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Movies Like The Girlfriend Experience

If you liked The Girlfriend Experience (2009), a drama movie directed by Steven Soderbergh, 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. 1Exotica

    Exotica (1994)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he…

  2. 2Hesher

    Hesher (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.

  3. 3The Only Living Boy in New York

    The Only Living Boy in New York (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    When 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.

  4. 4Eyes Wide Shut

    Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their…

  5. 5Assault on Wall Street

    Assault on Wall Street (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Jim is an average New Yorker living a peaceful life with a well paying job and a loving family. Suddenly, everything changes when the economy crashes causing Jim to lose everything. Filled with anger and rage, Jim…

  6. 6Margin Call

    Margin Call (2011)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. An entry-level analyst…

  7. 7Rounders

    Rounders (1998)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm'…

  8. 8sex, lies, and videotape

    sex, lies, and videotape (1989)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing…

  9. 9Mean Streets

    Mean Streets (1973)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

  10. 10Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…

  11. 11The Congress

    The Congress (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

  12. 12Too Big to Fail

    Too Big to Fail (2011)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.

  13. 13Trafficked

    Trafficked (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to…

  14. 14The Last Showgirl

    The Last Showgirl (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.

  15. 15Heatwave

    Heatwave (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

  16. 16American Psycho

    American Psycho (2000)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

  17. 17Hard Eight

    Hard Eight (1997)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

  18. 18You Were Never Really Here

    You Were Never Really Here (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered—leading to what may be his death trip or…

  19. 19Dead Man Down

    Dead Man Down (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.

  20. 20American Beauty

    American Beauty (1999)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

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