Movies Like Plato's Retreat West
If you liked Plato's Retreat West (1983), a movie directed by Ray Dennis Steckler, 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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Palm Swings (2017)
★ 5.9/10After moving to Palm Springs, a young married couple puts their love to the test when they discover that their neighbors are swingers.
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A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (2011)
★ 5.8/10A group of 30-year-olds who have been friends since high school attempt to throw an end-of-summer orgy.
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Shortbus (2006)
★ 6.2/10In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics…
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A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
★ 6.6/10Despite being well into adulthood, brothers Doug and Steve Butabi still live at home and work in the flower shop owned by their dad. They exist only to hit on women at discos, though they're routinely unsuccessful…
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The Overnight (2015)
★ 5.9/10Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.
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Exotica (1994)
★ 6.6/10In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he…
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Road House (1989)
★ 6.8/10The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than…
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The Long Weekend (2005)
★ 5.8/10Cooper is an actor who sees life as one big party, while Ed is in advertising and takes life too seriously. When Ed gets stressed over a deadline he has to meet, his brother Cooper works hard in trying to get his…
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Young People Fucking (2007)
★ 5.9/10On a Tuesday night, five couples have separate sexual adventures. Matt and Kris, friends for years, want to have an only-once, no-strings good time. Abby and Andrew, married, celebrate his birthday, but it's marred by…
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Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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Step Up 3D (2010)
★ 6.8/10A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip-hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will…
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How to Be Single (2016)
★ 6.3/10New 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…
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Prizzi's Honor (1985)
★ 6.4/10Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley…
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Splendor (1999)
★ 6.2/10Veronica is a white-bread beauty searching for a good man in Los Angeles. While slam dancing at a Halloween rave, she meets Abel, a sensitive poet. Then she meets Zed, a supersexy tattooed drummer with incredible…
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'Round Midnight (1986)
★ 7.1/10Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon…
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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
★ 6.2/1086-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
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Anora (2024)
★ 7.1/10A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to…
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Magic Mike (2012)
★ 6.2/10Mike, 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.
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My Generation (2017)
★ 7/10The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.
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The First Wives Club (1996)
★ 6.7/10After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a…