Movies like In the Mood for Love
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
186K
Original name: 花樣年華
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they both don’t want to be lonely in their marriage.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, sexy, art house, visually stunning, breathtaking, emotional, visually appealing, visual, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, lovers, love affair, marriage, unrequited love, newspaper, true love, love story, relationships, amor, sensuality, unfaithfulness, neighbor, art, betrayal, tragedy, life & death, storytelling, obsession, culture clash, coincidence, guilt ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 60s, 20th century, year 1966, year 1962 ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai, asia, singapore ...
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Most similar movies to In the Mood for Love
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sexy, realistic, atmospheric and serious films with plots about couples, love, relationships, loneliness, love and romance, love story and melancholy mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like In the Mood for Love: 2046 (2004), Fallen Angels (1995), Chungking Express (1994), Happy Together (1997), Raise the Red Lantern (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
65K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Style:
sexy, emotional, atmospheric, visually stunning, philosophical ...
Plot:
writers, love, writer's life, destiny, road not taken, androids, sensuality, haunted by the past, old friend, coincidence, memory, introspection ...
Time:
future, year 2004, 2040s, 2000s, y2k ...
Place:
hong kong, china, singapore, east asia, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this bifurcated crime narrative, a disillusioned hitman attempts to escape from his violent lifestyle against the wishes of his partner, who is infatuated with him, and an eccentric mute repeatedly encounters, then subsequently falls for, a ...
Style:
surreal, perverse, sexy, neo noir, visual ...
Plot:
couple relations, killer, couples, hitman, existentialism, melancholy, videotaping, obsessive love, criminal heroes, love affair, partners in crime, triad ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia, tokyo, india
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, cult classic, visual, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, multiple storylines, food, serendipity, femme fatale, love story, relationships, fall in love, breakup, amor, drug smuggling, police officer ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, china, california, asia, taiwan ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This South Korean film takes place on an isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, melancholic, meditative, spiritual ...
Plot:
buddhism, life & death, coming of age, isolation, meditation, buddhist monk, monk, guilt, existentialism, buddhist, nature, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, tibet, korea, east asia, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.
Style:
art house, emotional, visually appealing, independent film, visual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay asian, love, gay relationship, heartache, loneliness, tango, glbt, amor, lgbtqi, melancholy ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, year 1996
Place:
buenos aires argentina, hong kong, china, latin america, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
China in the 1920s. After her father's death, 19 year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three wives already, each living in a separate house within the great castle, there is fierce competition for ...
Style:
visually stunning, cerebral, stylized, depressing, intense ...
Plot:
intrigue, teenage girl, feminism, passion, power struggle, tradition, jealousy, wealth, mistress, massage, polygamy, unrequited love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
china, east asia, tibet, asia, india
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, touching, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love story, photographer, adultery, love affair, passion, impossible love, relationships, housewife, couples, photography, extramarital affair, lovers ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s, 20th century, year 1965, post world war two ...
Place:
iowa, usa, midwest
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of ...
Style:
atmospheric, road movie, sentimental, psychological, romantic ...
Plot:
road trip, love and romance, love story, passion, melancholy, travel, loneliness, longing, waitress, cross country, poker, casino ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, china, tennessee, new york, memphis ...
Similarity:
100%
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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:
sexy, touching, atmospheric, period piece, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
high society, lovers, infidelity, forbidden love, destiny, countess, marriage, aristocracy, love, couple relations, love triangle, lawyer ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 20th century, turn of the century, 90s ...
Place:
new york, america, philadelphia, usa, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental, family comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, temptation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love story, lovers, love and romance, unfaithful wife, sex, old love, marital infidelity, ex couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, france, philadelphia, new york, paris france
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, intellectual, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, friendship, character study, alienation, fish out of water, melancholy, unlikely couple, actor, hotel room ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, yale university, america ...
Similarity:
100%
61K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. ...
Style:
philosophical, lyrical, contemplative, surreal, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
golf, motorcycle, relationships, melancholy, drifter, mission, abusive husband, love triangle, jealousy, existentialism, love story, love ...
Time:
year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, east asia, asia, seoul ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The movie is set in Hong Kong and the Philippines in 1960. Yuddy, or 'York' in English, is a playboy in Hong Kong and is well-known for stealing girls' hearts and breaking them. His first victim is Li Zhen who suffered emotional and ...
Style:
surreal, artsy, sexual, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
obsession, unrequited love, love, melancholy, asian, friendship, drinking, hotel, violence, abandoned baby, prostitute, seduction ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
hong kong, china, the philippines, asia, macau ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, sexual, disturbing, sensual, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forbidden love, world war two, sensuality, sex, sex scene, adultery, lust, sexual attraction, japanese occupation, extramarital affair, sexual relations, passionate sex ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 2000s, 1930s, 20th century ...
Place:
asia, hong kong, china, japan, shanghai ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland, Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches ...
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, romantic, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
passion, love, infidelity, tourist, marriage, character study, fall in love, dishonesty, couples, love and romance, chess, passionate love ...
Time:
1920s, 21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east, africa, alexandria egypt, cairo egypt ...
Similarity:
100%
8K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, anthology, sexual, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, sexuality, love affair, erotic scene, social differences, society, lovers reunited, psychiatrist, erotica, lifestyle, obsession, infidelity ...
Time:
1950s, year 2004, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
china, asia, hong kong, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is ...
Style:
atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, romantic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
unfulfilled love, forbidden love, marriage, poetry, unfulfillment, love and romance, obsession, unrequited love, inheritance, fall in love, victorian england, poet ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, year 1999, 1800s ...
Place:
st. petersburg russia, russia, london, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
Style:
surreal, psychological, mind bending, non-linear, romantic ...
Plot:
love affair, love story, couples, losing-it hero, unfaithful wife, adultery, imagination, existentialism, loneliness, depression, art, life turned upside down ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
depressing, sexual, disturbing, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, loneliness, casino, alcoholism, prostitute, alcohol abuse, prostitution, depression, self destructing, tragedy, alcoholic, medical ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, nevada
Similarity:
100%
60K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
depressing, sexy, breathtaking, harsh, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suicide attempt, ethnicity, marriage, sex, immigrant, love story, relationships, culture clash, passion, extramarital affair, marriage of convenience, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, lyrical, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, betrayal, fall in love, parenthood, custody, love affair, family problems, destructive relationship, crumbling marriage, rivalry, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, denmark, tokyo
Similarity:
80%
39K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, emotional, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, lust, adultery, sexual tension, older woman younger man sex, sexual relations, sexuality, female sexuality, love affair, mother son relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new zealand
Similarity:
50%
312K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Vietnam
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. In her mind she treated Mui as her daughter. 10 years later Mui (now a young woman) was sent to another ...
Style:
retro, erotic, aesthetic, poetic, independent film ...
Plot:
buddhism, food, friendship, cooking, sex scene, music, animal abuse, coming of age, youth, destiny, vietnam war, master and servant ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1961 ...
Place:
vietnam, saigon, asia
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Part-time model Valentine meets a retired judge who lives in her neighborhood after she runs over his dog. At first the judge gifts Valentine with the dog, but her possessive boyfriend won't allow her to keep it. When she returns with the dog ...
Style:
cerebral, colorful, philosophical, enigmatic, art house ...
Plot:
redemption, coincidence, judge, friendship, dog, love affair, loneliness, fashion model, model, lovers, photograph, billboard ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
geneva switzerland, english channel, france, poland, eastern europe ...
Similarity:
50%
101K
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: New Zealand, Australia, France
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, sexy, psychological, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
piano, desire, sexual relations, adultery, couple relations, mother daughter relationship, love triangle, feminist, love, love affair, couples, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s, year 1993, 90s ...
Place:
new zealand, oceania, scotland
Similarity:
50%
250K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, cynical, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, lovers, passion, marriage, sex, stripper, couples, photographer, desire ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. ...
Style:
philosophical, sentimental, sexy, intellectual, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, chance meeting, destiny, lovers, tourist, young lovers, fall in love, relationships, coincidence, love story, teenage girl, stranger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
vienna, austria, europe, france, los angeles ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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. ...
Style:
emotional, erotic, stylized, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
marriage, unfaithful wife, infidelity, extramarital affair, lust, friendship, love quadrangle, love affair, adultery, betrayal, cheating, cheating on husband ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
oregon, england, europe, portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, China
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A tragic love story set in contemporary Shanghai. The film stars Zhou Xun in a dual role as two different women and Jia Hongsheng as a man obsessed with finding a woman from his past.
Style:
neo noir, serious, psychological, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
mermaid, river, destructive relationship, dishonesty, betrayal, couples, ransom, haunted by the past, smuggling, disorder, criminal gang, missing person ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china, shanghai, asia, tibet
Similarity:
100%
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