Movies like The Lover
The Lover (1992) is a romance movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Quiet American (2002)
★ 6.6 · 349 votes · Romance, Thriller, Drama
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
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2. Lolita (1997)
★ 7.1 · 2,062 votes · Drama, Romance
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
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3. Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
★ 7.1 · 4,964 votes · Romance, Drama
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
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4. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
★ 7.2 · 1,319 votes · Drama, Romance
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
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5. Desire (2011)
★ 6.3 · 1,397 votes · Drama, Romance
In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cécile, a character who symbolizes desire.
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6. Harold and Maude (1971)
★ 7.6 · 1,255 votes · Comedy, Drama, Romance
A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
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7. Stealing Beauty (1996)
★ 6.7 · 639 votes · Drama, Romance
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.
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8. Lost in Translation (2003)
★ 7.4 · 8,370 votes · Drama, Comedy, Romance
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.
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9. Sex Drive (2008)
★ 6.4 · 1,535 votes · Comedy, Adventure, Romance
A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.
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10. Lust, Caution (2007)
★ 7.3 · 854 votes · Action, Drama, Romance
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.
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11. Whatever Works (2009)
★ 7.1 · 1,896 votes · Comedy, Romance
Whatever Works explores the relationship between a crotchety misanthrope, Boris and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south, Melody. When Melody's uptight parents arrive in New York to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic entanglements. Everyone discovers that finding love is just a combination of lucky chance and appreciating the value of "whatever works."
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12. Something's Gotta Give (2003)
★ 6.6 · 1,844 votes · Drama, Comedy, Romance
When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry's sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack while there, and the doctor prescribes bedrest, his only option is to stay at the Barry home. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
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13. Friends with Benefits (2011)
★ 6.6 · 8,559 votes · Romance, Comedy
Dylan is done with relationships. Jamie decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichés of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction - but without any emotional attachment.
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14. Below Her Mouth (2017)
★ 6.8 · 1,329 votes · Drama, Romance
An unexpected affair quickly escalates into a heart-stopping reality for two women whose passionate connection changes their lives forever.
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15. Cruel Intentions (1999)
★ 6.8 · 3,741 votes · Drama, Romance
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.
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16. Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)
★ 7.0 · 727 votes · Romance, Drama
Nancy Stokes, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had good sex. Now that her husband has died, she is determined to take a tour of sexual vistas that until now she has only imagined. She even has a plan; it involves an anonymous hotel room, and a sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.
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17. Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022)
★ 6.7 · 548 votes · Drama, Romance
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
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18. My Policeman (2022)
★ 7.5 · 795 votes · Drama, Romance
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when homosexuality was illegal.
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19. From the Land of the Moon (2016)
★ 6.6 · 318 votes · Drama, Romance
In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.
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20. Maurice (1987)
★ 7.6 · 637 votes · Drama, Romance
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
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