Variant (2020)

Just when you think it's safe to start flirting with handsome older men at the farmer's market, they end up being overly familiar and creepy, but still kind of dreamy, so you go out with him and then he consistently ends up in the same coffee shop or grocery store or street you park on...  This 2020 Sci-Fi thriller follows the unemployed and struggling to keep it together Aria (Ashlynn Yennie).  Aria seemingly randomly meets Joel (Dino Antoniou), who pretty much always says the right things at the right times, and is also always in the right place at the right time for her to bump into him.  While Aria has been burned in the past with relationships, she decides to pawn him off on her friend MacKenzie (Sonalii Castillo), who after sleeping with Joel finds pictures of Aria in his dresser drawer while snooping around.  It turns out Joel doesn't have eyes on MacKenzie at all, but Aria was always his target and his goal...  To relive the perfect moment with Aria, over and over again, as they somehow used to be connected in some way in the past, or maybe another universe, or another dimension.  Any reality she wakes up in, she doesn't have a choice even though the only thing she wants is to get away from Joel, but it starting to look like he controls her world!  Ashlynn Yennie is likely the most recognizable name in this one because she is the final link in the classic gross-out horror flick The Human Centipede (2009), but it's the creepy and sexy older man that steals the show for the fellas in this one as Dino Antoniou breaks it down a couple of times, but alas, we only get a blurry shot of those buns outside of him being shirtless on occasion.