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Sunday, July 5th, 2026

Live Poll: Dark Romance Movies

Dark romance are movies that explore the sinister side of love. They feature morally grey characters, themes of obsession, danger and psychological tension, blurring the lines between passion and destruction. Which of these dark romance movies is your favorite?

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls4110318182/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/7mHCuVxUmlShCdp_CbfFfg/ 

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"Boxing Helena" has got to be the creepiest.  A surgeon removes a woman's arms and legs and keeps her in his home in a box where he can love her.

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@TheOldJalapenoman​ that one sure qualifies

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@Aris_Athanas​ and @TheOldJalapenoman,

Along the same creepy lines -- The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962):

A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body. 

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@Aris_Athanas​ ,

I thought of another film that might fit your poll, although it is considered a dark comedy:
Frankenhooker (1990)

A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes.

In New Jersey, Jeffrey is a talented inventor in love with his bride-to-be Elizabeth. During a barbecue to celebrate the birthday of Elizabeth's father, she activates a remote controlled lawnmower that Jeffrey built for his father-in-law. However she stays in front of the device and her body is cut into pieces. Jeffrey studies how to bring Elizabeth back to life and realizes that he will need body parts. He drives to New York to get the necessary parts from prostitutes but his experiment loses control and he blows-up several women with an exploding crack he had developed. Now he has the necessary parts to build his fiancée back, but when Elizabeth flees from his laboratory, Jeffrey has problems with the pimp Zorro that lost his girls. 

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@dan_dassow​ frankenhooker added

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FYC:

Pedro Almodóvar's Tie me up, Tie me down - An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.

Atonement - A 13 year old girl destroys the lives of her sister and her lover after she falls in love with him and finds out her feelings are unrequited.

Lars and the Real Girl - Looking for a deep and meaningful relationship a man buys a sex doll online and falls in love with her.

I'm not sure why would The Shape of Water qualify. Other than the fact that she falls in love with a non-human creature, their relationship does not show a sinister side or love, nor an unhealthy obsession or something morally grey. If the character was not a creature there wouldn't be anything strange about that relationship.

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@Pencho15​ ok, I delete the shape of water. Atonement, Tie me up, tie me down, and Lars and the real girl addedd

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@Aris_Athanas​ ,

Your list is currently at 36 choices. I'm not certain which film I would recommend removing from your list; they are all strangely dark and sad.

There is a possibility of a part two of this poll.

You could move Frankenhooker to a part two.

Additional choices for a part 2 could include:
Bonnie and Clyde
Thelma & Louise

Fifty Shades of Grey
Double Indemnity
The Postman Always Rings Twice

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