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Movies Like Tight & Tender

If you liked Tight & Tender (1985), a movie directed by Xavier Drake, 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. 1Mansfield Park

    Mansfield Park (1999)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.

  2. 2Someone Great

    Someone Great (2019)

    ★ 6.4/10

    An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, she and her two best friends spend one…

  3. 3Duplex

    Duplex (2003)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

  4. 4Glengarry Glen Ross

    Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

    ★ 7.3/10

    An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.

  5. 5Players

    Players (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10

    New York sportswriter Mack has spent years devising successful hook-up "plays" with her friends, but when she unexpectedly falls for one of her targets, she must learn what it takes to go from simply scoring to playing…

  6. 6Book Club: The Next Chapter

    Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country…

  7. 7Intolerable Cruelty

    Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

    ★ 6/10

    A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.

  8. 8Tootsie

    Tootsie (1982)

    ★ 7.2/10

    When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.

  9. 9That Touch of Mink

    That Touch of Mink (1962)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a…

  10. 10How to Be Single

    How to Be Single (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10

    New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions…

  11. 11Heartbreakers

    Heartbreakers (2001)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then…

  12. 12Valley Girl

    Valley Girl (1983)

    ★ 6/10

    Julie, a girl from the valley, meets Randy, a punk from the city. They are from different worlds and find love. Somehow they need to stay together in spite of her trendy, shallow friends.

  13. 13One of Them Days

    One of Them Days (2025)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Best friends and roommates Dreux and Alyssa are about to have One of Them Days. When they discover Alyssa’s boyfriend has blown their rent money, the duo finds themselves going to extremes in a comical race against the…

  14. 14Pretty Woman

    Pretty Woman (1990)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Vivian is a carefree, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets sophisticated billionaire Edward in a chance encounter that turns into a week-long business arrangement. But Vivian's energetic spirit challenges…

  15. 15Hollywood Dirt

    Hollywood Dirt (2017)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Hollywood arrives in force to Quincy, the small town where the secret Crown Cola billionaire's live. They want to film about the billionaire's and how they made their fortunes. Summer Jenkins, who was the town pariah…

  16. 16The Last Showgirl

    The Last Showgirl (2024)

    ★ 6.4/10

    When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, a glamorous showgirl must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the community she has built as she plans her next act.

  17. 17Zola

    Zola (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A waitress agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domineering roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek their fortune at a high-end strip club.

  18. 18Magic Mike

    Magic Mike (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Mike, an experienced stripper, takes a younger performer called The Kid under his wing and schools him in the arts of partying, picking up women, and making easy money.

  19. 19Little Brother

    Little Brother (2026)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A tightly wound realtor's picture-perfect life gets an extreme makeover when his lovably chaotic "little brother" suddenly reappears.

  20. 20The Knack... and How to Get It

    The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)

    ★ 6/10

    A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help…

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