Movies like The Human Stain

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The Human Stain (2003)
 6.2
 32K
The Human Stain (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
Style: emotional, erotic, sexy, melancholic, talky, sincere, serious, clever, enigmatic, psychological ...
Plot: couples, haunted by the past, loneliness, redemption, character study, justice, brutality, tennis, self destructing, writers, hidden identity, loss of child, dishonesty, voyeur, love affair, society, disorder, relationships, love story, racism, delusion, university, seduction, winter, snow ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1998, year 1944, 20th century, 1990s
Place: new england, new jersey, massachusetts, oxford university, usa
Keyword: danish, doctors, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, erotic and psychological films with plots about couples, love and romance, infidelity, kiss, husband wife relationship, female nudity and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Human Stain: We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004), Match Point (2005), Lolita (1997), The Beach (2000), Little Children (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
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, stylized, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, extramarital affair, marriage, friendship, adultery, love affair, betrayal, lust, cheating on husband, cheating, forbidden love ...
Time: year 2004
Place: europe, england, portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 227K
Match Point (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would bring ...
Style: romantic, psychological, talky, clever, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, lust, adultery, seduction, passionate interest, destructive relationship, couples, love and romance, fatal attraction, murder, passion ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, united kingdom, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 66K
Lolita (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Style: erotic, psychological, sexual, sexy, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: obsession, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, lolita, age difference, lust, sexuality, older man young girl relationship, pedophilia, incest, virginity, girl man relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 1947, 20th century, 1920s
Place: cannes, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.6
 253K
The Beach (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Style: psychological, scenic, tense, stylized, visual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: island, travel, adventurer, beach, obsessive quest, exotic island, utopia, tourist, drug, marijuana, jungle, hippie ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.5
 116K
Little Children (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: 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.
Style: sexual, sexy, disturbing, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love affair, housewife, sex, small town, sexual pleasure, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, parenthood ...
Time: year 2006, y2k, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 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 ⇓
46%
Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way ...
Style: psychological, period piece, costume drama, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, depression, multiple storylines, couple relations, fall in love, infidelity, relationships, art, women, male female relationship, unhappy marriage, impossible love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1996, 1870s
Place: europe, england, florence, london, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Movie in collections
 7.2
 42K
Bitter Moon (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot. For one thing he grows fascinated by the story. For another he is ...
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, sexual, breathtaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, femme fatale, infidelity, bdsm, fatal attraction, husband wife relationship, destructive relationship, couples, sexual perversion, passionate interest, dangerous attraction, male nudity ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: eastern europe, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.5
 138K
The Hours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France, Canada, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: "The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a ...
Style: depressing, psychological, intellectual, touching, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, mental illness, depression, aids, writers, lesbian, bipolar disorder, writer's life, literature, introspection, poet, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 1940s, 90s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, england, california, los angeles, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Dying Gaul (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A powerful and seductive Hollywood mogul convinces an impoverished West Hollywood writer, whose lover has recently died of AIDS, to sell his autobiographical screenplay for big bucks. The writer, Robert, knows he'll have to make major changes ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, clever, talky, absurd ...
Plot: gay, aids, solitude, tragedy, grief, depression, internet, twists and turns, lgbt, family problems, hollywood, glbt ...
Time: 90s, year 2005
Place: los angeles, rome italy, egypt, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style: realistic, touching, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation, masseuse, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
One Night Stand (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, intense, light, touching ...
Plot: male female relationship, love triangle, infidelity, friendship, one night stand, justice, adaptation, adultery, interracial romance, couples, family problems, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, new york, los angeles, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One ...
Style: atmospheric, intellectual, intense, surreal, enigmatic ...
Plot: photographer, biopic, photography, art, artist, photograph, couples, bdsm, fall in love, love story, friends, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
44%
Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, gothic horror ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: erotica, infidelity, lust, adultery, sex, female pubic hair, madness, topless woman, voodoo, obsession, slavery, wedding ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, year 1993
Place: jamaica, caribbean, england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.5
 17K
Feast of Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Style: touching, romantic, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, lesbian, lesbian sex, love, friendship, woman on top, coffee shop, female nudity, american football, sex on first date, female pubic hair, small town ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Movie in collections
 6.1
 5K
Asylum (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: psychiatrist, couple relations, obsession, love, love and romance, destructive relationship, hospital, affair, crumbling marriage, family problems, infidelity, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, year 2005, 50s, 1950s, 60s
Place: europe, london, wales, united kingdom, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: bdsm, sex, sex scene, love story, erotica, rich, virginity, sex toy, dangerous attraction, rich man poor woman, sexual relations, billionaire ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c., mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.3
 210K
Blue Valentine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: touching, romantic, psychological, emotional, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, alienation, strong sexual content ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Heart of Me (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfaithful husband, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Great Expectations (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the ...
Style: romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, sexy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: childhood, artist, art, love, love story, fall in love, painting, inheritance, social differences, stranger, understanding, painter ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place: new york, usa, florida, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 26K
Color of Night (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into Rose and begins a torrid affair.
Style: sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, mental illness, erotica, psychiatrist, murder, voyeurism, fatal attraction, investigation, femme fatale, serial killer, uncover truth, nymphomania ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.5
 117K
A Single Man (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, depression, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, loneliness, homosexual, lgbt, broken heart, grief, haunted by the past, gender, tragic love ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, year 2009, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, cuba, usa, madrid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.9
 57K
Head-On (2004)
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: psychological, depressing, bleak, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, marriage, immigrant, culture clash, love story, relationships, loneliness, sex, love affair, drug, self esteem, self destructing ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards ...
Style: erotic, touching, emotional, colorful, atmospheric ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love triangle, love, tragedy, love story, nude girl, love and romance, dishonesty, unfulfilled love, love affair, fall in love ...
Place: italy, europe, france, new york, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Winter Sleepers (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, ...
Style: psychological, sexual, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: winter, mountain, amnesia, hospital, memory loss, male nudity, snow, coma, photography, death, infidelity, drinking ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, bavaria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.2
 40K
Birth (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, controversial, sexy, cerebral ...
Plot: reincarnation, deja vu, older woman younger man relationship, couples, love triangle, obsession, family relations, wedding, life & death, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: persia, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.4
 36K
Howards End (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, emotional, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: english countryside, estate, wealthy family, sister sister relationship, family drama, infidelity, inheritance, dysfunctional family, greed, character study, country house, rich snob ...
Time: 1910s, turn of the century, edwardian era, 19th century, year 1992 ...
Place: england, britain, oxford university, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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