Movies Like Idle Fantasies
If you liked Idle Fantasies (2023), a romance movie directed by James Avalon and Ricky Greenwood, 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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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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10 (1979)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceA Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
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Dying Young (1991)
★ 6.7/10Also romanceAfter she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in…
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The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
★ 7/10Also romanceYoung nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first…
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Love Bites (2025)
Also romanceJust out of their teens, young men Liam and Anatole were in the throes of an exciting relationship- until they had fight, and Anatole disappeared. Liam can’t accept breakup. And, since his boyfriend doesn’t reply to…
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Chungking Express (1994)
★ 8/10Also romanceTwo melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
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Harry Grows Up (2012)
★ 4.7/10Also romanceNew York is a tough place to find love. Especially for an 18-month-old living on his own.
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Nino Live (2017)
★ 6/10Also romance“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”” – George Washington Spying has always claimed the highest position in the hierarchy of human behavior. And thus it forms the crux of the film ‘Nino…
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The Cure to Loneliness (2022)
Also romanceNetty is feeling lost in life following the abrupt end of her relationship with Liam. Luckily, there's a quick fix found in pill marketed as "the cure to loneliness".
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Ciao America (2002)
★ 8.5/10Also romanceHaving recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Boston to travel to his family's ancestral homeland in Italy -- as was requested by his late grandfather. Upon arriving…
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Secret Fruit (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also romanceThe story revolves around a pair of teens who meet during difficult times and wind up falling in love.
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According to Greta (2009)
★ 6/10Also romanceDumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down…
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Me + Her (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also romanceCreating a universe between two small pieces of Cardboard. When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jill's torrid illness, Jack must think outside the box to assure they will be together again.
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Shout (1991)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceA new music teacher in a 1955 West Texas home for wayward boys brings new vision and hope for many of the interned boys.
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My Daughter, the Socialist (1966)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceLiza falls in love with one of her father's employees. Her socialistic ideas about employment drive her to collide with her father and the sociopolitical status of the time.
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Samrat & Co. (2014)
★ 5.5/10Also romanceA young, beautiful and rich girl, Dimpy Singh, approaches Samrat Tilakdhari, a private investigator, with a strange case. Their garden got ruined for reasons that appear natural but are not known; leading…
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Definitely, Maybe (2008)
★ 6.9/10Also romanceWhen Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
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Fights (2025)
Also romanceTwo intertwined timelines, past and present, tell the story of how and why Kathrine and Anders's relationship fell apart
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Melodrive (2025)
Also romanceAfter separating from his wife due to an emotional affair, a homeward bound musician goes on a road trip, but after bumping into his high school sweetheart, his feelings become even more off balance.