Movies like The Boyfriend

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The Boyfriend (2012)
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The Boyfriend (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Story: Lily is a young woman stuck in a violent relationship with James whom she no longer loves. After several years of physical abuse, Lily has now become a silent and obedient victim who’s everyday task is to please James and submit to his demands and authority in order to save herself. Lily’s true love is Zac, a past boyfriend who has started to spend a lot of time around the couple and begins to question Lily’s injuries before discovering the truth.
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: violence against women, boyfriend, violence, psychopath, psycho, relationships, romantic relationship, love and romance, male female relationship, social problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, social issues, couple relations, power relations, love, domestic violence, cheating, abuse, punch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, romantic, disturbing and entertaining films with plots about love and romance, relationships, couple relations, love affair, male female relationship, romantic relationship and boyfriend girlfriend relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Boyfriend: Dreamy Eyes (2019), Love for Life (2011), Mother's Red Dress (2011), My Friend's Mom (2016), Loco Love (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dreamy Eyes (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Mắt Biếc (Dreamy Eyes) tells the story of the one-sided love of Ngan for Ha Lan — his childhood friend.
Style: romantic, captivating, disturbing, sincere
Plot: love and romance, love story, couple relations, relationships, love affair, romantic friendship, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, romantic relationship, true love, love
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95%
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Love for Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in a small Chinese village where HIV virus is spreading rapidly as a result of illicit blood trade, Mo shu wai zhuan revolves around De Yi and Qinqin are both estranged from their respective family because of their disease and unexpectedly find ...
Style: romantic, captivating
Audience: date night
Plot: aids, romancing partners, male female relationship, illness, relationships, social problems, love and romance, hiv, hiv positive, fighting illness, love story, love affair ...
Place: china
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82%
Mother's Red Dress (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Laura Ullman, a single mother, kills her abusive ex-boyfriend and turns the gun on her son when he threatens to call the police. Paul leaves home to start a better life and falls for Ashley, a young woman looking for direction in her life, unaware ...
Style: captivating, romantic, suspense, independent film
Plot: love, murder, domestic violence, fall in love, love and romance, memories, confronting the past, romantic relationship, couple relations, dealing with the past, romantic friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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71%
My Friend's Mom (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After her mother dies, Young-jae visits her older sister's house, who took care of herself like her, and reunites with her sister, Soon-ae. She is incredibly greedy and charming. With the provocation of Soon-ae, the two develop into a secret ...
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: love affair, love story, male female relationship, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, couples, parents and children, romantic relationship, family problems, love and romance, new love ...
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70%
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Loco Love (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young man and woman fall in love but are threatened to be torn apart by the tensions between their Latino and Caucasian communities in Arizona.
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: fall in love, father son relationship, love and romance, in love, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, community, love story, society, male female relationship, couple relations, romantic relationship ...
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66%
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Love Returns (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: The drama follows the life a woman who ends up losing everything after living a turbulent life. When she starts anew from the bottom, ironically, her life blossoms. The value that holds us together is not blood nor law, but rather love and affection ...
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, romantic relationship, relationships, love story, couple relations, love and romance, love affair
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Love on the Rise (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Victoria Worthington is a talented cake decorator who watches life from the sidelines, as she delivers her fancy cakes to weddings, galas, and fabulous parties, while she goes home exhausted. While delivering one of her cakes, she mistaken a ...
Style: feel good, romantic, captivating
Plot: love and romance, romantic relationship, in love, fall in love, relationships, couple relations, relationship vs career, love affair, male female relationship, candy store, love, baker ...
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63%
Hot Sweet Sour (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Murat and Duygu are deeply in love and when they graduate from College Murat takes the leap and asks Duygu for her hand in marriage but he doesn't get the answer he was looking for. They both agree that if they're both single in five years ...
Style: romantic, captivating, entertaining
Plot: unrequited love, love and romance, love story, relationships, love interest, romantic relationship, in love, change of luck, love affair, first love, couple relations, friends ...
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62%
Satellite of Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Catherine and Blake just tied the knot. Samuel and Catherine have a long and intimate history which is significant to the fact that Samuel and Blake are best friends. When Samuel decides not to attend their wedding under some pretense that no one ...
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: love triangle, friendship, romantic triangle, couple relations, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unrequited love, relationships, love affair, love and romance, romantic relationship, husband wife relationship ...
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61%
Love Is Thicker Than Water (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Vida and Arthur come from vastly different backgrounds. Sensitive and touching, sometimes quirky and tragic, always uncompromisingly truthful, a fresh look how conflicting family ties challenge love in a modern day Romeo and Juliet tale.
Style: romantic, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, independent film
Plot: romantic relationship, relationships, couple relations, love and romance, love story, social problems, male female relationship, society, in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, social differences ...
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61%
Midnight My Love (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film features a change of pace for comic actor Petchtai, who offers a sombre, dramatic portrayal of a taxicab driver who develops a relationship with a young woman (Woranut, in her debut feature film role) who is working in a massage parlor. The ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: taxi driver, friendship, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, couple relations, male female relationship, love story, relationships, romantic relationship, loneliness, working class ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Iddari Lokam Okate (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A series of coincidences brings two star-crossed lovers together, but fate pulls them apart until they encounter each other again in Hyderabad.
Style: entertaining, touching, sentimental, emotional, romantic ...
Plot: female protagonist, couple relations, male female relationship, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, love and romance, love affair, love, relationships
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Juliet in Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Francis Ng is Jordan, a low level triad who finds himself strangely attracted to divorced restaurant hostess Juliet (Sandra Ng), who’s had a mastectomy and has since retreated into a shell. Through coincidence, the two form a makeshift family with ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: tragic romance, love story, love affair, male female relationship, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, romantic relationship, in love, shakespeare ...
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60%
One Moment More (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Jerry is a wide-awake tourist guide in Cebu who knows all the angles, and who has supported his divorced mother and younger brother and sister since their musician father deserted the family for a younger woman. Jerry guides tour buses, taking the ...
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, in love, romantic friendship, male female relationship, love affair, love and romance, romantic relationship, couple relations, love story, love interest, relationships, photographer ...
Place: the philippines
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59%
The Father's Love (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Struggling to find fulfillment in relationships, Sarah discovers that forgiveness is the key to true love.
Style: captivating, romantic, independent film, christian film
Plot: interracial love, interracial romance, relationships, love interest, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, love story, romancing partners, romantic relationship, male female relationship, fall in love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Lead with Your Heart (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ben and Maura have been married for years, and they are in a rut…so much of a rut that they are contemplating if it would be better to live separate lives. That’s when their two teenage children step in and scheme to try to get them back ...
Style: romantic, captivating, emotional
Plot: husband wife relationship, love and romance, relationship problems, marital problem, family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, small town life, relationships, couple relations, family problems, romantic relationship ...
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56%
The Heart of the Bear (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia, Czech Republic, Germany, Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation. The natives he meets introduce him to the myths of the north. The first is a young village teacher who ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: love and romance, myth, couple relations, legends and myths, romantic relationship, redemption, love story, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, wilderness, bear, relationships ...
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56%
Girlfriend Kontrak (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Girlfriend Kontrak tells a story of kampung girl, Alisa (Nur Risteena) and her mission to save fireflies and their habitat from being demolished to make way for an architectural project. In her mission to save the fireflies, she decides to leave ...
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: village, millionaire, class differences, businessman, business, salvation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, romantic relationship, relationships, couple relations, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Closer to Heaven (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A funeral director meets a man who has been battling Lou Gehrig's disease since he was young. The two fall in love and hope for a cure that can keep him alive.
Style: romantic, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot: romantic relationship, love and romance, relationships, fighting illness, couple relations, male female relationship, love story, love affair, fall in love, in love, terminal illness, director ...
Place: south korea
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54%
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A Stray Goat (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story: High school student Min-sik moves to a rural village with his family. There he meets Ye-joo, a classmate who became a social outcast after her father was accused of murder.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, romantic
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, couple relations, adolescence, high school sweetheart, social problems, teenage boy, relationships, teen romance, love, love and romance, love interest ...
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52%
Masters of Love (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An engaging, smart and wry take on the British rom-com, offering dark comic twists as it explores love and isolation in our technological age.
Style: romantic, captivating, entertaining, funny, feel good ...
Plot: in love, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, love affair, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance, relationships, couple relations, friends
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52%
A Tale of Love and Desire (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ahmed, 18, is French of Algerian origin. He grew up in the Parisian suburbs. On the benches of the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian full of energy recently arrived from Tunis. While discovering a body of sensual and erotic Arabic ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling, romantic
Plot: love, interracial relations, cross cultural relations, interracial romance, love and romance, love interest, couple relations, love affair, romantic relationship, male female relationship, relationships, social problems ...
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52%
My Friend's Older Sister (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Joon-soo learns that his friend Hee-gyu's sister Hee-jin has no where to go after being scammed, so he suggests living with him. The two start living together. They are close like brother and sister but they can never be that. The two start ...
Style: romantic, captivating, disturbing, erotic
Plot: friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love triangle, love, seductress, couples, seduction, love interest, attempted seduction, romantic relationship, couple relations, love and romance ...
Place: south korea, korea
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51%
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Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Márta, a 40-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man she loves. But she waits for him at the Liberty Bridge in vain - he does not appear at their ...
Style: captivating, romantic, anamorphic
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, relationship vs career, love affair, new job, fall in love, love interest, new life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, in love, male female relationship, new love ...
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48%
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Heartlock (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a female guard becomes a prisoner of his mind, a male inmate struggles to keep the truth from escaping.
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: relationships, husband wife relationship, reformatory, male female relationship, romantic relationship, couple relations, in love, prisoner, love and romance, love interest, imprisonment, love story ...
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45%
To Love Somebody (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Over the span of several weeks, two couples, who have been close friends for years, face several life-altering traumas out of their control. Mike and Meryl are recovering from their son's death and their inability to communicate. Joanna and Tim ...
Style: captivating, romantic, erotic
Plot: relationships, friend, parenthood, motherhood, miscarriage, dead child, love story, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, male female relationship, romantic relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Mischievous Kiss the Movie Part 2: Campus (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on a popular manga series of the same name, this Japanese romantic comedy sequel continues the story of Kotoko, a bubbly and cheerful girl and her crush, the handsome and aloof Naoki, as they enter the same university. Although they are in ...
Style: light, entertaining, captivating, romantic, romantic comedy
Plot: love story, love and romance, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, romantic relationship, fall in love, in love, university, male female relationship, love affair, love ...
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45%
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Space & Time (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: As they quickly approach their thirtieth birthdays, academic physicist Siobhan and her photographer boyfriend Sean realize they failed to answer key questions about themselves and their relationship. Their devotion to each other is further tested ...
Style: romantic, captivating, psychological
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship, couples, relationship problems, couple relations, family crisis, love story, love affair, love and romance, romancing partners, male female relationship, relationships
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44%
Love Mocktail (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Love Mocktail is a 2020 Indian Kannada-language romantic drama film directed by Krishna in his director debut and jointly produced by Krishna, Milana Nagaraj. The film stars Krishna, Milana Nagaraj in the lead roles. The film was released on 31 ...
Style: kannada, captivating, funny, light, romantic ...
Plot: love, romantic relationship, looking for love, in love, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, fall in love, couples, relationships, love affair, love story ...
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43%
Love from the Hood (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Living and working in the colorful neighborhood, La Lagunilla, two friends, Paloma and Laura, long for respective boyfriends and true love. Paloma, a law student and waitress, falls for Daniel, a wealthy doctor with a manipulative mother and a ...
Style: romantic, disturbing, captivating, telenovela
Plot: relationship problems, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, love affair, love story, relationships, love and romance, couples, male female relationship, couple relations, romantic relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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