Movies Like Cabaret Desire
If you liked Cabaret Desire (2011), a romance movie directed by Erika Lust, 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)
★ 6/10Also 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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Berlin am Meer (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also romanceTom and Malte are best friends; they make music together, DJ in Berlin clubs, dream of a career together, party until they drop, wait tables at a casting service and yet they are very different: Tom struggles with…
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Make It Happen (2008)
★ 6/10Also romanceEmbarking on a journey to fulfill her dreams as a dancer, a young girl discovers a new style of dance that will prove to be the source of both conflict and self-discovery.
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An Affair to Remember (1957)
★ 7.4/10Also romanceA couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building - but will it happen?
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The Oh in Ohio (2006)
★ 5.3/10Also romanceFrustrated with their relationship, Priscilla and Jack decide to take a break. While Jack moves into a new place of his own and starts dating a student, Priscilla discovers the joys of self-pleasuring and finds an…
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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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Prime (2005)
★ 6/10Also romanceA career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
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Staying Alive (1983)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceFive years later, Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever still burns. Now he's struts toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
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Only in Moonlight (2026)
Also romanceA vampire stumbles into a nightclub, and tries to satiate his new blood lust while struggling to adjust to his supernatural disposition.
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The Ladies (2023)
Also romanceIn the middle of two disappointing nights out, Kate and Lucy find themselves in the ladies. They begin as strangers but the mystical powers of this nightclub bathroom brings them closer together.
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The Birdcage (1996)
★ 7/10Also romanceA gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.
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Ibiza (2018)
★ 5.7/10Also romanceShe could do the responsible thing. Or she could go to Ibiza with her best friends to chase down a hot DJ. Easy choice.
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Playboy of Paris (1930)
★ 7/10Also romanceYvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon…
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Moulin Rouge! (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceA celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge…
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36 Fillette (1988)
★ 5/10Also romanceA 14-year-old pursues romance with a man while vacationing with her family in Switzerland.
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Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber (2005)
★ 4.5/10Also romanceKatya Livingston, a self-centered, obnoxious and conceited 28-year-old ad sales exec, won't let anything or anyone stand in her way in getting to the top of the San Francisco social ladder. When tax inspectors question…
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The Right Way (1970)
★ 5/10Also romanceAli gets a job and, by dint of dedication and patience, achieves a significant promotion and ends up becoming the manager of the company, as well as winning Meltem's love. However, this is not to the liking of his…
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54 (1998)
★ 5.9/10Also romanceWhen the mastermind behind New York's infamous Studio 54 disco plucks young Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, he not only gets his foot in the door, but lands a coveted job behind the bar…