Best movies like Little Children
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Plot Summary:
The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: sexual, disturbing, sexy, psychological, melancholic, emotional, serious, erotic, realistic, depressing
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The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
Plot Summary:
The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must soon choose between the holy or the sinful life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: controversial, harsh, stylized, touching, realistic, sexual, emotional, erotic, hispanic, disturbing
Similar in 86%
Lantana (2001)
Plot Summary:
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller, tense, realistic, talky, sexy, neo noir
Similar in 81%
The Piano (1993)
Plot Summary:
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, France, New Zealand
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: period piece, psychological, sexual, scenic, serious, sexy, erotic, melancholic, stylized, heartbreaking
Similar in 86%
Faithless (2000)
Plot Summary:
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by Markus' decision not to let her have custody of their daughter. Finally Markus announces he may have a solution to the stalemate, but this leads to deception, lies and ultimately, tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, atmospheric, lyrical, tense, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, depressing, erotic
Similar in 84%
Jude (1996)
Plot Summary:
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: emotional, erotic, period piece, romantic, depressing, bleak, thought provoking, bad ending, anamorphic, cult classic
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Last Night (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental, reflective, sexy, psychological, touching, enigmatic, talky, sincere
Similar in 81%
The Center of the World (2001)
Plot Summary:
A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap dancer at a club. He's depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with investors. He wants a connection, so he offers her $10,000 to spend three nights with him in Vegas, and she accepts with conditions. Is mutual attraction stirring?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, enigmatic, emotional, serious, sex comedy, realistic, psychological, explicit
Similar in 78%
Newness (2017)
Plot Summary:
In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, social, art house, erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, independent film
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Far from Heaven (2002)
Plot Summary:
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, stylized, depressing, visual, psychological, tense, visually stunning, erotic, touching
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Lie with Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Happily unattached, the sexually voracious Leila satisfies her desires with a host of rapidly changing bed partners, unconcerned about the emotional consequences. But that all changes when she meets an artist looking for a deeper commitment.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, sexual, serious, romantic, sincere, bleak, realistic, eros
Similar in 77%
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 222000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak, sad, emotional, serious, romantic, romantic drama
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Plot Summary:
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, sensual, controversial, art house, psychological, witty, talky, postmodern, mumblecore, black comedy
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The Ice Storm (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. Young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: depressing, realistic, intense, visually appealing, existential, cerebral, visual, bleak, emotional, gloomy
Similar in 75%
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Plot Summary:
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: depressing, melancholic, disturbing, sexual, sad, emotional, heartbreaking, touching, bleak, talky
Similar in 79%
Lady Chatterley (2006)
Plot Summary:
French adaption of DH Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Winner of the 2007 Cesar Award for Best Film.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, touching, sexual, sincere, erotic, costume drama, eros, sensual, historical drama
Similar in 79%
Come Undone (2010)
Plot Summary:
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker Domenico and the two begin a passionate affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sincere, touching, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, art house, explicit
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Head-On (2004)
Plot Summary:
Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, bleak, emotional, breathtaking, serious, disturbing, touching, melancholic, independent film
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We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
Plot Summary:
Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. Learning of their partners' infidelity, Terry and Hank engage in their own extramarital affair together. Now, both marriages and friendships are on the brink of collapse.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: emotional, stylized, psychological, touching, sincere, contemplative, erotic, realistic, scary, sensual
Similar in 77%
Close My Eyes (1991)
Plot Summary:
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sensual, bleak, stylized, sexy, erotic, thought provoking, offbeat, sexual
Similar in 76%
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Plot Summary:
In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break the hearts of rich young women. But sensitive Doug has a real romance with Pamela, which Jacey and the Abbott patriarch, Lloyd, both frown upon.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: emotional, erotic, romantic, sweet, sincere, melancholic, period piece, realistic, talky, cult classic
Similar in 76%
Lolita (1997)
Plot Summary:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexual, sexy, melancholic, disturbing, cynical, sensual, romantic, intellectual
Similar in 80%
Damage (1992)
Plot Summary:
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological, sensual, emotional, realistic, non-linear, romantic
Similar in 78%
Blue Valentine (2010)
Plot Summary:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 208000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, romantic, psychological, sad, sexy, depressing, heartbreaking, independent film, melancholic
Similar in 75%
The Painted Veil (2006)
Plot Summary:
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking, melancholic, costume drama, romantic, period piece, atmospheric
Similar in 87%
White Palace (1990)
Plot Summary:
Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, romantic, sensual, sentimental, touching, spiritual, romantic drama, steamy
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The Reader (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 256000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: melancholic, sexy, touching, sexual, psychological, emotional, erotic, heartbreaking, romantic, romantic drama
Similar in 82%
Unfaithful (2002)
Plot Summary:
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, suspenseful, sensual, gloomy, psychological, suspense, psychosexual thriller
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The Voyeur (1994)
Plot Summary:
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sensual, gloomy, romantic, disturbing, controversial, eros, erotic drama, sexy
Similar in 79%
Monster's Ball (2001)
Plot Summary:
Set in the southern USA, a racist white man, Hank, falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's inter-racial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, depressing, emotional, realistic, sexy, touching, melancholic, compassionate, sensual, tense
Similar in 84%
American Beauty (1999)
Plot Summary:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: melancholic, thought provoking, dark comedy, sexual, cerebral, dramatic, sexy, black comedy, tragicomedy, cynical