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The Leading Man (1996)
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The Leading Man (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. Enter Robin Grange, a charismatic young Hollywood actor making his London theatre debut. Robin is attractive, charming and dangerous, and soon inveigles his way into everyone's life. He ingratiates himself with the cast and, quickly grasping Felix's dilemma, sets about weaving his web of mischief. He suggests that if he were to seduce Elena, she would be distracted from Felix's affair, regain her self respect, and perhaps even willingly part from the unfaithful husband to whom she clings...
Style: sweet, semi serious, realistic, clever, talky, emotional, melancholic, humorous, witty, crying ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, husband wife relationship, love triangle, seduction, love affair, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, actor's life, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, couple relations, dedication event, father son relationship, british, writers, rock, rehearsal, interracial, female nudity, sex scene, adultery, girl, extramarital affair, sexual arousal ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: england, london, europe, california
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, erotic and clever films with plots about couples, infidelity, love and romance, love affair, adultery, extramarital affair and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Leading Man: Damage (1992), Bitter Moon (1992), We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004), Dot the I (2003), Closer (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style: witty, melancholic, touching, clever, sexy ...
Plot: sex, infidelity, writers, seduction, pimp, love affair, family problems, open marriage, adultery, money problems, love, betrayal ...
Time: year 2001
Place: santa monica california, pasadena california, los angeles
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100%
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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 ⇓
100%
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%
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Dot the I (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems. Carmen, a beautiful Spanish woman with a tendency to lose her temper at the drop of a hat, is about to be married to Barnaby, a caring, wealthy, but ...
Style: sexy, stylized, intense, tense, sensual ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, infidelity, twists and turns, couple relations, fall in love, manipulation, actor's life, artists and showbiz, love affair, love story, erotica, sexual content ...
Time: year 2003
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100%
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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, erotic, psychological, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, marriage, love at first sight, passion, sex, stripper, photographer, sexuality, obsession ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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100%
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Intersection (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: During a car accident, Vincent Eastman watches his whole life flash before his eyes, and he doesn't like what he sees. While maintaining the semblance of a marriage with his wife, Sally, Vincent has been carrying on with a mistress, Olivia. ...
Style: bad ending, sexy, sad, erotic, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfaithful wife, destiny, love, architect, hospital, marriage, road accident, car accident, feeling, affair, erotica, love triangle ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 90s
Place: vancouver, canada, usa
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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%
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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
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100%
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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, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, unfaithful wife, lust, sex, cheating wife, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, fatal attraction, extramarital affair, dangerous attraction, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, turkey
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Denial (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Couples split up after a comment at an LA dinner party sets up arguments about how truthful partners are in their relationships.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, looking for love, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, thirtysomething life, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, unlikely couple, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
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Betrayal (1983)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, talky, tense, captivating ...
Plot: unfulfillment, love triangle, dishonesty, betrayal, danger, infidelity, autobiography, rivalry, friends, british pub, writers, affair ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: england, europe, london
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37%
Too Beautiful for You (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before ...
Style: talky, cynical, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, bittersweet, sexuality, adultery, marriage, love triangle, infidelity, pleasure, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: france
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36%
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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, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, infidelity, adultery, secrets, existentialism, character study, lifestyle, introspection, city life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, actor's life ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, czech republic, london, manhattan new york city ...
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36%
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Being Julia (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style: period piece, stylized, emotional, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, loneliness, women, complex characters, actor's life, love, art, adultery, backstage, vengeance ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 20th century, year 1938
Place: england, europe, london, west end london
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36%
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer's block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth returns from Baden Baden. She didn't quite find herself there but had ...
Style: psychological, humorous, light, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: novelist, poet, drug smuggling, manipulation, dishonesty, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love triangle, family problems, writers, infidelity, writer's block ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: england, europe, london
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36%
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Zandalee (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johhny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair.
Style: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love triangle, extramarital affair, trophy wife, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, nudity, erotica, tragic love, family problems, sexual attraction ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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36%
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Incendiary (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An adulterous woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: adultery, love triangle, grief, guilt, betrayal, starting over, sex scene, dangerous attraction, terrorist, haunted by the past, love affair, infidelity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: london, europe, england
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35%
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Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, witty, clever ...
Plot: adultery, love, writers, infidelity, estate, world war one, writer's life, family relations, rise to the top, ambition, social differences, couple relations ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1914
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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Black Angel (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 128 min.
Story: March 1945 Asolo, Italy. Livia Mazzion, the attractive wife of a top ministry official, slips into the car of lawyer Ugo Oggiano, Livia's admirer and her husband's informer. Livia must reach Venice and her lover Helmut Schultz, a Wermacht ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, sexual relations, fascism, unfaithful wife, love affair, love triangle, infidelity, wartime life, family problems, moral dilemma, destructive relationship, danger ...
Time: 1940s
Place: europe, venice, italy
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33%
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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
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33%
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Forever Mine (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: unfaithful wife, betrayal, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, haunted by the past, dishonesty, unfulfillment, hidden identity, murder, lovers reunited, infidelity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: florida, new york, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Cousin Bette (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, slut, adultery, manipulation, dysfunctional family, family relations, love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place: france, paris france, europe
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32%
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Separate Lies (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A cyclist is killed, swiped by a Range Rover in a village lane. James and Anne Manning become involved because the victim is the husband of their cleaner, Maggie. James, a solicitor in the city, soon comes to suspect William Bule, a millionaire ...
Style: suspense, emotional, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: murder, infidelity, depression, twists and turns, family problems, investigation, crumbling marriage, society, introspection, love and romance, betrayal, drinking alcohol ...
Time: year 2005
Place: london, england, europe, paris france
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32%
My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style: melancholic, stylized, disturbing, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: jealous husband, love story, brutality, dishonesty, lifestyle, couples, relationship vs career, couple relations, actor's life, journalism, women, relationships ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
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32%
Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
Style: disturbing, lyrical, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: female nudity, lovers reunited, infidelity, dysfunctional family, love triangle, love affair, midlife crisis, couple relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, obsessive quest, actor's life ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala. Confronting Victor, Charles tries to adopt an air of indifference, but the conversation ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cynical ...
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, investigation, adultery, marriage, cheating wife, murder, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, dysfunctional marriage, family problems, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: france, paris france, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
32%
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
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31%
A Village Affair (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the bestselling novel by Joanna Trollope Recently returned to England from New York City, vivacious heiress Clodagh Unwin befriends a couple new to her village. The husband is entranced by the young aristocrat, but Clodagh has eyes for ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: village life, adultery, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian, lesbian love, infidelity, family relations, family life, family problems, couple relations, society ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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