Movies Like Vera
If you liked Vera (2023), a drama and romance movie directed by Steffy Argelich, 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.
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)
★ 7/10Also romance and dramaNancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a…
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The Lighthouse (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
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The Blue Lagoon (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceTwo small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and…
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Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
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The Piano (1993)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceWhen an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged…
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8/10Also dramaThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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Beach Rats (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceOn the outskirts of Brooklyn, Frankie, an aimless teenager, suffocates under the oppressive glare cast by his family and a toxic group of delinquent friends. Struggling with his own identity, Frankie begins to scour…
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Third Person (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceAn acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
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The Burning Plain (2008)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceA trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is…
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The Shipping News (2001)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and romanceAn emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
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The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Sound of the Sea (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceA new literature teacher, Ulises, comes to a small town near the sea and falls in love with a young woman, Martina. This woman is loved by a rich businessman named Alberto but chooses Ulises. Soon after their marriage…
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Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and romanceWhen a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance. As the two begin to build trust and find stability, shadowy…
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Breezy (1973)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romanceA free-spirited young woman, Breezy, hitches a ride with an aging real estate salesman, Frank. Sensing that she just wants to use him he tries to have nothing to do with her. She's not that easy to shake, however, and…
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Interstate 60 (2002)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaAn aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceBen Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact…
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Earth (1996)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceA mysterious exterminator falls in love with two women who live in a distinctive wine-producing region in Spain.
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Thirteen (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaWhen 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins…
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The Immigrant (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance1921 New York. An immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
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End of Sentence (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaNewly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see…