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Movies that feel like Lolita (1962)

If you loved Lolita, the closest films we have are The Blue Angel (1930), Places in the Heart (1984) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). All three share Lolita's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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 with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

πŸ… 89% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Stanley Kubrickcontemplativemelancholyobsessivecozyromantic

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The Blue Angel
1930 Β· dir. Josef von Sternberg
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.6drama

Both are built on the same subject: sexual obsession

The difference: None of the melancholy Lolita is built on

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

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Places in the Heart
1984 Β· dir. Robert Benton
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.4drama

Common ground in both: grief and widow

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1980s show

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

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Once Upon a Time in the West
1968 Β· dir. Sergio Leone
πŸ… 96%β˜… 8.5drama Β· western

Common ground: small town life

The difference: Sits closer to western than Lolita does

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

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Diary of a Country Priest
1951 Β· dir. Robert Bresson
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.7drama

The same preoccupation in both: small town life

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

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Cool Hand Luke
1967 Β· dir. Stuart Rosenberg
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8drama Β· crime

One thread runs through both: grief

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.

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La Dolce Vita
1960 Β· dir. Federico Fellini
πŸ… 95%β˜… 8comedy Β· drama

Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.

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The Passion of Anna
1969 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.6drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: depression

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.

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Eyes Wide Shut
1999 Β· dir. Stanley Kubrick
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.5drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

Stanley Kubrick directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

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Winter Light
1963 Β· dir. Ingmar Bergman
πŸ… 77%β˜… 8drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.

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Doctor Zhivago
1965 Β· dir. David Lean
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.9drama Β· romance Β· war

Romantic drama in both cases

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

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The Land Before Time
1988 Β· dir. Don Bluth
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.4family Β· animation Β· adventure

Both lean on comfort more than on drama

An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to work together in order to survive.

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Drive My Car
2021 Β· dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.5drama

A streak of melancholy through both

Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanya at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to drive his car. In between rides, secrets from the past and heartfelt confessions will be unveiled.

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