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10 Best Movies Like The Important Thing Is Love

If you loved The Important Thing Is Love, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Better Living Through Chemistry

Better Living Through Chemistry

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Important Thing Is Love for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possib...

#2
Acrimony

Acrimony

2018★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Important Thing Is Love for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Faithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That's when she lost it, and now she cannot l...

#3
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

1955★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Important Thing Is Love for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution....

#4
Shock

Shock

1946★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Important Thing Is Love for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart...

#5
Stonehearst Asylum

Stonehearst Asylum

2014★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Important Thing Is Love for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying sta...

#6
The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Important Thing Is Love for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existen...

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