Movies like Odd Obsession
If Odd Obsession's mix of sexual obsession, diary and sexual arousal stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Odd Obsession's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Lolita
1962 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 154 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: sexual obsession, diary, older man younger woman relationship
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed…
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The Life of Oharu
1952 · Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi · 136 min7.8
Why you'll like itWith Ichirō Sugai · Also a Japanese drama · From the same decade (1950s)
During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.
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The Bad Sleep Well
1960 · Directed by Akira Kurosawa · 150 min7.7
Why you'll like itWith Kyū Sazanka · Also a Japanese drama
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi.
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The Crush
1993 · Directed by Alan Shapiro · 89 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: older man younger woman relationship
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Crash
1996 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 100 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: sexual obsession
A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.