Movies Like The Widow
If you liked The Widow (2020), a romance movie directed by Nica Noelle, 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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Henry & June (1990)
★ 6.1/10Also romanceWhile traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin…
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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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Harold and Maude (1971)
★ 7.6/10Also romanceA deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
★ 7.7/10Also romanceEmmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a…
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Trouble in Paradise (1932)
★ 7.4/10Also romanceThief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the…
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
★ 7.6/10Also romanceHolly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
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The Piano Teacher (2001)
★ 7.3/10Also romanceErika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
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Elsa & Fred (2014)
★ 6/10Also romanceAfter his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa, who convinces him it's never too late to keep enjoying life…
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My Tutor (1983)
★ 5.1/10Also romanceHigh school senior Bobby Chrystal fails his French class, which will block him from entering Yale. His rich, authoritarian father hires an attractive 29-year-old to tutor Bobby over the summer and help him pass a…
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Oh, What a Night (1992)
★ 4.5/10Also romanceDuring the summer of 1955, seventeen-year-old Eric Hansen embarks on a journey in his new town, a journey which will change his life forever.
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Starman (1984)
★ 6.9/10Also romanceWhen an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
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Fast and Sexy (1958)
★ 5.6/10Also romanceA beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
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Time for You to Come Home for Christmas (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also romanceA recent widow travels with her son to her Virginia hometown for Christmas. On the way they meet a man who is also heading to the same destination. As they continue to spend time together, the pair grows closer.
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Pardon Mon Affaire (1976)
★ 7/10Also romanceOn an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory…
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The Quiet Man (1952)
★ 7.3/10Also romanceAn American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
★ 7.7/10Also romanceGilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who…
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One True Loves (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also romanceEmma and Jesse are living the perfect life together, until Jesse disappears in a tragic helicopter crash on their first wedding anniversary. Four years later, Emma has found happiness again and is about to marry her…
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Angels with Broken Wings (1941)
★ 5.2/10Also romanceCharlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married…
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Summer Things (2002)
★ 5.9/10Also romanceTwo couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a…