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In the Mood for Love (2000)

In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.

Directed byWong Kar-Wai

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What to watch after In the Mood for Love

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  1. 01

    Chungking Express

    Same director

    1994 · 103 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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    Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  2. 02

    2046

    Same director

    2004 · 128 min · Drama · Romance · Science Fiction

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    Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • strong shared themes: author and extramarital affair
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  3. 03

    Fallen Angels

    Same director

    1995 · 98 min · Action · Crime · Romance

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    An indifferent hitman, his infatuated business partner and an ex-convict search for love and meaning as their lives cross paths in Hong Kong.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • a principal cast member
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  4. 04

    Ashes of Time

    Same director

    1994 · 98 min · Action · Drama

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    Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to pay for it. Throughout five seasons in exile, Ouyang spins tales of his clients' unrequited loves and unusual acts of bravery.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • principal cast overlap
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  5. 05

    Comrades, Almost a Love Story

    Shared cast

    1996 · 118 min · Drama · Romance

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    Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • principal cast overlap
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  6. 06

    Eros

    Same director

    2004 · 109 min · Drama · Romance

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    A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  7. 07

    Days of Being Wild

    Same director

    1990 · 94 min · Crime · Drama · Romance

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    Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • several principal cast members
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  8. 08

    The Painted Veil

    Similar atmosphere

    2006 · 125 min · Drama · Romance

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    A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  9. 10

    Brokeback Mountain

    Strong story similarity

    2005 · 134 min · Drama · Romance

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    In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: 1960s and marriage crisis
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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