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Movies Like Intimate

If you liked Intimate, a movie directed by Kei McLeod, 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.

  1. 1Life Itself

    Life Itself (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10

    As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

  2. 2Carnal Knowledge

    Carnal Knowledge (1971)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.

  3. 3Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  4. 4The Magic of Ordinary Days

    The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.

  5. 5Friends with Kids

    Friends with Kids (2012)

    ★ 5.9/10

    In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can…

  6. 6Celeste & Jesse Forever

    Celeste & Jesse Forever (2012)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered…

  7. 7Tully

    Tully (2018)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Marlo, a mother of three, including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant at first, she quickly forms a bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging nanny named Tully.

  8. 8The Roses

    The Roses (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Life 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…

  9. 9Wildflower

    Wildflower (2023)

    ★ 7.4/10

    The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.

  10. 10The Sound of Silence

    The Sound of Silence (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.

  11. 11The Giver

    The Giver (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.

  12. 12Shirley

    Shirley (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

  13. 13What Maisie Knew

    What Maisie Knew (2013)

    ★ 7.1/10

    In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new…

  14. 14What's Love Got to Do with It?

    What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

  15. 15All of You

    All of You (2025)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?

  16. 16Dinner in America

    Dinner in America (2022)

    ★ 7.8/10

    An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with a local band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.

  17. 17Real Women Have Curves

    Real Women Have Curves (2002)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned…

  18. 1820th Century Women

    20th Century Women (2016)

    ★ 7.3/10

    In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the…

  19. 19The Kissing Booth 2

    The Kissing Booth 2 (2020)

    ★ 7.6/10

    With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classmate.

  20. 20Laggies

    Laggies (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Overeducated and underemployed, 28 year old Megan is in the throes of a quarterlife crisis. Squarely into adulthood with no career prospects, no particular motivation to think about her future and no one to relate to…

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