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Movies like Love the One You're With

The best movies like Love the One You're With are Cedar Rapids (2011), The Night Before (1988) and Crazy Heart (2009). If Love the One You're With hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Cedar Rapids (2011)

    A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  2. The Night Before (1988)

    A popular beauty surprisingly asks a nerd to take her to the prom. He wakes up hours later in a sleazy alley. She's missing but he remembers nothing about it.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  3. Crazy Heart (2009)

    When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  4. U Turn (1997)

    When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  5. Hancock (2008)

    Hancock is a down-and-out superhero who's forced to employ a PR expert to help repair his image when the public grows weary of all the damage he's inflicted during his lifesaving heroics. The agent's idea of imprisoning the antihero to make the world miss him proves successful, but will Hancock stick to his new sense of purpose or slip back into old habits?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  6. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

    Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  7. The Doors (1991)

    The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  8. American Honey (2016)

    A restless teenager escapes her troubled home and joins a traveling crew of young drifters selling magazines across the American Midwest. Immersed in a world of reckless partying, risky hustles, and fleeting romances, she searches for freedom and belonging on the open road.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  9. The Professor (2019)

    A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  10. Thunder Road (1958)

    Unrepentant Tennessee moonshine runner Luke Doolin makes dangerous high-speed deliveries for his liquor-producing father, Vernon, but won't let his younger brother Robin join the family business. Under pressure from both out-of-town gangster Kogan, who wants a piece of the local action, and Treasury agent Barrett, who wants to destroy the moonshine business, Luke fights for his fast-fading way of life.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  11. Empire Records (1995)

    The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try to stop the store from being absorbed by a large chain.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  12. Everything Must Go (2011)

    When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  13. Trojan War (1997)

    Brad is about to hook up with the girl of his dreams, but runs into a problem, no condom. So Brad sets out into the night to find one, running into many obstacles along the way, while not knowing his best friend, Leah is in love with him.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  14. Excess Baggage (1997)

    A rich brat fakes her own kidnapping, but in the process ends up locked in the trunk of a car that gets stolen.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  15. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

    Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  16. 50 First Dates (2004)

    Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and again. That's because the delightful Lucy has no short-term memory, so Henry must woo her day after day until he finally sweeps her off her feet.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  17. The Wrong Missy (2020)

    A guy meets the woman of his dreams and invites her to his company's corporate retreat, but realizes he sent the invite to the wrong person.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  18. Black Snake Moan (2006)

    A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  19. Lost Highway (1997)

    A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  20. Out of the Blue (1981)

    A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Love the One You're With?

The closest matches to Love the One You're With are Cedar Rapids (2011), The Night Before (1988) and Crazy Heart (2009). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Love the One You're With?

Start with Cedar Rapids (2011), the closest match to Love the One You're With.

What is the highest-rated movie like Love the One You're With?

Lost Highway (1997), rated 7.6/10 by 3,131 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Love the One You're With?

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Love the One You're With?

Yes: Cedar Rapids (2011), The Night Before (1988) and Crazy Heart (2009).

How are movies similar to Love the One You're With chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Love the One You're With, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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