Spinster movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant spinster movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, humorous, independent film, sentimental and semi serious films and TV shows about / with spinster, couples, love and romance, mother daughter relationship, family relations, female protagonist, love, female nudity, marriage and male female relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Mexico and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as spinster: The Piano Teacher (2001), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Wetherby (1985), The Reverse (2009), Come Look at Me (2001), Babette's Feast (1987), Lady J (2018), Crooked House (2017), The Honeymoon Killers (1970), That Cold Day in the Park (1969).

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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: hotel, boarding house, spinster, female nudity, desperation, loneliness, piano, mental disorder, psychopath, aging, betrayal, bittersweet ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, america, texas ...
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The Piano Teacher (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Style: sexual, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bdsm, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, teacher, mother daughter relationship, sexual relations, desire, rape, masochism, fetish, sex, perversion ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, france, austria, europe, vienna
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The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, love and romance, professor, wedding, literature, friendship, self discovery, love story, love, spinster ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: new york, venice, london, paris france, manhattan new york city
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 6.5
 2K
Wetherby (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: loneliness, angst, heartache, memory, solitude, obsession, investigation, world war two, adultery, spinster, dinner party, school teacher ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: yorkshire, england
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 7.0
 2K
The Reverse (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The ...
Style: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, romantic comedy, offbeat ...
Plot: looking for love, spinster, opposites attract, undercover, fall in love, family relations, dark humor, couples, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, wooing ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 21st century
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Come Look at Me (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The movie is about an old disabled lady who lives with her spinster daughter. The lady desperately wants her daughter to marry, and the daughter, driven by the supposed imminent death of her mother, invites a total stranger home and introduces him ...
Style: emotional, semi serious, touching, captivating
Plot: new year's eve, male female relationship, family relations, spinster, pretense, couple relations, deception, mother daughter relationship, husband, bad mother, wish come true, relationships ...
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Babette's Feast (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The guest, a General at the Swedish court, is not related to the sister, but, as a callow young man, was in love with her, but chose his military career over happiness with her. His aunt is a member of the religious community. He is the one who, ...
Style: emotional, touching, atmospheric, sentimental, talky ...
Plot: cooking, religion, cooking and food, aging, elderly, gourmet, food, wine, charity, sister sister relationship, catholic, chef ...
Time: 19th century, year 1987, victorian era, 1800s, 1870s ...
Place: denmark, paris france, europe, stockholm sweden
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 6.8
 4K
Lady J (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.
Style: costume drama, melancholic, disturbing, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: aristocracy, widow, revenge, betrayal, love, marriage, broken heart, forgiveness, male female friendship, brothel, tenderness, spinster ...
Time: 18th century
Place: france
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 6.3
 27K
Crooked House (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, detective, captivating, surprise ending ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: whodunit, murder mystery, private detective, mansion, murder, family secret, twists and turns, investigation, servant, poison, secret, spy ...
Time: 50s, year 1957, 1950s
Place: london, cairo egypt, scotland yard
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The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man ...
Style: neo noir, disturbing, cult classic, black and white, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, female serial killer, con artists, spinster, loneliness, valentine's day, violent, marriage, male nudity, wedding, biopic ...
Time: 1940s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: alabama, usa, missouri, michigan, new jersey ...
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That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.
Style: slasher, controversial, neo noir, intense, depressing ...
Plot: spinster, kidnapping, dangerous attraction, obsession, captivity, voyeurism, female nudity, american horror, age difference, sensuality, female psychopath, stoner ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: vancouver, canada
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Rooster Cogburn (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Minister Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
Style: action adventure, spaghetti western, independent film, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, manly
Plot: revenge, courage, battle of the sexes, shootout, teacher, outlaw gang, tough girl, u.s. marshal, spinster, raft, pursuit, death of father ...
Time: year 1975, 19th century, 1880s
Place: usa, oregon
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Widows' Peak (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
Style: witty, humorous, surprise ending, slasher, semi serious ...
Plot: spinster, small town, interwar period, cigar, false accusation, feud, widow, gossip, sting operation, comedy of manners, village, social differences ...
Time: 1920s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
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It's Not That I Can't Get Married, I Just Don't Do It (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Tachibana Miyabi is 39-years-old and she hasn't had a boyfriend in 5 years. She enjoys her life as a single woman. She is a doctor and runs her own beauty dermatology clinic. Miyabi is pretty and confident, but at her school reunion, she finds ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot: spinster, japanese woman, coach, looking for love, romantic relationship, male female relationship, love and romance, female protagonist, middle age romance, personal trainer, satire, unmarried woman ...
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 7.7
 3K
Rising Damp (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Rising Damp is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. ITV originally broadcast the programme from 1974 through 1978. It was adapted for television by Eric Chappell from his well-received 1971 stage play The Banana Box The series ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, witty
Audience: kids
Plot: racist, conservative, liberal, interracial friendship, social differences, couples, social misfits, womanizer, wooing, slum, bachelor, sketch ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england, northern england, africa, yorkshire, europe ...
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 7.4
 221
Tlayucan (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Desperate for the illness of his son, the farmer steals a pearl Eufemio image of St. Lucia in the village church. Some tourists photographed the theft, and Euphemius is about to be lynched by their neighbors. Pearl disappeared swallowed by one of ...
Plot: sick child, peasant, blind man, spinster, small town, miraculous event, satire, church, illness, town, pearl
Place: mexico
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
Style: talky, realistic, humorous, sentimental, spiritual ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teacher, fascism, school, girls' school, coming of age, female nudity, unrequited love, boarding school, love triangle, education, fired from the job, spanish civil war ...
Time: 1930s, year 1969, 1920s, 20th century, year 1932
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, europe, italy, britain
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 4.9
 2K
Unhinged (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: College students, Terry, Nancy and Gloria are on their way to a rock concert, driving through a torrential rainstorm...only to crash their car, badly injuring one of them. Seeking shelter and aid they come across a house occupied by a man-hating ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mystery killer, serial killer, murder, psychopath, gory, secret, blood, violence, mansion, woman in danger, sexual relations, destiny ...
Time: 80s
Place: oregon
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El Chavo del Ocho (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The mishaps of Chavo, an 8-year-old orphan boy who lives in a barrel. Together with Quico, Chilindrina, Ñoño and La Popis, Chavo experiences a series of humorous entanglements.
Style: sitcom, hispanic, social, slapstick, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: orphan, friendship, mischievous children, neighborhood, spinster, adult as child, optimism, buddies, society, youth, social relations, hopes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: mexico
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 7.7
 19K
The Music Man (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A con man comes to an Iowa town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan.
Style: period piece, sentimental, entertaining, aesthetic, retro ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, family outing
Plot: broadway, small town, dancing, librarian, con artists, library, fall in love, american history, dance, love, town, bad guys win ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 1910s
Place: iowa, indiana, america, midwest, usa
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Big Stone Gap (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light
Plot: wedding, female protagonist, job offer, family home, lawyer, marriage proposal, small town, family relations, love and romance, couples, girl power, faith ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, appalachia
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Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: A poetic blend of Dreams and Reality, a story of ordinary people and that what is extra-ordinary in them.
Plot: rain, small town, drought, pessimism, self discovery, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, teen angst, single father, cynic, teenage boy, dysfunctional family ...
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Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.
Style: action adventure, funny, parody, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: cowboy, train, mistaken identity, bad guys win, con man, native american, gambling, hotel, deception, father daughter relationship, doctor, shooting ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century
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 5.7
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Audrey's Rain (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jean Smart and Richard Gilliland star in "Audrey's Rain" for Hallmark. Jean plays Aunt Audrey, who took in her sister's two kids after her sister's recent suicide.
Plot: nephew, loss of mother, lovers reunited, niece, boy, spinster, aunt, children, suicide, girl, old love, family relations ...
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Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
Style: retro, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: lesbian subtext, lesbian, midlife crisis, lesbianism, lesbian friend, family relations, school, summer, feminist, time travel, women, domineering mother ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: new england, usa, oregon, connecticut
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 5.8
 2K
Old Gringo (1989)
Genre: Adventure, History, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When school teacher Harriet Winslow goes to Mexico to teach, she is kidnapped by Gen. Tomas Arroyo and his revolutionaries. An aging American, Ambrose "Old Gringo" Bierce also in Mexico, befriends Gen. Arroyo and meets Harriet. Bierce is a ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, surprise ending, eighties ...
Plot: mexican revolution, writers, politics, older woman younger man relationship, women, older woman younger man, political unrest, love triangle, showdown, spinster, aging, fall in love ...
Time: year 1989, 1910s, 1900s
Place: latin america, mexico, washington d.c., sonora, central america
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 7.5
 3K
Martha (1974)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Europe when he has a heart attack and falls down dead...
Style: disturbing, art house, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: manipulation, domination, psychopath, bullying, marriage, obsession, bourgeoisie, mental disorder, politics, family relations, girl, couples ...
Time: year 1974, 70s
Place: rome italy, germany
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Ten Little Indians (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, tension, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, danger, haunted by the past, island, whodunit, death, vigilante, guilt, survival, secret, confession, stranded on an island ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: ussr
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Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and is turning into an old maid, while Meg, who tries to make it ...
Style: talky, touching, humorous, dark comedy, emotional ...
Plot: sisters, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, childhood, betrayal, redemption, sister, adaptation, parenthood, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
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Age of Consent (1969)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.
Style: erotic, art house, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: artist, island, beach, painting, lolita, painter, swimming, skinny dipping, age difference, exotic island, art, nudity ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: australia, new york
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