Movies like Cloud 9
If Cloud 9's mix of infidelity, new love and lovesickness stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Cloud 9's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
2007 · Directed by Mike Newell · 139 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: new love, extramarital affair · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2000s)
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily.
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Dying Young
1991 · Directed by Joel Schumacher · 111 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: new love, falling in love · Also drama and romance
After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer.
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Iris
2001 · Directed by Richard Eyre · 91 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: new love, retiree · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2000s)
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
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Romeo and Juliet
1968 · Directed by Franco Zeffirelli · 138 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: new love · Also drama and romance
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
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We Live in Time
2024 · Directed by John Crowley · 108 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: relationship · Also romance and drama
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
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American Beauty
1999 · Directed by Sam Mendes · 122 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: cheating, extramarital affair
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.
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The Time Traveler's Wife
2009 · Directed by Robert Schwentke · 107 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: relationship · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (2000s)
Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.
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Challengers
2024 · Directed by Luca Guadagnino · 132 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: infidelity · Also drama and romance
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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How to Make an American Quilt
1995 · Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse · 116 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: extramarital affair · Also drama and romance
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady Joe Cleary, in Grasse,…