Movies like Touch (2021)
The best movies like Touch (2021) are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and UnCancelled (2024). If Touch 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 3,239 votes
- NewestMerci Charlotte ! (2026)Released 2026
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 thisUnCancelled (2024)
Actress Maria, and filmmaker Luke, travelled from LA to Spain in March 2020 to get married. The pandemic caused them to cancel the wedding, and forced them into lockdown with Luke’s mum, Karen, who had travelled all the way from Australia. Luke filmed it all and put it online as a series. They cancelled their wedding again when Maria fell pregnant. Luke filmed that too. Maria is now determined to get married. Luke, feeling stuck in Spain, thinks the only way to enjoy the wedding and cling to his old dreams is to film it. For Maria, sick of their life being public, it’s the final straw.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Finding Together (2021)
Eddie and Byron began their relationship just before COVID-19, but quarantine forces them to face distance, work stress, and the big question: will living together work? A tender and honest LGBTQ+ story, perfect for those who believe in love... even in the toughest times.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Das neue Normal (2023)
5 residents meet regularly on the roof of their house to escape the monotony of the lockdown.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
From the other side (2022)
During the 2020 lockdown in Anzio, Jacopo plays the piano while sipping coffee. From his balcony, he notices Greta arguing on the phone: her relationship has ended. To comfort her, Jacopo plays for her, but Greta shuts herself inside, destroying the memories of her ex. Discouraged, he gradually stops playing. One day, while hanging out the laundry, Greta comes outside: they exchange a timid greeting. Struck by his smile, Greta begins to return to the balcony more and more often, hoping to see him again and hear his music.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
1325 Kilometers 227 Days (2021)
Vitor and Gustavo decided, in January 2020, to start a long-distance relationship, and were planning to meet again in a few months. Until COVID stopped them. This is the story of how they overcame the difficulties of time and distance through a lot of love and through Whatsapp audio messages.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Trace of Your Lips (2023)
Román is an actor who works in B-movies and who’s isolated in his apartment as a pandemic keeps the world on edge. Aldo, an indigenous young man, is an essential worker who’s allowed by the authorities to come and go. They live across from each other in an apartment complex. They meet online, and they can talk and even see each other in videocalls, but they can’t meet in person. Eventually, the temptation to break out of their lockdown comes up.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Longtime Companion (1989)
During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a mysterious "gay cancer" soon turns into a major crisis as, one by one, some of the friends begin to fall ill, leaving the others to panic about who will be next. As death takes its toll, the lives of these friends are forever redefined by an unconditional display of love, hope and courage.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPerfect Sense (2011)
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDifference & Repetition, 2020 (2025)
In March 2020, an Argentine woman flees New York with her Peruvian husband for his family’s empty beach house outside of Lima, whereupon an unplanned pregnancy precipitates the destruction of her marriage. In the present, she rips the moments of this narrative from their context, and reconstructs her story to reckon with her profound feeling of loneliness and the experience of time in which it has trapped her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
By Day's End (2020)
A lesbian couple's efforts to mend their deteriorating relationship are put on hold when a pandemic disease that causes insatiable hunger ravages the world around them.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Cecília and Lourenço (2022)
Cecília is a young stage actress and playwright who dates Lourenço, a young rock band guitarist who dreams of making films. But the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic will unearth Cecília's past demons, putting her relationship with Lourenço at risk.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Suspended Time (2024)
A film director returns to his childhood home in provincial France with his brother and his girlfriend and discovers isolation to be an artistic curative.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Tiny Little Voices (2025)
Anna hasn't left her apartment since the pandemic. She's delighted in there, especially because she goes on great adventures with her imaginary friend Walter. Eventually, Nina, her best friend, drags her out of the house. Here Anna meets Zack, a germophobe, who runs around in a homemade Covid Hazmat suit. The rest of the movie is a very silly comedy about how two people who don't like getting close to humans, get close to each other.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Embrace Again (2021)
A series of interconnected stories, set against the backdrop of the early days of the pandemic. Here, individual souls realize the world is changing, sometimes yielding heartbreak, sometimes yielding happiness, always leading to a deeper understanding of their fellow human beings. From finding love, to connecting through music, heroes emerge, each contributing in small ways to a very new world around them, however dangerous.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
The Code (2025)
While isolated at a remote rental house early in the pandemic, a recently canceled man grows dangerously paranoid about his portrayal in his partner's documentary on their failing relationship and installs hidden cameras to spy on her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Just Swipe (2022)
Vanessa has always had trouble in the dating world, never mind now being confined to her home. She soon discovers just how much you can get away with dating via webcam, but is the love she feels true or only a distorted version of reality?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Merci Charlotte ! (2026)
In a romantic jazz bar atmosphere, Émile’s first date takes an unexpected turn when he realizes the woman he’s meeting has lied about her age.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
Locked Down (2021)
During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive department stores, Harrods.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMost Flew South (2020)
A devastating plague has wiped out half the population of New York City, leaving it in a perpetual state of emergency. After years of lockdown, a young man, Paul, puts on his hazmat suit and ventures into the abandoned streets to meet Justine - a woman with whom he has developed a romance online, but never met. Paul has dreamed about this day, but doing this in reality is something else entirely. Will they be able to overcome their anxieties - and is it worth the risk?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Touch?
The closest matches to Touch are The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and UnCancelled (2024). Below are 19 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Touch?
Start with The Hot Spot (1990), the closest match to Touch.
What is the highest-rated movie like Touch?
True Romance (1993), rated 7.5/10 by 3,239 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Touch?
Merci Charlotte ! (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Touch?
Yes: The Hot Spot (1990), True Romance (1993) and UnCancelled (2024).
How are movies similar to Touch chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Touch, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.