Movies Like Them Public Romantics
If you liked Them Public Romantics (2025), a movie directed by Jennifer Rubin, 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 Roses (2025)
★ 6.6/10Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while…
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Die My Love (2025)
★ 6.1/10After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace…
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The Invite (2026)
★ 7.2/10Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it…
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While We're Young (2015)
★ 6/10An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
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Revolutionary Road (2008)
★ 7/10A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
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The War of the Roses (1989)
★ 6.9/10Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house…
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
★ 7.1/10A 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…
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Odd Thomas (2013)
★ 7/10In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
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Newness (2017)
★ 6.1/10In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
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The Rain People (1969)
★ 6.6/10When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
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Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
★ 6/10A 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…
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
★ 6.6/10Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except…
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Romance & Cigarettes (2006)
★ 6.1/10Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much to the chagrin of his wife, and his life is thrown into upheaval…
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Someone Like You... (2001)
★ 6/10Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She's a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show's dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane…
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The Drama (2026)
★ 6.9/10A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
★ 6.5/10A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weekend in and around a stunning - and possibly magical - country house.
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Petulia (1968)
★ 6/10Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's…
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Starting Over (1979)
★ 6.4/10After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
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My Week with Marilyn (2011)
★ 6.7/10London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who…
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Love Don't Co$t a Thing (2003)
★ 7.7/10A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.