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Movies Like Leaving a Relationship

If you liked Leaving a Relationship (1981), a movie directed by Li long, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Rip Girls

    Rip Girls (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A teen-age girl and her father come to an island on Hawaii, they find a closer relationship to each other and think about changing the island. During her adventures, Sydney finds friends, a new hobby with her fantastic…

  2. 2Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  3. 3You Cast A Spell On Me

    You Cast A Spell On Me (2015)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Despite agreeing to an arranged marriage to a childhood friend, a successful businessman tries to track down a beautiful woman that he met at a Halloween party.

  4. 4Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set…

  5. 5Our Kind of Traitor

    Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

    ★ 6/10

    A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on…

  6. 6Erin Brockovich

    Erin Brockovich (2000)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses…

  7. 7Buddha Mountain

    Buddha Mountain (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10

    In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.

  8. 8The Duke of Burgundy

    The Duke of Burgundy (2015)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more…

  9. 9Iron Jawed Angels

    Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

  10. 10Petals on the Wind

    Petals on the Wind (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10

    This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.

  11. 11TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  12. 12The Secret Life of Bees

    The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with…

  13. 13He Said, She Said

    He Said, She Said (1991)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions…

  14. 14Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

  15. 15Wasp

    Wasp (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go…

  16. 16Return to Dust

    Return to Dust (2022)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an…

  17. 17The Golden Lotus

    The Golden Lotus (1974)

    ★ 7/10

    Golden Lotus is based, in part, on Jin Ping Mei, a famous erotic novel of ancient China. Li Han-Hsiang adapted part of the story into this film, which starts with Hsi Men Ching, a successful merchant, wooing Pan Chin…

  18. 18The Brady Bunch Movie

    The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

    ★ 6.1/10

    The original '70s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever.

  19. 19The Magic of Ordinary Days

    The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

  20. 20The Hunchback

    The Hunchback (1997)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Based on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame, and his unrequited love for the gypsy girl, Esmeralda.

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