Movies like Mrs. Harris

If you like "Mrs. Harris" you are looking for clever, serious and realistic movies about / with crimes of passion, murder, obsession, addiction, vengeance, destructive relationship and womanizer themes of Drama genre shot in UK or USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Mrs. Harris (2005)
 5.9
 2K
Mrs. Harris (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
Style: clever, serious, realistic, witty, biting, crying, detective, suspense
Plot: crimes of passion, murder, obsession, addiction, vengeance, destructive relationship, womanizer, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, love affair, infidelity, drug abuse, dishonesty, couple relations, serial killer, doctor, jail, medicine, suicide, doctor patient relationship, stage play, unfulfillment, christmas, sex ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 60s, year 1976, year 1980, 1960s
Place: new york, florida, philadelphia, virginia
Keyword: jewish

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to Mrs. Harris

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and gloomy films with plots about couples, infidelity, husband wife relationship, love and romance, death, sex and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Mrs. Harris: Down to the Bone (2004), A Killing in a Small Town (1990), Nine Lives (2005), Leo (2002), Sex, Lies & Obsession (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Down to the Bone (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, emotional, scary ...
Plot: addiction, infidelity, rehabilitation, cocaine, dysfunctional family, going straight, working class, drug abuse, family life, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, cliche ...
Place: new york, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
A Killing in a Small Town (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The gory ax-murder of one mousy, suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: self-defense. Could it be so?
Style: spooky, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot: self defense, lawyer, extramarital affair, true crime, law, serial killer, murder, couples, dangerous attraction, vengeance, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.7
 7K
Nine Lives (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Style: emotional, intense, talky, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional family, pregnancy, friendship, abortion, family relations, multiple storylines, couples, family problems, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, love affair ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.5
 1K
Leo (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, sincere ...
Plot: released from prison, infidelity, prison, going straight, life is a bitch, family problems, love affair, prison life, confined, husband wife relationship, hot and sexy, pregnancy ...
Time: 60s
Place: mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Movie in collections
Sex, Lies & Obsession (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: adultery, sex addict, infidelity, obsession, dishonesty, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, couples, family problems, family relations, addiction, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Style: philosophical, meditative, bleak, depressing, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: philosophy, infidelity, adultery, destiny, false accusation, love affair, human nature, drug addiction, parents and children, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couples ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
A Map of the World (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting ...
Style: black comedy, realistic, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: sex crime, jazz, women, family relations, testimony, friendship, drowning, false accusation, sexual abuse, small town, dairy farm, female protagonist ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Someone I Touched (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that he has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, gloomy
Plot: infidelity, extramarital affair, pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, syphilis, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love triangle, couples, public health, marital reconciliation, fired from the job ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Movie in collections
Double Standard (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of a judge who lives a double life, and stays married to two women for more than 15 years. While one knows nothing of the other, his second wife doesn't care that he is married already as long as he comes home to her as well. ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sexual
Plot: love, couples, injustice, life is a bitch, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love triangle, infidelity, family relations, bigamist ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.7
 12K
Savage Grace (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, controversial, talky, emotional ...
Plot: incest, mother son incest, gay, murder, mother son relationship, adultery, sexual relations, older woman younger man, incestuous relationship, dysfunctional family, unhappy marriage, sex scene ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: europe, london, new york, spain, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Deputy and the Congressman (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Madrid, Roberto Orbea is a member of the Spanish communist party. He is married to Carmen, and he has been elected as Deputy in the first democratic elections in Spain. But his enemies, the fascist, know his double life. Roberto likes boys, and they ...
Style: sensual, social, political, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, politics, gays and lesbians, unfaithfulness, triad, seductive, eroticism, hustler, one night stand, politician, hospital ...
Time: 70s
Place: spain, madrid, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The United States of Leland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, murder, teacher, coming of age, dysfunctional family, writers, prison life, family relations, unlikely friendships, investigation, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, italy, paris france, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.7
 23K
Elegy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style: sexy, sincere, suspenseful, enigmatic, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, teacher student sex, obsession, hedonism, infidelity, couples, male teacher female student affair, love and romance, teachers and students, teacher, adultery ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Men's Club (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Style: sentimental, independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: stoner, erection, midlife crisis, infidelity, working class, friendship, threesome, social relations, thirtysomething life, couples, society, buddies ...
Time: 80s
Place: okinawa japan, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and ...
Style: talky, melancholic, realistic, sentimental, family saga ...
Plot: lawyer, culture clash, family problems, human nature, society, introspection, parents and children, cancan dance, family relations, dysfunctional family, sorority, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: usa, missouri, kansas city, kansas, cleveland ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Imaginary Heroes (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with ...
Style: dark comedy, emotional, stylized, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, suicide, gay, family secret, loneliness, parenthood, family drama, family problems, society, youth, loss of son ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.0
 271
Split Second (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Story: A split-second decision made in a fit of rage drives attorney and family man Michael Anderson to desperate measures.The stressed-out lawyer hits his melting point one fateful day, when he runs away from the consequences of his actions.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: hit and run, workplace situations, mental illness, rivalry, legal action, vigilantism, vengeance, dishonesty, fight, driving, arrest, businessman ...
Time: 90s
Place: edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer, who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, yet another of his ...
Style: cult classic, tense, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Plot: monopoly, storytelling, radio, death, depression, hotel, drinking, radio station, daydreamer, jail, sexuality, mental disorder ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: philadelphia, new jersey, hawaii, usa, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Movie in collections
Dancing in the Dark (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: feminist, hospital, infidelity, murder, mental illness, violent content, unfulfillment, feminism, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Fathers and Sons (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, estrangement, family problems, love and romance, elderly, gender, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san diego california, miami, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.6
 141
Deceit (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ellen's life is turned upside down after her wealthy hubby vanishes at sea. Everyone close to her is a liar - especially Ellen's missing spouse. Was this a case of an affair gone bad? A corporate cover-up? Or something far more sinister? ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending
Plot: infidelity, murder, love affair, couple relations, life is a bitch, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, who done it, couples, alcohol abuse, father figure, debt ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Diary of a Sex Addict (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A restaurant owner leads a double life.
Style: erotic, contemplative, serious, talky, realistic ...
Plot: sex addict, sexual humiliation, sexual relations, husband wife relationship, interracial sex, addiction, infidelity, rough sex, adultery, prostitute, female nudity, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Great Gatsby (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style: captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, social differences, dishonesty, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, yale university, oxford university, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Movie in collections
Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two women confront their boyfriend, a two-timing actor who professed eternal love to each.
Style: talky, melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: betrayal, womanizer, manipulation, love triangle, sex, love and romance, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, erotica, infidelity, dialogue ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.3
 6K
The Eel (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a ...
Style: enigmatic, captivating, psychological, touching, independent film ...
Plot: self discovery, starting over, human nature, social relations, hopes, crimes of passion, haunted by the past, murder, suicide attempt, prison, adultery, obsession ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.9
 7K
Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Delta of Venus (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
Style: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, postmodern ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lesbian sex, sexually dissatisfied wife, erotica, nudity, art, sex, obsession, male nudity, infidelity, world war two, poetry, threesome ...
Time: 1940s
Place: paris france, england, france, europe, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Stephanie Daley (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. ...
Style: emotional, serious, psychological, rough, suspense ...
Plot: sex education, murder, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family problems, investigation, american football, cheerleader, high school student, babies and infants, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.7
 1K
Mesmerized (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: sexual abuse, serial killer, sex crime, age difference, rape, women, abusive relationship, murder, love triangle, orphan, investigation, voyeur ...
Time: 19th century, year 1985, 1880s
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.2
 1K
Twist (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a gritty retelling of the Dickens's classic, Twist takes Oliver and the Artful Dodger out of the poorhouse and onto the streets, where junk is the currency and hustling is the game.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, crying ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, male prostitute, life is a bitch, drug abuse, lgbt, pimp, kids in trouble, addiction, sexual relations, youth, apprentice, society ...
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie