20 movies like Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, ordered by similarity : War and Peace(1966), The Light Between Oceans(2016), Doctor Zhivago(1965), Ismael's Ghosts(2017), Blind(2017), Madame Bovary(1991), Vita & Virginia(2018), Before Midnight(2013), The Delinquent Season(2017), Anna Karenina(2012), Carry on Henry VIII(1971), The Souvenir(2019) ...
Romance
1997
108 Minutes
Sophie Marceau Sean Bean Alfred Molina Mia Kirshner James Fox Fiona Shaw Danny Huston Phyllida Law David Schofield Saskia Wickham Jennifer Hall
wife husband count mother child russian brooding emotional intense russia castle house bedroom street carriage marriage affair guilt tragedy passion
Tolstoy's tragic Anna (Sophie Marceau) leaves her old, cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky (Sean Bean) in 19th-century Russia.
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
Romance, Drama
UK|New Zealand|USA|India|Australia
2016
133 Minutes
Michael Fassbender Alicia Vikander Rachel Weisz Bryan Brown Jack Thompson Emily Barclay Caren Pistorius Florence Clery Thomas Unger Jane Menelaus Garry McDonald
lighthouse keeper wife dead person baby friend family member brooding emotional intense lighthouse house boat bedroom yard island love miscarriage loss second chance secrets
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.
Romance, War, Drama, History
Italy|UK|USA
1965
197 Minutes
Omar Sharif Julie Christie Geraldine Chaplin Tom Courtenay Alec Guinness Rod Steiger Siobhan McKenna Ralph Richardson Rita Tushingham Adrienne Corri Geoffrey Keen
doctor brother niece wife politician mistress passionate emotional tender russia moscow siberia world war i russian revolution doomed romance politics marriage poetry forbidden love discovery
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Drama, Romance, History
UK
2012
129 Minutes
Keira Knightley Aaron Taylor-Johnson Jude Law Domhnall Gleeson Alicia Vikander Matthew Macfadyen Kelly Macdonald Oskar McNamara Olivia Williams Ruth Wilson Emily Watson
wife count husband son farmer princess passionate striking emotional russia estate countryside resort infidelity doomed romance child custody social standing nobility forbidden love transformation
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.
Romance, Comedy
UK
1971
89 Minutes
Sidney James Kenneth Williams Joan Sims Charles Hawtrey Barbara Windsor Terry Scott Kenneth Connor Julian Holloway Peter Gilmore Julian Orchard David Davenport
henry viii king queen husband wife amusing charming hilarious lighthearted melodramatic offbeat court castle kingdom bedroom chamber marriage love affair plot
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up ... See full summary »
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.
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
France|Japan|Switzerland
2009
120 Minutes
Anna Mouglalis Mads Mikkelsen Elena Morozova Natacha Lindinger Grigoriy Manukov Radivoje Bukvic Nicolas Vaude Anatole Taubman Erick Desmarestz Clara Guelblum Maxime Daniélou
composer fashion designer russian wife emotional paris russian revolution villa affair love grief living with disability relationships fashion rise forbidden love love 1920s
Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The ... See full summary »
Crime, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Spain
2008
96 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Diane Kruger Lancelot Roch Olivier Marchal Hammou Graïa Liliane Rovère Olivier Perrier Moussa Maaskri Rémi Martin Thierry Godard Slimane Hadjar
wife husband son police officer judge counterfeiter brash suspenseful emotional france prison house courtroom suburbia family wrongful conviction desperation jailbreak husband/wife relationship murder case
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Romance
USA
1994
101 Minutes
Catherine Zeta-Jones Clive Owen Ray Stevenson Steven Mackintosh Claire Skinner Paul Rogers Joan Plowright Celia Imrie
beautiful woman grandfather husband gentleman suitor dreamy emotional melodramatic egdon heath england countryside paris love triangle city vs. country unhappy marriage adultery forbidden love temptation love 19th century
Every year, they come by the thousands. Soldiers, sailors, civilians and students. Veterans of wars gone by and guests from foreign shores. They come to march. They come to sacrifice. They ... See full summary »
Romance
France
1956
76 Minutes
Sylvia Montfort Philippe Noiret
husband wife fisherman child government official teen girl creative offbeat dense somber france fishing village mediterranean coast festival failing marriage rural life city vs. country poverty death of child arranged marriage
Follow the story of a couple who goes to a small French fishing village to try to solve the problems of their deteriorating marriage.
Drama, Romance
Brazil
1995
92 Minutes
Gloria Pires Patrícia Pillar Bruno Campos Alexandre Paternost Gianfrancesco Guarnieri Cecil Thiré Cláudio Mamberti José Lewgoy Antonio Carlos Pires
immigrant wife husband farmer neighbor lover passionate emotional uplifting brazil rural community household farm infidelity marriage immigration farming childcare social ostracism forbidden love
Two couples of Italian immigrants are part of a game that leads to treason and brings serious consequences to those who lose.
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
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.