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24 films tagged love triangle

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  • 2025 · Comedy

    A couple married 65 years die a week apart and reach an afterlife waiting room, where each person picks one eternity and stays in it. Her first husband, killed young in Korea, has been waiting.

    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Eternity

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Holland

    Little-known

    2025 · Thriller

    A teacher in a tidy Michigan tulip town suspects her optometrist husband is not spending his conference weekends the way he says. She recruits a colleague to help her find out, and they get closer as they dig.

    • Clearly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Holland

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • A Brief Affair

    Little-known

    2025 · Drama

    A seismologist who spends his Friday nights boxing and playing chess meets a woman at the bar next door and starts an affair. She then seeks out his wife, a psychoanalyst, and asks her for a consultation.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: A Brief Affair

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Threesome

    Little-known

    2025 · Comedy

    A sound engineer in love with a friend who does not do feelings ends up in bed with her and a woman he met that evening. What follows is the three of them working out what it meant.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly intimate
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Threesome

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Mile End Kicks

    Little-known

    2025 · Comedy

    A 22-year-old music critic moves to Montreal in 2011 to write a book about an Alanis Morissette album, and instead falls in with two members of an indie band. Loose and talky, mostly parties and gigs.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Mile End Kicks

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2015 · Drama

    A young woman leaves a small Irish town for New York in the 1950s, homesick and alone until she meets someone. Gentle and slow, and mostly about one person working out where she belongs.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Brooklyn

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2026 · Comedy

    A hitman who wants out of the mob does one last job for a loan shark whose wife he is sleeping with, and finds a second copy of that loan shark waiting for him. A crime comedy that turns into a time travel problem.

    • Clearly complicated

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2024 · Drama

    A tennis coach enters her slumping husband in a small tournament, where he draws his oldest friend across the net. The match keeps cutting back through thirteen years of the three of them.

    • Clearly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Challengers

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • The Man I Love

    Little-known

    2026 · Drama

    A gay actor in late-1980s New York, ill with AIDS, sets out to stage a play with his theatre group while his boyfriend looks after him at home. Much of it is the apartment, the rehearsals, and the people coming and going.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly heavy
    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Man I Love

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2026 · Drama

    In 1919 the poet D'Annunzio occupies the disputed city of Fiume, and an anarchist doctor, a rival with fascist leanings and a Russian pianist spying for Moscow are drawn together. There is a lot of history to follow.

    • Strongly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: At the Revolutionary Festival

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • Love Me, Love Me

    Little-known

    2026 · Drama

    After her brother dies, June moves to Milan and starts at an international school, where the model student takes her in and his best friend, who fights in illegal MMA bouts, does not. A teen romance that turns on which one she picks.

    • Clearly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Love Me, Love Me

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2022 · Mystery

    A Belgian detective on holiday joins a wedding party cruising the Nile, where nearly everyone aboard has a reason to resent the bride. Once the boat leaves, the suspects are all in the same few rooms.

    • Clearly plot-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Death on the Nile

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2004 · Action

    In ninth-century China two policemen set a trap for a rebel group by freeing a blind dancer they believe will lead them to it. The fights are long and colourful and mostly outdoors.

    Sits near the middle on every axis.

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: House of Flying Daggers

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2001 · Musical

    A village in colonial India can skip three years of tax if it beats the British garrison at cricket, a game none of them has played. Nearly four hours, with songs, and the last hour is the match.

    • Clearly epic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Lagaan

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2019 · Drama

    Four sisters grow up in Massachusetts during and after the Civil War, one of them trying to make a living writing. It cuts back and forth between their childhood and seven years on, so you have to keep track of where you are.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Little Women

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2025 · Romance

    A New York matchmaker who treats dating as a numbers game ends up choosing between a rich client and the broke ex she never got over. Mostly conversation, about money as much as love.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly character-driven

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Materialists

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2001 · Crime

    A thief out on parole puts together eleven men to empty the vault under three Las Vegas casinos on the same night. Cool and chatty, and the plan takes up most of the running time.

    • Strongly plot-driven
    • Clearly light

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Ocean's Eleven

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2023 · Drama

    Two children who were close in Seoul are pulled apart when one family emigrates, and they find each other again twice over the next twenty-four years. Very quiet, mostly two people talking, with years skipped in between.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly slow
    • Strongly intimate

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Past Lives

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2004 · Action

    Two years in, the job is wrecking his grades, his rent and the one relationship he wants, just as a scientist with four mechanical arms starts tearing up New York. Big set pieces built around a fairly sad life.

    • Clearly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Spider-Man 2

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2021 · Comedy

    A woman in Oslo coming up on thirty keeps changing what she wants to be and who she wants to be with, told in twelve chapters. Funny and sad in the same scene, moving at the speed of a conversation.

    • Strongly character-driven
    • Strongly intimate
    • Clearly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: The Worst Person in the World

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1999 · Comedy

    A puppeteer takes a filing job on a half-height office floor and finds a tunnel that drops him into John Malkovich's head for fifteen minutes. Funnier and stranger the further it goes.

    • Strongly fantastic
    • Clearly complicated

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Being John Malkovich

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 1942 · Romance

    An American running a nightclub in wartime Morocco has the papers that could get two people out of the country, and one of them is the woman who left him in Paris. Almost all of it happens in the bar.

    • Strongly realistic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Casablanca

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2005 · Animation

    A nervous groom practises his vows in a wood and accidentally marries a dead woman, who takes him below. Stop-motion, short, and the land of the dead is the cheerful part.

    • Strongly fantastic

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Corpse Bride

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.

  • 2010 · Science fiction

    Three children at an English boarding school grow up knowing what they were made for, and never try to escape it. Very quiet, and almost unbearably restrained.

    • Strongly heavy
    • Strongly character-driven
    • Clearly slow

    AI estimate, not yet described

    Describe: Never Let Me Go

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
    PlotCharacter

    Blends anonymously into the average.