Movies Like Women in Love (1969)

Women in Love is a 1969 drama, romance film from Ken Russell with a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Lover and Hôtel du Nord.

Drama Romance

The Lover

1992

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

7.0

MagicScore

Hôtel du Nord

1938

A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.

7.2

MagicScore

The Razor's Edge

1984

An American WWI veteran undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he discovers he is not the only one who has changed.

6.3

MagicScore

Mothering Sunday

2021

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.

5.4

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See You Up There

2017

In November 1918, a few days before the Armistice, when Lieutenant Pradelle orders a senseless attack, he causes a useless disaster; but his outrageous act also binds the lives of two soldiers who have nothing more in common than the battlefield: Édouard saves Albert, although at a high cost. They become companions in misfortune who will attempt to survive in a changing world. Pradelle, in his own way, does the same.

7.8

MagicScore

Safety Not Guaranteed

2012

Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.

6.8

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Stealing Beauty

1996

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

6.7

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Brideshead Revisited

2008

Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

6.3

MagicScore

Dikkenek

2006

Jean-Claude is a loud-mouthed, know-it-all and full time boor who is best friends with Stef, a self-styled lady killer who would do better with the fairer sex if he could work up the ambition to wake up in the morning. Stef has decided that he may need some help in finding the woman of his dreams, and embracing loyalty rather than logic he turns to Jean-Claude for advice.

6.7

MagicScore

#10

But Forever in My Mind

1999

Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his virginity—wants to make his move on the girl he likes, despite her being already his friend's girlfriend and not knowing that her best friend harbors feelings for him—while clashing also with his parents, onetime Sixties radicals who look down on the kids' aimless political commitment.

5.9

MagicScore

#11

Elling

2001

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

7.2

MagicScore

#12

Boys and Girls

2000

Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they meet in college, the uptight Ryan and the free-spirited Jennifer find that their differences bind them together and a rare friendship develops.

5.9

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#13

Cloud 9

2008

A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.

5.7

MagicScore

#14

The Color Purple

2023

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

7.0

MagicScore

#15

Life and Nothing But

1989

In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross.

7.2

MagicScore

#16

Defenders of Riga

2007

The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of them inexperienced volunteers, somehow managed to defeat a larger, better-armed force of German and Russian mercenaries.

5.7

MagicScore

#17

Reckless Summer

2021

15-year-old Solange lives in a little town in the French Alps. When her parents get divorced, she discovers her femininity and has her first sexual experiences.

6.1

MagicScore

#18

Léon Morin, Priest

1961

Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.

7.0

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#19

Brother of Sleep

1995

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.

6.6

MagicScore

#20

Memoirs of a Geisha

2005

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

7.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Women in Love?

The top films similar to Women in Love by MovieMagicScore are The Lover (7.0), Hôtel du Nord (7.2), The Razor's Edge (6.3). Each shares drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Women in Love worth watching?

Women in Love holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10 from 129 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Women in Love?

Women in Love (1969) is a drama, romance film directed by Ken Russell, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson.

Where can I find more recommendations like Women in Love?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Women in Love

This ranked list pairs Women in Love (1969), a drama and romance film from Ken Russell, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Alan Bates take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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