Movies Like

Last Tango in Halifax (2012) TV Show

7.1 57 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.

Plot: northern england, yorkshire, love, romance, school, farmer, second marriage, dark secret, ...

Cast

Monia Chokri

Niels Schneider

Xavier Dolan

Anne Dorval

Heartbeats (2010)

7.1 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Montreal coffee shop. The two friends, instantly and equally infatuated, compete for Nicolas' indeterminate affections, a conflict that climaxes when the trio visit the vacation home of Nicolas' mother. The frothy comedy unfolds through narrative, fantasy sequences and confessional monologues.

Plot: love triangle, menage a trois, love, tension, lgbt, sentimental, ambivalent

Cast

Nastassja Kinski

Peter Firth

Leigh Lawson

John Collin

Tess (1979)

7.1 380 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 172 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumour that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge.

Plot: rape, based on novel or book, peasant, marriage, love, revenge, murder, mansion, ...

Time: 19th century

Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

7.1 4.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 180 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

Plot: homophobia, self-discovery, eroticism, coming of age, love, lesbian relationship, sexual attraction, based on graphic novel, ...

Cast

Ilene Woods

Eleanor Audley

Verna Felton

Claire Du Brey

Cinderella (1950)

7.0 7.2K votes

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 74 min.

Audience: G

Story: Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, the spell is broken, leaving a single glass slipper... the only key to the ultimate fairy-tale ending!

Style: whimsical

Plot: princess, based on novel or book, loss of loved one, mouse, ball, fairy, cartoon, prince, ...

Cast

Gary Cooper

Audrey Hepburn

Maurice Chevalier

John McGiver

Love in the Afternoon (1957)

7.0 337 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with a client's wife.

Plot: hotel, paris, france, based on novel or book, romcom, playboy, love, private detective, ...

Starstruck (2010)

7.0 1.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 80 min.

Story: Pop star Christopher Wilde has fame, fortune and a big-budget Hollywood movie awaiting him. But after meeting Jessica Olson, a down-to-earth girl from the Midwest, he is faced with following his heart or doing what's best for his career.

Plot: beach, sibling relationship, pop singer, paparazzi, romcom, celebrity, love, hiding, ...

Wild at Heart (1990)

7.0 1.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

Style: melancholy

Plot: witch, hotel room, based on novel or book, hitman, car journey, new orleans, louisiana, dark comedy, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Richard Gere

Debra Winger

Louis Gossett Jr.

David Keith

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

7.0 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.

Plot: navy, love of one's life

Mildred Pierce (2011) TV Show

7.0 267 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.

Plot: based on novel or book, infidelity, restaurant, strong woman, business woman, respect, daughter, rags to riches, ...

Time: great depression, 1930s

Place: california

Cast

Warwick Davis

Val Kilmer

Joanne Whalley

Patricia Hayes

Willow (1988)

7.0 2.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.

Plot: mission, hero, baby, monster, magic, prophecy, falsely accused, traitor, ...

After We Fell (2021)

7.0 2.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: Just as Tessa's life begins to become unglued, nothing is what she thought it would be. Not her friends nor her family. The only person that she should be able to rely on is Hardin, who is furious when he discovers the massive secret that she's been keeping. Before Tessa makes the biggest decision of her life, everything changes because of revelations about her family.

Plot: based on novel or book, family history, sequel, love, teenage crush, woman director, family tension, zealous, ...

Love & Other Drugs (2010)

7.0 5.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.

Plot: letter, sexual freedom, love, viagra, free spirit, parkinson's disease, pills

Cast

Iain Stirling

Ariana Madix

Love Island USA (2019) TV Show

7.0 177 votes

Genre: Reality

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 271

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The matchmaking begins as a group of single "Islanders" come together in a stunning villa on a beautiful tropical island, ready to embark on a summer of dating, romance, and ultimately, relationships. Every few days the Islanders pair up and those who are not coupled are at risk of being dumped from the island. Islanders are on the lookout for romance, but the road to love doesn't always run smoothly.

Plot: ocean, villa, beach, game show, vacation, love, romance, dating, ...

Cast

Dulquer Salmaan

Nithya Menen

Prakash Raj

Leela Samson

O Kadhal Kanmani (2015)

7.0 68 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Aadi and Tara fall in love but both hate the idea of marriage and plan to separate when their lives take them to different countries. However, as they grow closer, their emotions are not easily managed.

Plot: husband wife relationship, alzheimer's disease, love, open relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sexual relationship, live in relationship

Cast

Sandra Bullock

Bill Pullman

Peter Gallagher

Peter Boyle

While You Were Sleeping (1995)

7.0 2.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.

Plot: chicago, illinois, coma, sibling relationship, love of one's life, holiday, brother, subway, ...

Cast

Taylor Russell

Timothu00e9e Chalamet

Mark Rylance

Anna Cobb

Bones and All (2022)

7.0 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance

Country: Italy, United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Style: intimate, suspenseful

Plot: based on novel or book, sense of guilt, homelessness, addiction, road trip, love, interracial romance, teenage girl, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Rachel Weisz

Max Minghella

Oscar Isaac

Ashraf Barhom

Agora (2009)

7.0 1.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

Country: Spain

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.

Plot: new love, roman empire, christianity, philosophy, cult, historical figure, sword fight, love, ...

Time: 5th century, antiquity

Place: egypt

Cast

Jane March

Tony Leung Ka-fai

Fru00e9du00e9rique Meininger

Arnaud Giovaninetti

The Lover (1992)

7.0 767 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

Plot: lolita, virgin, based on novel or book, age difference, arranged marriage, lover, affectation, saigon, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: vietnam, southeast asia

Cast

Dilip Kumar

Prithviraj Kapoor

Madhubala

Durga Khote

Mughal-e-Azam (1960)

7.0 61 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 197 min.

Story: In the 16th century, when Prince Salim falls in love with a beautiful courtesan named Anarkali, Emperor Akbar's disapproval leads to a battle between father and son.

Plot: empire, dancer, emperor, prince, forbidden love, courtesan, love, tragedy, ...

Time: 16th century

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