20 movies like The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), Cloud 9(2008), Woodpeckers(2017), Having You(2013), Rafiki(2018), Eboli(1979), The Japanese Wife(2010), Fool for Love(1985), The Good Girls(1960), Behen Hogi Teri(2017), Conversations With My Gardener(2007), Tilai(1990) ...
Drama
Netherlands|France|Spain|Australia
2001
111 Minutes
Richard Dreyfuss Timothy Spall Hugo Weaving Cathy Tyson Victor Bottenbley Frederico Celada Luis Hostalot Guillermo Toledo
old man mayor bartender dentist indigenous person chief calm powerful profound french guiana jungle village hut aging nature hunting cultural differences isolation illiteracy discovery
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.
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.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2013
97 Minutes
Anna Friel Romola Garai Andrew Buchan Philip Davis Isaac Andrews Steven Cree Harry Hadden-Paton Hattie Morahan
love child fiancé fiancée former lover son father emotional engaging gripping heartwarming intense tender united kingdom coast town home hospital family relationships father/son relationship
Jack has finally managed to propose to his girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.
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.
Drama
1979
118 Minutes
Gian Maria Volonte Irene Papas Paolo Bonacelli Alain Cuny Léa Massari François Simon Antonio Allocca
artist mayor sister villager physician profound powerful solemn italy village countryside fascism class distinctions political unrest isolation unlikely allies carlo levi discovery transformation 1930s
A fact-based account of author-artist Carlo Levi's political exile in a remote Italian village during the 1930s.
Drama
India
2010
Minutes
Rahul Bose Moushumi Chatterjee Raima Sen Rudranil Ghosh Chigusa Takaku
teacher japanese woman aunt mother young woman son tender calm emotional endearing village india yokohama, japan house letter writing friendship true love long-distance relationship arranged marriage loneliness
Pen pals decide to get married and carry-on a long-term relationship.
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
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.
Comedy, Drama
India
2017
128 Minutes
Rajkummar Rao Shruti Haasan Gautam Gulati Darshan Jariwala Ninad Kamat Ranjeet
young man young woman neighbor love interest friend indian amusing charming playful lighthearted engaging cheeky india neighborhood love interest young love first love expedition tradition family
Gattu (Rajkummar Rao) has a problem, he loves Binny (Shruti Haasan) who lives in their neighborhood. But everyone says that the girls of the neighborhood should be treated as own sister or ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
2007
109 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Jean-Pierre Darroussin Fanny Cottençon Alexia Barlier
painter gardener artist former classmate man friend amusing heartwarming charming uplifting lighthearted melodramatic france paris rural community countryside garden lake friendship relationships
Drama
Switzerland|UK|France|Burkina Faso|Germany
1990
81 Minutes
Rasmane Ouedraogo Ina Cissé Roukietou Barry Assane Ouedraogo Sibidou Sidibé Moumouni Ouedraogo Mariam Barry
villager father son fiancé father-in-law second wife melodramatic powerful suspenseful burkina faso village desert africa village life family feud infidelity death penalty on the run love triangle forbidden love
Set in a pre-colonial African past, Tilai is about an illicit love affair and its consequences. Saga returns to his village after an extended absence to discover that his father has taken ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Israel|Germany
2017
105 Minutes
Sarah Adler Zohar Strauss Tim Kalkhof Sandra Sade Roy Miller Stephanie Stremler Tagel Eliyahu Tamir Ben Yehuda Eliezer Shimon
baker married man widow lover son family member solemn emotional creative moving passionate bakery jerusalem berlin house kitchen love infidelity homosexuality loss
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
Comedy, Drama
France|Germany|USA
2016
118 Minutes
Adam Driver Golshifteh Farahani Barry Shabaka Henley Cliff "Method Man" Smith Chasten Harmon William Jackson Harper Masatoshi Nagase Sterling Jerins Rizwan Manji
bus driver passenger dog bartender wife writer calm emotional heartwarming inspiring profound new jersey bus bar house small-town life writing working class work-life balance discovery
A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.
Drama
France
1985
82 Minutes
Juliette Binoche Wadeck Stanczak Lambert Wilson Jean-Louis Trintignant Anne Wiazemsky Dominique Lavanant Jacques Nolot Jean-Louis Vitrac Michela Moretti Annie Noel
young woman aspiring actress love interest lover director father figure engaging melodramatic heartwarming intense paris france movie set love interest relationships attraction tragedy tragic love career adventure
Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
Italy|France|USA|Brazil
2017
132 Minutes
Armie Hammer Timothée Chalamet Michael Stuhlbarg Amira Casar Esther Garrel Victoire Du Bois Vanda Capriolo Antonio Rimoldi Elena Bucci Marco Sgrosso
gay man teenager young woman friend graduate student father dreamy emotional intense sultry engaging tender villa italy summer love secret love growing up forbidden love discovery 1980s
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
Drama
USA|Canada
2016
133 Minutes
Denzel Washington Viola Davis Stephen McKinley Henderson Jovan Adepo Russell Hornsby Mykelti Williamson Saniyya Sidney Christopher Mele Leslie Boone Jason Silvis
sanitation worker son recruiter football player mother emotional engaging heartwarming touching american south house backyard bar failure family dysfunction success dreams deferred illiteracy escape growing up
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
Drama
Italy|France|West Germany
1966
97 Minutes
Stefania Sandrelli Nino Manfredi Ugo Tognazzi Joachim Fuchsberger Franco Fabrizi Turi Ferro Franco Nero Jean-Claude Brialy Mario Adorf Enrico Maria Salerno Solvi Stubing
young girl young woman aspiring actress failed actress lover love interest emotional engaging melodramatic sad passionate heartwarming italy rome village ambition exploitation relationships difficult decision tragic love
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
Drama
France|Romania|Germany|Switzerland
2006
108 Minutes
Alexandra Maria Lara Felix Klare Razvan Vasilescu Katharina Thalbach Manfred Zapatka Valentin Platareanu Anna Stieblich Bruno Cathomas Ioana Abur Marius Chivu Andi Vasluianu
secretary ex-lover engineer printer translator love interest brooding suspenseful emotional bucharest, romania printing plant house germany bar jealousy love triangle relationships obsession manipulation discovery
Nicu (Razvan Vasilescu) runs a print shop in Bucharest, Romania, and Brindusa (Alexandra Maria Lara) is his secretary and translator. Years ago, they were lovers, but now they maintain a ... See full summary »
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.