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10 Best Movies Like Forbidden

If you loved Forbidden, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Strangers When We Meet

Strangers When We Meet

1960★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forbidden for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street....

#2
Last Night

Last Night

2010★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forbidden for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague and...

#3
Medicine for Melancholy

Medicine for Melancholy

2009★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forbidden for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Waking from a one-night stand that neither remembers, Micah and Joanne find themselves wandering the streets of San Francisco, sharing coffee and conversation and searching for a d...

#4
A Perfect Ending

A Perfect Ending

2012★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forbidden for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield ...

#5
Flamingo Road

Flamingo Road

1949★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forbidden for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society....

#6
Two for the Seesaw

Two for the Seesaw

1962★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Forbidden for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After leaving his wife, lawyer Jerry Ryan moves from Omaha, Nebraska to New York City to start a new life. While studying for the New York Bar Examination and working to finalize h...

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