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10 Best Movies Like The Bad Intentions

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

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#1
Walking and Talking

Walking and Talking

1996★ 6.0

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

Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back....

#2
Starving in Suburbia

Starving in Suburbia

2014★ 6.5

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

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site ...

#3
Bastard Out of Carolina

Bastard Out of Carolina

1996★ 7.2

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

A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

#4
Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

2004★ 6.8

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

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote....

#5
Love & Sex

Love & Sex

2000★ 6.1

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

When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of th...

#6
He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

1991★ 5.8

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

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing...

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