Movies like The Reader
The Reader (2008) is a romance movie directed by Stephen Daldry. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Next Three Days (2010)
★ 7.1 · 3,229 votes · Romance, Drama, Thriller
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison.
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2. The Aftermath (2019)
★ 6.4 · 742 votes · War, Drama, Romance
In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
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3. Lolita (1997)
★ 7.1 · 2,061 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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4. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
★ 7.1 · 1,022 votes · Drama, Romance
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
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5. Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
★ 6.7 · 8,450 votes · Drama, Romance
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.
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6. “Wuthering Heights” (2026)
★ 6.6 · 1,402 votes · Romance, Drama, History
Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.
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7. 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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