Movies Like Taking the Plunge
If you liked Taking the Plunge (1999), a movie directed by Lisa Haisha, 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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About Fate (2022)
★ 7.5/10Two strangers believe in love but never seem to be able to find its true meaning. In a wild twist of events, fate puts each in the other's path on one stormy New Year's Eve.
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Repeat Performance (1947)
★ 6.1/10On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult…
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200 Cigarettes (1999)
★ 5.8/10In 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.
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45 Years (2015)
★ 6.6/10There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and…
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Unfaithful (2002)
★ 6.7/10A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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Boogie Nights (1997)
★ 7.6/10In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.
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Before We Go (2014)
★ 6.7/10A chance encounter between two strangers in Grand Central Terminal sparks a life-changing, nighttime sojourn through New York City. They grow into each other's most trusted confidants when an evening of unexpected…
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Addicted to Love (1997)
★ 6.2/10Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do — go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building…
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The Substance (2024)
★ 7.1/10A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
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Entrapment (1999)
★ 6.2/10Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
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Addicted (2014)
★ 5.9/10A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
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The Howling (1981)
★ 6.6/10After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
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The Divorcee (1930)
★ 6.3/10When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful, she decides to pay him back in kind.
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Begin Again (2014)
★ 7.2/10Gretta, a budding songwriter, finds herself alone after her boyfriend Dave ditches her. Her life gains purpose when Dan, a record label executive, notices her talent.
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Just Friends (2005)
★ 6.2/10While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with – a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
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The Loft (2014)
★ 6.4/10For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be…
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Third Person (2014)
★ 5.9/10An 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 Apartment (1960)
★ 8.2/10Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although…
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The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)
★ 6.3/10When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.
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Blue Jasmine (2013)
★ 7/10After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted…