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Movies Like Ritual of Love

If you liked Ritual of Love (1990), a drama and romance movie directed by Aldo Lado, 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. 1In Secret

    In Secret (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    In 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…

  2. 2Gabriel's Inferno: Part III

    Gabriel's Inferno: Part III (2020)

    ★ 8.3/10Also romance and drama

    The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.

  3. 3What Have You Done to Solange?

    What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller and horror

    After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that…

  4. 4Don't Move

    Don't Move (2004)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia, a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the…

  5. 5Killer Heat

    Killer Heat (2024)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and romance

    An expat PI is hired to investigate a suspicious death in Crete, Greece, where jealousies run deep amongst the victim's powerful family.

  6. 6Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  7. 7Gabriel's Inferno

    Gabriel's Inferno (2020)

    ★ 8.4/10Also romance and drama

    An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the…

  8. 8Winter's Tale

    Winter's Tale (2014)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.

  9. 9The Star Maker

    The Star Maker (1995)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiate named Beata desperately wants to change her life and falls for…

  10. 10Bone Lake

    Bone Lake (2025)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream…

  11. 11Identification of a Woman

    Identification of a Woman (1982)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and romance

    Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of…

  12. 12That Malicious Age

    That Malicious Age (1975)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.

  13. 13Hannibal

    Hannibal (2001)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and thriller

    After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He…

  14. 14Watcher

    Watcher (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror and thriller

    As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

  15. 15They Won't Believe Me

    They Won't Believe Me (1947)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

  16. 16Unfaithful

    Unfaithful (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller and drama

    A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

  17. 17Fire with Fire

    Fire with Fire (1986)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison…

  18. 18Careful What You Wish For

    Careful What You Wish For (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

  19. 19The Burning Plain

    The Burning Plain (2008)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is…

  20. 20Blackwater Lane

    Blackwater Lane (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller and drama

    An American school teacher in England drives past an abandoned car late one night, unaware that the driver was the victim of a murder. As she comes to terms with the realization, seemingly supernatural events start to…

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