Movies like Restless (2002)
The best movies like Restless (2002) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Joy in Hong Kong (1992). If Restless hooked you with its romance, these 22 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedTrue Romance (1993)7.5/10 from 3,241 votes
- NewestPicture of Beauty (2017)Released 2017
The Hot Spot (1990)
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrue Romance (1993)
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJoy in Hong Kong (1992)
Joy flies to Hong Kong, where she meets her best friend Alain. With him, she visits the hottest districts of the city. She is kidnapped and imprisoned in a brothel and has to pay a high price for her freedom.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Secretaries (2005)
Some secretaries will stop at nothing to get a promotion.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Romance of the West Chamber (1997)
Cheung, a 23-year-old unmarried travelling scholar, stops by the monastery, where he sees a beautiful woman. Against the rules, Monk Faben allows Cheung to stay and woo the girl, Ann-Ann. She is shy, and also the Prime Minister's daughter, so the wooing is arranged by Ann-Ann's maid Hung.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Emmanuelle 2000: Being Emmanuelle (2000)
Exploring desires and fantasies while experiencing pleasures through the love making device gets Emmanuelle willing to spread the excitement so much it gets close to feeling like in her own skin.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Sins of the Flesh (1974)
Benoit has been driven to voyeurism and impotence due to having a cold, treacherous industrialist as a father and an exhibitionist aunt who constantly parades around nude. Jean-Pierre is a thief. Isabelle is a runaway whose stepfather tried to rape her. When the three cross paths, criminal activity, rape, madness and murder follow in this psycho-drama filled with soft-core sex.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Belt (1989)
Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Picture of Beauty (2017)
In an early 20th century village, a painter with an unusual commission finds two pretty girls two model for him. The girls slowly come of age while exploring their sexuality and finding liberation in a repressed society.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Key (1983)
In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEmbrace the Darkness II (2002)
A sultry vampire acts as mentor to a reluctant recruit.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Vibrating Maid (2000)
A wealthy college girl forces her maid to teach her the techniques of how to 'pleasure herself' with a vibrator.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst (1983)
Investigative journalist Emanuelle breaks into a home to find a microfilm, which leads her to an "international expedition" in Hong Kong. This film was made entirely of footage from Joe D'Amato films released between 1976 and 1980, quickly becoming popular within the bootleg video market.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Gigolo (2015)
Fung looks like a super-heartthrob and was born with a special endowment, making him the high school idol. He was expelled from school when he was caught fighting on campus. When his mom, the sole provider of his family with her poultry business, had to stop working due to her back problems, Fung decides to support his family financially. And from that moment, his life takes on a tumultuous change…
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSound of the Sea (2001)
A new literature teacher, Ulises, comes to a small town near the sea and falls in love with a young woman, Martina. This woman is loved by a rich businessman named Alberto but chooses Ulises. Soon after their marriage and the birth of their son, Ulises vanishes while fishing at sea. In the meanwhile Martina marries Alberto, but all is not what it seems...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMisty's Secret (2000)
Misty is sexually awakened by her sultry roommate leading to a sensual and naughty bathing encounter. Meanwhile, neighbor Ruby teases those who gaze at her window by doing an erotic strip-tease!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Exotic House of Wax (1997)
In this erotic fantasy, when a naive young woman inherits a wax museum, she's shocked to discover that her family legacy is no ordinary tourist trap. Statues from all periods of history come alive -- and come together -- when supernatural sexual amulets are placed around their necks. The action heats up when the world's most memorable mythical figures engage in a love-fest that's truly one for the ages.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Monika (1974)
Monika is young, beautiful and a virgin. She is only 16 years old, and, beside getting the attention of all her classmates, she also attracts older men. She has a relationship with a boy, Leo, but she doesn't know that he uses to pimp the girls he seduces to rich businessmen. One of Leo's client befriends Monika and becomes so obsessed that he pays Leo to get her. But Monika turns her attention to her art professor, unknowing that he too has his secrets.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Exposed (1971)
Lena is a young woman in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic partygoer Helge, Lena‘s life is turned upside down when Helge take some nude photographs of her. These photos could destroy her life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Hidden Passion (2000)
Kim is the wife of a mobster and she is very unhappy. Then when her ex shows up and they discover her husband's hidden money, they decide to steal the money and blame one of husband's friends.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Dangereux désirs (2005)
As Eric is taken Laura back home, she first refuses to let him in and finally makes love with him in the staircase. Few days later, as Eric is working with his partner at home, she arrives and decide to stay at his home despite the fact that Eric seems rather doubtful. After one year, while the are celebrating their first birthday of common live, a violent argument cracks the couple ...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Vengeance brûlante (2005)
Playboy Lucas has multiple lovers. There's current favorite Loren and Jessica and old favorite Emma. Emma decides to groom Loren into a lady with fine qualities which Lucas is looking for
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Restless?
The closest matches to Restless are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Joy in Hong Kong (1992). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Restless?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Restless.
What is the highest-rated movie like Restless?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,241 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Restless?
Picture of Beauty (2017) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Restless?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and Secretaries (2005).
How are movies similar to Restless chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Restless, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.