Movies like The Elementary Particles (2006)
The best movies like The Elementary Particles (2006) are Head-On (2004), The Forest for the Trees (2004) and Cherry Blossoms (2008). If The Elementary Particles 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 ratedNever Look Away (2018)7.7/10 from 784 votes
- NewestBerlin Alexanderplatz (2020)Released 2020
- In GermanHead-On (2004)Also in German
Head-On (2004)
With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets up a marriage of convenience with a forty-year-old addict, an act that will lead to an outburst of envious love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Forest for the Trees (2004)
As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCherry Blossoms (2008)
After finding out that her husband, Rudi, has a fatal illness, Trudi Angermeier arranges a trip to Berlin so they can see their children. Of course, the kids don't know the real reason they're visiting -- and the catch is, neither does Rudi...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Edukators (2004)
Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFucking Berlin (2016)
Sonia breaks the perhaps most exciting time of her life, because the 20-year-old moves to Berlin for a mathematics study. Once there, she soon began to build up a new circle of friends, and then she fell in love with the kind, but irresponsible Ladja. There is only one big catch: the dear money is a bit scarce and therefore Sonia one day, financially, but also from curiosity, the path to prostitution. From now on, it leads a brisk double flight, which can fly at any time. Her experiences are ambivalent, as part-time she often gets into difficult situations, but also gets to know nice people, while she enjoys life just as a student. But how long can it maintain the double game?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTransit (2018)
In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEveryone Else (2009)
While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree (2010)
Hanna and Simon are in a 20 year marriage with an unexciting relationship. By chance, they both meet and start separate affairs with Adam. Adam has no idea that his two lovers are married, until they are all found out when Hanna becomes pregnant, with the natural doubts stemming from their situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarbara (2012)
Exiled to a rural clinic in 1980s East Germany for seeking an exit visa, a disillusioned doctor maintains a guarded distance from her colleagues, unsure if the kindly head physician is a genuine ally or a Stasi informant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOff Beat (2004)
Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Edge of Heaven (2007)
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother putting the shattered pieces of her life back together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWinter Sleepers (1997)
Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNever Look Away (2018)
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe White Sound (2001)
Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Princess and the Warrior (2000)
Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be the man of her dreams. But when she finds him weeks later she is rejected, as Bodo is stuck somewhere between a traumatic past and a criminal future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Was, I Am, I Will Be (2019)
While Kurdish gigolo Baran dreams of a future in Europe, German pilot Marion is struggling to come to terms with her cancer diagnosis. When the two meet at the Turkish holiday resort of Marmaris, they engage in a kind of double-cross and decide to enter into a sham marriage. After a promising beginning, a shared future seems well within their reach. But things turn out not to be quite as simple as that.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020)
In 2015, thirty year old refugee Francis, the sole survivor of a boat that illegally crossed the Mediterranean, is drawn into Berlin's seedy underbelly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStraight (2007)
Straight is the story of a messy love triangle between two men and a woman. Nazim (Eralp Uzun) is a hot young Turkish guy involved in petty crime. He goes out each night with his buddies, cruising for girls and dealing drugs in a seedy city square populated with hookers. None of his buddies suspect that on many of those nights he ends up in the arms of men. Since he met David (Florian Sonnefeld) on the street, his hetero façade is rapidly crumbling. His friends seem to pick up on the new vibe and wonder what’s up. David is from a bourgeois Jewish family and slumming it. He hangs out on the street pretending to look for drugs, but what he really wants is Nazim. Their first hookup is alternately hot, tender and filled with guilt. Nevertheless, their affair develops in secret against all odds. Further entangling things is David’s Polish-German girlfriend (Beba Ebner), who is revolting against her strict Catholic upbringing by going out with this punkish Jewish boyfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Pingpong (2006)
The film shows the apparently intact world of a middle class family, whose harmonious façade crumbles due to the unexpected visit of their relative Paul, a young man of 16 years. Paul arrives looking for love and support after the suicide of his father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Taxi (2015)
Hamburg, mid 80s, Alex is a cabby. The sound is hard, pubs are dark and loud, people constantly argue about anything and everything, people smoke all the time, and not just cigarettes. Alex wants love and freedom and sleeps with Dietrich. It's far from being love, but the sex is okay. With Marc, a little person full of dignity, she finds more than that. The rest is struggles with her passengers, the indifferent and the doomed, brutes as other nuisances. This sort of life could go on and on, Alex could drive away from her own life and in doing so lose Marc and not getting rid of Dietrich. Wouldn't there be a small monkey with the same invincible desire for freedom as hers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
The Legend of Rita (2000)
Radical West German terrorist Rita Vogt abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
In the Aisles (2018)
Christian, a reclusive young man from Leipzig, gets a job working the night shift at a big-box store. He's trained to stocks goods and operate a forklift by Bruno, a wistful former truck driver, who introduces Christian to a colorful group of overnight workers, including Marion, with whom Christian develops a troubled infatuation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Steaks (2014)
Clemens works as a masseur, Lara as a cook, but their clientele is the same: the guests of a luxury hotel. As sparks begin to fly between the two, his sensitivity clashes with her more fiery temperament—opposites attract, but harmony is nowhere in sight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisNaked (2002)
The story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to, and one perfectly okay. They are all friends, and from time to time, they gather to talk about everything. One time, they gather for dinner at the second couple's "mansion“— the husband became rich with his business. We see each couple as they prepare themselves for the party and learn a lot about their relationships. At the dinner, they get to talking about recognizing each other's peer with closed eyes and decide to try it, naked.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBrother and Sister (2016)
Neukölln, a trendy district in Berlin. Living space is scarce here. Without surety, proof of credit worthiness and salary there is no chance at all now. Thies knows this game; he works for a real estate management company and watches that the rules are upheld - until he meets Bruno and Sonja. He provides the dissimilar siblings with a flat free of charge on the quiet. And enters into an affair with the brother. Step by step he becomes more deeply immersed in the secret of the "siblings". A Berlin film about a loner who gets caught up. About a couple with unclear residency status. About a city everyone wants to live in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
303 (2018)
Two university students gain insight into life and love as they get to know each other during a road trip across Europe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBarefoot (2005)
A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVincent Wants to Sea (2010)
Vincent, a young man who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, has just lost his mother. His father, a successful politician, does not want to take care of him and therefore places him into a mental institution. He is put into a room with Alexander, a guy with a compulsive disorder, and is shown around by Marie, an anorectic girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristopher and His Kind (2011)
In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWomen in Love (1969)
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Elementary Particles?
The closest matches to The Elementary Particles are Head-On (2004), The Forest for the Trees (2004) and Cherry Blossoms (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Elementary Particles?
People who watched The Elementary Particles most often go on to Head-On (2004), The Forest for the Trees (2004) and Cherry Blossoms (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Elementary Particles?
Never Look Away (2018), rated 7.7/10 by 784 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Elementary Particles?
Berlin Alexanderplatz (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like The Elementary Particles?
Yes: Head-On (2004), The Forest for the Trees (2004) and Cherry Blossoms (2008).
How are movies similar to The Elementary Particles chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Elementary Particles, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.