Best Movies Like 365 Days

Highlights

• Fans of 365 Days will enjoy similar steamy scenes in other movies like Indiscretion and Amar, offering a thrilling watching experience.
• Eyes Wide Shut and Vicky Cristina Barcelona provide a unique mix of romance and intrigue to captivate viewers seeking a different approach.
• While not identical to 365 Days, movies like Newness and The Voyeurs present modern relationships and thrilling narratives to keep audiences hooked.

The Polish movie 365 DNI, or 365 Days in English, has been a massive success since getting a wide release on Netflix in 2020. Many fell quickly for the charms of Laura and Massimo, no matter how nonsensical the story of the movie actually was. Fans looking for a popcorn thriller with plenty of hot scenes will be more than happy with what’s on offer here.

While the sequel, 365 Days: This Day scratches much of the same itch, it still isn’t enough for fans, many of whom are now looking for similarly steamy mainstream movies to indulge their need for more from this ever more popular sub-genre. While nothing out there presents exactly the same style as 365 Days has adopted, many similar movies have been released over the past ten years like the Polish thriller.

Updated April 30, 2024 by Mark Sammut: This article has been expanded with information on each movie like 365 Days, including their streaming platform availability in North America.

13 Eyes Wide Shut

A Twisted Tale Of Secrecy & Sex

Stanley Kubrick is a master of his craft, and it’s a shame that he didn’t manage to complete his editing process on Eyes Wide Shut before meeting an untimely demise that rocked the entire filmmaking world to its core. To this day, the director is touted by many as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time, and people are still influenced by his work and hold it to an extremely high standard that very few people have managed to reach.

Eyes Wide Shut is an erotic psychological thriller that focuses on the exploits of a couple who deal with marital issues of their own while toying around with the concept of infidelity in many unique ways. The movie almost feels surreal in certain instances, making for an intense watch, and shows just how much of a master Kubrick was of his craft, relentlessly editing the movie days before his death.

12 Indiscretion

Fun & Sordid

A movie that combines a bunch of steamy scenes with a political thriller, Indiscretion is a unique blend of genres that fans of 365 Days will have a great time with. The movie’s setup deals with the wife of a politician who ends up having an affair with a young artist, only for things to spiral out of control after the man ends up developing a dangerous obsession with her.

It may not be a mind-blowing movie by any stretch of the imagination, but Indiscretion is a great choice for a couple looking for a more raunchy movie to watch over the weekend. The shots are decent, the plot gets the job done, and the actors succeed in convincing the audience just how crazy they are for each other throughout the movie’s runtime.

11 Vicky Cristina Barcelona

A More Artistic Option

Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a unique movie that hooks viewers in from the get-go, featuring two young women who go on a trip to Barcelona and get enamored with an interesting man named Juan Antonio who offers to court them both for the night. However, it turns out that Juan has a crazy ex-wife who is still hopelessly in love with him…and this feeling is mutual, as the movie slowly progresses and explores their unique relationship.

The movie can be pretty funny, with its steamier scenes handled with great delicacy. The cast is also quite talented, with the trio of Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, and Penelope Cruz doing great justice to their characters and showing off the wealth of talents at their disposal.

10 Fifty Shades Of Grey

A Mainstream Alternative

Fifty Shades of Grey is one of the first movies that comes to mind when people talk about 365 Days, and it’s easy to see why this is the case. The novel that inspired this movie became a cultural phenomenon, with its steamy content being right up the alley of many readers.

Expectations were high for the movie, and most people are of the opinion that the movie delivered despite having its fair share of flaws. It’s by no means a perfect adaptation, but Fifty Shades of Grey does enough things right to satiate most fans. The sequels are more of a mixed bag, though.

9 The Girl Next Door

Cute And Funny

The Girl Next Door is a funny rom-com that fans of 365 Days can have a great time with. The movie takes a look at the life of a high school student and how his life is turned upside down after a former adult actress moves in next door.

The chain of events that occurs is hilarious and makes this movie well worth a watch. It helps that Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert have great chemistry, which is readily apparent throughout the entire movie.

8 Friends With Benefits

Great Chemistry Between The Leads

Speaking of rom-coms, another great movie that comes to mind is Friends with Benefits. The duo of Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis starts in a hilarious movie that explores the concept of being more than friends and the complications that arise within such a dynamic.

Friends with Benefits is a great movie, and fans of 365 Days can definitely get some enjoyment out of watching this flick. The humor and writing are top-notch, keeping things fresh and engaging till the movie reaches its bombastic climax.

7 After

A Rough Relationship

After is less preoccupied with explicit scenes and focuses more on the loving, tumultuous relationship between the young, inexperienced Tessa and bad boy Hardin. While the book this adaptation came from was originally a piece of fan fiction about One Direction, that hasn’t limited the movie’s success. After all, many of the most generic rom-coms are great ones.

Whether the movie’s writing is up to scratch is up for debate among fans and critics, but if anyone hasn’t seen it yet, then it is still a good time to get on the hype train as another two sequels and a prequel are planned for the franchise. There are plenty of steamy scenes to please 365 Days fans as well.

6 The Voyeurs

A Different Sort Of Desire

While The Voyeurs is somewhat of a turn away from the exact style of 365 Days, this story about a young couple becoming obsessed with their neighbors’ sex life will thrill fans all the same. Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith star as a young woman who can’t take her eyes off another couple, and her increasingly concerned boyfriend.

While The Voyeurs relies more on the thriller aspect and only has a few steamier scenes, it deals with the fascination with taboo sex that some fans of movies like 365 Days might be able to relate to. The twists and turns that the movie takes along the way are intriguing and will keep audiences hooked until the end.

5 Below Her Mouth

A Same-Gender Affair

If audiences wish they could find something on the LGBTQIA+ side of things in cinema that was similarly filled with scenes of an explicit nature, Below Her Mouth is perfect. The movie, about a young woman engaged to a man who meets a confident lesbian and falls for her, contains plenty of sex scenes and has been praised for the steaminess it brings to the screen.

While critics have panned the movie as failing on a more dramatic level, fans of 365 Days should enjoy what it brings and the two characters’ emotional journeys throughout. While Below Her Mouth deals with several LGBT tropes that are familiar, it does it knowingly and will make interesting viewing for fans of the sub-genre.

4 Newness

Raunch With A Side Of Depth

Dealing much more with modern relationships and dating apps, Newness features Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a pair of millennials who meet on a dating app and begin a relationship. After they both cheat on each other, they decide to have an open relationship which turns tumultuous and begins causing arguments between them.

Filled with sexual scenes featuring the couple and each of them individually sleeping with other people, Newness deals with the emotional side of modern dating as well as the sexier side of things and will intrigue fans of 365 Days who themselves are in the midst of this modern dating culture. None of the other movies like 365 Daysare exactly wholesome but Newness tries to bring things to a nicer conclusion than some others above and below it.

3 Elles

A European Exercise

If the European style of 365 Days is something that someone is seeking more of, Elles should be perfect. About a journalist writing an article on prostitution, this French/Polish movie deals with several sexual and emotional topics.

The movie focuses on the interviews conducted between the journalist and two prostitutes as they recount many experiences they have had over the years and how they feel about their work. It also reveals how this later affects the journalist and her relationship with her husband. While a quieter, more contemplative movie than some others included in this article, Elles does plenty to keep the scenes steamy for viewers as well.

2 Amar

Intense Love

A Spanish movie about a complicated, intense relationship that lasts for one year, Amar deals with Laura and Carlos. The pair decide to love each other as if every day was their last together, and Laura dreams of becoming pregnant one day as she breaks away from her previous life.

While Amar focuses greatly on the relationship between these two people, it also has a great number of steamier sex scenes that audiences were thrilled by when it was first released in 2017. It’s also got a similarly European vibe to 365 Days, dealing with the intensity of the sudden relationship.

1 Through My Window

Sordid Trilogy

Another Spanish movie, Through My Window deals with a couple that fans of 365 Days will love. Raquel is a teenage girl obsessed with Ares, one of the three heirs to a huge company that lives in a mansion next to her house.

When their lives become entangled, Raquel goes after what she wants, and they end up together, though a series of petty arguments slow the progress of their relationship. However, Through My Window doesn’t shy away from many moments of steamy glances which evolve by the end of the second act into the kind of steamy scenes fans of 365 Days will cherish. While it may not be one of the best recent comedies out there, it is a fun and interesting movie.

Through My Window
also has two sequels.