Movies Like Hopeless
If you liked Hopeless (2023), a romance movie directed by Jeffrey John Hart, 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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Henry & June (1990)
★ 6/10Also romanceWhile traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin…
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The Hot Spot (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also romanceUpon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
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True Romance (1993)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceClarence 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.
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Show Me Love (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also romanceTwo teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.
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All Over Me (1997)
★ 5.9/10Also romanceClaude and Ellen are best friends who live in a not-so-nice area of New York. They're involved in the subculture of 90s youth, complete with drugs, live music, and homophobia. All is changed one night when a violent…
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Gasoline (2002)
★ 4.8/10Also romanceFiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until Eleonora's mother appears and voices her disapproval of their romance.
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Looking for Cheyenne (2005)
★ 4.7/10Also romanceCheyenne, a journalist, decides to leave Paris after being laid off and to settle down in the middle of nowhere, far from the society she hates. The trouble is that she leaves Sonia, her true love, behind. The latter…
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Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006)
★ 6.7/10Also romanceA feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
★ 7.4/10Also romancePetra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra…
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Tell It to the Bees (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceDr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and…
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Butterfly (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also romanceFlavia is a thirtysomething married teacher. She has suppressed the memory of her adolescent lesbian fling with Jin and is stuck in a stifling marriage. A chance encounter in a supermarket with the playful and…
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Witchy Ways (2025)
★ 7/10Also romanceWhen a skeptical woman retreats to a secluded cabin believed to be magical, she falls for its enigmatic witch owner, until dark spells, buried secrets, and a restless ghost threaten their chance at love.
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Loving Annabelle (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also romanceAnnabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears…
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Saving Face (2004)
★ 7.2/10Also romanceA Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
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Puccini for Beginners (2006)
★ 5.5/10Also romanceWhen her inability to commit leads to a breakup with her girlfriend, opera-loving writer Allegra winds up in the bed of amiable professor Philip. He is so smitten with Allegra that he dumps his lover, Grace, and…
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My Summer of Love (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceIn the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous…
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Another's Freedom (2022)
Also romanceA housewife with the dream of becoming a writer is unhappy in her marriage and finds love in the arms of another woman.
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Pragma (2018)
★ 8.5/10Also romanceYoo-Hee and Joo-Yeon fell in love in high school, but their school’s persecution of gays tore them apart. When meet again years later, sparks fly.
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Affinity (2008)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceA grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most…
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D.E.B.S. (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also romanceThe star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.