Movies Like The Ripening

If you liked The Ripening (1970), a movie directed by Yi Liu, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Lan Yu (2001)
★ 7.2/10
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.
2
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
★ 5.9/10
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
3
Here (2024)
★ 6.5/10
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
4
Middle of the Night (1959)
★ 7/10
Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 50s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship…
5
American Beauty (1999)
★ 8/10
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
6
The Roses (2025)
★ 6.6/10
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while…
7
Days (2021)
★ 6.3/10
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
8
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
★ 7.6/10
Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new…
9
Blue Valentine (2010)
★ 7/10
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause…
10
While We're Young (2015)
★ 6/10
An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.
11
Providence (1977)
★ 6.6/10
On the eve of his 78th birthday, ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped…
12
Not Easily Broken (2009)
★ 6.3/10
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
13
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
★ 6.6/10
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…
14
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
★ 7.8/10
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
15
The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire (1991)
★ 6.6/10
A corrupt local official, Xi Men Qing, who lusts after women and money, pursues his brother's young wife, Lee Ping Er. Ping finds Men attractive, and under her drunken husband's nose, she and Men work their way through…
16
Another Woman (1988)
★ 6.8/10
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in…
17
Shall We Dance? (2004)
★ 6.4/10
A bored estate lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife…
18
The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)
★ 6.3/10
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family…
19
Hope Springs (2012)
★ 6.3/10
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
20
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
★ 5.9/10
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…