20 movies like The Portrait of a Lady, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Cloud 9(2008), Woodpeckers(2017), Fool for Love(1985), Wajma: An Afghan Love Story(2013), Phantom Thread(2017), The Good Girls(1960), Vita & Virginia(2018), A Room With a View(1986), The Draughtsman's Contract(1982), The Garden of the Finzi-Continis(1971), Obey(2018) ...
Drama
UK|USA
1996
144 Minutes
Nicole Kidman John Malkovich Barbara Hershey Mary-Louise Parker Shelley Winters Shelley Duvall
feminist cousin suitor art expert cynic uncle intense sultry spirited manor london europe café apartment women's rights culture friendship wealth american tourists love
An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.
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
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
Afghanistan|France
2013
85 Minutes
Haji Gul Aser Wajma Bahar Mustafa Abdulsatar Brehna Bahar Assib Ibrahim Saleha Ibrahim Tahera Hashemi
afghan woman man love interest student pregnant woman disheartening thrilling tense intense moving melodramatic afghanistan kabul, afghanistan love sex unwanted pregnancy secret love family honor family relationships
It's snowing in Kabul, and gregarious waiter Mustafa charms a pretty student named Wajma. The pair begins a clandestine relationship - they're playful and passionate but ever mindful of the... See full summary »
Romance, Drama
USA|UK
2017
130 Minutes
Daniel Day-Lewis Vicky Krieps Lesley Manville Camilla Rutherford Gina McKee Brian Gleeson Harriet Sansom Harris Lujza Richter Julia Davis Jane Perry
fashion designer sister bachelor muse model heiress creative intense confident emotional passionate tense united kingdom london restaurant coast studio mansion fashion art
Set in 1950s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.
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.
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.
Drama
UK
1986
115 Minutes
Helena Bonham Carter Maggie Smith Julian Sands Denholm Elliott Daniel Day-Lewis Simon Callow Judi Dench Rosemary Leach Rupert Graves Patrick Godfrey Fabia Drake
pretty woman suitor tourist wealthy man cousin emotional passionate italy england florence small town hotel love love triangle romance travel high society love discovery 1900s
Lucy meets George in a Florence pensione and the two share a brief romance before Lucy returns home, where she becomes engaged to Cecil. However, it isn't long before George unexpectedly enters her life again.
Comedy, Drama
1982
103 Minutes
Anthony Higgins Janet Suzman Anne Louise Lambert Dave Hill Hugh Fraser Neil Cunningham David Gant David Meyer
artist wealthy woman mother wealthy man father daughter crafty intricate suspenseful sultry england estate house moat art infidelity murder schemes investigation wealth
An artist (Anthony Higgins) trades 12 drawings for sex with the mistress (Janet Suzman) of a 17th-century English estate.
War, Drama
Italy|West Germany
1971
95 Minutes
Helmut Berger Lino Capolicchio Dominique Sanda Fabio Testi Romolo Valli Camillo Cesarei Inna Alexeieff Barbara Pilavin Katina Morisani Ettore Geri Camillo Angelini-Rota
brother sister friend lover passionate spirited italy estate countryside fascism friendship love triangle wealth young love world war ii growing up forbidden love discovery fall 1940s
The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
Drama
UK
2018
96 Minutes
Marcus Rutherford Sophie Kennedy Clark Sam Gittins T'Nia Miller James Atwell Wil Coban Taurean Steele Jasmine Jobson Joshua Blisset Daniel Akilimali Christine Taetz
love interest man boxer trainer friend police officer brash brutal raw emotional unrestrained apartment boxing ring london street party jealousy obsession riots boxing
As London slides towards a time of violent social unrest, on the estates of East London, a young man's life is torn apart by a love for a girl from a different place.
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
1950
114 Minutes
Errol Flynn Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Robert Young Janet Leigh Harry Davenport Stanley Logan Lumsden Hare Aubrey Mather Matt Moore
wealthy man wife lover niece friend cousin melodramatic emotional england london household adultery romance death rape wealth family forbidden love rivalry wretched excess
Love among the Forsytes is strange, full of tradition, melancholy and gold digging in this film treatise on Victorian-age rigidity and vestiges of a flawed society.
Drama
USA
1998
111 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Gwyneth Paltrow Hank Azaria Chris Cooper Anne Bancroft Robert De Niro Josh Mostel Kim Dickens Nell Campbell Gabriel Mick Jeremy James Kissner
young man uncle wealthy woman niece convict fiancé engaging emotional sultry florida new york city europe art gallery subway beach unlikely friendship coming of age class distinctions art wealth
Modernization of Charles Dickens' classic story finds the hapless Finn as a painter in New York City pursuing his unrequited and haughty childhood love.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1919
85 Minutes
Mary Pickford Milla Davenport Percy Haswell Fay Lemport Mahlon Hamilton Lillian Langdon Betty Bouton Audrey Chapman Marshall Neilan Carrie Clark Ward Wesley Barry
orphan suitor wealthy man emotional touching boarding school college america love triangle love college love forbidden love mystery growing up 1910s
An orphan discovers that she has an anonymous benefactor who is willing to pay her college tuition, unaware he's the same man who has been romantically pursuing her.
Drama
Canada
2018
94 Minutes
Josh Wiggins Darren Mann Taylor Hickson Maria Bello Kyle MacLachlan Niamh Wilson Hailey Kittle Peter Outerbridge Stephanie Moore Kiana Madeira Olivia Scriven
best friend girlfriend mother father partygoer tense emotional touching intense high school party swimming pool house classroom convenience store friendship love growing up teen romance teen culture
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Romance, Drama
UK|USA
2019
119 Minutes
Honor Swinton Byrne Tom Burke Tilda Swinton Richard Ayoade Tosin Cole Jack McMullen Jaygann Ayeh
older man student young woman love interest friend mother brooding emotional gripping intense raw tense london apartment countryside studio party first love privilege insecurity
A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
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
India|UK|USA
2015
116 Minutes
Radhika Apte Sayani Gupta Adil Hussain Surveen Chawla Tannishtha Chatterjee Sumeet Vyas Mahesh Balraj Chandan Anand Riddhi Sen Lehar Khan Tanya Sachdeva
young woman indian father mother friend man intense emotional melodramatic inspiring disturbing heartwarming india big city family traditions religious traditions women's rights confrontation friendship love
In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.