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Love Sick: Secrets of a Sex Addict (2008)
378
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Sue Silverman feels 'neglected' in bed by her hard-working husband Andrew and serially seduces men to 'meaningless' motel sex, even Rick Hudson, a contractor and fellow fund-raiser. After being swept into bed at work by French architecture writer Laurent Dekker, Sue seeks help from Dr. Robert Gardener, who discovers a childhood root cause. Andrew is no longer interested by the time she's ready for addict clinic, and temptation lurks even there.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, psychological, sexual, sexy
Plot:
infidelity, obsession, introspection, addiction, life is a bitch, sexual relations, couples, doctors and patients, crumbling marriage, abuse, neglectful husband, sexual content, unfulfillment, biopic, sex, writers, party, sex scene, architect, child rape, father daughter relationship, female writer, love affair, husband wife relationship, childhood trauma ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Love Sick: Secrets of a Sex Addict
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sexy films with plots about couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, infidelity, couple relations, husband wife relationship and crumbling marriage mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Love Sick: Secrets of a Sex Addict: Addicted (2014), I Love You Too (2001), Sex, Lies & Obsession (2001), Permanent Midnight (1998), Mahler on the Couch (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
Style:
sexy, psycho sexual, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
temptation, infidelity, attraction, obsession, cheating wife, unhappy marriage, illicit affair, lust, unfaithful wife, marriage, horny wife, lie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
While camping in France, Eric and Eddy fall in with two women. Eric talks to Silke, a Ugandan studying medicine in Holland. She tells him about her life and asks about the book he's writing: it's the story of his love affair with Reza. He ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, sexual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
making love, losing-it hero, infidelity, lifestyle, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, destructive relationship, couple relations, love affair ...
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
adultery, sex addict, sexual relations, infidelity, obsession, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, couples, family relations, family problems, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
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51%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ben Stiller plays comedy writer Jerry Stahl, whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores memories with survivor Kitty, who ...
Style:
intense, factual, depressing, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
addiction, drug, writers, heroin, drug abuse, husband wife relationship, drug addict, human nature, drug addiction, lifestyle, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 80s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa, beverly hills, pittsburgh, new jersey
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, death of child, separation, infidelity, suicide attempt, grieving, breakup, life turned upside down, grief, loss of son, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, serious, art house
Plot:
psychoanalysis, musician, infidelity, love triangle, couples, love affair, artists and showbiz, couple relations, love and romance, composer, crumbling marriage, doctors and patients ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, 1900s
Place:
germany, europe, holland, amsterdam, vienna
Similarity:
51%
212
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Gabe and Kakela are happily engaged couple in the mountain of Calabasas, CA. Gabe works as a horse riding instructor and Kakela is a trying-to-be writer. They live in house complex with Nina who is currently separated from her husband. One day, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, love affair, couple relations, breakup, vengeance, downfall, introspection, jealousy, seduction, sex scene, romantic triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the set of Cleopatra, Hollywood's most beautiful star, Elizabeth Taylor, fell into the arms of one of the world's greatest actors, Richard Burton - and she didn't leave. Their subsequent white-hot, scandalous love affair gave rise ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
actor's life, couples, hollywood, couple relations, renewed love, paparazzi, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, infidelity, actress, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
rome italy, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
49%
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568
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, romantic drama, sexual ...
Plot:
adultery, fall in love, love triangle, love affair, family relations, couples, parents and children, infidelity, last wish, funeral, love and romance, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, boston, usa, oceania
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the book Crossed Over: A Murder/A Memoir by Beverly Lowry, Crossed Over tells the true story of a woman, Beverly Lowry, who after the tragic hit-and-run death of her teenage son, sinks into a deep depression. Lowry and her supportive ...
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot:
obsession, family problems, hopes, life is a bitch, human nature, murder, estrangement, redemption, friendship, curses spells and rituals, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, texas, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who is dying.
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, sexy
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, infidelity, passion, feeling, bittersweet, love and romance, opposites attract, fall in love, crumbling marriage, aging, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, commitment, bare breasts, love, nudity, couple relations, love and romance, singleness ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Told from the male perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Style:
serious, sincere, psychological, touching, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
couple relations, life turned upside down, love affair, love and romance, crumbling marriage, career change, breakup, couples, love, bar owner, suicide attempt, death of child ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
Style:
serious, stylized, period piece, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, writers, war correspondent, divorce, biopic, media, spanish civil war, journalism, journalist, fame, world war two, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
europe, usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poetry, parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, couple relations, writer's life, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, writers, biopic, flashback, professional, art ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 80s ...
Place:
usa, new york, detroit
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic husband Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
husband wife reunion, alcoholics anonymous, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, obsession, fall in love, college graduate, couples, love and romance, family problems, couple relations, world war one ...
Time:
future, 1930s, year 1951, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
vermont, europe, washington d.c., canada, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
48%
523
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
dysfunctional marriage, terminal illness, lifestyle, life is a bitch, relationship problems, family problems, crumbling marriage, infidelity, husband wife relationship, depression, father son relationship, loss of father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press ...
Style:
touching, contemplative, talky, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
introspection, elderly, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, parents and children, unfulfillment, dealing with death, biopic, writers, poet, son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
48%
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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, erotic, melancholic, light, intense ...
Plot:
one night stand, male female relationship, female orgasm, love triangle, infidelity, friendship, interracial romance, couples, adultery, justice, adaptation, dialogue ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, california, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Trapped in a loveless marriage, a troubled writer experiences a sexual awakening when she meets a carefee American in Italy.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
writers, sexually dissatisfied wife, older woman younger man relationship, love affair, cheating wife, female writer, neglectful husband, relationship problems, creative block, love and romance, writer's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant, and protégé who later wrote a memoir of their time together.
Style:
serious, clever, realistic, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
prodigy, life is a bitch, showbiz, crumbling marriage, split personality, mental illness, family problems, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, terminal illness, writers ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
During a car accident, Vincent Eastman watches his whole life flash before his eyes, and he doesn't like what he sees. While maintaining the semblance of a marriage with his wife, Sally, Vincent has been carrying on with a mistress, Olivia. ...
Style:
sexy, bad ending, erotic, sexual, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
unfaithful wife, illicit affair, affair, destiny, love, architect, hospital, marriage, chess, adultery, female nudity, sex ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
vancouver, canada, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style:
mumblecore, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz, actor's life, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, family relations, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man... to the dismay of those close to her.
Style:
sexual, political, independent film, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, philosopher, individualism, unfaithful husband, libertarian, russian woman, art, biopic, marriage, bookstore, extramarital affair ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 80s, 70s, 1950s ...
Place:
california, new york, manhattan new york city, los angeles
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, sexual abuse, obsession, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional marriage, nudity, infidelity, erotica, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, beverly hills
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style:
intellectual, talky, clever, witty, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
biopic, addiction, loveless marriage, female nudity, flapper, poetry, prohibition, women, female writer, friendship, hotel, unrequited love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, serious
Plot:
love triangle, politics, love affair, dishonesty, head of state, couples, infidelity, rivalry, state affairs, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, touching, sexual, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, cheating on husband, sex scene, forbidden love, couples, love affair, extramarital affair, adultery, horny wife, sexually dissatisfied wife, husband wife relationship, sexual intercourse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and constantly harasses him. She reappears again and again on Rímini's horizon to reconquer ...
Style:
serious, realistic, erotic, sexual, melancholic ...
Plot:
couples, breakup, family problems, crumbling marriage, obsession, introspection, downfall, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, mentally unstable, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
writers, art, poet, swing, biopic, couples, love affair, small town, artists and showbiz, writer's life, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
alabama
Similarity:
47%
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