If you loved Cruel Intentions, try Beautiful Disaster

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Beautiful Disaster has roughly 4.0× fewer votes than Cruel Intentions — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Roger Kumble, and they both carry the cozy mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to Cruel Intentions, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Beautiful Disaster is

Here's a film that thinks it's breaking bad. A co-ed with a hidden past attempts to avoid a campus delinquent, despite some inconvenient chemistry. It's not exactly a disaster, but the "beautiful" part is up for debate.

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