Movies like Obsession
If Obsession's mix of adultery, italian and gas station stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Obsession's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 · Directed by Tay Garnett · 113 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: adultery, gas station, drifter · Also drama and romance · From the same decade (1940s)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981 · Directed by Bob Rafelson · 122 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: gas station, drifter, older husband · Also crime and romance
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
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I Am Love
2010 · Directed by Luca Guadagnino · 120 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: adultery · Also a Italian drama
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled.
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The Godfather
1972 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 175 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: italy · Also drama and crime
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son,…
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The Voyeur
1994 · Directed by Tinto Brass · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: adultery · Also a Italian drama
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her.
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Call Me by Your Name
2017 · Directed by Luca Guadagnino · 132 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: italy · Also romance and drama
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture.
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The Killing
1956 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 85 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: adultery · Also crime and drama
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · Directed by Anthony Minghella · 140 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: italy · Also crime and drama
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S.
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Notes on a Scandal
2006 · Directed by Richard Eyre · 92 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: adultery · Also drama and romance
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
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Revolutionary Road
2008 · Directed by Sam Mendes · 119 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: adultery · Also drama and romance
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
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Unfaithful
2002 · Directed by Adrian Lyne · 124 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: adultery · Also drama and romance
A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.
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House of Gucci
2021 · Directed by Ridley Scott · 158 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: italy · Also drama and crime
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and…