Movies like Madame Bovary

20 movies like Madame Bovary, ordered by similarity : Ismael's Ghosts(2017), The Delinquent Season(2017), Cousin, Cousine(1975), War and Peace(1966), Vita & Virginia(2018), Rafiki(2018), 5x2(2004), Chloe in the Afternoon(1972), Cloud 9(2008), Brokeback Mountain(2005), Blue Valentine(2010), Perfect Understanding(1933) ...

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Madame Bovary

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.

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Ismael's Ghosts

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.

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The Delinquent Season

Two couples in suburban Dublin appear to live in marital bliss until an altercation between one of the couples occurs, which leads to cracks appearing in both marriages.

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Cousin, Cousine

Two distant French cousins (Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux) meet, fall in love and have an affair despite their marriages.

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War and Peace

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Vita & Virginia

It's the fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf.

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Rafiki

"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.

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5x2

Various stages in the relationship between a man (Stéphane Freiss) and his wife (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) lead to their divorce.

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Chloe in the Afternoon

Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.

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Cloud 9

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

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Brokeback Mountain

Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.

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Blue Valentine

The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.

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Perfect Understanding

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.

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Blind

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.

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Before Midnight

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

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Only You

Elena and Jake meet by chance on New Years Eve, arguing for the same taxi. However, instead of going their separate ways after sharing a taxi ,they start a passionate relationship.

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Sonny Boy

Forbidden love.

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Middle of Nowhere

A med student (Emayatzy Corinealdi) considers leaving her long-imprisoned husband (Omari Hardwick) for a charming bus driver (David Oyelowo).

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The Wedding Chapel

Uninspired and newly single painter Sarah is down on her luck and wants nothing more than to get away from her problems. When she decides to take a trip to visit her mom, she becomes ... See full summary »

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Love in the Time of Cholera

Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

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What Dreams May Come

Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to reunite with her.

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