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10 Best Movies Like Better Than Escape

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

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#1
Strangers When We Meet

Strangers When We Meet

1960ā€¢ā˜… 6.3

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

A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street....

#2
Hello I Must Be Going

Hello I Must Be Going

2012ā€¢ā˜… 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Better Than Escape for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce....

#3
Inventing the Abbotts

Inventing the Abbotts

1997ā€¢ā˜… 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Better Than Escape for fans of Romance & Drama. 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...

#4
Not Easily Broken

Not Easily Broken

2009ā€¢ā˜… 6.3

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

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple....

#5
Deep Water

Deep Water

2022ā€¢ā˜… 5.8

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

A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers....

#6
Nothing in Common

Nothing in Common

1986ā€¢ā˜… 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Better Than Escape for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage....

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