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) ...
Romance, Drama
France
1991
130 Minutes
Isabelle Huppert Jean-François Balmer Christophe Malavoy Jean Yanne Lucas Belvaux Christiane Minazzoli Jean-Louis Maury Florent Gibassier Marie Mergey
wife husband lover student father landowner passionate tender touching france party wedding fair country house church madame bovary marriage boredom infidelity fantasy
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.
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.
Drama, Romance
2017
104 Minutes
Cillian Murphy Andrew Scott Eva Birthistle Catherine Walker Lara McDonnell Joanne Crawford Lydia McGuinness Ingrid Craigie Eva-Jane Gaffney Donal O'Farrell Joni Morris
husband wife couple friend lover confident emotional heartwarming passionate ireland house hotel restaurant marriage separation couples infidelity family love forbidden love
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.
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, War, Drama, History
1966
373 Minutes
Lyudmila Saveleva Sergei Bondarchuk Vyacheslav Tikhonov Oleg Tabakov Boris Zakhava Anatoliy Ktorov Anastasiya Vertinskaya Antonina Shuranova Viktor Stanitsyn
count countess military officer soldier wife socialite creative gripping passionate russia royal palace family home battlefield countryside war love marriage infidelity horrors of war love
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Biography, Drama
Ireland|UK
2018
110 Minutes
Gemma Arterton Elizabeth Debicki Isabella Rossellini Rupert Penry-Jones Peter Ferdinando Emerald Fennell Gethin Anthony Rory Fleck-Byrne Karla Crome
writer married woman love interest husband socialite feminist confident emotional engaging gripping intense passionate london home city garden party affair modernity marriage
It's the fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf.
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.
Romance, Drama
2004
90 Minutes
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi Stéphane Freiss Géraldine Pailhas Françoise Fabian Michael Lonsdale Antoine Chappey Marc Ruchmann Jason Tavassoli Jean-Pol Brissart
husband wife lawyer brother boyfriend dark emotional intense moving house france beach italy resort divorce marriage infidelity pregnancy affair love
Various stages in the relationship between a man (Stéphane Freiss) and his wife (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) lead to their divorce.
Romance, Drama
France
1972
93 Minutes
Bernard Verley Zouzou Francoise Verley Daniel Ceccaldi
husband wife beautiful woman emotional france paris marriage adultery infidelity love triangle love forbidden love temptation 1970s
Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women.
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.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
USA|Canada
2005
134 Minutes
Heath Ledger Jake Gyllenhaal Linda Cardellini Anna Faris Anne Hathaway Michelle Williams Randy Quaid Graham Beckel Scott Michael Campbell David Harbour Kate Mara
cowboy rodeo rider rancher wife husband emotional moving wyoming family home ranch mountain mexico homosexuality cowboys love marriage frustrated desire relationships forbidden love love
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.
Romance, Drama
USA
2010
120 Minutes
Ryan Gosling Michelle Williams Faith Wladyka John Doman Mike Vogel Ben Shenkman Maryann Plunkett Samii Ryan Eileen Rosen Tamara Torres
husband wife nurse painter student daughter bleak tense engaging house new york city pennsylvania love pregnancy high school relationships marriage broken home transformation discovery
The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
UK
1933
81 Minutes
Gloria Swanson Laurence Olivier John Halliday Michael Farmer Genevieve Tobin Nora Swinburne Charles Collum Peter Gawthorne Rosalinde Fuller O.B. Clarence Mary Jerrold
husband wife newlywed mistress lord lady melodramatic emotional engaging passionate amusing witty cannes, france london france newlyweds troubled marriage agreement divorce jealousy
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.
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.
Romance, Drama
USA|Greece
2013
109 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Julie Delpy Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick Jennifer Prior Charlotte Prior Walter Lassally Xenia Kalogeropoulou Ariane Labed
lover greek person daughter friend family member grandmother brooding emotional intense greece car train house beach hotel reminiscence love argument questioning travel
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.
Drama, Romance
UK|Sweden
2018
119 Minutes
Laia Costa Natalie Arle-Toyne Isabelle Barth Tam Dean Burn Daniel Campbell Joe Cassidy Josh O'Connor Orion Lee Stuart Martin Lisa McGrillis Gregor Firth
stranger taxi driver young man young woman love interest emotional gutsy moving passionate sultry tender taxi home london city party chance meeting love relationships reality
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.
Drama, Romance, History
Netherlands
2011
132 Minutes
Ricky Koole Sergio Hasselbaink Marcel Hensema Ruben Brinkman Thomas Cammaert Wouter Zweers Rogier Komproe Joy Wielkens Gaite Jansen Martijn Lakemeier Monic Hendrickx
husband lover young man adult child touching melodramatic house home unlikely allies struggle pregnancy unintended consequences attraction affair forbidden love love temptation mystery 2010s
Forbidden love.
Romance, Drama
2012
101 Minutes
Emayatzy Corinealdi David Oyelowo Omari Hardwick Lorraine Toussaint Edwina Findley Sharon Lawrence Dondré Whitfield Troy Curvey III Maya Gilbert
wife husband couple medical student convict emotional endearing engaging gripping inspiring prison united states america prison prison life self-discovery journey marriage relationships incarceration
A med student (Emayatzy Corinealdi) considers leaving her long-imprisoned husband (Omari Hardwick) for a charming bus driver (David Oyelowo).
Drama, Romance
Canada
2013
92 Minutes
Emmanuelle Vaugier Mark Deklin Shelley Long Barclay Hope Malcolm Stewart Chris Gauthier Kwesi Ameyaw Brent Stait Marion Landers
artist troubled woman young woman mother moving emotional inspiring engaging canada small town church inspiration art helping others church church renovations wedding moving love growing up
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 »
Romance, Drama
USA|Mexico|UK
2007
138 Minutes
Javier Bardem Giovanna Mezzogiorno Benjamin Bratt John Alberto Leguizamo Catalina Sandino Moreno Liev Schreiber Laura Harring Héctor Elizondo Fernanda Montenegro
poet lover father grandfather niece doctor passionate melodramatic emotional colombia bedroom church bathtub household sex romance family loveless marriage heartbreak class distinctions
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.
Romance, Fantasy, Drama
USA|New Zealand
1998
113 Minutes
Robin Williams Cuba Gooding Jr. Annabella Sciorra Max von Sydow Jessica Brooks Grant Josh Paddock Rosalind Chao Lucinda Jenney
father husband wife spirit guide dead person child creative dreamy emotional profound heaven hell imaginary world house hospital lake afterlife heroism family imagination
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.