Movies like Darling

A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

1. 

   01

   The Merry Widow

   Strong story similarity

   2007 · 94 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

   Read synopsis

   Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so easy in fact when she thinks twice. She does not get on with her husband any longer. She gets on his nerves and he does not attract her any longer. She feels good only when she jogs on the beach and ... when she is the arms of her lover, Leo. One day, Gilbert gets killed in a car accident. Good news, since she will be able to live with Leo. The trouble is her well-meaning family settle at her villa with a view to supporting the "poor widow" morally. Anne-Marie just cannot admit she is not distressed at all, especially to her son Christophe. She is now even more of a prisoner than when Gilbert was alive...

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: woman director
   • a closely matched era

   Explore movies like The Merry Widow
2. 

   02

   Rosetta

   Strong story similarity

   1999 · 95 min · Drama

   Read synopsis

   Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing all charity, she is desperate to maintain a dignified job.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

   Explore movies like Rosetta
3. 

   03

   Secret Things

   Strong story similarity

   2002 · 115 min · Drama

   Read synopsis

   Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

   Explore movies like Secret Things
4. 

   04

   Polina

   Similar atmosphere

   2016 · 112 min · Drama

   Read synopsis

   Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared theme: woman director

   Explore movies like Polina
5. 

   05

   All Girls Cry

   Strong story similarity

   2010 · 100 min · Comedy · Drama

   Read synopsis

   Romantic drama in which a young woman must learn to live with her past in order to finally move forward.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared theme: woman director

   Explore movies like All Girls Cry
6. 

   06

   Laurence Anyways

   Strong story similarity

   2012 · 168 min · Drama · Romance

   Read synopsis

   The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

   Explore movies like Laurence Anyways
7. 

   07

   He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not

   Strong story similarity

   2002 · 92 min · Drama · Romance · Thriller

   Read synopsis

   A talented art student named Angélique is passionately in love with Dr. Loïc Le Garrec, a handsome married man whom she believes will leave his wife. When he eventually decides to stay in his marriage, it causes Angélique to spiral. However, as the story shifts from Angélique's perspective to Loïc's, the surprising truth about their relationship is revealed.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared theme: woman director

   Explore movies like He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not
8. 

   08

   In My Skin

   Strong story similarity

   2002 · 93 min · Drama · Horror

   Read synopsis

   After a disfiguring leg injury, a young woman develops an unsettling secret relationship with her own body in which pain is pleasure, mutilation is love and hungers of the flesh have a mind of their own.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared theme: woman director

   Explore movies like In My Skin
9. 

   09

   Brief Crossing

   Strong story similarity

   2001 · 84 min · Drama · Romance

   Read synopsis

   A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared theme: woman director

   Explore movies like Brief Crossing
10. 

    10

    High Society

    Strong story similarity

    2014 · 95 min · Comedy · Drama

    Read synopsis

    Class barriers threaten the budding romance of two young lovers striving to realize their artistic ambitions.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • shared theme: woman director

    Explore movies like High Society