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10 Best Movies Like The Significant Other

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

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#1
Blind

Blind

2017★ 6.2

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

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife ...

#2
Raising Helen

Raising Helen

2004★ 6.1

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

Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose...

#3
Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

1996★ 6.9

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

Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves....

#4
Dot the I

Dot the I

2003★ 6.0

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

A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore....

#5
The Ring

The Ring

1927★ 5.9

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

Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort....

#6
Not Easily Broken

Not Easily Broken

2009★ 6.3

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

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

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