Movies like A Leap in the Dark
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A Leap in the Dark (1980)
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Original name: Salto nel vuoto
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. Mauro become unconsciously jealous of this relationship, and try to get Giovanni arrested... Written by Francesco Benzi
Style:
melancholic, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
brother sister relationship, mental illness, character study, obsession, moral ambiguity, manipulation, claustrophobia, intrigue, intervention, romantic rivalry, tragic romance, small town, children, death, boy, male nudity, suicide, judge, insanity, bicycle, brother, little boy, sister, breaking and entering, destruction of property ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
italy
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Most similar movies to A Leap in the Dark
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, art house, suspenseful and tense films with plots about obsession, psychological drama, character study, moral ambiguity, manipulation, jealousy and isolation mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like A Leap in the Dark: As a Man Grows Older (1962), The Eyes, the Mouth (1982), Secret Access (1988), The Divine Nymph (1975), Felix and Lola (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The place is Trieste and the time is 1927. Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. At least until the day he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful young woman. But the lady is also fickle, wayward and ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, tramp, marriage proposal, obsession, funeral, artist, bad reputation, office worker, intoxication, suicide, jealousy, tragic love ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother (Lou Castel), mother (Emmanuelle Riva) and pregnant lover (Angela Molina).
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, semi autobiographical
Plot:
suicide, twins, character study, grief, mourning, loneliness, existential crisis, midlife crisis, family secret, infidelity, small town, provincial life ...
Time:
year 1982
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a sudden breakup, a woman uncovers her ex's unsent letters, revealing his true feelings and a secret. Betrayed, she plans revenge by exposing his hidden thoughts to his troubled son.
Style:
melancholic, tense, suspenseful, minimal cast
Plot:
betrayal, female protagonist, character study, secret revealed, revenge, deception, infidelity, privacy invasion, manipulation, father son conflict, obsession, investigation ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Style:
romantic drama, period piece, tragic ending, sensual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female nudity, erotica, love triangle, seduction, femme fatale, passion, romantic rivalry, fascism, jealousy, obsession, manipulation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1920s, year 1975
Place:
italy
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
obsession, murder, romantic obsession, relationship problems, couple relations, couples, male female relationship, relationships, moral dilemma, character study, manipulation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, weeping, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
erection, nudity, coming of age, terrorist, male nudity, psychoanalysis, student, teenage boy, high school, terrorism, wedding, telephone call ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During the student movement in Bologna, Italy. 1968. Angela and Massimo are friends, lovers and college students. They get to know Guido, the heir of a wealthy family who has never known love pure. Impressed by the feeling that binds the two lovers, ...
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, art house, period drama
Plot:
threesome, love triangle, jealousy, betrayal, tragedy, friendship, obsession, moral ambiguity, passion, intimacy, college student, class differences ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on ...
Style:
romantic drama, medical drama
Plot:
love triangle, obsessive love, tragic romance, jealousy, infidelity, jealous lover, bittersweet, terminal illness, character study, unrequited love, small town, village life ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Quiet, intelligent, solemn and recently dumped by his girlfriend, graduate student Lee Weon-san takes a job at a literary magazine, ostensibly to supplement his income, but really to get close to the editor - the reason he’s now single. The ...
Style:
entertaining, romantic, captivating, light, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, jealousy, unrequited love, character study, relationship vs career, romantic rivalry, love interest, love affair, relationships, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, in love ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, serious, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
justice, character study, existential crisis, journalism, suicide, alienation, moral ambiguity, literary, tragic hero, introspection, existentialism, obsession ...
Time:
80s, post world war one
Place:
bucharest
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, ambiguous ending, moody ...
Plot:
seduction, older woman younger man, dysfunctional family, character study, moral ambiguity, isolation, class conflict, repression, obsession, slow burn, tragic romance, claustrophobia ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
france
Similarity:
23%
289
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman Sam who has her eye on the mysterious Fender. When she sees him, she immediately knows that he could cause trouble, but he is too charming to let go. Sam feels his attraction, but also that something is not right about him.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot:
mysterious stranger, suspicion, female protagonist, secrets, manipulation, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, obsession, unsettling, slow burn, character study, jealousy ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Miss Julie has power over Jean because she's an aristocrat but he has power over her because he's a man. On Midsummer Eve this power battle turns to love which is consummated. But as each one battles for power, Jean convinces Miss Julie ...
Style:
tense, tragic ending, art house, period drama
Plot:
class conflict, sexual tension, forbidden romance, gender roles, tragedy, manipulation, character study, suicide, claustrophobia, literary, moral ambiguity, obsession ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A quiet studio photographer is taking photos of insects in the forest when an Instagram model falls out of a tree. Agreeing to give her a lift back into town, he soon finds her dominating his life while sleeping in his home.
Style:
psychological thriller, talky, emotional, romantic, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, character study, love and romance, relationships, fall in love, love affair, couple relations, lovers, love triangle, love, couples, japanese man ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. ...
Style:
atmospheric, historical drama, period piece, melancholic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hypnosis, winter, blindness, small town, jealousy, moral ambiguity, healer, ethical dilemma, forbidden romance, love triangle, seduction, obsession ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1810s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Bhooma Devi, a diligent postgraduate literature student reluctantly agrees to date the college bad boy Vikram, but her life unravels, when the typical college romance gradually evolves into a deeply layered exploration of love and his controlling ...
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, melancholic, psychological thriller, suspenseful
Plot:
toxic relationship, college romance, emotional abuse, coming of age, campus, self discovery, student life, obsession, jealousy, female protagonist, mature, young adult ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A student diver risks her scholastic future and relationship with her father when she dates a moody transfer student consumed by their romance.
Style:
romantic drama, tense, psychological thriller, indie film, suspenseful ...
Plot:
teen romance, romantic obsession, high school, young adult, control, high school life, coming of age, possession, female protagonist, jealousy, mental disorder, domestic drama ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Drama - Vic's days are filled with selling sci-fi collectibles, harassing his fellow antique dealers, and trying to communicate with extraterrestrials. - Charles Brin, Alex Cole, Paul Cram
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
obsession, small town, danger, alien encounter, death, tragedy, delusion, manipulation, emotional manipulation, exploitation, character study, female victim ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
Style:
intense, serious, bleak, melancholic, grim ...
Plot:
alienation, infidelity, domestic drama, character study, control, power struggle, obsession, manipulation, isolation, family conflict, claustrophobia, revenge ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania, Sweden, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man becomes lured into a fictional game his ex-girlfriend has initiated. Sexually ensnared by her, and now realizing the fragility of the border between the real and the imagined, he begins to unravel. He convinces himself that if he can only ...
Style:
psychological thriller, art house, metafiction, ambiguous ending, erotic drama ...
Plot:
summer, manipulation, obsession, mind game, moral ambiguity, sexual tension, obsessive love, mature, identity crisis, jealousy, guilt, existentialism ...
Place:
eastern europe, bucharest
Similarity:
20%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her breasts. After she is humiliated when Loe, one of her employees, is startled by the discovery of her ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, trauma, amputation, laundry, kidnapping, illness, madness, insanity, character study, shame, identity crisis, delusion ...
Similarity:
20%
223
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Anka is becoming extremely anxious about her beloved husband Witek, a war correspondent. But where does the border lie between reality and catastrophic visions?
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological thriller, melancholic
Plot:
anxiety, fear, war correspondent, mental illness, life is a bitch, married couple, marital problem, couples, military life, social problems, journalist, relationship problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, tension, psychological, period piece
Plot:
loneliness, tenderness, disability, character study, correspondence, siblings, mature, bittersweet, revelation, moral dilemma, unrequited love, awkwardness ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
france, brittany
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Vera is a young psychologist who visits her father's cottage in the mountains after he passes away. Her boyfriend Tony surprisingly arrives together with her best friend Tanya, they have a secret affair and they are about to confess to Vera. ...
Style:
tension, erotic, suspenseful, art house, independent film
Plot:
betrayal, female protagonist, infidelity, grief, nudity, love triangle, small town, emotional breakdown, black ops, jealousy, manipulation, nature ...
Similarity:
20%
265
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, existential, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
kidnapping, escape, alienation, character study, frustration, social realism, forbidden love, cross cultural relations, illicit affair, mature, loneliness, class conflict ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, england
Similarity:
19%
118
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
OTHELLO is a cinematographic essay about power, desire, jealousy and deceit; a thought on the boundaries between fiction and real life.
Style:
dark, metafiction, intense, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
jealousy, deception, betrayal, tragedy, desire, manipulation, obsession, power struggle, fatalism, sexual tension, moral ambiguity, character study ...
Similarity:
19%
123
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A young lawyer arrives on a island in Spain with a weight on his conscience that is about to drive him to suicide. The encounter with a young teenager discovering sexuality will first reveal her vulnerabilities and finally her cynicism.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
island, suicidal thoughts, sexual awakening, coming of age, guilt, conscience, problem, suicidal tendency, advocate, loneliness, character study, regret ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A woman focused on career and achievement alienates her husband.
Style:
tense, melancholic, period piece, atmospheric
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ambition, marriage of convenience, female protagonist, social climbing, materialism, frustration, character study, domestic drama, cautionary tale, manipulation, tragedy, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He ...
Style:
serious, tense, period piece, grim, grotesque
Plot:
bullying, military, military life, conscription, discipline, conformity, machismo, realism, accomplice, hierarchy, sergeant, character study ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.
Style:
historical drama, melancholic, romantic drama, historical romance, tense ...
Plot:
world war two, anti semitism, tragedy, forbidden love, nazi occupation, survival, violence, cultural conflict, young lovers, identity crisis, betrayal, small town ...
Time:
year 1939
Place:
poland
Similarity:
19%
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