20 movies like The Saxon Charm, ordered by similarity : Too Late for Tears(1949), The Country Girl(1954), I Saw the Light(2015), Eyes Wide Shut(1999), A Streetcar Named Desire(1951), Rapt(2009), The Lady Gambles(1949), Manhattan(1979), Crimes and Misdemeanors(1989), Barton Fink(1991), Two Weeks in Another Town(1962), Shirley(2020) ...
Drama
USA
1948
88 Minutes
Robert Montgomery Susan Hayward John Payne Audrey Totter Harry Morgan Harry von Zell Cara Williams Chill Wills Heather Angel
writer wife theatrical producer singer ex-wife intense uneasy brash new york city hospital apartment nightclub beach hollywood, calif. show business egoism writing marriage singing drinking
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
99 Minutes
Lizabeth Scott Don DeFore Dan Duryea Arthur Kennedy Kristine Miller Barry Kelley Denver Pyle Virginia Mullen Richard Irving George Mann Harry J. Vejar
wife husband brother brother-in-law sister-in-law private investigator creepy disturbing shocking suspenseful tense uneasy hollywood hollywood hills apartment car train station money murder greed
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Drama
1954
104 Minutes
Bing Crosby Grace Kelly William Holden Anthony Ross Gene Reynolds Jacqueline Fontaine Eddie Ryder Robert Kent John W. Reynolds Frank Scannell Ida Moore
actor wife alcoholic director theatrical producer bleak intense emotional new york city apartment stage alcoholism marriage failing career theater new love discovery fall forbidden love 1950s
An alcoholic stage actor (Bing Crosby) leans on his wife (Grace Kelly) as he tries to make a comeback.
Biography, Drama, History
USA
2015
123 Minutes
Tom Hiddleston Elizabeth Olsen Bradley Whitford David Krumholtz Cherry Jones Maddie Hasson Wes Langlois Wrenn Schmidt
singer country singer singer-songwriter womanizer american musician guitarist love interest wife child boy george girl hank williams jr. disheartening emotional engaging gripping sad united states alabama
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Drama
UK|USA
1999
159 Minutes
Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman Sydney Pollack Marie Richardson Rade Serbedzija Todd Field Vinessa Shaw Alan Cumming Sky Dumont Fay Masterson Leelee Sobieski
doctor curator husband wife sexy man sexy woman chilling sultry tense shocking new york city apartment mansion city apartment bedroom street husband/wife relationship sex cult sadomasochism
A New York City doctor embarks on a harrowing, night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife reveals a painful secret to him.
Drama
USA
1951
122 Minutes
Marlon Brando Vivien Leigh Kim Hunter Karl Malden Rudy Bond Nick Dennis Peg Hillias Wright King Richard Garrick Mickey Kuhn Charles Wagenheim
sister husband wife emotional tense sultry new orleans city apartment abuse disillusionment family marriage mental illness fall rivalry 1950s
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Drama
2009
125 Minutes
Yvan Attal Anne Consigny André Marcon Françoise Fabian Alex Descas Michel Voïta Gerard Meylan Christophe Kourotchkine Maxime Lefrancois
industrialist wife kidnapper mistress police officer executive tense thrilling paris apartment office hideout kidnapping ransom adultery business gambling schemes fall wretched excess
Drama
USA
1949
99 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Robert Preston Stephen McNally Edith Barrett John Hoyt Elliott Sullivan John Harmon Philip Van Zandt Leif Erickson Houseley Stevenson Tony Curtis
wife husband reporter casino owner gambler sister dark tense sad las vegas casino hotel chicago hospital gambling addiction marriage financial troubles journalism desperation
A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.
Drama, Comedy
USA
1979
96 Minutes
Woody Allen Diane Keaton Mariel Hemingway Michael Murphy Meryl Streep Anne Byrne Karen Ludwig Michael O'Donoghue Tisa Farrow Helen Hanft Bella Abzug
writer teenager ex-wife friend lover witty playful touching new york city apartment central park delicatessen dating may-december romance loneliness loss love triangle new york city growing up love
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1989
104 Minutes
Martin Landau Woody Allen Mia Farrow Alan Alda Anjelica Huston Sam Waterston Joanna Gleason Caroline Aaron Jerry Orbach Claire Bloom Stephanie Roth Haberle
director doctor producer girlfriend wife quirky amusing playful hilarious new york city adultery revenge forbidden love movie making art marriage forbidden love temptation fall rivalry
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
Drama
UK|USA
1991
116 Minutes
John Turturro John Goodman Judy Davis Michael Lerner John Mahoney Tony Shalhoub Jon Polito Steve Buscemi David Warrilow Richard Portnow Christopher Murney
playwright neighbor insurance salesman producer drunk detective dark quirky intricate new york city hollywood, calif. hotel elevator movie studio writer's block death show business daunting task dance curse
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Drama
1962
106 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Edward G. Robinson Cyd Charisse George Hamilton Claire Trevor Daliah Lavi Rosanna Schiaffino
director wife actor woman leading man doctor emotional frenetic inspiring amusing mental institution hollywood, calif. new england rome movie set apartment alcoholism mental breakdown failing career hollywood
An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to make a comeback in Rome.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2020
107 Minutes
Elisabeth Moss Michael Stuhlbarg Odessa Young Logan Lerman Allen McCullough Edward O'Blenis Victoria Pedretti Robert Wuhl Paul O'Brien
academic writer author newlywed husband wife bleak brooding confident disheartening intense melancholy passionate profound solemn vermont college writing affair muses
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2010
90 Minutes
Catherine Keener Amanda Peet Oliver Platt Rebecca Hall Ann Morgan Guilbert Sarah Steele Lois Smith Thomas Ian Nicholas
husband wife teen girl young woman sister grandmother quirky hysterical melodramatic new york city apartment antique shop conflict of interest infidelity teen angst business husband/wife relationship guilt transformation wretched excess
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|United Arab Emirates
2010
107 Minutes
Naomi Watts Sean Penn Sam Shepard Ty Burrell David Andrews Brooke Smith Noah Emmerich Bruce McGill Michael Kelly Liraz Charchi Khaled Nabawy
cia agent wife husband writer diplomat government official thrilling tense suspenseful washington, d.c. new york city government offices city home secret identity journalism corruption leaked information chase betrayal
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
Drama
USA
1952
118 Minutes
Lana Turner Kirk Douglas Walter Pidgeon Dick Powell Barry Sullivan Gloria Grahame Gilbert Roland Leo G. Carroll Vanessa Brown Paul Stewart Sammy White
movie star writer director producer brooding cool spirited tense engaging hollywood, calif. manipulation cheating hollywood ambition betrayal underdog fall rise wretched excess 1950s
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Drama
Spain|Argentina
2002
112 Minutes
Federico Luppi Mercedes Sampietro Arturo Puig Carlos Santamaría Yael Barnatán Valentina Bassi Claudio Rissi María Fiorentino
professor wife son lawyer husband emotional tender argentina college apartment household farm retirement unhappy marriage father/son relationship abandonment business writing fall transformation
In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
103 Minutes
Kirk Douglas Eleanor Parker William Bendix Horace MacMahon Lee Grant Craig Hill Cathy O'Donnell Bert Freed George Macready Joseph Wiseman Gladys George
police detective abortionist wife burglar shoplifter colleague tense suspenseful gripping melodramatic police station household hospital new york city street obsession abortion investigation dark secrets death
On one day in the 21st Precinct squad room, assorted characters form a backdrop for the troubles of hard-nosed Detective Jim McLeod.
Comedy, Drama
France|Germany|Poland|Spain|USA
2011
79 Minutes
Jodie Foster Kate Winslet Christoph Waltz John C. Reilly Elvis Polanski Eliot Berger
broker lawyer writer salesman husband wife dark witty brooklyn, n.y. apartment argument responsibility lawsuit human rights husband/wife relationship drinking wretched excess transformation 2010s
Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.
Drama
USA
1945
101 Minutes
Ray Milland Jane Wyman Howard da Silva Phillip Terry Doris Dowling Frank Faylen Mary Young Anita Sharp-Bolster Lillian Fontaine Lewis Russell Frank Orth
writer alcoholic brother girlfriend bartender dark bleak intense new york city bar hotel opera house hospital addiction alcoholism lying self-destruction love wretched excess temptation
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Drama
USA
1942
89 Minutes
George Sanders Herbert Marshall Doris Dudley Steven Geray Eric Blore Albert Basserman
writer artist painter wife friend solemn hedonistic powerful london paris tahiti apartment studio art egoism morality suicide misogyny loyalty rise
Loosely inspired by Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to start painting, as he has ... See full summary »