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10 Best Movies Like The Stud

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

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#1
Exotica

Exotica

1994★ 6.6

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

In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealo...

#2
Groove

Groove

2000★ 6.1

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

An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene....

#3
Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

1977★ 6.4

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

A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of ...

#4
The Man from Elysian Fields

The Man from Elysian Fields

2001★ 5.9

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

A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husb...

#5
Flashdance

Flashdance

1983★ 6.5

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

Alex Owens, a young woman juggling between two odd jobs, aspires to become a successful ballet dancer. Nick, who is her boss and lover, supports and encourages her to fulfil her dr...

#6
Two Moon Junction

Two Moon Junction

1988★ 6.0

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

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a loca...

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