Movies Like V: The Hot One
If you liked V: The Hot One (1978), a romance movie directed by Gary Graver, 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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Henry & June (1990)
★ 6/10Also romanceWhile traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin…
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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 Bridges of Madison County (1995)
★ 7.7/10Also romancePhotographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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Cairo Time (2009)
★ 6/10Also romanceIn Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle…
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
★ 6.6/10Also romanceSet in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the…
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Sub Rosa (2014)
★ 6/10Also romanceBullied by his father to grow up, a teen fights between the love of his step-mother over his father's life.
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Babygirl (2024)
★ 5.7/10Also romanceA high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
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All's Well, Ends Well (1992)
★ 7.1/10Also romanceThree brothers living with their father fib and play pranks to win parental approval for themselves and their romances.
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A Beautiful Wife (2007)
★ 5.7/10Also romanceMariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andrea, who — struck by her good looks — offers Miranda a one-time…
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A Special Day (1977)
★ 8.1/10Also romanceTwo neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
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Leaving (2009)
★ 6/10Also romanceA bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish…
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Five and Ten (1931)
★ 6.1/10Also romanceJohn owns the largest chain of five and ten cent stores in the country. He moves his family to New York from Kansas City and their life, though grand, is falling apart due to his constant working. Wife and mother Jenny…
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House on the Rocks (1974)
★ 3.9/10Also romanceElena, the wife of a very rich man, spends the summer on an island in the Aegean Sea, doing archaeological research. One day her son comes to visit her son from her first marriage. The sea, the sun, the shepherds with…
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Desire (2002)
★ 3.8/10Also romanceA couple is set in their monotonous life until the husband has a homosexual affair with a young male prostitute. Suspicious of her husband, the wife seeks the truth and eventually ends up in bed with the same young…
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One Last Fling (1949)
★ 4.8/10Also romanceA jealous wife suspects the worst when her dingaling husband hires his former girlfriend for a position at his company.
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Downloading Nancy (2008)
★ 5.4/10Also romanceWhen Albert Stockwell comes home from work one day he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, saying she has gone to see friends. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that his wife is missing. Nancy has…
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The Green Widow (1968)
★ 4.8/10Also romanceA lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.
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A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
★ 7.7/10Also romanceWalter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected…
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Brief Encounter (1945)
★ 7.7/10Also romanceReturning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during…