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Movies Like The Woman Next Door

If you liked The Woman Next Door (1981), a drama and romance movie directed by François Truffaut, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1The Unfaithful Wife

    The Unfaithful Wife (1969)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him.

  2. 2The Secret

    The Secret (2000)

    ★ 7.3/10Also romance and drama

    Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels…

  3. 3The Married Woman

    The Married Woman (1964)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    A superficial woman finds conflict choosing between her abusive husband and her vain lover.

  4. 4Happiness

    Happiness (1965)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.

  5. 5Leaving

    Leaving (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and romance

    A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish…

  6. 6The Swimming Pool

    The Swimming Pool (1969)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne…

  7. 7The Things of Life

    The Things of Life (1970)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny…

  8. 8Blind

    Blind (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

  9. 9Careful What You Wish For

    Careful What You Wish For (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

  10. 10The Last Time I Saw Paris

    The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic…

  11. 11Madame Bovary

    Madame Bovary (1949)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.

  12. 12Unfaithful

    Unfaithful (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

  13. 13Double Lover

    Double Lover (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama

    Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.

  14. 14Dangerous Liaisons

    Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

  15. 15Polisse

    Polisse (2011)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    Paris, France. Fred and his colleagues, members of the BPM, the Police Child Protection Unit, dedicated to pursuing all sorts of offenses committed against the weakest, must endure the scrutiny of Melissa, a…

  16. 16Love

    Love (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and romance

    Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their…

  17. 17Dream Lover

    Dream Lover (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…

  18. 18The Little Thief

    The Little Thief (1988)

    ★ 6.3/10Also romance and drama

    In a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer she meets in…

  19. 19Mauvais Sang

    Mauvais Sang (1986)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance

    Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually…

  20. 20No Limit

    No Limit (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and romance

    Roxana Aubrey decides to drop her studies and escape her life in Paris for a free diving course in the south of France. She is quickly pulled into a life that reaches new depths brought by the weight of an ocean's…

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