Movies like The Postman Always Rings Twice
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
28K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.
Style:
neo noir, sexy, erotic, independent film, atmospheric, suspense, intense, serious, sensual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
infidelity, sex scene, unfaithful wife, illicit love, femme fatale, murder, female orgasm, tragic romance, nudity, adultery, love affair, sexual content, relationships, sexuality, love story, rough sex, erotica, drifter, forbidden love, courtroom, gas station, young wife, crime gone awry, conspiracy, sex ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1981, 30s
Place:
california, usa, san diego california, los angeles
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Most similar movies to The Postman Always Rings Twice
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sexy, serious, realistic and neo noir films with plots about murder, sex scene, nude, dishonesty, infidelity, female nudity and betrayal mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Postman Always Rings Twice: Jade (1995), Zandalee (1991), Sea of Love (1989), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), Deep Water (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
15K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Someone does a nasty hatchet job on a San Fransisco big noise and the Assistant D.A. takes charge of the investigation. Through a web of blackmail and prostitution involving the Governor, an old lover of the law man emerges as a prime suspect and he ...
Style:
erotic, suspense, sexy, psychosexual thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
murder mystery, femme fatale, adultery, prostitution, murder, nudity, oral sex, seduction, serial killer, manipulation, car chase, sexuality ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, love triangle, unfaithful wife, trophy wife, extramarital affair, nudity, cheating wife, sexual attraction, cheating on husband, erotica, tragic love ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, tense, erotic, sensual ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, femme fatale, police, police investigation, police detective, investigation, strong sexual content, fatal attraction, sexual content, murder, passionate sex, erotic scene ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
Style:
neo noir, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic, surreal ...
Plot:
femme fatale, female assassin, female killer, police corruption, sexy woman, love story, crooked cop, dark humor, woman on top, female nudity, sexual attraction, sexual content ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, phoenix arizona, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers ...
Style:
dark, sexy, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, cheating wife, infidelity, sex scene, cuckold, unfaithful wife, promiscuous woman, dysfunctional marriage, relationships, erotica, small town, marriage ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
unfaithful wife, lovers reunited, betrayal, couple relations, love triangle, haunted by the past, love affair, dishonesty, unfulfillment, hidden identity, infidelity, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
florida, new york, usa, miami
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, clever, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
murder, infidelity, betrayal, blackmail, twists and turns, jealousy, love affair, perfect crime, love triangle, adultery, greed, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
50%
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, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, femme fatale, infidelity, sexual perversion, writers, husband wife relationship, male nudity, fatal attraction, destructive relationship, couples, passionate interest, bdsm ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
eastern europe, europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect. Things get tense when the drifter begins an affair with the woman of the house.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, tense, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
older woman younger man, unfaithful wife, drifter, cheating wife, adultery, infidelity, erotica, betrayal, older woman younger man relationship, family problems, twists and turns, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, future
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but Kyle's partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.
Style:
neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, noir, serious ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, murder, sex scene, twists and turns, unfaithful husband, domineering husband, female nudity, marital infidelity, dishonesty, plot twist, illicit affair, affair ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
florida, persia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological thriller, tense, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, stalker, adultery, husband wife relationship, sexual obsession, femme fatale, family in danger, crimes of passion, extramarital affair, fatal attraction, mental illness ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.
Style:
neo noir, noir, melancholic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, heist, greed, chase, mistress, twists and turns, nothing goes right, robbery, murder, crime gone awry, wine, illegal immigrant ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
miami
Similarity:
100%
42K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, sensual, sexual, neo noir ...
Plot:
sex, betrayal, twists and turns, hotel, lawyer, escapades, murder, manipulation, police investigation, frame up, life turned upside down, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
new york, europe, spain, usa, madrid ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sensual, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, dangerous attraction, sexual tension, love, serial killer, sex scene, split personality, sexual awakening, killer, woman in danger, stalking, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, puerto rico, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
778
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Story starts with a summer fling between a provincial guy and a big-city girl. The holiday is over, the beauty returns to the city and receives a marriage proposal from a rich admirer. The provincial boy comes back being unable to let her go. Things ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, captivating, suspense, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex scene, fall in love, adultery, abusive husband, love, female nudity, first love, infidelity, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, funeral, murder ...
Similarity:
100%
37K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Style:
erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, serial killer, voyeurism, murder, hidden camera, video surveillance, surveillance, sex, dangerous attraction, sex scene, apartment building, secret ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Mexico, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, sex, obsession, couple relations, dangerous attraction, passion, husband wife relationship, love story, passionate sex, desire, sex scene, carnival ...
Time:
19th century, year 2001, victorian era, turn of the century, 20th century ...
Place:
cuba, iran, morocco, delaware, havana cuba ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ray is young, charming, successful and the owner of a prosperous architect company. However, he has recently gone trough a very painful divorce. His friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of being single but for Ray marriage ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, adultery, paranoia, female psychopath, dangerous attraction, sexual content, extramarital affair, marriage, infidelity, murder, family problems, fatal attraction ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Style:
sexy, sexual, suspense, erotic, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, forbidden love, lesbian, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, obsession, teachers and students, adultery, older woman younger man sex, lust, blackmail, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, england
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Style:
erotic, sexual, sexy, enigmatic, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drifter, adultery, sexualized violence, infidelity, boat, naked man, destructive relationship, couple relations, unfaithfulness, sex, sexual content, murder ...
Time:
20th century, year 2003, 1940s, year 1954, 1950s ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a noirish tale of a man who orders a mail-order bride but receives instead a con woman.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, anthology, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, private investigator, mail order bride, murder, self sacrifice, female nudity, husband wife relationship, unconditional love, plantation, marriage, female villain, dangerous women ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, nice france, lyon, mississippi, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
murder, missing person, disappearance, childhood trauma, dysfunctional marriage, abusive husband, mentally unstable, overbearing parent, divorce, twists and turns, investigation, violent ...
Time:
80s, year 2000, year 1982, future, year 2010 ...
Place:
new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, vermont, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A married womans husband with a perfect life cheats with her sister with extreme consequences befalling them all.
Style:
sexy, suspense, psychological, emotional
Plot:
passion, infidelity, sister, sex scene, married, sex, female nudity, seductress, adultery, black, love and romance, extramarital affair ...
Similarity:
100%
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63K
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be one of their group, the men are ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, sexy, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, murder mystery, adultery, murder, infidelity, adulterous husband, sex scene, cheating wife, uncover truth, unfaithful husband, flashback, affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san diego california, new orleans, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia, Hungary, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
forbidden love, female masturbation, marital infidelity, murder, crimes of passion, cousin cousin relationship, husband wife relationship, dishonesty, couple relations, couples, love affair, tragic love ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1860s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A loner moves in to a small Texas town, finds himself a job, and sets about plotting to rob the local bank.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, noir, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, erotica, infidelity, love triangle, manipulation, dangerous attraction, extramarital affair, voyeur, skinny dipping, car salesman, menage a trois, bank robbery ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 90s
Place:
texas, virginia, usa, california
Similarity:
50%
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:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A scheming woman (Krista Errickson) seeks to kill her husband to collect the insurance money, and is willing to seduce anyone she can to do it - including her husband's brother.
Style:
neo noir, psychosexual thriller, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
sex scene, lust, femme fatale, inheritance, nudity, infidelity, seduction, fatal attraction, husband wife relationship, psychiatrist, extramarital affair, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, atmospheric, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
murder, extramarital affair, doctor patient relationship, gangster, psychiatrist, love triangle, sex scene, abusive husband, lust, femme fatale, childhood trauma, uxoricide ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sizzingly sexy Madonna leads a star-filled cast in this erotic thriller as a woman accused of killing a wealthy, elderly man through her insatiable sexual prowess.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sensual, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, sex scene, seduction, murder, lawyer, infidelity, courtroom drama, fatal attraction, strong sexual content, extramarital affair, videotaped sex, dying during sex ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place:
portland oregon, oregon
Similarity:
34%
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