Movies like Both Sides of the Blade (2022)
The best movies like Both Sides of the Blade (2022) are One Fine Morning (2022), Quantum Love (2014) and Love Affair(s) (2020). If Both Sides of the Blade 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 ratedBefore Sunrise (1995)8.0/10 from 4,970 votes
- NewestThree Friends (2024)Released 2024
- In FrenchOne Fine Morning (2022)Also in French
One Fine Morning (2022)
With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQuantum Love (2014)
Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he enjoys his wife and family and is content. One evening, he meets Elsa at a party and are immediately attracted to each other. Fifteen days later, they happen to meet again and the mutual attraction turns into infatuation. But his love for his wife and Elsa's rule about not dating married men prevents them from taking the next step. Instead, they fantasize about each other, and soon the fantasies mingle with the reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies 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: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBefore Midnight (2013)
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a summer in Greece at the invitation of an author colleague of Jesse's. When the vacation is over and Jesse must send his teenage son off to the States, he begins to question his life decisions, and his relationship with Celine is at risk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Night Belongs to Lovers (2021)
An encounter. Between waves and cliffs. The night. In a week, he gets married. For years, she no longer believes in pleasure. They meet. They play. They speak. They want each other. As a gift - unconditionally. Like a dance - on the edge of the void. For one night. One night only. Their only night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Lover for a Day (2017)
After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he is living with his new girlfriend - a young woman her age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCertified Copy (2010)
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCoup de chance (2023)
Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled professionally, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris, and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, former classmate Alain, she's immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and grow closer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFriday Night (2002)
The night before she is to move in with her boyfriend, a young Parisian woman picks up a male hitchhiker, leading to a highly charged and impossibly erotic detour.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Paris, 13th District (2021)
Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They're friends, sometimes lovers and often both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlaska (2015)
Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmour (2012)
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDeception (2021)
An American writer living in exile in London, Philip listens to women. His English mistress, who visits him regularly in the studio that serves as their refuge. A student he loved in another life. A former lover confined to a hospital in New York.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisHere (2024)
In Brussels, a construction worker crosses paths with a bryologist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Just a Sigh (2013)
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stranger and, for the most fleeting of afternoons, imagines what the future could hold down a different road.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Blue 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: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRegular Lovers (2005)
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVa Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting her ex-boyfriend Pierre. Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, as he’s meeting with the intriguing Dominique while on his quest for an unpublished manuscript.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Three Friends (2024)
Joan is no longer in love with Victor, but it pains her to feel she is being dishonest with him. Alice, her best friend, reassures her: She herself doesn’t feel passionate about her partner Eric and yet their relationship is smooth sailing. She has no idea he is having an affair with Rebecca, their mutual friend. When Joan finally decides to leave Victor and he disappears, the lives of the three friends and their relationships are turned upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRight Now, Wrong Then (2015)
By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSimple Passion (2021)
A man and a woman are brought together by chance for several months. He is younger than she is, married, Russian, officially a diplomat stationed in Paris. She is a beautiful teacher and researcher, with her feet firmly on the ground. The film follows the evolution of their love, from the beginning to end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThings to Come (2016)
Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her time between her family, former students and her very possessive mother. One day, Nathalie’s husband announces he is leaving her for another woman. With freedom thrust upon her, Nathalie must reinvent her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBefore Sunrise (1995)
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2018)
Amin, an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer, in Sète, South of France. It is a time of reconnecting with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony and his best friend Ophélie, he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLate August, Early September (1999)
A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisRust and Bone (2012)
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSibyl (2019)
Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl becomes more and more involved in Margot’s tumultuous life, reviving volatile memories that bring her face to face with her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTayuan (2023)
Ella, an events project manager, usually takes a private transportation service. However, she is forced to take a bus, where bus conductor Rico becomes aroused when her body gets pressed into him due to the thick crowd. This encounter deeply affects Ella, and from that night on, she starts pursuing Rico. Even after discovering that Rico already has a live-in partner and a daughter, Ella doesn’t care at all and she’ll do anything to make him want her just as much.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
My King (2015)
Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLet the Sunshine In (2017)
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Both Sides of the Blade?
The closest matches to Both Sides of the Blade are One Fine Morning (2022), Quantum Love (2014) and Love Affair(s) (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Both Sides of the Blade?
People who watched Both Sides of the Blade most often go on to One Fine Morning (2022), Quantum Love (2014) and Love Affair(s) (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like Both Sides of the Blade?
Before Sunrise (1995), rated 8.0/10 by 4,970 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Both Sides of the Blade?
Three Friends (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Both Sides of the Blade?
Yes: One Fine Morning (2022), Quantum Love (2014) and Love Affair(s) (2020).
How are movies similar to Both Sides of the Blade chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Both Sides of the Blade, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.