marries Maggie's friend Charlotte Stant. The Prince and Charlotte are having an affair, which Maggie discovers and navigates through a silent, psychological battle of wills, ultimately using her cunning to preserve her marriage and protect her father.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNobody Has to Know (2022)
After a stroke and no memories from his past, Phil encounters Millie who inhabits a desert part of Isle of Lewis. She will shortly entrust him with his deepest secret : they were in love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLuna (2018)
A film in which the director captures the beautiful and accurate qualities of reality when building the energetic portrait of a 16-year-old girl immersed in the macho culture of urban suburban south-west France, just a stone’s throw away from the nearby countryside.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNine Lives (2005)
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwo English Girls (1971)
In the early 20th-century, Frenchman Claude meets Englishwoman Ann in Paris. Ann invites him to her family home, intending him for her sister Muriel. Claude falls for Muriel, but families demand year-long separation before approving marriage.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReally Love (2020)
A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNot Easily Broken (2009)
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMélo (1986)
In 1920s Paris, violinists and lifelong friends Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are happy with their lives, although Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not. Pierre is married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Marcel little suspects.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPurple Hearts (2022)
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisI Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (2020)
In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for the occasion. There is Jean-Pierre, the elder, who took on the role of head of the family after the death of his father; Juliette, pregnant with her first child at 40 and who still dreams of becoming a writer; Margaux, the family’s radical artist, and Mathieu, 30, anxious to seduce pretty Sarah. Later, one day, one of them will make a life-changing decision ...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Children of the Century (1999)
True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and Sand by a handsome doctor.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove Everlasting (2016)
Bridger is a young outsider who's always wanted more. He and his mother flee an abusive home, eventually finding a small town in the middle of nowhere. Once there, Bridger finds true acceptance with another misfit.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove Finds You in Valentine (2016)
Kennedy Blaine, a Californian girl, inherits a ranch in the small town of Valentine in Nebraska. Before she sells the property, she decides to spend the summer in her house and learn more about her family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove on a Pillow (1962)
After rescuing a man from a suicide attempt, Geneviève's life is hijacked by his verbal and emotional abuse, yet she can't seem to tear herself from him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisIf Only (2004)
After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), Ian Wyndham, a grief-stricken British businessman living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the hope of changing the events that led up to her getting killed.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEl amor y la ciudad (2007)
It tells the story of three people who live in the same building. On the one hand a pair something uneven, she, a refined decorator more than forty-five and he a young thirtysomething, with an uncertain future. On the other hand, a young visual artist and somewhat unhinged unemployed, portraying their neighbors, spying and draw your way. The meeting point of the three characters is a neighboring bar, thus making the owner, involuntary witness of the triangle, in whose armed much have to see a celebrity who lives in Paris. (PRO)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance
Hey Jude (2018)
Jude, a mathematical genius with poor social skills, visits Goa with his parents after the demise of his aunt. There, his life changes completely after he meets Crystal, a moody musician.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & drama
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful and flirtatious young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCoffee Please (2013)
A man who wants to become a barrister falls for an architect, while another man heads up north to pursue a dream of starting a coffee plantation, where he meets a woman who shares his passion.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & drama
SPF-18 (2017)
Eighteen-year-old Penny Cooper spent years pining for heartthrob surfer Johnny Sanders Jr. before his father’s tragic death brought them closer together. But now high school is over, and when mysterious country musician Ash Baker shows up on the beach, Penny is torn.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like this180 (2011)
Ajay (Siddharth) comes to Kasi, where his thoughts and ideas on life and death undergo a sea change after he meets a young boy. He relocates to Chennai and stays in a house owned by a couple S V S Murthy (Mouli) and Jayam (Geetha). They treat him as their own son. A do-gooder, Ajay with his jovial nature wins the heart of all those whom he comes across. Vidya (Nithya Menen), a photo journalist meets Ajay and falls for his good nature. Ajay with the help of Vidya even gets street children obtain sponsorship for their education. But things take a turn when Vidya expresses her love to Ajay. He quietly walks off the place and decides to leave Chennai. But a rude accident to Vidya puts the responsibility on Ajay's shoulders to get her back to health. He takes her to USA for a surgery. Meanwhile a flashback reveals that Ajay was a successful doctor in the United States and who led a happy life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance
Okariki Okaru (2003)
Kamesh, a young man travelling to Kaasi, sees Swapna, an NRI, at a railway station and falls in love with her. When Swapna returns to the US, Kamesh fights all odds to follow suit and win her love.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance
The Vow (2012)
Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAnother Life (1987)
Psychological drama about a university dean who leads a double life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hotel America?
The closest matches to Hotel America are Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022), Blind (2017) and What the Day Owes the Night (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hotel America?
Start with Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022), the closest match to Hotel America.
What is the highest-rated movie like Hotel America?
Life in a Year (2020), rated 8.2/10 by 2,027 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hotel America?
Purple Hearts (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Hotel America?
Yes: What the Day Owes the Night (2012), Love Affair(s) (2020) and Luna (2018).
How are movies similar to Hotel America chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hotel America, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.