Movies Like Mother Knows Best
If you liked Mother Knows Best (2014), 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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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 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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Another Affair to Remember! (2023)
★ 7/10Also romanceJean-Jacques Garbo is deeply dismayed by his wife's infidelity when he suddenly has inklings of another love affair.
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Strayed (2003)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceFleeing the June 1940 arrival of Hitler's army in Paris, a young war widow and her two children are rescued from dive-bombing German fighters by a cocky, reckless teenager. He finds them refuge in an abandoned house…
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Tadpole (2002)
★ 5.7/10Also romanceBeautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands…
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Laurel Canyon (2003)
★ 6/10Also romanceWhen an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.
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A Cinderella Story (2004)
★ 6.6/10Also romanceRoutinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.
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I Love America (2022)
★ 5.1/10Also romanceLisa, a single woman, decides to take a chance on love again by catapulting her life from Paris to Los Angeles. Her children flew the coop and her famous, yet absent mother just passed, so Lisa needs a big change. She…
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
★ 6.9/10Also romanceAn aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.
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The Graduate (1967)
★ 7.6/10Also romanceA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
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Something's Gotta Give (2003)
★ 6.6/10Also romanceWhen perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also…
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An Affair to Remember! (2023)
★ 5/10Also romanceA wife reveals to her younger husband that she is having an affair.
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Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
★ 7/10Also romanceOn an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory…
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The Idea of You (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also romance40-year-old single mom Solène begins an unexpected romance with 24-year-old Hayes Campbell, the lead singer of August Moon, the hottest boy band on the planet. As they begin a whirlwind romance, it isn't long before…
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Hot Bubblegum (1981)
★ 5.9/10Also romanceFurther adventures of Bobby, Benji, and Huey in their pursuit of sex in the 50's. While preparing for their final exams, they try to work out if it's better to be going steady with one girl, and if changing girlfriends…
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Young Love (1987)
★ 5.4/10Also romanceWhile his parents are on holiday, Huey and his buddies borrow their car and go out. After pursuing a gang of girls, Huey crashes the car, and discovering that the repairs will cost a small fortune, the boys must get…
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Flirting with Forty (2008)
★ 5.2/10Also romanceA divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.
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Father Frost (1965)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceA fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
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The Piano Teacher (2001)
★ 7.3/10Also romanceErika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.