Movies like Once Is Not Enough
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Once Is Not Enough (1975)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
Style:
sexy, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual
Plot:
age difference, older man younger woman relationship, lesbian wife, film producer, obsession, love triangle, family relations, parents and children, hollywood, love and romance, singleness, fall in love, sexual relations, couples, gays and lesbians, love affair, infidelity, battle of the sexes, dishonesty, nudity, lesbian, passion, cheating wife, seduction, lesbian sex ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and sexual films with plots about couples, love and romance, infidelity, love affair, fall in love, love triangle and family relations mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Once Is Not Enough: John and Mary (1969), A Perfect Stranger (1994), Love Letters (1983), The Dark Side of Tomorrow (1970), Tempted (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A story of love and obsession. A young radio personality who, after her mother dies, discovers she had been having a love affair for 15 years. Now she finds herself recreating her mother's romance by getting involved with a married man.
Style:
independent film, sexy, erotic, sexual, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
strong sexual content, radio, radio dj, love affair, obsession, erotica, husband wife relationship, loss of mother, love letter, female protagonist, mistress, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
While their husbands are away on a hunting trip, two bored housewives get together to commiserate. One thing leads to another, and they wind up in bed. For one of the women the incident was just a pleasant diversion, but for the other it's ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, sexy, erotic, serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbianism, sex, female nudity, sexual revolution, jealousy, thirtysomething life, friends, couples, gender, couple relations, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
37%
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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:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
lovers reunited, love affair, teenage life, couples, couple relations, fall in love, infidelity, bittersweet, male female relationship, age difference, young love, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the bestselling novel by Joanna Trollope Recently returned to England from New York City, vivacious heiress Clodagh Unwin befriends a couple new to her village. The husband is entranced by the young aristocrat, but Clodagh has eyes for ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sensual, sincere ...
Plot:
lesbian, village life, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, closeted homosexual, adultery, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship, family relations, infidelity, husband wife relationship, lesbian love, family life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
32%
24K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style:
sexy, sincere, suspenseful, enigmatic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, obsession, teacher student sex, male teacher female student affair, couples, infidelity, love and romance, male female relationship, hospital, love story, hedonism ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Claire of the Moon is set in the 1990s in the Pacific Northwest. Claire Jabrowski, a famous heterosexual author, decides to attend a retreat for all-female writers. Claire's rommate at the retreat is Dr. Noel Benedict, author of a book called ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, independent film, erotic, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, gays and lesbians, passionate sex, lesbian sex, lesbian love, nudity, lgbt, love triangle, bare breasts, female nudity, masturbation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A secret and deep passion marks the life of a young doctor, and threatens the existence of those around him.
Style:
realistic, serious, sexual, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
love triangle, tragic love, woman, dull life, family relations, family problems, couples, dishonesty, unsupportive spouse, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, young lovers ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
galicia
Similarity:
31%
22K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forbidden love, adultery, love affair, sex, obsession, infidelity, sexuality, dangerous attraction, femme fatale, passion, sex scene, love triangle ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, palm springs california, paris france, london, brussels ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer. Director Guy Green's bittersweet romance, released in 1970, stars Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Fritz Weaver, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love, professor, love triangle, sex crime, family relations, dysfunctional family, infidelity, unfulfillment, protagonist as suspect, love and romance, crumbling marriage, dishonesty ...
Time:
60s
Place:
tennessee, virginia, new york
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Irene, a thirty-something housewife with a successfull husband and a young son, has her life thrown in a spin when she becomes attracted to Billy, a member of a landscape crew outside her house. When Irene's husband and son leave for a weekend ...
Style:
sexual, erotic, sexy, sensual, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, adultery, outdoor sex, lesbianism, sex, infidelity, unfaithful wife, menage a trois, lake, obsession, horny wife, love affair ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Style:
serious, emotional, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, forbidden love, betrayal, tragic love, love triangle, family relations, tragic hero, tragedy, unsupportive spouse, destructive relationship, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy, semi autobiographical
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, infidelity, crumbling marriage, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, opposites attract, couples, dull life, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, normandy
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
open relationship, love triangle, suburbs, polygamy, farm, friendship, widow, narration, friends, couples, small town life, fall in love ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
Style:
costume drama, romantic, romantic drama, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
imperial russia, relationships, infidelity, true love, betrayal, cheating wife, victorian england, age difference, forbidden love, love, death, cuckolded husband ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1997, turn of the century, 1880s
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two young couples in New York-one black and gay, one white and heterosexual-find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy.
Style:
sexy, homoerotic, semi serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
gay african american, gay, gender, infidelity, gay relationship, lgbtq, love and romance, battle of the sexes, looking for love, sexual relations, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
making love, male nudity, outdoor sex, bare breasts, bullfighting, female nudity, romantic relationship, seduction, love, sex scene, infidelity, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio Naccarelli seems to always know where the mother and daughter will sightsee next. Signor Naccarelli ...
Style:
retro, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
mentally challenged, mental retardation, summer, disability, parent child relationship, bittersweet, family relations, couples, family problems, youth, couple relations, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, florence, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, forbidden love, love, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, farm, male female relationship, post war, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe, italy
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Nathan and Maggie are in the throes of a passionate affair. They're young, good-looking, and both have boyfriends. When Nathan is assigned to write a travel article on romantic hot-spots in Napa Valley, these unconventional lovers test the ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
infidelity, homosexual, bisexual, self discovery, love affair, love triangle, couples, destructive relationship, youth, lifestyle, young lovers, journalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, san francisco
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
adultery, love affair, deception, greed, couples, family problems, fall in love, dishonesty, society, crumbling marriage, parents and children, affair ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
italy, england, britain, europe, london ...
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success. But a car crash is all that needs to make him reconsider the life he leads. Searching for the happiness he lost, he remembers his one time lover, Gwen. Meanwhile his wife ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
advertising executive, midlife crisis, redheaded woman, naked woman, time travel, inspiration, mental health, car accident, infidelity, manipulation, unfulfillment, feminism ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
america
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, impossible love, lovers reunited, couples, fall in love, tragic love, relationships, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, betrayal, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young roommate.
Style:
sexy, sincere, captivating, light, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love triangle, nightclub, friendship, love and romance, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, youth, infidelity, young lovers, forbidden love, tenant, aunt nephew relationship ...
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
nudity, making love, infidelity, sexual attraction, seductive, sex scene, adultery, biopic, couples, gays and lesbians, journalism, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
rome italy, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style:
stylized, realistic, captivating, sentimental, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, loneliness, literary, bare breasts ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, 70s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of straight-edge literature professor Vivian who travels to Reno to get away from a relationship breakup when she falls in love with an attractive and unconventional girl named Cay.
Style:
sexy, touching, sentimental, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lgbtq, gender, sapphic, divorce, self discovery, desert, lesbianism, lesbian relationship, passionate kiss ...
Time:
50s, year 1959, year 1985, 60s, 1950s
Place:
nevada, indiana, usa, san francisco, reno nevada
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental
Audience:
date night
Plot:
polio, disability, terminal illness, songwriter, love, lawyer, family relations, couples, couple relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, young lovers ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
30%
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