Movies Like Christine's Secret
If you liked Christine's Secret (1986), a romance movie directed by R. Lauren Niemi and Candida Royalle, 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)
★ 6.1/10Also 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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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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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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Walking on Sunshine (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceSet to the music of popular hit 1980s songs. A beautiful coastal village, present day Italy. After a whirlwind romance, Maddie is preparing to marry gorgeous Italian Raf, and has invited her sister Taylor to the…
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2 Days in Paris (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also romanceMarion and Jack try to rekindle their relationship with a visit to Paris, home of Marion's parents — and several of her ex-boyfriends.
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Goosed (1999)
★ 3.5/10Also romanceSheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marry a rich doctor. After Charlene's psychic predicts that her future lover is named Steven, she heads to L.A. to search…
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FC Venus (2006)
★ 5.9/10Also romanceAnna is persuaded by her boyfriend Paul to move from Berlin to his home town of Imma. What the notorious soccer hater doesn't know, however, is that joining his best friend Steffen's law firm is just a pretext. In…
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Away from Her (2007)
★ 7/10Also romanceFiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets…
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Children of a Lesser God (1986)
★ 6.9/10Also romanceStarting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school as a member of the custodial staff. In spite of Sarah's withdrawn…
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Three Big Breasted Sisters Meat Clams (1999)
★ 2/10Also romanceThree beautiful sisters, Toko, Tamako, and Kyoko, run a bento shop during the day and an adult entertainment business at night. It was the three's dream to create an orphanage for children who were in the same…
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Taste of Love (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceAfter an ambiguous Snapchat video featuring Bilel and Adil, rumors start spreading about the two friends. To save their reputation, each of them tries to find a girlfriend. Their hunt for a date doesn’t quite go as…
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Love Letter (1953)
★ 7.2/10Also romanceFive years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.
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Damn Poverty! (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also romanceMuhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace prize winner, is known in the whole world as the banker of the poor, because he pioneered and tested a funding system in Bangladesh: by lending little sums of money to the less well-off with…
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also romanceAfter her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
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French Twist (1995)
★ 6.1/10Also romanceAfter learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
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Across the Universe (2007)
★ 7.1/10Also romanceWhen young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing…
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Charles and Lucie (1979)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceAn old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary daily routine is disrupted by the surprising news that they have…
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Amsterdam to Anatolia (2019)
★ 4.8/10Also romanceElissa's life takes a turn when she meets a mysterious man in her English class and she has to quickly decide between her family and him- and going from family-life to a life on the run is a wild choice to everyone but…
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Love Life (2007)
★ 4.5/10Also romanceA married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
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I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also romanceA transhumanist romance in the near future. A young boy of modest origins, Marcus, an H- , falls madly in love with an H+.