Movies like Pretty Baby
Pretty Baby (1978) is a drama movie directed by Louis Malle. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Redeeming Love (2022)
★ 7.8 · 780 votes · Romance, Drama, Western
A young couple's relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. Angel, experiencing love for the first time and facing demons unsurmountable, runs from the new life she doesn't believe she deserves. When Michael sets out to find her, Angel discovers that she indeed has the power to choose the life she wants.
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2. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
★ 7.6 · 3,481 votes · Drama, Romance, History
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
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3. Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
★ 7.7 · 630 votes · Comedy, Crime, Action
Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60's Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box.
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4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
★ 7.2 · 481 votes · Drama, Western
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
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5. Spider-Man (2002)
★ 7.4 · 21,573 votes · Action, Sci-Fi
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.
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6. Sex Drive (2008)
★ 6.4 · 1,535 votes · Comedy, Adventure, Romance
A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.
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7. Porky's (1981)
★ 6.4 · 1,007 votes · Comedy
In 1954 Florida, a group of high school boys head to a strip club in the Everglades in an attempt to lose their collective virginity. When the club's owner and his sheriff brother swindle them out of their money and embarrass them, the boys plan revenge.
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8. The Lover (1992)
★ 7.0 · 789 votes · Drama, Romance
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
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9. Closer (2004)
★ 6.8 · 3,843 votes · Drama, Romance
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
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10. The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
★ 7.7 · 2,455 votes · Drama, Romance
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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11. Blow-Up (1966)
★ 7.3 · 1,431 votes · Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
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12. The Mechanic (2011)
★ 6.5 · 3,747 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling the birth of a deadly partnership.
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13. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
★ 7.4 · 5,209 votes · Crime, Fantasy, Drama
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
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14. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
★ 7.9 · 12,285 votes · Drama, History
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
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15. A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)
★ 6.8 · 445 votes · Drama
A headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
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16. Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
★ 6.6 · 441 votes · Drama
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
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17. sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
★ 7.0 · 1,094 votes · Drama
Ann, a frustrated wife, enters into counseling due to a troubled marriage. Unbeknownst to her, her husband John has begun an affair with her sister. When John’s best friend Graham arrives, his penchant for interviewing women about their sex lives forever changes John and Ann’s rocky marriage.
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18. The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
★ 6.5 · 611 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
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19. Shaft (1971)
★ 6.4 · 443 votes · Crime, Thriller, Drama
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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