20 movies like The Convent, ordered by similarity : Eyes Wide Shut(1999), Henry VIII and His Six Wives(1972), They Were Sisters(1945), An Easy Girl(2019), Crimes and Misdemeanors(1989), Wreckers(2011), Dil Dhadakne Do(2015), Goodbye to Language(2014), Antony and Cleopatra(1972), Woodpeckers(2017), Sparrows Can't Sing(1963), Ismael's Ghosts(2017) ...
Drama
Portugal|France
1995
90 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve John Malkovich Luís Miguel Cintra Leonor Silveira Duarte de Almeida Heloisa Miranda Gilberto Goncalves
professor wife husband curator guardian girl tense brooding dark melodramatic portugal convent library forest occult religion satanism good versus evil marriage research
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: ... See full summary »
Drama
UK|USA
1999
159 Minutes
Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman Sydney Pollack Marie Richardson Rade Serbedzija Todd Field Vinessa Shaw Alan Cumming Sky Dumont Fay Masterson Leelee Sobieski
doctor curator husband wife sexy man sexy woman chilling sultry tense shocking new york city apartment mansion city apartment bedroom street husband/wife relationship sex cult sadomasochism
A New York City doctor embarks on a harrowing, night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife reveals a painful secret to him.
Drama, History
UK
1972
125 Minutes
king henry viii wife ex-wife prince princess widow brooding profound emotional melodramatic passionate patriotic great britain castle london church chapel king henry viii marriage british royal family
On his deathbed, King Henry VIII looks back over his eventful life and his six marriages.
Drama
UK
1945
110 Minutes
sibling abused wife abusive husband husband wife sith lord disturbing melodramatic emotional small town house hotel unhappy marriage relationships love infidelity father/daughter relationship adultery fall discovery
The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. One sister (Phyllis Calvert) is happily married but ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
France
2019
88 Minutes
Benoît Magimel Clotilde Courau Henri-Noël Tabary Mina Farid Zahia Dehar Loubna Abidar Nuno Lopes
teen girl cousin teen boy mother intense inspiring melodramatic brooding passionate charming lake home jealousy puberty sexual identity sex death of mother love forbidden love temptation
Naima is 16 and lives in Cannes. She has given herself the summer to choose what she wants to do with her life. Then her cousin Sofia, with her alluring lifestyle, arrives to spend the holidays with her.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1989
104 Minutes
Martin Landau Woody Allen Mia Farrow Alan Alda Anjelica Huston Sam Waterston Joanna Gleason Caroline Aaron Jerry Orbach Claire Bloom Stephanie Roth Haberle
director doctor producer girlfriend wife quirky amusing playful hilarious new york city adultery revenge forbidden love movie making art marriage forbidden love temptation fall rivalry
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.
Drama
2011
85 Minutes
Claire Foy Benedict Cumberbatch Shaun Evans Peter McDonald Sinead Matthews June Watson Nicola Green Georgie Smith
wife husband brother soldier intense emotional suspenseful touching brooding village house secret life brother relationship marriage trust love metamorphosis quest rescue rivalry
A man moves back to his childhood town with his wife to start a family, but a surprise visit from his brother exposes lies from the couple's past.
Romance, Drama
India
2015
170 Minutes
Anil Kapoor Priyanka Chopra Shifaali Shah Ranveer Singh Anushka Sharma Farhan Akhtar Shireesh Sharma Pawan Chopra
wife husband daughter animator melodramatic emotional airy intense cruise ship sea marriage family secrets marrying for money cruise secrets love forbidden love underdog quest rivalry
The Mehra family must contemplate over their way of living and their love lives while on a cruise celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary.
Drama
Switzerland|France
2014
70 Minutes
Héloise Godet Kamel Abdeli Richard Chevallier Zoé Bruneau Christian Gregori Jessica Erickson Marie Ruchat Jeremy Zampatti
married woman single man mistress husband intense passionate melodramatic heartwarming sad bedroom family home affair failing marriage sex problem solving trust love rivalry rise fall
A silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog.
Drama, History
UK|Spain|Switzerland
1972
160 Minutes
Charlton Heston Hildegard Neil Eric Porter John Castle Fernando Rey Juan Luis Galiardo
queen egyptian lover rival roman seducer brooding emotional gripping intense moving powerful egypt kingdom chamber desert love sacrifice rivalry power
After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.
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.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1963
94 Minutes
James Booth Barbara Windsor Roy Kinnear Avis Bunnage Brian Murphy George Sewell Barbara Ferris Griffith Davies Murray Melvin Arthur Mullard Peggy Ann Clifford
seaman wife bus driver baby emotional melodramatic intense touching sad sea boat home returning home new love fatherhood doubt past loves adventure love forbidden love
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a ... See full summary »
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
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
Soviet Union
1971
110 Minutes
Innokenty Smoktunovsky Sergei Bondarchuk Vladimir Zeldin Irina Miroshnichenko Irina Anisimova-Wulf Nikolay Pastukhov
wife mother professor daughter doctor brother-in-law intense gripping dark farm russia garden dining room family adultery sexual tension love triangle obsession marriage love
A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1957
87 Minutes
Rock Hudson Robert Stack Dorothy Malone Jack Carson Robert Middleton Alan Reed Alexander Lockwood Chris Olsen Robert Wilke Troy Donahue William Schallert
journalist stunt pilot wife mechanic son showman melodramatic thrilling passionate striking new orleans carnival air show party family home airplane obsession aviation love triangle unhappy marriage
Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.
Drama
China|Japan
1990
98 Minutes
Gong Li Baotian Li Wei Li Zhang Yi Zhen Ji-an
husband wife nephew illegitimate son lover dark tense moving china household funeral infidelity family dysfunction abusive marriage deception pregnancy forbidden love temptation revenge 1920s
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy.
Drama, History
1954
116 Minutes
Kazuo Hasegawa Kyoko Kagawa Yoko Minamida Eitaro Shindo Sakae Ozawa Chieko Naniwa Ichiro Sugai Tatsuya Ishiguro Hisao Toake Ikkei Tamaki Kimiko Tachebana
businessman wife employee brother young girl underling melodramatic dark passionate brooding estate japan shop false accusations doomed romance on the run scandal theft siblings forbidden love
An unforgiving man pursues his wife (Kyoko Kagawa) and her lover (Kazuo Hasegawa) in feudal 17th-century Japan.
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
73 Minutes
Steve Brodie Audrey Long Raymond Burr Douglas Fowley William Challee Jason Robards Sr. Freddie Steele Lee Frederick Paul E. Burns Ilka Gruning Larry Nunn
truck driver wife gangster brother private investigator detective dark gripping melodramatic tense chicago road police station wedding interrogation room warehouse fugitives ultimatum husband/wife relationship murder
A young married couple flee both police and a gangster out for revenge.
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.
Drama
USA
1944
96 Minutes
Joan Fontaine Orson Welles Margaret O'Brien Peggy Ann Garner John Sutton Sara Allgood Henry Daniell Agnes Moorehead Aubrey Mather Edith Barrett Barbara Everest
governess pretty woman aristocrat housekeeper maid young girl emotional melodramatic dark england countryside estate yorkshire moors forbidden love romance may-december romance poverty class distinctions forbidden love love
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.