Movies Like Anticipation
If you liked Anticipation (1982), a romance movie directed by Carlos Tobalina, 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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The Hot Spot (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also romanceUpon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
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True Romance (1993)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceClarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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2046 (2004)
★ 7.3/10Also romanceWomen enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
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Dolls (2002)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceDolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose…
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Beautiful Destroyer (2015)
★ 10/10Also romanceDedicated and respected criminal psychiatrist Jake Morrison is trained to help individuals cope with trauma. In one of his most bizarre cases, Jake finds himself going down a road that he never imagined. The NYPD's…
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Lolita (1997)
★ 7.1/10Also romanceHumbert 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…
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Masculin Féminin (1966)
★ 7.2/10Also romancePaul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is…
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Harikrishnans (1998)
★ 6.5/10Also romanceWhen Guptan, a college lecturer, gets killed, the police suspect Gabriel to be the murderer. A girl takes help from her brothers, who are famous lawyers, in proving his innocence.
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Body of Evidence (1993)
★ 5/10Also romanceWhen an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him. District attorney Robert Garrett decides to prosecute Rebecca…
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Net Games (2003)
★ 4.9/10Also romanceThe successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally…
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Law of Desire (1987)
★ 7.1/10Also romancePablo, a successful film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transgender sister, Tina. Antonio, an uptight young man, falls…
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Memories of Flesh and Bone (2026)
Also romanceIn the capital of southern Brazil in the 1890s, a beautiful and mysterious couple gained notoriety, both for the achievements of the husband, Dr. Gustavo Ramos, and for the morbid personality of his wife, Katalina…
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Feeling Minnesota (1996)
★ 5.4/10Also romanceSam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red, a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jjaks, Sam's brother, and the pair…
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Sea of Love (1989)
★ 6.6/10Also romanceSeen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from…
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He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also romanceA talented art student named Angélique is passionately in love with Dr. Loïc Le Garrec, a handsome married man whom she believes will leave his wife. When he eventually decides to stay in his marriage, it causes…
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Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
★ 5.5/10Also romanceA remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders…
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The Spellbinder (1939)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceJed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s…
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceA socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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Fragment 24 (2025)
★ 9/10Also romanceOne night, contract killers Safo and Erina celebrate their latest work when they are surprised by an unusual request: a black envelope with just the signature 'V'.
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Haunted (1995)
★ 6.1/10Also romanceProfessor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching…