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Fatal Attractions

Amour fou is one of film's most darkly alluring themes, and lust, seduction and betrayal can be a deadly game. Intemperate passions bring out our most animal instincts, and poor decision-making can lead to the bloody consequences - as any gun-toting lovers on the run will testify.

Browse our collection of films from the dark side of Love.

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The Light between OceansThe Light between Oceans

Drama 2016 132 minsDirector: Derek Cianfrance

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander star in Derek Cianfrance’s sweeping romance about a lighthouse keeper, his wife, and the baby they rescue from a drifting boat.

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A Bigger SplashA Bigger Splash

Thriller 2015 125 minsDirector: Luca Guadagnino

Ralph Fiennes delivers a sensational performance as one of four passionate souls sharing a villa in the Sicilian sunshine, with jealousy, intrigue and violence simmering beneath the surface.

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The Lovers & the DespotThe Lovers & the Despot

Documentary 2016 98 minsDirector: Ross Adam and Rob Cannan

Discover one of cinema’s strangest stories: a film director and his star are kidnapped by Kim Jong-il to make movies in the world’s weirdest state.

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The Chambermaid LynnThe Chambermaid Lynn

2014 90 minsDirector: Ingo Haeb

An obsessive-compulsive hotel cleaner (Vicky Krieps) who harbours a fetishistic fascination with her hotel's guests meets an enigmatic dominatrix who changes her world.

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SightseersSightseers

Comedy 2012 88 minsDirector: Ben Wheatley

Young lovers Chris and Tina turn their first holiday together into a rural killing spree in Ben Wheatley's priceless black comedy.

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American TranslationAmerican Translation

Drama 2010 115 minsDirector: Pascal Ascandes Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr

A sexually ambiguous Frenchman tours his native countryside with his naive American lover in pursuit of the ultimate thrill.

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PossessionPossession

Horror 1981 124 minsDirector: Andrzej Zulawski

Andrzej Zulawski’s out-of-control horror masterpiece is one of cinema’s most bare-souled and open-veined accounts of a broken relationship.

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SpringSpring

Horror 2015 110 minsDirector: Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson

An American tourist in Italy falls for a stunning local woman with a dangerous secret, in this startling horror-romance.

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Only Lovers Left AliveOnly Lovers Left Alive

Romance 2014 123 minsDirector: Jim Jarmusch

Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton star as ageless, blood-drinking lovers in Jim Jarmusch’s clever, funny and sexy vampire tale.

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Betty BlueBetty Blue

Drama 1986 185 minsDirector: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Jean-Jacques Beineix’s story of a volatile, highly sexual relationship was one of the most successful French films of the 1980s.

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Double IndemnityDouble Indemnity

Crime 1944 108 minsDirector: Billy Wilder

Barbara Stanwyck is the housewife who dupes an insurance salesman into a devious murder plot, in this giant of American cinema - the archetypal Film Noir.

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VertigoVertigo

Thriller 1958 128 minsDirector: Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock’s timeless thriller about a former detective with a fear of heights who is hired to follow a woman who seems possessed by the past.

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Everlasting LoveEverlasting Love

Drama 2014 69 minsDirector: Marçal Forés

A thrilling and disturbing exploration of the perils of illicit sexual encounters, beginning when a teacher initiates a tryst with one of his pupils.

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Stranger by the LakeStranger by the Lake

Drama 2013 100 minsDirector: Alain Guiraudie

A young man witnesses a violent crime at a gay cruising ground and becomes obsessed with the killer in Alain Guiraudie’s acclaimed mystery-thriller.

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A Syrian Love StoryA Syrian Love Story

Documentary 2015 76 minsDirector: Sean McAllister

The inspiring journey towards freedom of Raghda and Amer, a couple brought together by the turmoil of the Syrian Civil War.

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The Duke of BurgundyThe Duke of Burgundy

Drama 2015 104 minsDirector: Peter Strickland

Peter Strickland’s visually and aurally intoxicating tale of sadomasochistic power-play is a daringly erotic sensory feast.

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The Lonely Passion of Judith HearneThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Drama 1989 116 minsDirector: Jack Clayton

Maggie Smith is astonishing in one of her greatest roles as a spinster who falls for Bob Hoskins’ brash businessman.

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Intimate RelationsIntimate Relations

Drama 1997 99 minsDirector: Philip Goodhew

Julie Walters and Rupert Graves are at the centre of a sordid love triangle in this pulpy melodrama about seedy shenanigans in 1950s suburbia.

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TrishnaTrishna

Drama 2012 114 minsDirector: Michael Winterbottom

Tragedy befalls a young Indian woman when she falls in love with a rich British man in Michael Winterbottom's sharp Thomas Hardy update.

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Dellamorte DellamoreDellamorte Dellamore

Horror 1993 103 minsDirector: Michele Soavi

Michele Soavi’s compelling concoction of anarchic Evil Dead-style horror-comedy, tragic romance and gore.

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The Man in GreyThe Man in Grey

Melodrama 1943 116 minsDirector: Leslie Arliss

James Mason, Margaret Lockwood and Stewart Granger star in the first of the fantastically successful Gainsborough melodramas.

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The Night Has EyesThe Night Has Eyes

Horror 1942 79 minsDirector: Leslie Arliss

James Mason stars in this gothic tale of dangerous desire set on the Yorkshire Moors.

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A Romance of SevilleA Romance of Seville

Romance 1931 61 minsSilentDirector: Norman Walker

This florid Iberian romance centres on the daring exploits of Ramon as he takes on a group of bandits to win the admiration of true love Pepita, and escape his stultifying arranged marriage.

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Romeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet

Drama 1954 145 minsDirector: Renato Castellani

Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall are the star-crossed lovers in the ravishingly filmed 1954 adaptation.

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The MaskThe Mask

Melodrama 1953 28 minsDirector: Don Chaffey

This Gothic-tinged short melodrama packs a cocktail of infidelity, deformity and jealousy into its tale of love gone sour.

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Blanche FuryBlanche Fury

Melodrama 1948 94 minsDirector: Marc AllΓ©gret

Valerie Hobson stars as the scheming governess with designs on taking over the Fury estate, in this atmospheric Gothic melodrama

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Touched with FireTouched with Fire

Drama 2015 106 minsDirector: Paul Dalio

Two young poets with bipolar begin a highly passionate, volatile relationship that threatens both their futures.

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StellaStella

1968 26 minsSilentDirector: Alan Clarke

Alun Owen and director Alan Clarke's extraordinary power-play charts the explosive sexual dynamic between the titular heroine and her obsessive lover.