20 movies like They Were So Young, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Woodpeckers(2017), The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit(1956), Cloud 9(2008), It Always Rains on Sunday(1947), Ismael's Ghosts(2017), Violette(1978), Fool for Love(1985), The Red Lily(1924), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1958), Big Night(1996), Revanche(2008) ...
Drama
West Germany|USA
1955
80 Minutes
Scott Brady Raymond Burr Johanna Matz
model engineer boss gangster expatriate prostitute melodramatic shocking sultry dark rio de janeiro family home office beach restaurant brazil crime ring scam modeling prostitution
A model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
prison guard prisoner prisoners messenger gangsters love interest romantic interest romantic rival rival dark disturbing emotional engaging gripping intense moving passionate powerful raw tense
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
Drama
USA
1956
153 Minutes
Gregory Peck Jennifer Jones Fredric March Marisa Pavan Ann Harding Lee J. Cobb Keenan Wynn Gene Lockhart Gigi Perreau Portland Mason Arthur O'Connell
pr person executive wife ex-lover friend boss dark emotional new york city suburbia office family home battlefield italy ambition family business post-traumatic stress disorder secret world war ii
An ex-soldier faces ethical questions as he tries to earn enough to support his wife and children well.
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Crime, Drama
UK
1947
92 Minutes
Googie Withers John McCallum Jack Warner Edward Chapman Jimmy Hanley John Carol John Slater Susan Shaw Sydney Tafler Alfie Bass Betty Ann Davies
criminal escaped convict woman neighbor police officer old flame dark melodramatic engaging london prison bomb shelter backyard crime hiding relationships family prison break friendship escape
An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
Romance, Drama
France
2017
114 Minutes
Mathieu Amalric Marion Cotillard Charlotte Gainsbourg Louis Garrel Alba Rohrwacher Laszlo Szabo Hippolyte Girardot Jacques Nolot Catherine Mouchet Samir Guesmi
filmmaker girlfriend former lover wife missing wife husband emotional tense intricate sultry passionate france beach house beach office filmmaker going home love relationships marriage
The story follows a filmmaker whose life is sent into a tailspin by the return of a former lover just as he is about to embark on the shoot of a new film.
Crime, Drama
France|Canada
1978
124 Minutes
Isabelle Huppert Stéphane Audran Jean Carmet Jean-François Garreaud Jean Dalmain Lisa Langlois François Maistre Philippe Procot Bernard Alane Mario David Henri-Jacques Huet
young woman mother father murderer frenchwoman prostitute engaging melodramatic shocking thrilling suspenseful gripping france family home prostitution dark secrets secret life poison rebellion murder plot
In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.
Drama
USA
1985
105 Minutes
Sam Shepard Kim Basinger Harry Dean Stanton Randy Quaid Martha Crawford Louise Egolf Sura Cox Jonathan Skinner April Russell Deborah McNaughton Lon Hill
woman man half brother lover ex-boyfriend adult brash dark intense emotional melodramatic gripping united states motel las vegas love relationships incest fighting past loves
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
Drama
USA
1924
65 Minutes
Enid Bennett Ramon Novarro Wallace Beery Frank Currier Rosemary Theby Mitchell Lewis Emily Fitzroy George Periolat Dick Sutherland George Nichols
frenchwoman mayor thief gangster son prostitute melodramatic powerful striking paris family home restaurant train city brittany, france poverty crime false accusations prejudice prostitution
Two young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them.
Drama
USA
1958
108 Minutes
Elizabeth Taylor Paul Newman Burl Ives Jack Carson Judith Anderson Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood Larry Gates Vaughn Taylor Patty Ann Gerrity Robert "Rusty" Stevens Brian Corcoran
alcoholic wife father brother mother sister-in-law sultry melodramatic mississippi family home marriage family love money rivalry quest 1950s
Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Drama
USA
1996
107 Minutes
Stanley Tucci Minnie Driver Ian Holm Isabella Rossellini Tony Shalhoub Stanley Tucci Marc Anthony Allison Janney Caroline Aaron Campbell Scott Larry Block
chef restaurant manager restaurant owner girlfriend wife brother winsome engaging spirited new jersey seaside restaurant american dream restaurant competition family small business rivalry quest 1950s
New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-competing them. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredible food.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Austria
2008
121 Minutes
Johannes Krisch Andreas Lust Irina Potapenko Ursula Strauss Hannes Thanheiser Hanno Pöschl Michael-Joachim Heiss
ex-convict pimp prostitute grandfather wealthy woman police officer melodramatic bleak shocking prison austria small town brothel farmhouse police station crime small-town life friendship boredom dreams
Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
Drama, Comedy
USA
2009
109 Minutes
George Clooney Vera Farmiga Anna Kendrick Jason Bateman Danny McBride Melanie Lynskey Amy Morton Sam Elliott J.K. Simmons Zach Galifianakis Chris Lowell
corporate downsizer co-worker love interest sister brother-in-law boss charming moving airplane airport office hotel apartment travel love loneliness business transformation quest love
Ryan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job, travelling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest, and a new hire presenting a new business model.
Romance, Drama
Hong Kong|China|France|Italy|Germany
2004
127 Minutes
Tony Leung Gong Li Takuya Kimura Faye Wong Zhang Ziyi Carina Lau Chang Chen Wang Sum Ping Lam Siu Maggie Cheung Thongchai McIntyre
novelist prostitute heiress ex-lover gambler android airy offbeat intricate oriental hotel hong kong train singapore mythical land memory time travel romance writing lost loves quest
Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
Drama
USA
2017
101 Minutes
Kate Winslet Justin Timberlake Juno Temple James Belushi Max Casella Geneva Carr Tony Sirico Steve Schirripa Jack Gore David Krumholtz
actress waitress carnival worker lifeguard gangster emotional engaging dreamy new york city coney island amusement park restaurant beach family estrangement gangsters amusement parks discovery escape pursuit
On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator, his beleaguered wife, and the visitor who turns their lives upside-down.
Drama
Netherlands|UK|France
1989
120 Minutes
Richard Bohringer Michael Gambon Helen Mirren Alan Howard Tim Roth Ciarán Hinds Gary Olsen Ewan Stewart Roger Ashton-Griffiths Ron Cook Liz Smith
gangster wife cook store owner messenger lover dark shocking london restaurant bookstore love triangle retribution affair mafia cooking love revenge 1980s
At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence, and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.
Drama
USA
1959
130 Minutes
Richard Egan Dorothy McGuire Sandra Dee Arthur Kennedy Troy Donahue Constance Ford Beulah Bondi Jack Richardson Martin Eric Peter Constanti Junius Matthews
wealthy man wife daughter old flame alcoholic son melodramatic passionate engaging maine hotel seaside family home pine island loveless marriage affair family secrets young love summer vacation unplanned pregnancy
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India
2018
150 Minutes
Tapsee Pannu Abhishek Bachchan Vicky Kaushal Jasmin Bajwa Ashnoor Kaur Abdul Quadir Amin Saurabh Sachdeva
young woman dj bank employee father mother emotional intense melodramatic inspiring heartwarming charming india disco love triangle loveless marriage wedding true love unconditional love forbidden love love
A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.
Drama
France|Italy
1960
105 Minutes
Bernadette Lafont Lucile Saint-Simon Clotilde Joano Stéphane Audran Mario David Jean-Louis Maury Sacha Briquet Dinan
single woman woman saleswoman man love interest lover amusing cheeky engaging dreamy heartwarming lighthearted paris france relationships love work destiny saleswomen love interest
A feud between families in 1870's rural France.
Drama
1961
120 Minutes
Franco Citti Franca Pasut Silvana Corsini Paola Guidi Adele Cambria Mario Cipriani
pimp prostitute ex-wife son virgin police officer bleak disheartening rome slum family home police station river street crime poverty prostitution marriage ambition wretched excess
In the slums of Rome, Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi (Franco Citti) supports himself as a pimp for his longtime girlfriend, Maddalena (Silvana Corsini), but when she goes to jail after being assaulted, Accattone struggles to survive.