20 movies like William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Romeo & Juliet(2013), Cruise(2018), Stella's Last Weekend(2018), Cloud 9(2008), Rafiki(2018), Royal New Year's Eve(2017), Dhadak(2018), Husband Material(2018), Woodpeckers(2017), Ismael's Ghosts(2017), Port of Shadows(1938) ...
Drama, Romance
1996
120 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Claire Danes Brian Dennehy John Alberto Leguizamo Pete Postlethwaite Paul Sorvino Diane Venora Harold Perrineau Paul Rudd Jesse Bradford Dash Mihok
romeo juliet mother father cousin suitor thrilling passionate outlandish sad california beach church mansion ballroom street young love family feud passion murder
Twentieth-century teenagers (Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes) fall in love, despite feuding families, in an update of the classic tragedy.
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
UK|Italy|Switzerland
2013
118 Minutes
Douglas Booth Hailee Steinfeld Ed Westwick Christian Cooke Paul Giamatti Kodi Smit-McPhee Lesley Manville Tomas Arana Laura Morante Damian Lewis Natascha McElhone
romeo juliet father mother sad passionate tender verona, italy castle ballroom courtyard family honor family feud young love tragedy romance love forbidden love rivalry 16th century
Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each other. It is not long, however, before a chain of fateful events changes the lives of both families forever.
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.
Romance, Drama
USA
2018
102 Minutes
Nat Wolff Alex Wolff Polly Draper Paulina Singer Nick Sandow Julia Macchio Julia Abueva Leo Heller
young man brother love interest young woman mother father charming cheeky emotional heartwarming moving touching new york united states family home beach arcade party young love love triangle
STELLA'S LAST WEEKEND is the story of two brothers whose relationship is challenged when they find they are in love with the same girl, but it is also about the unshakable bond between them.
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
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, Other, Drama
UK
2017
84 Minutes
Jessy Schram Sam Page Crystal Balint Cheryl Ladd Hayley Sales Andrew Kavadas Nicole LaPlaca Gerard Plunkett
fashion designer prince young woman love interest lady young man amusing charming playful lighthearted heartwarming emotional ballroom relationships love tradition love triangle royal life family honor discovery
Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly ... See full summary »
Romance, Drama
India
2018
138 Minutes
Janhvi Kapoor Ishaan Khattar Ashutosh Rana Ankit Bisht Aditya Kumar Kharaj Mukherjee Vishwanath Chatterjee
young woman young man beautiful woman love interest father mother heartwarming emotional melodramatic engaging charming passionate india young love attraction cultural differences family honor romance family adventure
Set in Rajasthan, this love story explores how the protagonists deal with issues like differences between castes and honor killings.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India
2018
150 Minutes
Tapsee Pannu Abhishek Bachchan Vicky Kaushal Jasmin Bajwa Ashnoor Kaur Abdul Quadir Amin Saurabh Sachdeva
young woman dj bank employee father mother emotional intense melodramatic inspiring heartwarming charming india disco love triangle loveless marriage wedding true love unconditional love forbidden love love
A love triangle between a spirited young woman, her outgoing boyfriend and a fiance who's husband material.
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.
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.
Crime, Drama, Romance
France
1938
91 Minutes
Jean Gabin Michèle Morgan Michel Simon Pierre Brasseur Edouard Delmont Raymond Aimos Robert Le Vigan René Génin
deserter young woman tough guy godfather thug gangster brooding gritty dreamy passionate le havre, france bar port city love escape doomed romance on the run love triangle relationships rescue
A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a smoky French port city.
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, Gay & Lesbian, Romance
Ireland|UK|USA
2017
114 Minutes
Rachel Weisz Rachel McAdams Alessandro Nivola Anton Lesser Bernice Stegers Allan Corduner Nicholas Woodeson Liza Sadovy Clara Francis Mark Stobbart Caroline Gruber
photographer estranged father girlfriend emotional passionate rousing sultry new york city london jewish neighborhood grief judaism lesbianism reunion love sex discovery forbidden love transformation love
A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Romance, Drama
2013
109 Minutes
Paulina García Sergio Hernández Diego Fontecilla Coca Guazzini Alejandro Goic Liliana García Antonia Santa María Luz Jiménez Marcial Tagle Fabiola Zamora Hugo Moraga
divorcée mother love interest charming engaging endearing moving emotional santiago city chile life love passion difficult decision growing up love 2010s
An aging divorcee (Paulina García) embarks on an intense affair with a man (Sergio Hernández) she picked up at a disco.
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.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA
2012
94 Minutes
Bruce Willis Edward Norton Bill Murray Frances McDormand Tilda Swinton Jared Gilman Kara Hayward Lucas Hedges Charlie Kilgore Andreas Sheikh Chandler Frantz
boy girl mother father police captain scout dreamy quirky witty island wilderness new penzance new england on the run running away young love search family dysfunction misunderstanding storm
A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
Drama, Romance
India
2013
148 Minutes
Sandeep Bose Amyra Dastur Makrand Deshpande Neena Gupta Malini Awasthi Pradeep Ghosh Prateik Babbar
young man young woman father mother priest friend melodramatic emotional intense spirited heartwarming passionate india romeo and juliet enemies desperation clan war destiny forbidden love love
A contemporary adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set in the backdrop of Varanasi in the UP heartland, complete with naxalism, sand mining mafia and of course the timeless love story.
Romance, Drama
UK
2019
91 Minutes
Lesley Manville Glenn Leyburn Liam Neeson David Wilmot Amit Shah Lalor Roddy Maggie Cronin Desmond Edwards Melanie Clark Pullen Stella McCusker Geraldine McAlinden
husband wife couple cancer patient doctor heartwarming passionate sad emotional street family home doctor's office train hospital cafeteria couples cancer love perseverance devotion
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Drama, Romance
Switzerland|Germany
2015
90 Minutes
Jenny Schily Lars Eidinger Urs Jucker Victoria Schulz
teen girl pregnant teen teenage mother mother lover father amusing engaging emotional moving melodramatic uplifting family home coming of age challenge family relationships sexual awakening adventure discovery
When her mother decides to stop administering medication to her mentally challenged daughter, 18-year-old Dora awakes, as if from a deep sleep. Dora discovers her body, her sensuality and finally, sex, too.