Movies like The Good Girl

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The Good Girl (2002)
 6.4
 47K
The Good Girl (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Style: dark comedy, realistic, sincere, independent film, melancholic, disturbing, intense, humorous, semi serious, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: small town, older woman younger man relationship, dull life, mental illness, dysfunctional marriage, suicide, workplace, infidelity, adultery, dark humor, lie, blackmail, marriage, suburban life, friendship, drug, lifestyle, masturbation, cheating wife, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, depression, older woman younger man sex, moral ambiguity, jealousy ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century, contemporary
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, california
Keyword: gangsters, dreams

Most similar movies to The Good Girl

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, romantic, touching and serious films with plots about couples, love and romance, husband wife relationship, adultery, infidelity, love affair and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Good Girl: Shopgirl (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), Friends with Money (2006), Blue Valentine (2010), Last Night (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.3
 25K
Shopgirl (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Mirabelle is a disenchanted salesgirl and aspiring artist who sells gloves and accessories at a department store. She has two men in her life: wealthy divorcée Ray Porter and struggling musician Jeremy. Mirabelle falls in love with the glamorous ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, reflective, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: depression, older man younger woman relationship, fall in love, artist, salesman, love, love story, honest, couples, age difference, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Friends with Money (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
Style: sexy, melancholic, stylized, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, shopping, midlife crisis, maid, money problems, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment, master and servant, power relations, looking for love, women ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 210K
Blue Valentine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style: touching, romantic, psychological, emotional, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, alienation, strong sexual content ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.5
 51K
Last Night (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Style: melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental, sexy, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: infidelity, adultery, temptation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love story, relationships, unfaithful husband, love and romance, old love, unfaithful wife, trust, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, france, philadelphia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Remember that really cute guy who said he'd call – and didn't? Maybe he lost your number. Maybe he's in the hospital. Maybe he's awed by your beauty, brains or success. Or maybe... he's just not that into you.
Style: romantic, sexy, funny, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: women, love story, love affair, love and romance, looking for love, couple relations, singleness, infidelity, single woman, best friends in love, dating, mentor ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.2
 36K
Adore (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering ...
Style: sexy, emotional, romantic, erotic, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, lust, older woman younger man sex, sexual tension, adultery, sexual relations, love affair, sex, older woman teenage boy relationship, mother son relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.6
 15K
Moonlight Mile (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style: sentimental, emotional, realistic, clever, art film ...
Plot: murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, fall in love, haunted by the past, death in the family, family problems, grief, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 2002, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.0
 3K
Texasville (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. ...
Style: independent film, crying, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: depression, dysfunctional family, small town, midlife crisis, homecoming, wealth, husband wife relationship, nostalgia, mental illness, reconciliation, dysfunctional marriage, dog ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.6
 10K
Five Times Two (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles ...
Style: sexy, enigmatic, psychological, sensual, stylized ...
Plot: divorce, sex, infidelity, rape, adultery, wedding, wedding night, unfaithful wife, relationships, husband wife relationship, up and down relationship, family life ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, sardinia, europe, senegal, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.0
 18K
She's the One (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence. Though they disagree about everything, they have one ...
Style: talky, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: infidelity, unlikely friendships, relationships, taxi driver, unlikely couple, dangerous attraction, wedding, love of one's life, sibling relationship, love affair, siblings relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.5
 17K
Feast of Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Style: touching, romantic, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, lesbian, lesbian sex, love, friendship, woman on top, coffee shop, female nudity, american football, sex on first date, female pubic hair, small town ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style: melancholic, stylized, emotional, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: age difference, self discovery, depression, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, starting over, love and romance, family life, love affair, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2009, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Style: romantic, emotional, period piece, heartbreaking, intense ...
Plot: love affair, infidelity, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, unhappy marriage, judge, unfaithful wife, suicide attempt, unfulfilled love, love, depression, family problems ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The End of the Affair (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his ...
Style: romantic, erotic, intellectual, heartbreaking, enigmatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, obsessive love, obsession, infidelity, jealousy, love affair, private detective, passion, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place: london, england, brighton, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, depressing, teen, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: suicide, suburbs, depression, overbearing parent, suicide attempt, teenager, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, teenage life, coming of age, friendship, suicidal ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: michigan, detroit, yale university
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.2
 48K
Candy (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, romantic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heroin, drug abuse, addiction, junkie, drug addict, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, obsession, drug, love story, love, mental illness ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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One Night Stand (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, intense, light, touching ...
Plot: male female relationship, love triangle, infidelity, friendship, one night stand, justice, adaptation, adultery, interracial romance, couples, family problems, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, new york, los angeles, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Style: sexy, touching, romantic, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cheating wife, infidelity, hippie, bittersweet, coming of age, love affair, summer vacation, lust, erotica, family relations, secret relationship, sex in car ...
Time: 60s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: new york, usa, woodstock, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 98K
Unfaithful (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, unfaithful wife, lust, sex, cheating wife, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, fatal attraction, extramarital affair, dangerous attraction, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Daydream Nation (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.
Style: melancholic, witty, teen, sweet, surreal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, sexual relations, teenage life, teenage love, coming of age, love triangle, nymphet, small town, love, teenager, depression, storytelling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 5K
The Mother (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A grandmother has a passionate affair with a man half her age, who is also sleeping with her daughter.
Style: psychological, touching, erotic, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, love affair, age difference, older woman younger man sex, extramarital affair, mother daughter relationship, incest, relationships, secrets, infidelity, loneliness, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2003
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 7.0
 49K
Waitress (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, feel good, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, toddlers ...
Plot: pregnancy, domestic violence, cooking and food, small town, doctor, waitress, unwanted pregnancy, workplace, unplanned pregnancy, single mother, abusive husband, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Bright Days Ahead (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, crying
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, cheating wife, older woman younger man sex, dentist, extramarital affair, sexual attraction, self discovery, against the rules, starting over, young at heart, love affair, retirement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Good Lawyer's Wife (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bored, horny, and frustrated, a woman begins an affair with a teenage boy.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, erotic, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, teenage sexuality, love affair, older woman younger man sex, sexual content, infidelity, sexually frustrated woman, sexually dissatisfied wife, family problems, family relations, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Falling in Love (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, light, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, love and romance, christmas, love story, adultery, bookstore, friendship, extramarital affair, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, women ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.
Style: black and white, sentimental, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, friendship, high school, older woman younger man relationship, self discovery, teenager, elopement, nostalgia, graduation, death, depression ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1971, year 1951 ...
Place: texas, usa, austin texas, midwest, oklahoma ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.6
 15K
The Lifeguard (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.
Style: independent film, serious, touching, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: teenager, older woman younger man relationship, childhood, lifeguard, sex scene, coming of age, swimming pool, relationships, older woman younger man sex, school, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut, pittsburgh, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 8.3
 1.2M
American Beauty (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style: melancholic, thought provoking, dark comedy, sexual, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place: usa, america, los angeles, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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