20 movies like The Human Stain, ordered by similarity : Submission(2017), Jane Eyre(1944), Shirley(2020), Teorema(1968), Gone to Earth(1950), Shadowlands(1993), The Rose Tattoo(1955), Professor Marston & the Wonder Women(2017), The Flower of My Secret(1995), Disgrace(2008), The Cement Garden(1993), Jude(1996) ...
6.2/10
Drama
Germany|Ireland|USA
2003
106 Minutes
Anthony Hopkins Nicole Kidman Ed Harris Gary Sinise Wentworth Miller Jacinda Barrett Harry Lennix Clark Gregg Anna Deavere Smith Lizan Mitchell Kerry Washington
professor writer janitor husband wife brooding melodramatic passionate small town new england lake cabin college dark secrets race academia writing may-december romance identity fall
When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Stanley Tucci Addison Timlin Kyra Sedgwick Janeane Garofalo Ritchie Coster Colby Minifie Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly Malika Samuel David Pittu Juan Castano Wali Collins
college professor college student colleague wife literary agent mother brooding engaging intense passionate sultry melodramatic houston college student-teacher relationship ethics college life writing obsession infidelity
A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.
7.5/10
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.
6.2/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2020
107 Minutes
Elisabeth Moss Michael Stuhlbarg Odessa Young Logan Lerman Allen McCullough Edward O'Blenis Victoria Pedretti Robert Wuhl Paul O'Brien
academic writer author newlywed husband wife bleak brooding confident disheartening intense melancholy passionate profound solemn vermont college writing affair muses
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
7.2/10
Drama
Italy
1968
100 Minutes
Silvana Mangano Terence Stamp Massimo Girotti Anne Wiazemsky Laura Betti Ninetto Davoli Alfonso Gatto Susanna Pasolini Adele Cambria Carlo De Mejo Luigi Barbini
young man stranger husband wife daughter maid emotional engaging fascinating passionate sultry melodramatic italy milan milan, italy villa passion secret attraction relationships
A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
6.9/10
Drama
UK|USA
1950
110 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Emeric Pressburger David Farrar Cyril Cusack Sybil Thorndike Edward Chapman Esmond Knight Hugh Griffith George Cole Beatrice Varley Frances Clare
gypsy squire minister love interest husband wife brooding emotional heartwarming passionate spirited wild countryside woods england love desire magic loveless marriage curse
A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
7.3/10
Drama
UK
1993
130 Minutes
Anthony Hopkins Debra Winger Edward Hardwicke Michael Denison Joseph Mazzello John Wood Robert Flemyng Peter Howell Peter Firth
writer poet son professor wife tender endearing sad oxford university pub england tragic death illness writers marriage may-december romance c.s. lewis discovery love transformation
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1955
117 Minutes
Anna Magnani Burt Lancaster Marisa Pavan Ben Cooper Virginia Grey Jo Van Fleet Sandro Giglio Mimi Aguglia Florence Sundstrom Dorrit Kelton
widow truck driver daughter boyfriend husband melodramatic passionate brooding louisiana house church truck romance grief betrayal secret deception love transformation fall
A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death.
7.1/10
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.
7.0/10
Drama
Spain|France
1995
105 Minutes
Marisa Paredes Juan Echanove Imanol Arias Carmen Elias Rossy de Palma Chus Lampreave Joaquin Cortes Manuela Vargas
writer husband editor amusing melodramatic emotional spain madrid romance writing marriage disillusionment new love love triangle love transformation 1990s
Leo writes trashy romance novels under a pseudonym but as she struggles in her relationship with her husband, she finds her output becoming darker.
6.5/10
Drama
Australia|South Africa
2008
118 Minutes
John Malkovich Jessica Haines Eriq Ebouaney Fiona Press Antoinette Engel Natalie Becker Antonio Fisher David Dennis
professor daughter farmer worker black man rapist disturbing intense passionate countryside cape town, south africa farm college apartheid race relations scandal rape father/daughter relationship identity fall
After having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.
7.1/10
Drama
France|Germany|UK
1993
105 Minutes
Andrew Robertson Charlotte Gainsbourg Alice Coulthard Hanns Zischler Ned Birkin Sinead Cusack Jochen Horst
father mother brother sister lover creepy disturbing passionate suspenseful england family home bedroom small town family dysfunction incest siblings death dark secrets sexual taboo forbidden love
Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.
6.9/10
Drama
UK
1996
123 Minutes
Kate Winslet Christopher Eccleston Rachel Griffiths June Whitfield Liam Cunningham Ross Colvin Turnbull James Daley Berwick Kaler
cousin worker wife teacher farmer brooding dark sultry sad passionate england university graveyard love triangle marital problems class struggle education ambition tragic death forbidden love
In late 1800s England, Jude plans to go to the city and attend university but marries early and becomes a stonemason. When his wife leaves, he moves to the city, where he befriends his liberal cousin Sue.
6.1/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Ireland
2009
88 Minutes
Ciarán Hinds Aidan Quinn Iben Hjejle Jim Norton Eanna Hardwicke Hannah Lynch
widower writer brooding chilling frightening gripping seaside ireland town supernatural death love triangle writers grief love forbidden love transformation mystery 2000s
In a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts.
6.8/10
Drama
USA|Argentina|Spain|Italy
2009
127 Minutes
Vincent Gallo Maribel Verdú Alden Ehrenreich Klaus Maria Brandauer Carmen Maura Rodrigo de la Serna Leticia Brédice Mike Amigorena Sofía Gala Francesca De Sapio
teen boy estranged brother writer girlfriend brooding melodramatic offbeat argentina cruise ship apartment café concert hall hospital reunion writing self-destruction brother relationship sibling rivalry secrets quest
Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of his former self. Bennie's discovery of his brother's near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond.
7.7/10
Drama
Sweden
1969
101 Minutes
Liv Ullmann Bibi Andersson Max von Sydow Erland Josephson Erik Hell Sigge Fürst
ex-husband widow husband wife bleak passionate emotional sweden island marriage infidelity deception grief romance animal cruelty love discovery mystery 1960s
A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.
7.0/10
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.
6.8/10
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 »
6.1/10
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 »
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Otto Kruger Ralph Bellamy Ruth Donnelly Frank Albertson George Cooper Nella Walker Florence Roberts Laura Hope Crews Ronnie Crosby Harry Beresford
wealthy girl ex-boyfriend german-american college professor housekeeper grandmother melodramatic sad passionate family home classroom new england small town bedroom immigration world war i prejudice marital problems patriotism suspicion
World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.
7.6/10
Drama
Italy|France
1964
116 Minutes
Monica Vitti Richard Harris Carlo Chionetti Xenia Valderi Rita Renoir Aldo Grotti Valerio Bartoleschi Giuliano Missirini Lili Rheims Emanuela Mino Carboni
wife husband old friend businessman son maid bleak profound emotional striking italy beach factory apartment shack town mental illness isolation nervous breakdown infidelity
In an industrial area, Giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
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