Movies like Contempt
If Contempt's mix of jealousy, villa and love triangle stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Contempt's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Casablanca
1943 · Directed by Michael Curtiz · 102 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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One Day
2011 · Directed by Lone Scherfig · 107 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: divorce · Also drama and romance
After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.
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It Ends with Us
2024 · Directed by Justin Baldoni · 131 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for…
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Challengers
2024 · Directed by Luca Guadagnino · 132 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the…
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Never Let Me Go
2010 · Directed by Mark Romanek · 104 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one…
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Priscilla
2023 · Directed by Sofia Coppola · 113 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: jealousy · Also drama and romance
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in…
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Cyrano
2021 · Directed by Joe Wright · 122 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: love triangle · Also drama and romance
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel.
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Happiness
1965 · Directed by Agnès Varda · 80 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama · From the same decade (1960s)
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
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He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not
2002 · Directed by Laetitia Colombani · 92 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
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.