Movies like The Five Devils
If The Five Devils hooked you with its drama and fantasy, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
Atlantics (2019)
Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwo of Us (2020)
Nina and Madeleine have been sharing their lives and the landing between their two apartments for decades. After more than 20 years of loving in the shadows, Madeleine promises Nina she will tell her family the truth. It takes an unexpected event to show her the importance of living your truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Firefly (2013)
After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGirl Picture (2022)
Best friends Mimmi and Rönkkö support each other unconditionally. They want to live adventurous lives, loaded with experiences and passion. Emma on the contrary has given her whole life to figure skating. Nothing gets between her and success. But when the girls meet, life opens whole new paths, and they all rocket in new directions. While Mimmi and Emma experience the earth moving effects of first love, Rönkkö is on a quest to find pleasure. Three Fridays is all it takes to turn their worlds upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPortrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisJumbo (2020)
Jeanne, a shy young woman, works as a night guard at an amusement park and has a close relationship with her mother. While no man can compete with this opposed duo, Jeanne begins to develop strange romantic feelings for Jumbo, the latest attraction at the theme park...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisPetite Maman (2021)
After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ice Tower (2025)
Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Unexpected (2014)
Marie is a successful designer and has a loving husband and two children. But fate offers more. When she meets the fiancée of their friend Dom, the two women fall for each other. This comes out and life gets out of control. Can there be a long-term solution?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Thelma (2017)
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAttachment (2022)
Maja, a Danish actress past her prime, falls in love with Leah, a young Jewish academic from London. Leah suffers a mysterious seizure, and Maja returns with her to London. There, she meets Leah’s mother, an overbearing woman who could hold dark secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisBurning Ghost (2019)
Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day Agathe, a young woman, recognizes him. She belongs to his previous life. She is alive and he is a ghost. How will they manage to love each other and seize this second chance?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Dancer (2016)
A young woman from the American Midwest, Loïe Fuller became the toast of the Folies Bergère at the turn of the 20th century and an icon of the Belle Epoque. Inventor of the breathtaking Serpentine Dance, she was a pioneer of modern dance and lighting techniques. It was her complicated relationship to her protégé - Isadora Duncan – that precipitated the downfall of this early 20th century icon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMetamorphoses (2014)
A girl is approached by a strange boy outside her high school. He asks her to follow him to hear stories where gods fall in love with human beings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Undine (2020)
Undine is a historian and tour guide at the Berlin City Museum specializing in urban development, while Christoph is an industrial diver. Linked by a love of the water, the two form an intense bond, which can only do so much to help Undine overcome the considerable baggage of her former affair.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHappy as Lazzaro (2018)
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Ghost Story (2017)
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBenedetta (2021)
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrom the Land of the Moon (2016)
In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPersonal Shopper (2016)
Maureen, mid-20s, is a personal shopper for a media celebrity. The job pays for her stay in Paris, a city she refuses to leave until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLight Light Light (2023)
Mariia visits her childhood home and reminisces about the summer of 1986, when a girl named Mimi arrived in the small village and filled the life of the then 15-year-old Mariia with light.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
All of Us Strangers (2023)
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhat Do We See When We Look at the Sky? (2021)
In the Georgian riverside town of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed with no way to recognize each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisComa (2022)
Amidst a period of unprecedented world events, an eighteen-year-old girl’s life is placed on hold. Isolated in her bedroom, she falls under the spell of the mysterious vlogger Patricia Coma. As time carries on, the lines between her dreams, fears, hopes, and reality begin to blur into one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Wicker (2026)
On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker. In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & fantasy
The Handmaiden (2016)
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTo Chiara (2021)
The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy occasion, and the close-knit family are on top form. However, everything changes the next day when the father disappears. Chiara, unconvinced by the cover story, starts to investigate. As she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLost Sofia (2023)
A modern and independent girl, but when it comes to love, the only novels in her life are those from Jane Austen's literary universe. After using a borrowed cell phone, something mysterious happens and she is transported to a different world, which resembles the 19th century. Sofia is taken in by the family of the charming Ian Clarke, while desperately trying to find a way to return to her life. What she didn't know is that her heart had other plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & fantasy
A Mermaid in Paris (2020)
A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & fantasy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Five Devils?
The closest matches to The Five Devils are Atlantics, Two of Us, The Firefly.
How are movies similar to The Five Devils chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Five Devils, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.
Are there French movies like The Five Devils?
Yes: Atlantics, Two of Us, Portrait of a Lady on Fire.