Movies like Lantana

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Lantana (2001)
 7.2
 20K
Lantana (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.
Style: emotional, psychological, sexy, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic, talky, erotic, thought provoking ...
Plot: infidelity, therapist, adultery, police investigation, divorce, sexuality, lust, betrayal, cheating, jealousy, psychiatrist, character study, human nature, disappearance, dishonesty, unhappy, marriage crisis, love and romance, sex, cheating wife, police officer, restaurant, helicopter, anger, teenage boy ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: australia, sydney australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sexy, melancholic, realistic and complex films with plots about dialogue, relationships, mentor, life philosophy, storytelling, love and romance and nude mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like Lantana: Birth (2004), Five Times Two (2004), The Two Jakes (1990), Under the Sand (2000), We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 6.2
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Birth (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, 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, enigmatic ...
Plot: reincarnation, older woman younger man relationship, deja vu, couples, love triangle, obsession, family relations, life & death, wedding, twists and turns, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
 6.6
 10K
Five Times Two (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles ...
Style: sexy, enigmatic, non-linear, psychological, stylized ...
Plot: divorce, sex, adultery, infidelity, rape, wedding, childbirth, wedding night, relationships, husband wife relationship, up and down relationship, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, sardinia, europe, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 15K
The Two Jakes (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: This sequel to the classic Chinatown finds private detective Jake Gittes still haunted from the events of the first film. Hired by a man to investigate his wife's infidelities, Jake once again finds himself involved in a complicated plot ...
Style: neo noir, stylized, clever, sexy, twisted ...
Plot: private detective, murder, infidelity, gangsters, betrayal, investigation, mafia, suspense, oil, corruption, courtroom, blackmail ...
Time: 1940s, year 1948, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 11K
Under the Sand (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Style: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: death, love, disappearance, obsession, relationships, delusion, tourist, love and romance, coping, haunted by the past, couple relations, mentally unstable ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, extramarital affair, marriage, friendship, adultery, love affair, cheating wife, betrayal, lust, cheating, forbidden love, character study ...
Place: england, europe, oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.2
 225K
Closer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
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, cynical, erotic, intellectual, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, adultery, love affair, love at first sight, love, stripper, betrayal, marriage, sex, couples, photographer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, canada, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.7
 19K
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, non-linear, melancholic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: love affair, forbidden love, adultery, infidelity, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, obsession, passion, sexuality, fondling, love triangle, incest ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, paris france, palm springs california, brussels
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.5
 113K
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, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, housewife, love affair, small town, sexual pleasure, extramarital affair, cheating wife, dysfunctional family, suburbs, strong sexual content, parenthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 7.2
 46K
Candy (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and ...
Style: disturbing, romantic, depressing, touching, emotional ...
Plot: heroin, addiction, drug abuse, junkie, drugs, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, drug addiction, obsession, marriage, mental illness, lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.3
 22K
Random Hearts (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: After the death of their loved ones in a tragic plane crash 'Harrison Ford' and Kristin Scott Thomas find each others keys in each others loved ones posessions and realize that they were having an affair and must figure out all the ...
Style: emotional, romantic, serious, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, death of husband, death of wife, death, politician, adultery, love affair, police detective, politics, dishonesty, starting over, state affairs ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, new york, washington d.c., usa, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.4
 15K
The Apartment (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A stylish suspense thriller that confounds the audience while presenting them with an extraordinary and elusive mystery. Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, during a business trip, ...
Style: sexy, psychological, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: obsession, cafe, love, mistaken identity, manipulation, infidelity, fall in love, relationships, twists and turns, intrigue, suspense, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, tokyo, new york, montmartre paris
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.9
 9K
Bad Timing (1980)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their ...
Style: controversial, erotic, disturbing, non-linear, art house ...
Plot: voyeurism, extramarital affair, obsession, psychology, infidelity, fondling, rape victim, parallel universe, female nudity, erotica, nude, overdose ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: vienna, austria, europe, paris france, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Flesh and Bone (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family, he runs into Kay, who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Kay and Arlis suspect nothing about each other, but when his father returns, old wounds are reopened.
Style: neo noir, psychological, tense, sexy, cerebral ...
Plot: murder, suspense, twists and turns, nude, betrayal, adultery, gambling, sexualized violence, marriage, devil, dysfunctional family, relationships ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.7
 92K
Unfaithful (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, lust, cheating wife, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, dangerous attraction, sex, sexual obsession, crimes of passion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Three Colors: Red (1994)
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: reflective, atmospheric, art house, thought provoking, cerebral ...
Plot: coincidence, loneliness, friendship, dog, love affair, isolation, judge, redemption, twists and turns, love, model, encounter ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, poland, paris france, tokyo, english channel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.4
 4K
Faithless (2000)
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, atmospheric, lyrical, gloomy ...
Plot: adultery, infidelity, betrayal, parenthood, custody, love affair, fall in love, family problems, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, rivalry, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: tokyo, paris france, sweden, denmark, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.0
 20K
Exotica (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric ...
Style: erotic, sexual, cerebral, psychological, non-linear ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stripper, voyeurism, haunted by the past, unhappiness, accountant, grief, protective male, death of daughter, illegitimate daughter, sexual content, erotica, obsession ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, san francisco, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 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, erotic, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, teacher student sex, couples, obsession, teachers and students, sexuality, infidelity, love and romance, hedonism, teacher, adultery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 6.5
 50K
Last Night (2010)
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: melancholic, sentimental, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: infidelity, adultery, temptation, love story, relationships, love and romance, old love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, unfaithful husband, love, trust, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, paris france, france, philadelphia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.1
 13K
Intimacy (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the ...
Style: sexual, sexy, controversial, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, explicit sex, strong sexual content, sex scene, cheating wife, erotica, obsession, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, bartender, one night stand ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, canada, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
All Good Things (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Style: disturbing, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: murder, disappearance, overbearing parent, divorce, twists and turns, investigation, dysfunctional marriage, mentally unstable, missing person, suspense, obsession, justice ...
Time: 80s, future, year 2000, 20th century, year 1971 ...
Place: new york, new jersey, california, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
Style: sexy, controversial, art house, talky, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, voyeurism, infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, therapist, sexuality, impotence, sister sister relationship, brother in law sister in law relationship, affair, voyeur ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.9
 114K
Talk to Her (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Style: psychological, emotional, surreal, sexy, sincere ...
Plot: rape, friendship, tragic love, suicide, loneliness, obsession, tragic event, hospital, sex, love, relationships, women ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, latin america, madrid, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 6.8
 5K
Heights (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that ...
Style: realistic, stylized, serious, talky, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, infidelity, adultery, existentialism, secrets, character study, city life, lifestyle, introspection, love and romance, artists and showbiz, actor's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, london, czech republic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A haunting erotic fairytale about Lucy, a young University student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of beauty and desire.
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: perversion, prostitution, erotica, sexual perversion, sex, prostitute, dirty old man, voyeur, brothel, innocence lost, women, strong sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The School of Flesh (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In Paris, Dominique, a middle-aged fashion professional, solicits the services of the handsome Quentin , a bisexual bartender and prostitute who is 15 years her junior. After they first sleep together, their business transaction becomes transformed ...
Style: erotic, sexy, enigmatic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: obsession, sex, infidelity, fashion, adultery, violence, relationships, betrayal, loneliness, destructive relationship, fall in love, love affair ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, tokyo, france, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
 42K
The Last Kiss (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Revolves around a young couple and their friends struggling with adulthood and issues of relationships and commitment. Based on the 2001 Italian film L'ultimo bacio, directed by Gabriele Muccino.
Style: emotional, romantic, intense, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: pregnancy, wedding, infidelity, casual sex, adultery, friendship, cheating, introspection, free spirited, human nature, power of love, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: wisconsin, new jersey, polynesia, usa, cape town south africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Young nurse Sissi lives a secluded life entirely devoted to her patients at Birkenhof asylum. Her first encounter with ex-soldier and drifter Bodo has a lasting impact. He causes an accident in which he provides first aid, Sissi wonders if he may be ...
Style: philosophical, emotional, artsy, romantic, captivating ...
Plot: destiny, love story, opposites attract, obsession, bank robbery, coincidence, relationships, fall in love, criminal heroes, love and romance, couples, haunted by the past ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: germany, sydney australia, australia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Three Colors: Blue (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. ...
Style: reflective, atmospheric, emotional, art house, sexy ...
Plot: loss of child, loneliness, depression, isolation, stripper, solitude, existentialism, love, grief, art, philosophy, obsession ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, bleak, sad ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, suburbs, family problems, existentialism ...
Time: 50s, year 1955, 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: california, usa, paris france, new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%