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10 Best Movies Like Surviving Desire

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

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#1
Smart People

Smart People

2008★ 5.8

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

Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and famil...

#2
Mumford

Mumford

1999★ 6.5

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

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quir...

#3
Camille

Camille

2008★ 6.2

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

A twisted honeymoon adventure about a young couple on their way to Niagara Falls....

#4
The Mirror Has Two Faces

The Mirror Has Two Faces

1996★ 6.7

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

Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been...

#5
Enemies, a Love Story

Enemies, a Love Story

1989★ 6.2

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

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife....

#6
The Best You Can

The Best You Can

2025★ 7.0

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

Cynthia Rand is a buttoned-up New Yorker married to a brilliant professor 25 years her senior. She begins feeling the effects of her husband’s advancing age on their relationship, ...

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