Movies Like Big Bang
If you liked Big Bang (1990), a romance movie directed by Steven Scarborough, 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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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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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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Le Divorce (2003)
★ 4.9/10Also romanceWhile visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
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The Good Girl (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceA discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
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Good Luck Chuck (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also romanceCursed since childhood, dentist Charlie Logan cannot find the right woman. Even worse, he learns that each of his ex-girlfriends finds true love with the man she meets after her relationship with him ends. Hearing of…
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Forbidden (2002)
★ 5.1/10Also romanceAt his bachelor party, Jason has a one-night fling with Nikki, a radiant beauty with whom he forms an immediate bond. They agree to keep their secret locked away forever. Two years later, Jason, his wife, Andy and his…
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After Sex (2007)
★ 5.5/10Also romanceSex is a background to examine intimacy and vulnerability. Looks at the complexity of modern day relationships told through eight separate couples. Through dialogue and compromising situations, the film takes us from…
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Crossroads (2002)
★ 5.2/10Also romanceAfter eight years apart, three childhood friends - Lucy, Kit, and Mimi - rediscover their friendship on a cross-country trip. With barely a plan, practically no money but plenty of dreams, the girls catch a lift with…
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Love Object (2004)
★ 5.9/10Also romanceThe twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.
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The Harrad Experiment (1973)
★ 3.5/10Also romanceAt fictional Harrad College students learn about sexuality and experiment with each other. Based on the 1966 book of the same name by Robert Rimmer, this movie deals with the concept of free love during the height of…
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The Consequence (1977)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceThomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for Martin, one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, they try to build a relationship and a life together but, no one will leave them alone.
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The Shipping News (2001)
★ 6.4/10Also romanceAn emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also romanceIn Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years…
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Love and Other Disasters (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceFlighty Emily "Jacks" Jackson works for the British edition of Vogue magazine. Rather than pursue a relationship, Jacks regularly hooks up with her devoted ex-boyfriend, James Wildstone, and lives with Peter Simon, a…
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When the Village Music Plays on Sunday Nights (1953)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceWhen the successful trumpeter Jonny has nearly all his concert earnings seized by tax collector Weber, he has had enough: he packs up his trumpet and travels to the Black Forest. Along the way, he encounters the…
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Bolero (1984)
★ 3.5/10Also romanceFollows the tale of a young woman’s sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. Her friend and butler accompany…
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I Love You, Man (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also romancePeter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter…
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Joy in Moscow (1992)
★ 6.2/10Also romancePretty Joy and her friend come to Moscow to shoot a commercial. A taxi driver, who recruits girls for an underground organization run by a distant descendant of Rasputin, suggests they visit the Rasputin Museum. During…
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A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy (2008)
★ 4.5/10Also romanceA between-the-sheets peek at Black Love and Sexuality
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Who the Hell's Bonnie and Clyde? (2004)
★ 4.3/10Also romanceLili and Pali are "chance" bank robbers, and perhaps "chance lovers" but they don't have the opportunity to pursue their relationship. With stolen money in their backpacks they are constantly on the run and everything…