Related Titles
Movies Like Desperate
Find movies like Desperate (2006) using TMDB similarity plus Movie Rankings community context. Our top current pick is True Romance. Browse 18 related titles with direct links to rankings, cast pages, and matchup data.
These picks blend TMDB similar-title seeds with Movie Rankings community ranking context.
Open Desperate
Jump to the canonical movie page for ranking stats, credits, and deeper discovery paths.
See where to watch Desperate
Check current US streaming, rental, and purchase options for Desperate.
Compare Desperate
Browse popular head-to-head ranking pages and jump into a matchup for Desperate.
Language ranking
See how Desperate compares with other top-ranked English movies from 2006.
Best English Movies of 2006
Studio ranking
See where Desperate lands among the top-ranked movies associated with Vivid Entertainment.
Open best vivid entertainment movies
Explore Language Rankings
True 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.
O Lucky Man!
1973
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
2013
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.
Below Her Mouth
2017
An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
Darling
1965
Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.
Unfaithful
2002
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
2015
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
Kinds of Kindness
2024
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Desperate Living
1977
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous maid Grizelda wind up in the crazy town of Mortville, where Queen Carlotta presides over a sleazy collection of misfits.
Just Before I Go
2015
Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. But life is tricky. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason to live.
Auto Focus
2002
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.
Never Back Down: Revolt
2021
An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.
I Spit on Your Grave 2
2013
Broke, and in desperate need to update her portfolio, New York City model Katie calls a number from a tear-off flyer offering free photos. But this innocent attempt quickly turns into an unthinkable kidnapping nightmare where she's ripped away from everyone and everything she knows.
Mammal
2016
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Original Sin
2001
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
Porno
2019
When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.
Personal Velocity
2002
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
The Honorary Consul
1983
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
What are the best movies like Desperate?
True Romance is the strongest current recommendation on this page for viewers looking for movies like Desperate.
How many recommendations are on the Desperate page?
This page currently lists 18 related titles for Desperate.
How often does the Movies Like Desperate page update?
This page refreshes whenever Movie Rankings rebuilds the related-title view for Desperate. It was last generated from site data on May 5, 2026.
Sources & freshness
Last refreshed from site data on May 5, 2026.