Movies like Materialists
If Materialists's mix of love triangle, wedding and class differences stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Materialists's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Challengers
2024 · Directed by Luca Guadagnino · 132 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle, ex-boyfriend ex-girlfriend relationship · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2020s)
Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the…
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It Ends with Us
2024 · Directed by Justin Baldoni · 131 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2020s)
When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for…
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Love Story
1970 · Directed by Arthur Hiller · 100 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: class differences · Also romance and drama
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore.
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Last Chance Harvey
2008 · Directed by Joel Hopkins · 99 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: wedding · Also drama and romance
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport pub, Harvey meets Kate, a British…
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Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Directed by Charlie Kaufman · 124 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: ambivalent
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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Purple Hearts
2022 · Directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum · 122 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso romance and drama · From the same decade (2020s)
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.