Movies like Adoration (2009)
The best movies like Adoration (2009) are My Life Without Me (2003), The Other Half (2016) and The Tenth Circle (2008). If Adoration hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedTime Is Up (2021)6.5/10 from 745 votes
- NewestThe Swearing Jar (2022)Released 2022
My Life Without Me (2003)
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Other Half (2016)
A grief-stricken man and a bipolar woman fall in love and attempt to forge a simple life together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Tenth Circle (2008)
A family's well-kept secrets are exposed when the daughter accuses her ex-boyfriend of rape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Adjuster (1991)
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Yellow Handkerchief (2009)
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat We Have (2014)
What We Have is is the tale of Maurice, a prisoner of his past who is unable to connect with the people in his new Northern Canadian small town, a community that is only too ready to welcome this European misfit into their arms.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Where the Truth Lies (2005)
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cake Eaters (2007)
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisJ.T. LeRoy (2019)
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBliss (1997)
On his wedding day, Joseph nervously admits that his wife is not quite like other women. But his beautiful bride is more than just the "impulsive, compulsive, obsessive" woman he thinks he knows. And when Joseph discovers she is hiding troubling secrets, it sends them both on a sexual odyssey that will either destroy or redeem their relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAurora Borealis (2005)
A young man struggles to correct his life after the death of his father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
When he takes his girlfriend to a seedy abortion clinic in the back room of a combination hair salon / bordello, Guy Maddin meets the madam’s daughter and falls in love. But she won’t let any man touch her until her father’s murder has been avenged.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Interview (2007)
After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMercy (2009)
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Eighteen (2005)
Pip, a street kid just turning 18, receives his grandfather's World War II-era memoirs and discovers parallels to his own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Tempted (2003)
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is not, however, a pleasure trip: Having promised to honor the dying wishes of her Hawaiian-born surrogate mother. Leaving her husband, Mike, behind to care for their two children, Emma arrives in Hawaii for the first time since childhood, where she is reunited with her childhood friend Kala, the handsome son of her late surrogate parent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
P.S. (2004)
Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisShanghai Kiss (2007)
Liam Liu unwittingly gets involved with a high school girl. He suddenly has to go to China after learning from his father that he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. He's not very appreciative of his Chinese roots, and at first, only wants to sell the house and get back to the U.S. as fast as possible. He gets a taste of the Chinese culture and ends up having some big decisions to make.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Secrets (2007)
Noemi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Swearing Jar (2022)
Carey and Simon, an otherwise perfect couple, are trying to kick their swearing habit before their baby arrives. Tumultuous times ensue as Carey meets another man and begins a flirtation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Equals (2015)
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeyond the Walls (2012)
Paulo, a young pianist, meets Ilir, a double-bass player originally from Albania. It's love at first sight. Confronted by Anka, Paulo finds himself out on the street. Despite Ilir's misgivings, Paulo moves in with him. One day, when Paulo promises that he will love Ilir for the rest of his life, Ilir leaves the city and doesn't return. A few days later, Paulo finds out that Ilir is in jail, and the two lovers embark on an heart-breaking relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisElegy (2008)
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpeaking Parts (1990)
Hotel employee Lisa develops an obsession with her co-worker Lance, a struggling actor who has appeared in several films as an extra.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Ararat (2002)
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLullaby for Pi (2010)
A washed-up musician befriends a reclusive artist with an unusual name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Womb (2010)
A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTime Is Up (2021)
Vivien, an accomplished student with a passion for physics, and Roy, a troubled young man, are involved in an accident that forces them to reclaim their lives one minute at the time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Adoration?
The closest matches to Adoration are My Life Without Me (2003), The Other Half (2016) and The Tenth Circle (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Adoration?
People who watched Adoration most often go on to My Life Without Me (2003), The Other Half (2016) and The Tenth Circle (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like Adoration?
Time Is Up (2021), rated 6.5/10 by 745 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Adoration?
The Swearing Jar (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Adoration?
Yes: My Life Without Me (2003), The Other Half (2016) and The Tenth Circle (2008).
How are movies similar to Adoration chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Adoration, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.