15 Movies Like Raphael: The Lord of the Arts

Loved Raphael: The Lord of the Arts? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Monika
#1

Monika

Monika is young, beautiful and a virgin. She is only 16 years old, and, beside getting the attention of all her classmates, she also attracts older men. She has a relationship with a boy, Leo, but she doesn't know that he uses to pimp the girls he seduces to rich businessmen. One of Leo's client befriends Monika and becomes so obsessed that he pays Leo to get her. But Monika turns her attention to her art professor, unknowing that he too has his secrets.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

Cinema Paradiso
#2

Cinema Paradiso

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

Caligula
#3

Caligula

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

The Key
#4

The Key

In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

Last Tango in Paris
#5

Last Tango in Paris

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

Black Velvet
#6

Black Velvet

Crystal, a wealthy, scorned woman living in a massive Egyptian palace with her daughter Magda, finds commiseration in a dried-up Hollywood expat who surrounds himself with singing children.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

No Place to Be Single
#7

No Place to Be Single

A brilliant and intelligent love comedy that celebrates second chances and new horizons, starring a strong and determined woman who settles the score.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

Provocation
#8

Provocation

Passions run wildly amok at Carlo's country inn as his wife, Amelia, fantasizes about an affair with a guest, while his grandson Gianni spies on him to learn the secrets of love. And when Carlo's sexy cousin Marilinda comes to stay, everybody sits up and takes notice.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

Miranda
#9

Miranda

In 1950s Ferrara, a lonely innkeeper explores a series of relationships while awaiting her missing husband’s return from war.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

The Tearsmith
#10

The Tearsmith

Adopted together after a tough childhood in an orphanage, Nica and Rigel realize that unexpected but irresistible feelings pull them together.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

Africa Blood and Guts
#11

Africa Blood and Guts

A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from colonial rule to other forms of government, violent political upheavals were frequent. Revolutions in Zanzibar and Kenya in which thousands were killed are shown, the violence not only political; there is also extensive footage of hunters and poachers slaughtering different types of wild animals.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

Play Motel
#12

Play Motel

The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

That Malicious Age
#13

That Malicious Age

Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

The Flesh
#14

The Flesh

A piano player meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism. After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.

The Corruption
#15

The Corruption

Anna, a beautiful lawyer's wife, feels abandoned by her husband and grows closer to their maid, Angela. The maid convinces Anna to try increasingly daring erotic games.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Raphael: The Lord of the Arts.