Movies like Woman of the Lake
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Woman of the Lake (1966)
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Original name: 女のみづうみ
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
Style:
erotic drama, period piece, art house, suspense, tension
Plot:
blackmail, adultery, infidelity, affair, love triangle, romantic obsession, marital crisis, nudity, jealousy, female protagonist, scandal, moral ambiguity, voyeurism, small town, sea, sex scene, mental disorder, betrayal, femme fatale, family drama, privacy invasion, character study, photography, slow burn, loneliness ...
Place:
tokyo
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Most similar movies to Woman of the Lake
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out erotic, period piece, erotic drama and melancholic films with plots about infidelity, adultery, obsession, jealousy, character study, moral ambiguity and love triangle mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Woman of the Lake: Affair in the Snow (1968), The House of Doves (1972), Mom's Friend 4 (2017), Swedish Love Play (1968), Temptation of Eve: Good Wife (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.
Style:
moody
Plot:
love triangle, snow, jealousy, female protagonist, affair, isolation, winter, obsession, ex lover, tragic romance, loneliness, passion ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love affair until Alexandra finds that he is being paid to be ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
love triangle, erotica, extramarital affair, mother daughter relationship, infidelity, betrayal, deception, jealousy, secrets, moral ambiguity, desire, loneliness ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Min Jung's husband has been traveling for 300 days and she feels lonely. When her friend Chung Hee moves in next door, Min Jung often visits her house, during which she keeps meeting Jae Ho, Jung Hee's son. After having an impulsive affair ...
Style:
sensual, erotic drama, emotional, intense
Plot:
taboo, sexual tension, infidelity, adultery, married woman, affair, moral dilemma, temptation, infatuation, forbidden romance, black ops, intimate ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Carmilla falls for her stepfather and seduces him. When he is killed in a car accident, she decides to take revenge against the driver, but this only leads to a deeper tragedy.
Style:
erotic drama, intense, dark, art house, period piece
Plot:
revenge, stepfather, seduction, car accident, tragedy, forbidden love, female protagonist, obsession, jealousy, love triangle, moral ambiguity, sexual awakening ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Film director Jin Young walks out the door after presenting a screenplay that he hopes will be turned into a film. On his way to the parking lot, he meets an attractive woman named In Ae and spends the night with her. Next day, he receives a phone ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, psychological, romantic drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, stalking, black ops, producer, one night stand, disability, physical disability, wheelchair bound, cheating wife, suspicion of adultery, marital infidelity ...
Similarity:
64%
175
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, detective, independent film
Plot:
love triangle, character study, midlife crisis, forbidden romance, jealousy, infidelity, adultery, unrequited love, bittersweet, loneliness, mature, obsession ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.
Style:
melancholic, art house, ambiguous ending, avant garde
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mother son relationship, flashback, male protagonist, love triangle, memory, symbolism, family conflict, childhood trauma, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, nostalgia, haunting ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anjali meets Arun at a marriage and there is instant attraction between them. Will she choose to be a loyal wife or satisfy her desires by crossing the confines of the marriage?
Style:
romantic drama, tension, realistic, sensual
Plot:
extramarital affair, forbidden love, choice, adultery, infidelity, family drama, secret relationship, temptation, female protagonist, love triangle, attraction, desire ...
Similarity:
60%
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143
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after ...
Style:
erotic drama, erotic
Plot:
midlife crisis, love triangle, sexual jealousy, adultery, infidelity, jealous husband, sexual awakening, domestic drama, character study, seduction, psychological manipulation, manipulation ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, sinister, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, domestic drama, betrayal, infidelity, moral ambiguity, character study, symbolism, jealousy, guilt, midlife crisis, mature ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them ...
Plot:
suicide attempt, extramarital affair, nightmare comes true, movie star, pills, double suicide, memory, filmmaking, acid, adultery, jealousy, psychoanalysis ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her ...
Style:
bleak, intense, suspense, period piece, dark
Plot:
affair, accident, accidental killing, murder, female protagonist, jealousy, guilt, betrayal, love triangle, infidelity, moral ambiguity, behind the scenes ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Doktor Glas finds himself attracted to a young woman, married to a corrupt clergyman. She's miserable in her marriage, so he agrees to help in anyway he can. But he is quickly torn between passion and morality. The story is based on the 1905 ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, grim, noir, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, obsession, forbidden love, character study, morality, adultery, guilt, desire, existential crisis, existentialism, sexual repression, romantic obsession ...
Time:
60s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless ...
Style:
dark, erotic drama, bleak, controversial, intense ...
Plot:
businessman, character study, driven mad, sexual dysfunction, mental breakdown, midlife crisis, high society, loneliness, troubled marriage, paranoia, jealousy, infidelity ...
Time:
year 1981
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka fashions a stunning film about love and excess. Robert (Norman Reedus) is a writer who hasn't done much writing lately; instead, he's busy pushing the envelope with his toxic mix of boredom, drugs and a dalliance ...
Style:
psychological, existential, erotic, independent film, moody
Plot:
writers, obsession, making love, infidelity, affair, toxic relationship, character study, cheating, boredom, self destructing, marriage, sexual tension ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Daily, Rika Umezawa battles a nagging sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction. She works a tiring job, comes home to an unappreciative husband and has little opportunity to enjoy life. But things change when office gossip about affairs and ...
Style:
period piece, atmospheric
Plot:
embezzlement, character study, housewife, midlife crisis, female protagonist, ethical dilemma, secret life, adultery, bank clerk, moral ambiguity, loneliness, identity crisis ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Sadako, cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a victim, she forges a path to her own awakening.
Style:
suspense, rough, disturbing, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
rape, violence, unhappiness, mistress, maid, female nudity, dysfunctional relationship, anger, obsession, secret, neighbor, death ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
New couple Na-ni and Joon-seo left the stuffy Seoul to try and start a cafe in the countryside. Behind the couple's attempt to change, they had some unspeakable worries, so they were sexless people who used their own rooms because they were ...
Style:
intense, dramatic, gloomy, emotional, dark ...
Plot:
sex, infidelity, sex scene, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, mature, small town, marital discord, couples, relationships, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After a hotel maid confronts her boss about secret cameras in the rooms, she insists on watching the videos, which reveal more than she imagined.
Style:
erotic, tense, suspense, disturbing, erotic drama ...
Plot:
infidelity, hotel, murder, cheating fiancee, surveillance, sex, adultery, voyeurism, privacy invasion, hotel room, cheating wife, seductress ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Roman Porno from 1982.
Style:
erotic, sensual, retro, independent film, multicultural ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, female sexuality, seduction, sexploitation, desire, sexual tension, love triangle, restaurant, infidelity, intimate, urban, businesswoman ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Through a period of five days, the story follows intertwined characters who live in false serenity and rather chaotic general order.
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot:
love triangle, dysfunctional family, love and romance, couple relations, couples, contests and competitions, chaos and mayhem, character study, adultery, betrayal, infidelity, affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
croatia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Franck, a former young hopeful at the Nantes soccer club, has stayed on to help the team for ten years after an injury,but becomes especially frustrated when he meets a seductive young woman.
Style:
melancholic, art house
Plot:
soccer, infidelity, love triangle, character study, jealousy, small town, seduction, midlife crisis, sexual tension, slice of life, bittersweet, unrequited love ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
44%
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:
44%
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336
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.
Style:
erotic, reflective, sexy, independent film
Plot:
extramarital affair, adultery, infidelity, marital crisis, housewife, character study, temptation, female protagonist, forgiveness, gender roles, personal growth, sexual awakening ...
Time:
70s, year 1971
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Clara, the sexually frustrated wife of a businessman goes on vacation with her husband, daughter and best friend. While there, she finally learns that sex can be passionate and wonderful, something she was never able to discover with the help of her ...
Style:
erotic drama, sensual, period piece
Plot:
adultery, seduction, sexual awakening, sexual frustration, eroticism, female sexuality, vacation, infidelity, passion, repression, betrayal, jealousy ...
Similarity:
43%
185
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
Style:
independent film, art house, psychological, erotic, erotic drama ...
Plot:
role playing, love triangle, identity, sexual tension, character study, obsession, voyeurism, intimacy, sexual exploration, domestic drama, jealousy, transformation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Makoto Toda was an earnest man who had lived an ordinary life, working as an ordinary company employee. He had built himself an average, but happy home along with his wife and his daughter. Things change however, when a new female recruit named Saya ...
Style:
tense, realistic, melancholic, dark, psychological thriller
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, jealousy, seduction, sexual obsession, office romance, sexual tension, domestic drama, secret relationship, loss of control ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Together with colleagues Jan goes to a seminar on the Canary Islands. Already on the first day we starts an erotic relation to a stewardess, and during a swim with his boss his life changes dramatically.
Style:
erotic, sensual, romantic drama, period piece
Plot:
stewardess, accident, island, affair, infidelity, character study, moral ambiguity, business trip, sexually liberated, resort, naked woman, office politics ...
Place:
canary islands, spain
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three erotic stories from classic writers Marguerite de Navarre, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne and Guy de Maupassant.
Style:
anthology, erotic, erotic drama, sensual, period drama
Plot:
seduction, literary, sexual content, sexual tension, revenge, nudity, jealousy, adultery, infidelity, marital strife, manipulation, forbidden love ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century, 18th century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
tabloid journalism, scandal, privacy invasion, politician, female protagonist, betrayal, media manipulation, moral ambiguity, shame, ethical dilemma, societal hypocrisy, love triangle ...
Time:
70s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
42%
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