20 movies like By Love Possessed, ordered by similarity : Madame Bovary(1949), Carol(2015), To Paris, With Love(1955), Cousin, Cousine(1975), Free and Easy(1941), Road to Singapore(1940), The Soft Skin(1964), I Do... Until I Don't(2017), Scents and Sensibility(2011), Anything for Her(2008), Crazy, Stupid, Love.(2011), Holiday Affair(1949) ...
Romance
USA
1961
115 Minutes
Lana Turner Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Jason Robards George Hamilton Susan Kohner Barbara Bel Geddes Thomas Mitchell Everett Sloane Yvonne Craig Jean Willes Frank Maxwell
lawyer partner wife alcoholic son melodramatic intricate disheartening sultry law firm family home massachusetts small town infidelity father/son relationship legacy love triangle rape midlife crisis rivalry
Neurotic woman engages in an affair with the law partner of her impotent husband.
Romance
USA
1949
115 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Van Heflin Louis Jourdan James Mason Christopher Kent Gene Lockhart Frank Allenby Gladys Cooper John Abbott Harry Morgan George Zucco
wife husband doctor lawyer wealthy man disheartening emotional hedonistic sultry france small town adultery ambition love wealth marriage love fall temptation wretched excess
A provincial doctor's wife's romantic illusions about life and social status lead her to betray her naive husband, take on lovers and run up ruinous debts.
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
UK
1955
78 Minutes
Alec Guinness Odile Versois Vernon Gray Elina Labourdette Jacques François Austin Trevor Jacques B. Brunius Claude Romain Maureen Davis Mollie Hartley Milburn
father son young woman woman hilarious frenetic heartwarming family home paris street hotel elevator tree father/son relationship love triangle courtship vacation life lessons may-december romance growing up
A middle-aged widower takes his son on a trip to Paris, where they try to find wives for each other.
Romance
1975
96 Minutes
Marie-Christine Barrault Victor Lanoux Marie-France Pisier Guy Marchand Ginette Garcin Sybil Maas Jean Herbert Pierre Plessis Catherine Verlor
wife husband cousin lover family amusing cheeky tender witty france wedding comedy love family marriage temptation forbidden love love 1970s
Two distant French cousins (Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux) meet, fall in love and have an affair despite their marriages.
Romance
USA
1941
56 Minutes
Bob Cummings Ruth Hussey Judith Anderson C. Aubrey Smith Nigel Bruce Reginald Owen Tom Conway Forrester Harvey Charles Coleman Theresa Maxwell Conover Frederick Worlock
father son swindler heiress widow wealthy man amusing melodramatic outlandish concert hall mansion party racetrack marrying for money father/son relationship morality love triangle high society debt transformation
Max Clemington (Robert Cummings) and his father are both looking to marry wealthy women. The task would be far easier if either one of them had any money of their own. Max decides on Martha... See full summary »
Romance
USA
1940
84 Minutes
Bing Crosby Bob Hope Dorothy Lamour Charles Coburn Judith Barrett Anthony Quinn Jerry Colonna Johnny Arthur Pierre Watkin Steve Pendleton Miles Mander
sailor best friend love interest wife ex-boyfriend father lighthearted charming ship family home singapore love triangle marriage running away father/son relationship friendship travel love quest pursuit
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet a beautiful dancer.
Romance
France
1964
110 Minutes
Jean Desailly Françoise Dorléac Nelly Benedetti Daniel Ceccaldi Laurence Badie Jean Lanier Paule Emanuele Maurice Garrel
magazine editor stewardess husband wife mistress writer melodramatic sultry suspenseful paris lisbon, portugal airport family home infidelity jealousy crimes of passion love triangle obsession marriage forbidden love
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Romance
USA
2017
103 Minutes
Lake Bell Ed Helms Mary Steenburgen Paul Reiser Dolly Wells Amber Heard Connie Shin Wyatt Cenac Chace Crawford Chauntae Pink Rae Gray
couple filmmaker sister husband wife amusing cheeky hilarious offbeat quirky small town united states home family home love marriage midlife crisis family family relationships hard decisions
An ensemble comedy about the meaning of matrimony.
Romance, Drama
USA
2011
80 Minutes
Ashley Williams Marla Sokoloff Nick Zano Brad Johnson Sean Bott Jason Celaya Jaclyn Hales Danielle Chuchran
sister poor person young woman love interest colleague family endearing heartwarming moving winsome united states spa family home town love life family relationships wealth discovery
Two sisters find that they have to make their own way in the world after their father is jailed. Elinor is a cleaner in a spa. Marianne works for a marketing company but she also makes scented lotions, which turn out to be a real winner.
Crime, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Spain
2008
96 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Diane Kruger Lancelot Roch Olivier Marchal Hammou Graïa Liliane Rovère Olivier Perrier Moussa Maaskri Rémi Martin Thierry Godard Slimane Hadjar
wife husband son police officer judge counterfeiter brash suspenseful emotional france prison house courtroom suburbia family wrongful conviction desperation jailbreak husband/wife relationship murder case
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Romance
USA
2011
118 Minutes
Glenn Ficarra Steve Carell Ryan Gosling Julianne Moore Emma Stone Analeigh Tipton Jonah Bobo Joey King Marisa Tomei Beth Littleford John Carroll Lynch
husband wife daughter playboy son babysitter lighthearted hilarious melodramatic california bar high school household car divorce family rekindled romance one-night stand infidelity romance
A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars.
Other, Romance
USA
1949
87 Minutes
Robert Mitchum Janet Leigh Wendell Corey Gordon Gebert Griff Barnett Esther Dale Henry O'Neill Harry Morgan Larry J. Blake Helen Brown James Griffith
clerk widow single mother son lawyer homeless person lighthearted charming emotional department store hotel central park new york city zoo love fraud mourning mother/son relationship unemployment christmas
A young widow is torn between a boring attorney and a romantic ne'er-do-well.
Drama, Romance
West Germany
1955
105 Minutes
Eva Kotthaus Erik Schumann Horst Buchholz Georg Thomalla Gustav Knuth Camilla Spira Erich Ponto Lucie Höflich Siegfried Lowitz Otto Wernicke Wolfgang Neuss
german woman son border patrol officer love interest great-grandmother emotional melodramatic engaging heartwarming passionate charming east germany germany west germany border mother/son relationship east/west clash family relationships father/son relationship
A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
Drama, Romance
Japan
1962
103 Minutes
Ganjirô Nakamura Setsuko Hara Yoko Tsukasa Keiju Kobayashi Michiyo Aratama Chieko Naniwa Daisuke Kato
father daughter mistress son-in-law grandson emotional melodramatic kyoto, japan household brewery aging father/daughter relationship family deception sister relationship romance love discovery 1960s
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Romance
USA
1939
70 Minutes
Leslie Howard Ingrid Bergman Edna Best John Halliday Cecil Kellaway Enid Bennett Ann E. Todd Douglas Scott Eleanor Wesselhoeft Marie Flynn
pianist daughter wife son violinist engaging melodramatic stockholm new york city affair music family love triangle forbidden love temptation 1930s
A violinist's piano accompanist retires. He hears his daughter's piano teacher/Ingrid Bergman play and asks her to play on his next int'l tour. They fall in love.
Romance
USA
1938
90 Minutes
Claude Rains Rosemary Lane John Garfield Lola Lane Priscilla Lane Gale Page Jeffrey Lynn Frank McHugh May Robson Dick Foran
musician father daughter composer suitor aunt melodramatic small town household hospital music family love triangle marriage rivalry love 1930s
Adam Lemp, the Dean of the Briarwood Music Foundation, has passed on his love of music to his four early adult daughters - Thea, Emma, Kay and Ann - who live with him and his sister, the ... See full summary »
Musical, Romance
France|West Germany
1964
91 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve Nino Castelnuovo Anne Vernon Marc Michel Ellen Farner Mireille Perrey Jean Champion P. Caden J.P. Dorat
pretty woman mechanic businessperson husband wife emotional melodramatic moving france small town cherbourg, france social standing love triangle small-town life love growing up discovery 1960s
A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.
Romance
USA
1949
101 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Judy Holliday Tom Ewell David Wayne Jean Hagen Hope Emerson Polly Moran Marvin Kaplan Paula Raymond Tommy Noonan
lawyer husband wife amusing engaging hilarious playful courtroom city household marriage love lawyers adultery love rivalry 1940s
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
Romance
India
1998
175 Minutes
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Lakshmi Nassar Senthil Raju Sundaram Geeta Raadhika Sarathkumar
impostor twin brother fiancée father son amusing madcap lighthearted tender los angeles restaurant california hospital family home marriage deception assumed identity love triangle father/son relationship
The father of twin brothers wants to get them married to only twin sisters. But one of the brothers falls in love with a woman does not have a twin sister.
Romance
France|Belgium
2019
115 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Guillaume Canet Doria Tillier Pierre Arditi Fanny Ardant Denis Podalydès Michaël Cohen Jeanne Arènes Bertrand Poncet Bruno Raffaelli Lizzie Brocheré
husband wife actress director son amusing charming emotional endearing heartwarming hilarious lighthearted quirky tender town france nostalgia love at first sight rekindled romance marriage
A couple in crisis. He, disillusioned, sees his life upset the day an entrepreneur offers him to plunge back into the time of his choice.