20 movies like Room at the Top, ordered by similarity : Gone to Earth(1950), Carol(2015), Cloud 9(2008), The Good Girls(1960), Woodpeckers(2017), Fool for Love(1985), Viceroy's House(2017), A Summer Story(1988), Blind(2017), The Cakemaker(2017), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning(1960), Rafiki(2018) ...
Drama
UK
1959
118 Minutes
Laurence Harvey Simone Signoret Heather Sears Hermione Baddeley Donald Wolfit Ambrosine Philpotts Donald Houston Wendy Craig Mary Peach
factory worker heiress wife gritty brooding england small town class distinctions suicide forbidden love deception love sacrifice temptation 1940s
An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Drama
UK|USA
1950
110 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Emeric Pressburger David Farrar Cyril Cusack Sybil Thorndike Edward Chapman Esmond Knight Hugh Griffith George Cole Beatrice Varley Frances Clare
gypsy squire minister love interest husband wife brooding emotional heartwarming passionate spirited wild countryside woods england love desire magic loveless marriage curse
A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
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.
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.
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
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
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, History
UK|India|Sweden
2017
105 Minutes
Hugh Bonneville Gillian Anderson Manish Dayal Huma Qureshi Om Puri Denzil Smith Neeraj Kabi Michael Gambon Simon Callow Lily Travers Jaz Deol
lord viceroy wife daughter servant staff member moving emotional profound patriotic rousing inspiring india palace town street indian culture indian history indian independence movement british culture
The final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (Hugh Bonneville), is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Drama, Romance
UK
1988
96 Minutes
Imogen Stubbs James Wilby Kenneth Colley Sophie Ward Susannah York Jerome Flynn
attorney farm girl beautiful girl aunt charming engaging sad winsome farm village english countryside seaside devon, england love forbidden love running away elopement abandonment forbidden love love
Ashton and his best friend are hiking across Dartmoor when he twists his ankle. Ashton goes for help at a nearby farmhouse, where he stays for a few days and falls in love with Megan.
Romance, Drama
USA
2017
106 Minutes
Alec Baldwin Demi Moore Dylan McDermott Viva Bianca James McCaffrey Jabari Gray Renée Willett Drew Moerlein Eden Epstein Ski Carr John Buffalo Mailer
blind person author businessman wife husband lover brooding emotional engaging intense melancholy moving passionate united states city courtroom jail prison university relationships
A novelist blinded in a car crash which killed his wife rediscovers his passion for both life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Israel|Germany
2017
105 Minutes
Sarah Adler Zohar Strauss Tim Kalkhof Sandra Sade Roy Miller Stephanie Stremler Tagel Eliyahu Tamir Ben Yehuda Eliezer Shimon
baker married man widow lover son family member solemn emotional creative moving passionate bakery jerusalem berlin house kitchen love infidelity homosexuality loss
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
Drama
UK
1960
90 Minutes
Albert Finney Rachel Roberts Shirley Anne Field Hylda Baker Norman Rossington Bryan Pringle Robert Cawdron Edna Morris Elsie Wagstaff Frank Pettitt
factory worker pregnant woman dark raw brooding england nottingham, england factory abortion alcoholism infidelity self-destruction love forbidden love wretched excess growing up 1960s
A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
Kenya|South Africa|Germany|Netherlands|France|Norway|Lebanon|UK
2018
83 Minutes
Samantha Mugatsia Sheila Munyiva Neville Misati Nice Githinji Charlie Karumi Muthoni Gathecha Vitalis Waweru Mellen Aura Jimmy Gathu Nini Wacera Dennis Musyoka
best friend father lesbian love interest family member emotional touching cool tender passionate solemn nairobi kenya house bar forbidden love lesbianism secret love secret life forbidden love
"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
Drama, History, Biography
USA
2017
108 Minutes
Luke Evans Rebecca Hall Bella Heathcote Connie Britton Monica Giordano JJ Feild Chris Conroy Oliver Platt Maggie Castle Alexa Havins Sharon Kubo
professor writer inventor lover wife emotional sultry powerful passionate intricate inspiring harvard university massachusetts house stage classroom womanhood comic books threesome marriage
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Drama, Romance
USA
2018
90 Minutes
Spencer Boldman Emily Ratajkowski Sebastian Maniscalco Lucas Salvagno Kathrine Narducci Noah Robbins Gino Cafarelli Jen Cohn Grace Wan Peter Gaudio
italian-american jewish woman love interest mother father racer passionate emotional engaging charming intense heartwarming long island, n.y. america new york city road home love star-crossed lovers romance
Set in the 1980s, a young Italian-American from the "wrong side of the tracks" falls for a Jewish girl from Long Island.
Drama
USA
1993
138 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Michelle Pfeiffer Winona Ryder Richard E. Grant Alec McCowen Geraldine Chaplin Mary Beth Hurt Miriam Margolyes Sian Phillips Michael Gough Alexis Smith
lawyer socialite countess mother passionate sultry tense new york city forbidden love scandal love triangle love social standing temptation love sacrifice 1870s
A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Romance, Other, Drama
UK
2017
84 Minutes
Jessy Schram Sam Page Crystal Balint Cheryl Ladd Hayley Sales Andrew Kavadas Nicole LaPlaca Gerard Plunkett
fashion designer prince young woman love interest lady young man amusing charming playful lighthearted heartwarming emotional ballroom relationships love tradition love triangle royal life family honor discovery
Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1996
123 Minutes
Kate Winslet Christopher Eccleston Rachel Griffiths June Whitfield Liam Cunningham Ross Colvin Turnbull James Daley Berwick Kaler
cousin worker wife teacher farmer brooding dark sultry sad passionate england university graveyard love triangle marital problems class struggle education ambition tragic death forbidden love
In late 1800s England, Jude plans to go to the city and attend university but marries early and becomes a stonemason. When his wife leaves, he moves to the city, where he befriends his liberal cousin Sue.
Drama, Romance
India
2001
190 Minutes
young man young woman driver muslim music teacher bleak brutal disheartening emotional heartwarming patriotic india pakistan bungalow house college love family patriotism riots
Set during the Partition of India in 1947, a Sikh truck driver falls in love with a Muslim girl belonging to an aristocratic family.
Drama, Romance
UK
1949
90 Minutes
Gordon Jackson Rona Anderson John Laurie Jack Lambert Jimmy Logan Janet Brown Elizabeth Sellars Gordon McLeod Ian MacLean Archie Duncan James Woodburn
shipyard worker daughter boss shipbuilder farmer scottish person emotional passionate melodramatic gritty engaging gutsy glasgow, scotland shipyard scotland forbidden love shipbuilding family traditions career change shipping industry
David Shields decides to become a ship designer instead of following the family tradition and entering farming.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2013
97 Minutes
Anna Friel Romola Garai Andrew Buchan Philip Davis Isaac Andrews Steven Cree Harry Hadden-Paton Hattie Morahan
love child fiancé fiancée former lover son father emotional engaging gripping heartwarming intense tender united kingdom coast town home hospital family relationships father/son relationship
Jack has finally managed to propose to his girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.