Movies like Dangerous Liaisons 1988

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Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
 7.6
 75K
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Dangerous Liaisons is the film based on the novel of the same name by Choderlos de Laclos set in 18th century France. Marquise de Merteuil’s asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned in this love triangle drama.
Style: sexy, costume drama, period piece, sexual, erotic, historical drama, sensual, romantic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: aristocracy, fatal attraction, seduction, sexuality, sex, sexual manipulation, decadence, love, love letter, adultery, casanova, sexual relations, nudity, manipulation, erotica, revenge, rape, extramarital affair, manipulative behavior, relationships, love story, passion, corruption, nobility, medieval ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, victorian era, 19th century, 20th century, year 1988, 1700s ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
Keyword: oldies, challenge, french, eye candy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, erotic and period drama films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, female nudity, infidelity, love story and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Dangerous Liaisons: Valmont (1989), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Dreamers (2003), Cruel Intentions (1999), The Duchess (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Valmont (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style: stylized, period piece, sensual, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: betrayal, virginity, seduction, manipulation, infidelity, virgin, tragedy, hypocrisy, couple relations, wager, love triangle, love ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, eastern europe, europe
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100%
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Style: touching, costume drama, atmospheric, stylized, period piece ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: high society, countess, marriage, infidelity, lovers, aristocracy, forbidden love, love triangle, lawyer, love, destiny, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1993, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, america, philadelphia, usa, washington d.c. ...
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86%
 7.1
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The Dreamers (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style: sexy, erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: incest, sexuality, protest, rebellion, couples, youth, sex, love triangle, nudity, friends, brother sister incest, sexual relations ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his ...
Style: sexual, romantic, erotic, sensual, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, teen drama ...
Plot: seduction, manipulation, teenager, bad girl, femme fatale, bet, sex, incest, teenage life, virginity, sexual activity, virgin ...
Time: y2k, year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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The Duchess (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Style: romantic, costume drama, sexy, emotional, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: royalty, love story, duchess, love triangle, love affair, aristocracy, duke, infidelity, adultery, high society, marriage, nobility ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century, middle ages, ancient times ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.2
 57K
Quills (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France ...
Style: erotic, period piece, realistic, sexual, sexy ...
Plot: rape, sexuality, writer's life, priest, perversion, lust, writers, aristocracy, eccentricity, fetish, sexual tension, sex ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, year 2000, georgian era, y2k ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Anna Karenina (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Style: costume drama, period piece, emotional, sentimental, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: high society, forbidden love, imperial russia, tragic love, infidelity, aristocracy, suicide, cuckolded husband, depression, love, adultery, marriage ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2012, 1870s, ancient times ...
Place: russia, moscow russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the ...
Style: romantic, sexual, period piece, witty, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: beauty, courtesan, medieval, forbidden love, prostitute, prostitution, love and romance, couple relations, social differences, rich and poor, society, love story ...
Time: 16th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1998
Place: italy, venice, europe, turkey, cyprus ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.5
 13K
Wild Orchid (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: erotica, sex scene, sexual pleasure, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, forbidden love, lust, sexuality, seduction, bdsm, femme fatale, watching sex ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 38K
The Libertine (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: writers, libertine, decadence, poet, infidelity, oral sex, biopic, alcoholic, depression, dysfunctional marriage, sexual attraction, lust ...
Time: 17th century, year 2004, ancient times, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The End of the Affair (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his ...
Style: romantic, erotic, intellectual, heartbreaking, enigmatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, obsessive love, obsession, infidelity, jealousy, love affair, private detective, passion, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place: london, england, brighton, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 18K
Tess (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 186 min.
Story: This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the ...
Style: period piece, scenic, costume drama, visually appealing, atmospheric ...
Plot: tragic love, breast feeding, love, relationships, rape, mansion, beautiful scenery, loneliness, nobility, destiny, peasant, dating ...
Time: 19th century, year 1979, 1800s, victorian era, 1880s
Place: britain, eastern europe, england, europe, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
Style: period piece, serious, stylized, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, greed, deception, marriage for money, family problems, couples, society, fall in love, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, parents and children ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place: england, italy, britain, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 95K
The Piano (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, France, New Zealand
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: period piece, psychological, sexual, scenic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: piano, desire, sexual relations, adultery, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, love triangle, human nature, mother daughter relationship, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 90s, 1800s ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Two Moon Junction (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, melancholic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dangerous attraction, erotica, young lovers, sex, sexual relations, unfaithful wife, sexual obsession, love, love story, fall in love, nudity, social differences ...
Time: 80s
Place: alabama, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.8
 4K
Lady J (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.
Style: costume drama, melancholic, disturbing, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: aristocracy, widow, revenge, betrayal, love, marriage, broken heart, forgiveness, male female friendship, brothel, tenderness, spinster ...
Time: 18th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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Lady Macbeth (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The passionate affair of a young woman trapped in a marriage of convenience unleashes a maelstrom of murder and mayhem on a country estate.
Style: psychological, cynical, costume drama, depressing, historical drama ...
Plot: forbidden love, secret lover, sex scene, infidelity, cruelty, adultery, father in law daughter in law relationship, loveless marriage, english countryside, male nudity, neglectful husband, horse ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era, year 1865
Place: england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 45K
Lust, Caution (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Taiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 157 min.
Story: During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.
Style: sexual, disturbing, sexy, erotic, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, erotica, forbidden love, adultery, sensuality, lust, sex scene, extramarital affair, strong sexual content, seduction, japanese occupation of china, female nudity ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 2000s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: asia, hong kong, china, japan, shanghai ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.3
 8K
Ridicule (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Style: sexy, talky, humorous, witty, period piece ...
Plot: royal court, lechery, royalty, french history, courtroom, society, ambition, chess, idealism, colonialism, lawyer, deaf ...
Time: 18th century, year 1996, 1780s
Place: versailles, france, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 20K
Damage (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Style: sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: forbidden love, sexuality, adultery, femme fatale, love affair, infidelity, obsession, dangerous attraction, sex, love triangle, passion, fondling ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, palm springs california, paris france, london, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style: sexy, atmospheric, period piece, serious, costume drama ...
Plot: love, love triangle, relationships, nudity, death, betrayal, greed, fall in love, literary, power relations, rich and poor, couple relations ...
Time: 1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era
Place: england, london, britain, venice, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet ...
Style: sexy, sensual, erotic, sexual, romantic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: infidelity, sex, passion, adultery, photography, waitress, female nudity, love triangle, menage a trois, sexual promiscuity, voyeurism, existentialism ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: central europe, czechoslovakia, geneva switzerland, switzerland, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Scarlet Letter (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to ...
Style: sexy, romantic, costume drama, stylized, erotic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, adultery, interracial relations, women, justice, betrayal, repression, social misfits, destructive relationship, clergy, christian, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 17th century, victorian era
Place: massachusetts, nova scotia, new england, boston, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style: romantic, feel good, sincere, costume drama, dramatic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot: love, love story, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, sisters, social differences, rich and poor, village life, eligible bachelor ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 90s, year 1995, 1800s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.8
 12K
Silk (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Italy, UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far away from home.
Style: romantic, stylized, realistic, sentimental, sensual ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: love story, betrayal, travel, life philosophy, smuggling, interracial love relationship, love and romance, couple relations, passion, obsession, love, adultery ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 2007, edwardian era ...
Place: japan, france, asia, europe, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, sweet, dramatic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prejudice, love, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, strong female character, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, unlikely couple, pride ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, georgian era, 1790s ...
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Last Mistress (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Style: erotic, serious, stylized, realistic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, infidelity, opposites attract, courtesan, forbidden love, manipulation, destructive relationship, dishonesty, couples, tragic love, love affair, looking for love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 2000s, 1830s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.5
 9K
White Palace (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, relationships, erotica, obsession, older woman younger man, love, infidelity, bittersweet, dating, seductive ...
Time: 80s
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature ...
Style: costume drama, romantic, emotional, scenic, stylized ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, love, lieutenant, infidelity, destructive relationship, society, social differences, love story, tragedy, filmmaking, love triangle ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 80s, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: england, france, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Director Franco Zeffirelli's beloved version of one of the most well-known love stories in the English language. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young ...
Style: romantic, sweet, colorful, period piece, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: forbidden love, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic love, fall in love, family feud, love story, medieval, unfulfillment, true love, love, star crossed lovers ...
Time: year 1968, 1900s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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