Movies Like The Affair (1967)

The Affair is a 1967 drama, romance film from Yoshishige Yoshida with a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Graduation and The Apartment.

Drama Romance

Graduation

2016

After his daughter is assaulted and left with an injury that may jeopardize her opportunity to study in the UK, a Romanian doctor decides to do whatever it takes to secure her future.

6.7

MagicScore

The Apartment

1960

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

8.2

MagicScore

American Beauty

1999

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

8.0

MagicScore

The Pornographers

1966

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.

7.2

MagicScore

Crazed Fruit

1956

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

6.9

MagicScore

Woman in the Dunes

1964

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

8.2

MagicScore

The Face of Another

1966

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

7.8

MagicScore

Carol

2015

In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

7.5

MagicScore

The Idea of You

2024

40-year-old single mom Solène begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet. As they begin a whirlwind romance, it isn't long before Hayes' superstar status poses unavoidable challenges to their relationship, and Solène soon discovers that life in the glare of his spotlight might be more than she bargained for.

7.3

MagicScore

#10

The Lover

1992

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

7.0

MagicScore

#11

Rebecca

1940

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

7.9

MagicScore

#12

Youth Without Youth

2007

Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.

6.1

MagicScore

#13

Deewana

1992

A singer marries his biggest fan, but his uncle plans to kill him in order to gain his money.

6.8

MagicScore

#14

From Here to Eternity

1953

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

7.3

MagicScore

#15

2046

2004

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

7.2

MagicScore

#16

Notes on a Scandal

2006

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

7.1

MagicScore

#17

The Things of Life

1970

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 awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…

7.1

MagicScore

#18

Little Children

2006

The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.

7.1

MagicScore

#19

Lady Chatterley's Lover

2022

After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.

6.7

MagicScore

#20

Love in the Time of Cholera

2007

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

6.6

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Affair?

The top films similar to The Affair by MovieMagicScore are Graduation (6.7), The Apartment (8.2), American Beauty (8.0). Each shares drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Affair worth watching?

The Affair holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.4/10 from 20 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Affair?

The Affair (1967) is a drama, romance film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, starring Mariko Okada, Yoshie Minami, Tadahiko Sugano.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Affair?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Affair

This ranked list pairs The Affair (1967), a drama and romance film from Yoshishige Yoshida, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Mariko Okada take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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