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10 Best Movies Like Cruel Intentions

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

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#1
Lolita

Lolita

1997★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cruel Intentions for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Cha...

#2
Inventing the Abbotts

Inventing the Abbotts

1997★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cruel Intentions for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer...

#3
Fifty Shades Darker

Fifty Shades Darker

2017★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cruel Intentions for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance. As the two begin to b...

#4
Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

2006★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cruel Intentions for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go ...

#5
Close My Eyes

Close My Eyes

1991★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cruel Intentions for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional....

#6
The Crush

The Crush

1993★ 6.6

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

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences....

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