Movies Like Boiling Desires
If you liked Boiling Desires (1986), a romance movie directed by Carlos Tobalina, 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)
★ 6.1/10Also 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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Circuit (2001)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceThe hunky John is a closeted small-town cop who moves to L.A., where he is quickly seduced into the gay life of workouts and dusk-to-dawn parties. With actual circuit party footage and mounds of glistening and chiseled…
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Addicted to Love (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceGood-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do — go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building…
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American Pie (1999)
★ 6.7/10Also romanceAt a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a…
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Color of Night (1994)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceA color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group and becomes embroiled in an intense affair with a mysterious woman who may be connected to the crime.
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Five Times Two (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also romanceAs young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to…
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Lolita (1997)
★ 7.1/10Also romanceHumbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed…
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The Cooler (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also romanceBernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But…
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Stakeout (1987)
★ 6.5/10Also romanceTwo detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
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Private School (1983)
★ 5.7/10Also romancePrivate-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual…
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Lara (2013)
★ 2/10Also romanceA music and a couple, the beginning and the end. After leaving his ex-girlfriend, man looks for other women.
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Bitter Moon (1992)
★ 7.1/10Also romanceA passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
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Going the Distance (2004)
★ 5.5/10Also romanceNick is a successful young man whose comfortable West Coast life couldn't be better. However, when his girlfriend falls under the influence of lecherous music producer Lenny Swackhammer, Nick impulsively decides to…
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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.
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A Snake of June (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also romanceRinko, a woman in a sexless marriage, is blackmailed by a stalker with intimate photos, forcing her into a series of erotic acts that disrupt her mundane life.
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Sins of the Flesh (1974)
★ 4.9/10Also romanceBenoit has been driven to voyeurism and impotence due to having a cold, treacherous industrialist as a father and an exhibitionist aunt who constantly parades around nude. Jean-Pierre is a thief. Isabelle is a runaway…
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The Cry of the Owl (1987)
★ 5.3/10Also romanceRobert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler…
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Dark Room (1983)
★ 5.6/10Also romanceA writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his lovers uses his affairs for the subjects of his novels.