Death in Love

Death in Love

Sin. Suffer. Repeat.

Directed by Boaz Yakin

Produced by DI Love

200897 min4.7 / 10

A deeply disturbing psychosexual exploration of trauma, complicity, and transgression that uses a forbidden wartime affair to interrogate guilt, memory, and inherited damage across generations.

Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons' lives in the 1990s.

Questions people ask

  • Is Death in Love sad? Yes, very. More sad than 98% of films.

  • Does Death in Love end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 98% of films.

  • Is Death in Love easy watching? No. Less comforting than 92% of films.

  • Is Death in Love violent? Yes. More violent than 80% of films.

  • Is Death in Love scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 72% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

21/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity96

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise4

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love4

How much audiences actually like it

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Ensemble

Like Death in Love

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as Death in Love

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like Death in Love, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like Death in Love, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like Death in Love, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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