Best movies like Yang Yang
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies similar to Yang Yang? Contribute your familiarity to guide others to films and tv series you've viewed previously that might interest them too. Assist in widening the network of individuals proposing videos to each other. We appreciate your involvement!
Plot Summary:
Yang-yang is a French-Chinese mix. She has never seen her French father. She does not speak a single French word. Her mum has re-married but she has been very lonely. She started working at the entertainment industry. The fact that she is a mix is a good selling point. The film depicts how Yang-yang dealt with her life, her relationships with men, with her mother and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Yang Yang (2009):
Similar in 84%
Amour (1970)
Plot Summary:
This three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the affections of the woman. Part two takes place in 1910 and finds an amorously unfaithful wife taking on her many lovers while her unsuspecting husband lurks nearby. The final part finds a count and countess engaging in extramarital affairs in France during the 1840s.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 78%
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: The Winter's Tale (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable, illustrating how uncontrollable emotions can range across gender, country, class and age. Its universe is full of monsters, gods and natural disasters with a colossal sweep that takes audiences from the stifling atmosphere of the Sicilian court to the unbuttoned joy of a Bohemian festival. Staged at the beautiful and iconic Globe Theatre in London, this new production is directed by Blanche McIntyre and stars Will Keen (The Crown, Wolf Hall) as Leontes, Priyanga Burford (W1A, Marcella) as Hermione and Annette Badland (East Enders, Father Brown) as Old Shepherd.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 86%
Hello Forever (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four courageous women are faced with the harsh realities of poverty, prejudice, and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, Philippines, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 82%
Change My Life (2001)
Plot Summary:
Nina is an unemployed actress who has just taken a lethal overdose of tranquilizers. Stumbling though the streets of Paris in a deathly haze, Nina collapses into unconsciousness. Fortunately for Nina, lonely Algerian Sami happened to jog by at just the right time. But as soon as Sami previously appeared, he vanishes back into the blackness of night, leaving the recovered Nina with no one to thank for saving her life. Determined to let her guardian angel know just how thankful she truly is, Nina discovers that Sami was once a promising long-distance runner whose dreams of Olympic stardom had been dashed, and who now scrapes by as a transvestite prostitute. Realizing that they've both hit rock bottom, Nina and Sami make a pledge to support one another to the point where they can both get clean and pursue their dreams before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, sincere, captivating
Similar in 90%
Egomania: Island Without Hope (1986)
Plot Summary:
There will be no other end to the world: fierce battles full of hatred and love for incest and wealth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: experimental
Similar in 75%
Fools (1970)
Plot Summary:
A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
Similar in 87%
The Love Cult (1966)
Plot Summary:
A magician/hypnotist gets the idea that he can make more money (and have a better time) by starting a sex cult than by continuing his magic act, so he becomes Brother Eros whose motto is "Love is all that counts.".
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
Similar in 85%
The House of Doves (1972)
Plot Summary:
The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love affair until Alexandra finds that he is being paid to be the companion of a rich older woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 88%
The Perfect Husband (1993)
Plot Summary:
Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife, but falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, UK, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: historical drama
Similar in 86%
Her Private Hell (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young Italian girl comes to London, and is tricked into posing nude for risqué magazines.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 88%
The Voice (1982)
Plot Summary:
An actress (Natalia Sayko) is faced with the job of dubbing her voice after the final version of her movie is wrapped. (All actors dub their lines for the master copy of a film.) But she is overcome by her own life-crisis that alters her plans -- just released from the hospital, she realizes that her illness is more than she can emotionally handle -- it will kill her eventually. Overwhelmed, she has to reconsider her simple task of dubbing from a completely new perspective. This film had an attendance of 2.3 million in the Soviet Union when it was released.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 87%
Miss Julie (2009)
Plot Summary:
Miss Julie has power over Jean because she's an aristocrat but he has power over her because he's a man. On Midsummer Eve this power battle turns to love which is consummated. But as each one battles for power, Jean convinces Miss Julie that the only way out is to kill herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
The Apple Tree of Paradise (1986)
Plot Summary:
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 82%
To You, From Me (1994)
Plot Summary:
A failed writer given to plagiarism gets a buzz at the door from a bright young working girl with a highly original approach to life and sex and his life and work is totally thrown off balance.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 79%
Under the Pavement Lies the Strand (1975)
Plot Summary:
West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics, interviews working women to find out how they deal with being both mothers and members of society.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: political, art house
Similar in 79%
V.D. (1961)
Plot Summary:
A high school track star's wedding plans are capsized by venereal disease and a bad, beautiful new girl in town. His coach and a physician steer him into the light again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
Bonobo (2014)
Plot Summary:
A happily married young couple must carefully evaluate their relationship and trust in one another, plus own moral standing when a potentially seedy yet highly financial offer is presented to them in a time of recession.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 77%
The Good Son (2011)
Plot Summary:
When his mother takes a shine to a man at a party, a young man begins to lose his grip on reality. Initial release: March 25, 2011 (Finland) Director: Zaida Bergroth Editor: Jan Forsström Music composed by: Mi and L'au Awards: Jussi Award for Best Leading Actress.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Similar in 77%
Things We Do for Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 75%
Ploy (2007)
Plot Summary:
A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, tense, mind bending, serious, contemplative, sexual, erotic
Similar in 84%
Tabu (1988)
Plot Summary:
Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mother, but the daughter tries to seduce him at all costs. He becomes the lover of both women, but eventually runs away leaving the mother shattered and the daughter pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 78%
Smooth Operator (1995)
Plot Summary:
Megan Hughes plays Grace Nichols, a businesswoman constantly competing with men to get ahead. Unfortunately, her love life is also suffering. One day, while chomping on a donut, she realizes she's put on a few pounds. She decides to get back in shape, and asks her secretary Angie Li (Candace Kita) if she could recommend a good personal trainer. Angie recommends Brian Lerner (Doug Jeffery), a guy Angie's also been sleeping with for the last few months. Of course, Grace doesn't know that. Grace meets up with Brian, and it's innocent at first. She tosses on the workout clothes, he comes over to help her out with exercising, and goes home. Simple enough, right? However, this is a softcore flick, so you know the sex is coming. Eventually, Grace asks Brian to accompany her to a formal dinner.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
Similar in 79%
Return of the Secret Society (1968)
Plot Summary:
Babette and her sexual exploits, narrating her Emmanuelle-style lustful encounters in the big city. Babette needs cash, contacts a photographer, and enters a new society where she satisfies her carnal desires. Soon, as her lesbian awakening flourishes, Babette will meet the "daughters of lesbos" and the rest is history.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 86%
The Trade Off (2013)
Plot Summary:
A man is forced to re-evaluate the choices he's made in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, serious, disturbing, erotic drama, independent film, black comedy
Similar in 83%
Buried Cain (2014)
Plot Summary:
Buried Cain is a steamy southern gothic drama about two brothers, Christian and Cain, who have only two things in common - their love for their small town southern home and their love for the same woman - the girl they call 'Georgia'. Their country love gets more complicated as childhood friend Faith and newcomer Grace, all the way from Hollywood, are also thrown into the love triangle. They each must ask themselves-how far you would go and what you would do for love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, touching, suspense
Similar in 81%
Avargal (1977)
Plot Summary:
A triangular love story, it revolves around Anu (Sujatha) who is caught between Bharani (Ravikumar), the man she fell in love with and Ramanathan (Rajinikanth), her former sadistic husband who is supposedly reformed and wants to rejoin her and Janardhan (Kamal Haasan)a silent lover lurking on the sidelines.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 79%
You (2007)
Plot Summary:
Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her husband, her son and her profession to live this frenzy through to its conclusion. A quest for freedom and change that sends Michèle on a turbulent drift, but remains, nevertheless, intimate and personal.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy
Similar in 77%
Gisela (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and Gisela evidently knew each other as teenagers. They live on the same scheme and George introduces her to his friend Paul. There is instant mutual attraction. Gisela spontaneously goes to a party that they invite her to that evening, where she and Paul begin a sexual relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Similar in 89%
Libido (1973)
Plot Summary:
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of a priest and a nun in love. The stories define the exploration of women and the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic, independent film
Similar in 81%
Rieke's Love (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young figure-skater becomes jealous when her brother, also a young figure-skater, falls for another young female figure-skater. She thought she was all that he needs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, bleak, captivating, erotic