Movies Like Heat of Desire
If you liked Heat of Desire (1981), a drama and romance movie directed by Luc Béraud, 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.
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Intimacy (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and dramaFailed musician Jay abandoned his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon, a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day, Jay follows…
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Bird People (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceAn overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.
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The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceA failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
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Third Person (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceAn acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
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White Wedding (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romanceA philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone.
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Blind (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceA novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
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Les Dames du bois de Boulogne (1945)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceA love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.
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Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceIn 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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Dangerous Liaisons (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and romanceThe innocent Célène might be falling in love with popular surfer Tristan at her new school. But she has no idea that, in actuality, she’s the object of a cruel bet between Tristan and Instagram influencer Vanessa.
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Goodbye Again (1961)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceMiddle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a…
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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romanceAt a weekend gathering, a man tells a woman that they had spent time there together a year prior. But, the woman has no recollection whatsoever and is convinced that he is simply fabricating the encounter. The more he…
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)
★ 7/10Also romance and dramaNancy 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…
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Unfaithful (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceA New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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Simon Killer (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaA recent college graduate flees to Paris after a break-up, where his involvement with a prostitute begins to reveal a potentially dark recent past.
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The Little Thief (1988)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and dramaIn a small town in post-WWII France, 16-year-old Janine tries to improve her conditions by any means necessary. Three people—Michel, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette, a photographer she meets in…
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Grand Hotel (1932)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceGuests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
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Valmont (1989)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceSet in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins…
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Breathless (1960)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romanceA small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
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In Secret (2014)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceIn 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching…
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The Secret (2000)
★ 7.3/10Also romance and dramaMarie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels…