Complicated relationship movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant complicated relationship movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, weird, talky, visually appealing, enigmatic and melancholic films and TV shows about / with complicated relationship, love, loneliness, relationships, storytelling, dialogue, existentialism, melancholy, cigarette smoking and bittersweet plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
complicated relationship
TOP 10 movies tagged as complicated relationship: Lan Yu (2001), Three Colors: White (1994), Three Colors: Red (1994), Wild Reeds (1994), Three Colors: Blue (1993), To Our Loves (1983), Sweet Movie (1974), The Graduate (1967), Last Tango in Paris (1972), Annie Hall (1977).
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List of complicated relationship movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Style:
scary, surreal, stylized, dark, art house ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, drugs, cat, loneliness, suspense, murder, prostitute, women, father son relationship, being followed, following someone ...
Place:
iran, middle east, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident
Style:
captivating, sentimental, touching, sincere, depressing ...
Plot:
gay, older man younger man relationship, gay sex, gay asian, love affair, male nudity, gay relationship, lgbt, lifestyle, fighting the system, social differences, couples ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, year 1988, 80s
Place:
beijing china, china, asia, america, hong kong ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists ...
Style:
witty, atmospheric, emotional, erotic, touching ...
Plot:
divorce, marriage, humiliation, faked death, obsession, funeral, vengeance, love, love story, relationships, crumbling marriage, business venture ...
Time:
90s
Place:
poland, paris france, france, eastern europe, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Part-time model Valentine meets a retired judge who lives in her neighborhood after she runs over his dog. At first the judge gifts Valentine with the dog, but her possessive boyfriend won't allow her to keep it. When she returns with the dog ...
Style:
reflective, atmospheric, art house, thought provoking, cerebral ...
Plot:
coincidence, loneliness, friendship, dog, love affair, isolation, judge, redemption, twists and turns, love, model, encounter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, poland, paris france, tokyo, english channel ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Style:
erotic, realistic, sexy, stylized, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, male homosexuality, gay interest, friendship, homosexual, lgbtq, small town, homosexuality, betrayal, bittersweet, youth ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, africa, algeria, europe, south of france
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Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. ...
Style:
reflective, atmospheric, emotional, art house, sexy ...
Plot:
loss of child, loneliness, depression, isolation, stripper, solitude, existentialism, love, grief, art, philosophy, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style:
erotic, art house, sexy, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
female nudity, dysfunctional family, coming of age, infidelity, promiscuity, promiscuous daughter, extramarital affair, man hits a woman, sexual promiscuity, loveless marriage, young woman, promiscuous woman ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada, West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The winner (Carole Laure) of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, surreal, experimental, psychedelic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, erotica, orgy, breast feeding, decadence, surrealism, dead children, woman in a bikini, ship, cat, violence, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
amsterdam, paris france, france, canada, europe ...
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277K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Benjamin, a recent college graduate is very worried about his future, he then finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Style:
witty, sexual, atmospheric, melancholic, erotic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, milf, adultery, love, wedding, forbidden love, college graduate, infidelity, graduate, relationships ...
Time:
60s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.
Style:
erotic, controversial, sexy, disturbing, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex scene, strong sexual content, erotica, grief, lust, hotel, suicide, older man younger woman relationship, relationships, sex, voyeurism, tragedy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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269K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the city of New York, comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Style:
philosophical, non-linear, romantic, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, love and romance, neurosis, marriage, divorce, jewish, comedian, unlikely friendships, loneliness, love story, friendship, art ...
Time:
70s, 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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142K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style:
romantic, humorous, meditative, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love triangle, love, age difference, divorce, couples, friendship, love and romance, adultery, dating, mistress, 17 year old, dachshund ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Style:
talky, humorous, witty, ironic, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
thanksgiving, infidelity, sisters, dysfunctional family, family relations, writers, audition, love triangle, opera, midlife crisis, love, artist ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A middle-aged London factory worker is shocked when the mixed-race daughter she gave up at birth decides to track her down. At first she denies she is her mother. All family members become emotional, as everyone's secrets are exposed.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, art house, feminist film ...
Plot:
adoption, dysfunctional family, birth mother, character study, bittersweet, loneliness, working class, family secret, women, parenthood, female protagonist, solitude ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, art house, visually appealing, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, marriage, love affair, newspaper, love, human nature, food, art, betrayal ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1966, year 1962
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, india, shanghai ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.
Style:
psychological, art house, tense, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
prison, kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, alienation, bowling, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, fall in love, gambling, relationships, blackmail, debt ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york state, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly ...
Style:
sexual, psychological, sexy, artsy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, voyeurism, sex, obsession, orgy, disguise, adultery, infidelity, lust, sexuality, secret society, prostitute ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, seattle, usa
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317K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style:
realistic, philosophical, sincere, depressing, surprise ending ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
depression, human nature, social problems, multiple storylines, child prodigy, introspection, dysfunctional family, loneliness, coincidence, drugs, drug addiction, death ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 60s, 50s, 1910s
Place:
los angeles, california
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125K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
incest, sexuality, youth, french, rebellion, sex, love triangle, protest, couples, brother sister incest, friends, lust ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, psychological, intellectual, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, midlife crisis, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, relationships, fish out of water, love story, unlikely couple, actor, adultery, culture clash ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, canada, yale university ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, melancholic, mind bending, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
memory, surrealism, amnesia, love, existentialism, memory loss, love story, relationships, alternate reality, couples, loneliness, introspection ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Style:
bleak, emotional, art house, thought provoking, road movie ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
russian, coming of age, brother, survival, journey, children, parents and children, father son relationship, existentialism, death, childhood, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style:
gloomy, tense, reflective, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cold war, surveillance, spy, communism, berlin wall, stasi, iron curtain, espionage, voyeurism, loneliness, interrogation, politics ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, 90s
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, central europe ...
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56K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. ...
Style:
surreal, romantic, touching, philosophical, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
golf, loneliness, melancholy, relationships, motorcycle, jealousy, love triangle, love story, art, existentialism, love, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, india, south korea, asia, seoul
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555K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, twist ending, futuristic, mind bending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, isolation, technology, existentialism, cyberpunk, manipulation, suspense, cyborgs, androids, androids and robots, female robot ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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627K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. ...
Style:
melancholic, philosophical, futuristic, touching, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
loneliness, artificial intelligence, existentialism, love, philosophy, human nature, a.i., unlikely relationship, cyberspace, divorce, psychology, unlikely couple ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.
Style:
tense, art house, neurotic, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
family vacation, vacation gone wrong, passive aggressive behavior, marital strife, marriage, avalanche, ski resort, introspection, spoiled girl, nervous breakdown, ski, swedish ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
scandinavia, alps
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73K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
Style:
surreal, depressing, adult animation, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
sex, depression, loneliness, one night stand, infidelity, life philosophy, relationships, psychology, philosophy, adaptation, obsession, character study ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
cincinnati ohio
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886K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Style:
motivational, dramatic, psychological, realistic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
music, obsession, mentor, teachers and students, desire for fame, follow your dream, jazz, emotional abuse, musician's life, drummer, musician, music school ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search for the wife and son of his dead lover.
Style:
melancholic, sexy, tense, psychological, social ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, bisexual man, closeted gay, gay interest, lgbt, love, lgbtq, family relations, love and romance, gay lead character, religion, male objectification ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jerusalem, berlin germany, israel
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