Self-Destructive Romance
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    Movies

    Match Point (2005)

    A one-time tennis professional (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) becomes obsessed with his brother-in-law's...

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    Saawariya (2007)

    A chance encounter leads to romance over four successive nights.

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    A Dangerous Woman (1993)

    An awkward woman (Debra Winger) loves a handyman (Gabriel Byrne) at her aunt's (Barbara Hershey)...

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    Lolita (1961)

    Professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) marries a widow (Shelley Winters) to be near her nymphet...

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    Out of Africa (1985)

    Married Baroness Blixen (Meryl Streep), pen name Isak Dinesen, loves British hunter Denys Finch...

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    Downloading Nancy (2009)

    The story follows the fate of the unhappy wife Nancy who orders the guy she meets over the Internet...

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    Movies

    Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)

    A young man becomes obsessed with winning back the affections of a girlfriend who decided to return...

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    Vertigo (1958)

    A former San Francisco detective (James Stewart) who dreads heights falls for a woman (Kim Novak) he...

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    Movies

    Pennies From Heaven (1981)

    A sheet-music salesman (Steve Martin) escapes his wife, girlfriend (Bernadette Peters) and the...

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    Personal Velocity (2002)

    An abused wife (Kyra Sedgwick), a cookbook editor and a pregnant woman ponder their relationships...

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    The Night Porter (1974)

    Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet, unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957,...

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    Movies

    Race You to the Bottom (2007)

    A bisexual invites his friend Maggie along on his business trip, writing about the Napa Valley, but...

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    Movies

    Camille Claudel (1989)

    Parisian sculptor Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) becomes the assistant and mistress of Auguste Rodin...

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    Movies

    Blood and Sand (1922)

    A young matador (Rudolph Valentino) achieves fame but must choose between his wife (Lila Lee) and...

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    Movies

    The Scarlet Letter (1995)

    After a young widow (Demi Moore) has a child and refuses to name the father, a Puritan community...

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    Movies

    Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)

    Long-nosed swordsman Cyrano (Gérard Depardieu) loves his cousin Roxane (Anne Brochet) but woos her...

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    Movies

    Mr. Jones (1993)

    A psychologist (Lena Olin) falls for her unpredictable patient (Richard Gere) who bounces in and out...

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    Movies

    Grace of My Heart (1996)

    A steel heiress (Illeana Douglas) faces a rocky road to success as a singer-songwriter in this...

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    Movies

    Young Adam (2004)

    A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he...

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    Bad Timing

    Psychiatrist Alex (Art Garfunkel) becomes sexually obsessed with Milena (Theresa Russell), a woman...

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    Movies

    Surviving Picasso (1996)

    A Paris art student (Natascha McElhone) becomes the forceful painter's (Anthony Hopkins) lover for a...

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    Movies

    Showgirls (1995)

    A dancer (Elizabeth Berkley) becomes understudy in a Las Vegas show, sleeps with the boss (Kyle...

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    Movies

    Carmen Jones (1954)

    A sultry plant worker (Dorothy Dandridge) drives a wartime soldier (Harry Belafonte) to murder in...

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    Movies

    Cabaret (1972)

    Multiple Oscars went to this tale about an American chanteuse in Berlin caught in the rising tide of...

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    Movies

    Elvira Madigan (1967)

    A 19th-century Swedish cavalry officer (Thommy Berggren) makes a suicide love pact with a circus...

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    Movies

    Duel in the Sun

    Good and bad sons (Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck) of a Texas cattle baron fight each other, and the...

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    Movies

    Jezebel (1938)

    A New Orleans belle (Bette Davis) uses another man (George Brent) to make her fiance (Henry Fonda)...

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    Movies

    Seven Sinners (1940)

    Set in the South Seas, Seven Sinners stars Marlene Dietrich as a cabaret singer whose reputation as...

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    Movies

    Blanche Fury

    A Victorian governess (Valerie Hobson) marries an English heir, then plots with a stableboy (Stewart...

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    Movies

    Saving Silverman (2001)

    Two dimwits (Steve Zahn, Jack Black) concoct a scheme to prevent their friend (Jason Biggs) from...