Movies Like The Dark Side of Love
If you liked The Dark Side of Love (1984), a drama and romance movie directed by Salvatore Samperi, 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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Shame (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaBrandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up…
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Brideshead Revisited (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceBefriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls in love with his…
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Close My Eyes (1991)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and romanceAfter some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
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Cruel Intentions (1999)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceSlaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he…
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Fire with Fire (1986)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romanceA 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…
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Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
★ 8/10Also drama and romanceWhen a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
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Don't Move (2004)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceWhile 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…
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Newness (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and dramaIn contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
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Caligula (1979)
★ 6/10Also dramaAfter the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
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Call Me by Your Name (2017)
★ 8.1/10Also romance and dramaIn the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver…
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Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceIn the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and…
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The Key (1983)
★ 6/10Also drama and romanceIn 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor…
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The Brutalist (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaWhen an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are…
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The Souvenir (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romanceA shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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The Duke of Burgundy (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceDay in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more…
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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceWhen college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic…
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Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romanceBelieving 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…
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The Hand of God (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaIn 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.
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Identification of a Woman (1982)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceMovie 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…
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Anemone (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaMiddle-aged Jem sets out from his suburban home on a journey into the woods, where he reconnects with his estranged hermit brother Ray. Bonded by a mysterious, complicated past, the men share a fraught, if occasionally…