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Movies Like City Life

If you liked City Life (2009), a movie directed by Robert Boggs, 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.

  1. 1Your Friends & Neighbors

    Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Restless and unhappy, two couples get caught up in infidelity and deception. Barry is a sullen businessman married to Mary, a writer who is unsatisfied with their relationship. Mary begins an affair with Jerry, a smug…

  2. 2Porno

    Porno (2019)

    ★ 6/10

    When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.

  3. 3King Cobra

    King Cobra (2016)

    ★ 5.8/10

    It’s 2006, YouTube is in its infancy, and internet porn is still behind a paywall. Taking the stage name Brent Corrigan, a fresh-faced, wannabe adult video performer is molded into a star by Stephen, a closeted gay…

  4. 4Pretty Persuasion

    Pretty Persuasion (2005)

    ★ 5.8/10

    A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.

  5. 5Shame

    Shame (2011)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up…

  6. 6The Man from Elysian Fields

    The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

  7. 7Auto Focus

    Auto Focus (2002)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters…

  8. 8Jawbone

    Jawbone (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner…

  9. 9Below Her Mouth

    Below Her Mouth (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.

  10. 10Pimp

    Pimp (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10

    An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and…

  11. 11Newness

    Newness (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.

  12. 12Rise of the Footsoldier

    Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.

  13. 13GirlHouse

    GirlHouse (2014)

    ★ 6/10

    In an attempt to make some extra cash while away at College, Kylie moves into a house that streams content to an X-rated website. After a deranged fan hacks in to determine the house's location, she finds herself in a…

  14. 14Carnal Knowledge

    Carnal Knowledge (1971)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.

  15. 15Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years

    Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years (2025)

    ★ 7.2/10

    In what might be his most personal and introspective hour yet, Bill offers hilarious takes on everything from male sadness to dating advice.

  16. 16Unfaithful

    Unfaithful (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

  17. 17In the Blood

    In the Blood (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10

    When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

  18. 18The Dreamers

    The Dreamers (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10

    When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

  19. 19Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

    Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)

    ★ 6.3/10

    After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife, Carol, find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best…

  20. 20The Little Death

    The Little Death (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A comedy film that looks into the loosely connected lives of people with strange sexual fantasies.

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