20 best movies like I Am Love (2009)

List of the best movies like I Am Love (2009): Eternity and a Day, 28 Hotel Rooms, The Devil's Violinist, Jenny's Wedding, Beyond the Clouds, Samsara, Tequila Sunrise, Ossessione, Wuthering Heights, Le Notti Bianche.

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Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Greece, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany
Duration02:17

Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected relationship and a respite from the obligations of daily life. Through a series of moments – some profound, some silly, some intensely intimate – we see a portrait of an evolving relationship that could become the most significant one of their lives.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genremelodrama, drama, music
CountryGermany, Italy
Duration01:57

The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they thought was their daughter’s roommate is actually her fiancée? As the old-fashioned Farrells attempt to come to terms with the prospect of a surprise daughter-in-law, they face a difficult choice: either adapt with the times or risk being left behind.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Germany, Italy
Duration01:44

Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
CountryIndia, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg
Duration02:18

A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryItaly
Duration02:14

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:09

A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryItaly, France

A lonely city transplant, and a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal bridge and begin a tentative romance that quickly entangles them in a web of longing and self-delusion.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Italy
Duration01:45

Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryGreece, France, Italy, Germany, Russia

A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, France
Duration02:21

During the Blitz of World War II, a female screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) works on a film celebrating England's resilience as a way to buoy a weary populace's spirits. Her efforts to dramatise the true story of two sisters (Lily Knight and Francesca Knight) who undertook their own maritime mission to rescue wounded soldiers are met with mixed feelings by a dismissive all-male staff.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryItaly, France

An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany, Italy, Austria, Luxembourg
Duration01:49

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. But Martha's solitary life is shaken when a fateful accident brings her sister's eight-year-old daughter, Lina, to her doorstep.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Russia
Duration01:48

Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.

Markimdb: 5
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryItaly
Duration01:42

Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

    After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryItaly
    Duration01:47

    Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
    Duration01:50

    An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance

    A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men exist — diverse lovers, an overbearing brother, and the father portrayed by director Maurice Pialat himself in an unforgettable turn that displays the full magnitude of the cinema giant's tenderness, force-of-will, and presence of being.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Jack and Diane, two teenage girls, meet in New York City and spend the night kissing ferociously. Diane's charming innocence quickly begins to open Jack's tough skinned heart. But, when Jack discovers that Diane is leaving the country in a week she tries to push her away. Diane must struggle to keep their love alive while hiding the secret that her newly awakened sexual desire is giving her werewolf-like visions.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany, Hungary
    Duration01:52

    Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryPortugal, France
    Duration04:32

    The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryMexico

    Gerardo is deeply in love with longtime lover Jonas. When Jonas falls for a stranger he met at a local nightclub, heartbroken Gerardo soon seeks solace in the arms of Sergio. Despite other interests, Gerardo and Jonas can't bring themselves to end it.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA, Republic of Ireland, Australia
    Duration02:05

    The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Italy, Germany

    A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, France, USA
    Duration01:56

    A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Hungary, Netherlands
    Duration02:37

    After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryFrance, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
    Duration01:40

    The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow it.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect combination to dominate the corrupt city of Iverstown at will. But the unexpected return of Sam, after years of absence, deeply disturbs the life of the odd couple.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryItaly

    The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial friend Agostino, a possible suicide. Gina is herself a bundle of nervous energy, alternately sweet, seductive, poetic, distracted, and unhinged. They begin a love affair after Agostino's funeral, then Gina confuses Fabrizio by sleeping with a stranger. Their visits to Cesare and then to Puck, one of Gina's older friends, a landowner losing his land, dramatize contrasting images of Italy's future. Their own futures are bleak.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA

    Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryItaly, France
    Duration02:17

    A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Netherlands
    Duration01:37

    Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:46

    A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:24

    Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way befriending a cynical intellectual and romancing an art enthusiast. However, the advantage of her affluence is called into question when she realizes the extent to which her money colors her relationships.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Italy

    We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art (represented by scenes from his films, his novel-in-progress Petrolio, and his projected film Porno-Teo-Kolossal) are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:00

    A woman on the brink of a marriage proposal is told by a friend that she should date other men before spending the rest of her life with her boyfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:10

    A loner moves in to a small Texas town, finds himself a job, and sets about plotting to rob the local bank.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Republic of Ireland
    Duration01:28

    Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around them seems to be falling apart. A life-affirming look at what it means to love and be loved in turbulent times.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:49

    A hotel room in the center of Rome serves as the setting for two young and recently acquainted women to have a physical adventure that touches their very souls.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountryItaly, Luxembourg, Germany, Albania, Kosovo, France

    Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as she settles into a new existence in modern-day Milan.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA, Chile

    Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:34

    Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the confident and gorgeous, Fabio. The two develop a romantic relationship that tests the boundaries of love. ROMEOS forgoes stereotypes and conventions to offer an honest and humorous examination of the most basic of human conditions: friendship, sex, and love.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:04

    In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.




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