Movies Like The Family That Lays Together
If you liked The Family That Lays Together (2013), a romance movie directed by Jacky St. James, 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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A Lady In Waiting (2024)
★ 10/10Also romanceA young woman in 1810s England must hide her secret relationship with her maid from her fiancé.
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Palm Trees in the Snow (2015)
★ 7.4/10Also romanceSpain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the…
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Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also romanceIn a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series of duels for the hand of her classmate Anthy Himemiya and the power…
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The Piano (1993)
★ 7.4/10Also romanceWhen an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged…
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Titanic (1997)
★ 7.9/10Also romance101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class…
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Lady Chatterley (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceAfter a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
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Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! (2008)
★ 5.7/10Also romanceFour university students head to Florida for spring break and enroll in a contest to see who can get the most sexual partners.
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The Greatest (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also romanceInhibited by his conventional life, a man named Jay is forced to confront his darkest secret when having to choose between a life of normality and authenticity.
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Fairy King (1988)
★ 6.8/10Also romanceJack has moved to Hokkaido to get treatment for an illness, but he's lonely and unhappy. One night a man on a horse rides through his window to help him. For a reason he doesn't understand, Jack instantly knows the…
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Mermaid's Jade (2019)
★ 8/10Also romanceIn a power-hungry Chang’an, a vengeful merman returns to the man who once owned him—this time with a blade, not love.
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Alpha and Omega (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also romanceTwo young wolves at opposite ends of their pack's social order are thrown together into a foreign land and need each other to return home, but love complicates everything.
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Wild at Heart (1990)
★ 7/10Also romanceYoung lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
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West Side Story (1961)
★ 7.2/10Also romanceIn Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clash for control of the neighborhood, even as two young members from opposite sides fall dangerously in love.
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Jungle Fever (1991)
★ 6.4/10Also romanceA successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
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Inés de Castro (1944)
★ 6.6/10Also romanceIn 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noblewoman, for political reasons; but the impulsive prince ends up giving in to his love for Inés de Castro, his wife's…
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Nest of Vipers (1978)
★ 5/10Also romanceA background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young…
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Der Schandfleck (1956)
★ 7.8/10Also romanceLeni charms everyone with her friendly nature. Nevertheless, her father rejects her. When Leni wants to get engaged to Florian, she learns the reason: Florian is her half-brother, and she herself is merely the product…
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Suite Française (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also romanceFrance, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian…