(Image credit: Millstreet Films) Obsession (2015)

Stream Carol on Amazon Prime through Freevee (opens in new tab). The movie received numerous award nominations and accolades, including Oscar nods for both actresses, so you know you’re in for something special with this one. While the love story has a delightfully (and understandably) slow build, Carol shows both how the leads’ feelings for each other comes to fruition, and the trouble it causes in their personal lives. After a chance meeting leads to the two becoming enmeshed in each other’s lives, the women are forced to figure out how to be together at a time when their love was seen as anything but acceptable. The tale focuses on the love affair between young shopgirl/aspiring photographer Therese (Rooney Mara) and the titular character (Cate Blanchett), a mother who’s in the middle of a contentious divorce.

Here’s another “gorgeous” historical drama for you, but this one is based on author Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 romance, The Price of Salt. (Image credit: Number 9 Films) Carol (2015)

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