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10 Best Movies Like 42plus

If you loved 42plus, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Comfort of Strangers

The Comfort of Strangers

1990★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 42plus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice....

#2
Careful What You Wish For

Careful What You Wish For

2015★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 42plus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil hi...

#3
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything

2023★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 42plus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age....

#4
The Only Living Boy in New York

The Only Living Boy in New York

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 42plus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well....

#5
Alex of Venice

Alex of Venice

2015★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 42plus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by hers...

#6
Mammal

Mammal

2016★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 42plus for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his i...

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