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Movies that feel like The Blue Angel (1930)

If you loved The Blue Angel, the closest films we have are Tony Takitani (2004), A Heart in Winter (1992) and Laura (1944). All three share The Blue Angel's contemplative and obsessive feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 96% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Josef von Sternbergcontemplativeobsessiveromantic
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Tony Takitani
2004 Β· dir. Jun Ichikawa
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.2drama

Both land stillness and obsession at once

The difference: Missing the romance of The Blue Angel

A reclusive illustrator falls in love with a young woman who addictively shops for clothing.

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A Heart in Winter
1992 Β· dir. Claude Sautet
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.6drama Β· romance

Drama with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Blue Angel does

Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.

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Laura
1944 Β· dir. Otto Preminger
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.9drama Β· mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Blue Angel does

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

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Padmaavat
2018 Β· dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
πŸ… 53%β˜… 7.1drama Β· history Β· romance

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Rajputana, India, 13th century. The tyrannical usurper Alauddin Khilji, sultan of Delhi, becomes obsessed with Queen Padmavati, wife of King Ratan Singh of Mewar, and goes to great lengths to satisfy his greed for her.

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Lolita
1962 Β· dir. Stanley Kubrick
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.5drama

The same preoccupation in both: sexual obsession

The difference: 32 years apart, and the 1960s show

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.

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Black Narcissus
1947 Β· dir. Michael Powell
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.7drama

Romantic drama in both cases

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

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Lust, Caution
2007 Β· dir. Ang Lee
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.5action Β· drama Β· romance

Both are built on the same subject: sexual obsession

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

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Modern Romance
1981 Β· dir. Albert Brooks
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7comedy Β· drama Β· romance

Both run obsessive where it counts

A film editor breaks up with his girlfriend, unsure if he is in love.

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Cruel Intentions
1999 Β· dir. Roger Kumble
πŸ… 55%β˜… 6.8drama Β· romance

Both sit in the same contemplative register

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.

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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
2013 Β· dir. Lars von Trier
πŸ… 77%β˜… 6.9drama

The shared currency is obsession

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

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Grand Hotel
1932 Β· dir. Edmund Goulding
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.3drama Β· romance

Common ground: black and white

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

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Floating Weeds
1959 · dir. Yasujirō Ozu
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9drama

A streak of romance through both

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

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