If You Liked… You Should Watch...

Written by Mariane Tremblay

Sometimes, watching only one movie isn't enough, but finding the perfect pairing for a double feature isn't always that simple. Some pairings are obvious, but others can be more implicit. So we decided to curate a list of movies that go well together. If you liked this, then you should watch that! 

If you liked Eyes Wide Shut (1999), you should watch Babygirl (2024)

You know me, I'll bring up Babygirl and Eyes Wide Shut whenever I can. Not only are they two of my favourite movies, but I do believe they make the perfect double feature. As a matter of fact, I watched them both at the theatre last year, and it was my favourite day at the movies. Psychosexual dramas, both movies explore sexualities, fidelity, and fantasies, which makes it obviously a good pairing because of their themes. But more than that, and as Babygirl's director, Halina Reijn, stated, her movie is some sort of answer to Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. When you listen to Nicole Kidman's characters' conversations with their husbands in both movies, they both echo each other. In Eyes Wide Shut, when Alice (Kidman) and Bill (Tom Cruise) return from the Christmas party, they get high and start talking about the man she danced with at that very party. Bill asks her what he wanted, to which she replies he wanted to have sex with her, which is, according to him, understandable because she's a beautiful woman. He's just a man after all! From this comment follows an argument about how men and women think when it comes to sexuality and fantasies. 

"Millions of years of evolution, right? Right? Men have to stick it every place they can, but for women, women, it is just about security, and commitment and whatever the fuck else!

    A little oversimplified, Alice, but yes, something like that. 

If you men only knew."

Then she proceeds to tell him all about that naval officer she saw the previous summer, how she began thinking about him while she and Bill made love that afternoon, and how, even as they spoke about their future and their daughter, he never once left her mind—and that, if he had wanted her, even for one night, she would have been ready to give up everything. Her husband, her daughter, and everything they built together. For one night. But at the same time, she's never been more in love with her husband than she was at this very moment. 

Then, in Babygirl, unlike Alice, Romy (Kidman) succumbs to the temptation and is unfaithful to her husband (Antonio Banderas) to explore her own fantasies, but it's near the end, when she tells him the truth, that it echoes Eyes Wide Shut the most. 

"Ever since I was very little, ever since I can remember, I always had these specific thoughts in my head [...] Dark. Dark thoughts. Dark ideas. Disgusting. And I would do anything to be able to get rid of them [....] I wanted you to do, maybe, something, but you're not into it. 

    Into what exactly, Romy? [...] Can you be a little bit more specific?

Yes. I've never experienced any of these fantasies in my head in real life. I haven't because... until I met this... 

    Are you in love with him?

No, I'm not. It's just... It's not about a safe word, or a safe place, or consent, or the kink, kind of. It's not that. It has to be... There has to be danger. Like, things have to be at stake. Really, at stake, and it's obscene. And it's as if this monster is just sort of there. That will destroy us, and me."

Both women are confronted with their own fantasies, what they mean to them, and whether they would risk everything—their work, their family, their relationships with their husbands, to explore them. And it’s also about confronting what comes across as an unsettling realization that desire is not inherently gendered—that women, too, think, fantasize, and crave in ways society has traditionally reserved for men, a tension that runs through both Babygirl and Eyes Wide Shut. And cherry on top, Eyes Wide Shut ends with Kidman's character telling her husband they should fuck, and Babygirl opens with Kidman's character and her husband doing it. Two perfect Christmas movies for little freaks!— Mariane Tremblay

If you liked Mean Girls (2024), you should watch Forbidden Fruits (2026)

If you loved Mean Girls, then Forbidden Fruits feels like being pulled into the prettiest, most chaotic girl group you’ve ever secretly wanted to be part of. Both films centre a trio at the heart of their worlds, but where Mean Girls gives you Regina (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen (Lacey Chabert), and Karen (Amanda Seyfried) navigating high school hierarchy with burn books and cafeteria politics, Forbidden Fruits reimagines that dynamic through Apple (Lili Reinhart), Fig (Alexandra Shipp), and Cherry (Victoria Pedretti), whose bond feels less like social survival and more like something ritualistic, intoxicating, and slightly dangerous. In both stories, there’s a new girl entering the orbit—Cady (Lindsay Lohan) in Mean Girls, Pumpkin (Lola Tung) in Forbidden Fruits—but while Cady is slowly absorbed into a clearly defined social system, Pumpkin is pulled into something far more fluid, seductive, and emotionally volatile. Apple, Fig, and Cherry aren’t just friends; they’re that trio, effortlessly magnetic, a little dangerous, and completely in sync in a way that feels both enviable and slightly unsettling, the kind of energy that makes you wonder what it would be like to be inside their orbit. Where Mean Girls gives you sharp satire, burn books, and cafeteria warfare, Forbidden Fruits gives you glitter, witchcraft, and this intoxicating mix of obsession, loyalty, and power dynamics that feels very much like girlhood turned all the way up. Watching Pumpkin try to find her place within it all adds this soft, emotional ache, that feeling of wanting to be chosen by the girls who feel untouchable, while a faint, very subtle sapphic-leaning energy simmering between them only deepens the tension. And yes, it’s witchy, emotionally charged, and spiralling into full-blown slasher madness in the best way. It’s messy, glamorous, a little unhinged, and it doesn’t just explore girlhood; it fully casts a spell with it. — Codie Allen

If you liked National Treasure (2004), you should watch Taken (2008)

While many will accuse me of simply making this comparison because Taken is a Liam Neeson movie, I need you to stick around to understand my line of process. Both Neeson's movie and National Treasure are led by strong male characters who have portrayed a variety of roles. In one, you chase a treasure, and in the other, you chase the bad guys who kidnapped the main character's daughter. In the first one, you follow clues in the Declaration of Independence, and in the second one, you chase a voice you heard on the other side of the phone. They're simply movies about aggressively going after what you want and keeping your family and its legacy safe. Tomato, tomahto, right? —Lara Rosales

If you liked Challengers (2024), you should watch The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Although almost a century apart, both films revolve around a shared theme: a love triangle that is less about simple romance and more about desire, power, and identity. The Philadelphia Story is the Challengers’ screwball comedy predecessor—just as sharp and ruthless. In each film, relationships become a game of positioning. In The Philadelphia Story, that positioning is social; in Challengers, it’s athletic success and fame. Different worlds, same logic. Past relationships don’t stay in the past: they return and destabilise the present. For both, performance is everything—witty dialogue, precise blocking, and dynamic editing—as much as it is feeling. Katharine Hepburn’s Tracy Lord and Zendaya’s Tashi Duncan feel like variations of the same archetype: brilliant, magnetic women always slightly ahead of everyone else in the room, who turn relationships into a system to understand, manage, and control. Because when love becomes a game, nobody plays clean. — Giorgia Cattaneo

If you liked The Drama (2026), you should watch So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)

The Drama is tense, cutting, and morally ambiguous. So I married an Axe Murderer is goofy and ridiculous, yet it rings with a modicum of truth. Why would I recommend this polar opposite? Because it actually really isn’t that far off from the central themes of The Drama… So I married an Axe Murderer might just make you laugh more than it brings up your heart rate. However, in both films, the central male character is overcome with paranoia of an elusive threat of violence, a threat of violence that may or may not exist. If you liked The Drama for its dropped pants and tense overtones, So I Married an Axe Murderer is your next movie night pick. If you liked The Drama for its moral panic, but you’re looking for a little more comedy, So I Married an Axe Murderer might be what you’re looking for. — Paige Irwin

If you liked The First Wives Club (1996), you should watch She-Devil (1989)

Both The First Wives Club and She-Devil are movies that never fail to make me laugh and provide some sort of comfort. There's nothing like watching first wives banding together to get revenge on husbands who wronged them by deciding to leave them for younger women. In The First Wives Club, estranged best friends Elise (Goldie Hawn), Brenda (Bette Midler), and Annie (Diane Keaton) reunite following the death of their friend Cynthia (Stockard Channing). Realizing that all three are going through the same thing with their husbands, they decide to join forces and turn their pain into gain. They then come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts—in the wallet! And in She-Devil, at a mundane event, Bob Patchett (Ed Begley Jr.) meets famous novelist Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep), with whom he begins an affair that quickly turns into a relationship, leaving his wife and children to pursue this new life. Just like in The First Wives Club, his wife, Ruth (Roseanne Barr), decides to seek revenge and lists his assets to destroy: home, family, career, and freedom. I do believe that if you liked one, you will enjoy the other just as much, as they both explore similar storylines and are led by some of the most iconic actresses of their time. But beyond the humour and revenge, both films tap into something a little deeper: the reinvention of women who refuse to be discarded, turning betrayal into a form of empowerment. — Mariane Tremblay

If you liked The Mountain Between Us (2017), you should watch The Grey (2011)

Enjoying the Kate Winslet and Idris Elba films means you love adventure, danger, characters who take risks, and the possibility of watching the main characters die. Honestly? What more could we ask of an action movie? And, let's be real, The Mountain Between Us deserved far more hype than it got. So, if you're looking for a movie that will make you feel all the same feels with a side of wolves hunting the characters down, then The Grey is perfect for you. In it, after a plane crashes, the survivors need to follow Ottway's (Liam Neeson) lead if they want to survive the extremely low temperatures and the fierce beasts chasing them. —Lara Rosales

If you liked Eternity (2025), you should watch Defending Your Life (1991)

Love and the afterlife. Could it be more obvious? Characters may not go through the same path in the afterlife in both movies, but they end up pursuing the same things, whether it's in Eternity or Defending Your Life. In Eternity, when people die, they have seven days to choose their "eternity," whereas, in Defending Your Life, you end up in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of sufficient courage to advance in their journey through the universe. In Eternity, Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) finds herself at a crossroads and must decide if she wants to spend eternity with the man she spent her life with (Miles Teller), or with her first husband, who died at war and who spent decades waiting for her in the afterlife (Callum Turner). In Defending Your Life, when Daniel (Albert Brooks) dies and goes through a seven-day-or-so trial to find out what’s next for him, he stumbles onto Julia (Meryl Streep), with whom he spends time at all-you-can-eat buffets, comedy clubs, and on walks at night, which leads them to (surprise, surprise) falling in love with each other! Both romantic comedies show that even in the afterlife, pursuing true love is still one of the things that matters most.— Mariane Tremblay