History StalkerWithACrush / Film

*** In the commentary during the restroom scene, when Lisa revealed that she had been raped, Creator/WesCraven notes, "He looks jealous." He sounded sort of creeped out as he said it. Let me repeat: ''Creator/WesCraven was creeped out.'' That's CillianMurphy for you.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{WALL-E}}''. He [[spoiler: stows away on a massive, ominous spaceship with no idea where it's going]] just so he doesn't have to be separated from EVE. His obsession is probably justified in that until EVE came along, he had no-one to talk to except cockroaches for centuries. EVE was perfectly aware that WALL-E was stalking her due to [[NonActionGuy his bumbling nature]], but didn't seem to care, and she ''was'' armed with a laser-weapon that could blow holes through mountains. They fall in love with each other at the end.
** Granted, WALL-E's a robot and most likely doesn't understand how his behavior would look to others.

* ''LoveActually''--

* ''AmericanBeauty''--

* ''TheCableGuy'' has Chip Douglas who stalks his customers to be JustFriends.
* In the movie ''Film/TheWatcher'', KeanuReeves' character David Allen Griffin is a StalkerWithACrush. Not surprising, considering the title. Apparently the FoeYay going on between him and [[RetiredBadass Joel]] was so strong that he became obsessed with getting Joel to continue their [[MindGameShip Mind Games]]. He follows Joel all the way to Chicago, watches his every move (lamenting that Joel keeps going to the same terrible Vietnamese restaurant every night), sends him flowers and a card saying he missed him, kidnaps and [[MurderTheHypotenuse tries to kill his female psychologist]], and kidnaps him to try to get him to realize that they need each other. It's revealed later on that Joel's ex-lover was killed by David due to his being jealous that Joel was going to retire to be with her.
* ''{{Obsessed}}'' is all about this trope; it features Ali Larter's character Lisa, er, pining over her boss Derek, going so far as to [[MurderTheHypotenuse get into a fight]] with Derek's wife Sharon. The fight ends [[spoiler: with Lisa dangling from a hole in the ceiling, about to plummet onto the glass table below her--Sharon tries to [[SaveTheVillain pull her]] [[TakeMyHand back up]], but Lisa attempts to drag her down as well, and ends up falling and being crushed by a broken chandelier.]]
* There's a subtle hint of this with Eddie Brock in ''Film/{{Spider-Man}} 3''; he's always going on and on about how Gwen Stacy is "the girl I intend to marry" and tells her father that he's her boyfriend... and then, the first and only time we actually see them together, she reminds him that they've only ever had coffee once, in a fashion that indicates that she's really not that into him and that more than a bit of their relationship only exists in his own head.

* Annie Wilkes in ''{{Misery}}'', except she doesn't need to stalk -- she gets home delivery!
* RobinWilliams' character in ''OneHourPhoto'' has a crush on an ''entire family'' because they're so picture perfect. Using the information he's gotten from their photos, he fantasizes about visiting their house and being an HonoraryUncle. When he discovers that the husband has been having an affair he becomes enraged at him for squandering his "perfect" family and gets his revenge by [[spoiler: catching him and his lover and forcing them to take sexually explicit photos, ''repeating the instructions his parents gave him as a child'' ("stop crying, you're supposed to be happy!").]]

* ''MadLove'' stars PeterLorre as [[MadScientist Dr. Gogol]]-- a man obsessed enough with a beautiful actress to keep a wax dummy of her in his house to talk to. Slightly averted in that he knows she's happily married and tries to save her pianist husband's career when he loses his hands in a railway accident (he performs a successful transplant)-- but he performs the surgery to endear himself to her, and when the husband start to think his hands have a mind of their own, Gogol has no problem trying to drive the husband crazier.

* Used rather cleverly in ''HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNot''. [[spoiler:The first half of the movie sets up that a girl named Angélique is the lover of a doctor and nearly commits suicide upon learning that he will not be leaving his wife to marry her. The second half reveals that this is all in her head - he only knew her vaguely because she house-sat for his neighbor, and it is also implied that she hit his wife with a motorcycle to cause her to miscarry as well as built a shrine to him out of garbage. While the girl is given medical help at the end, it is revealed that she was not taking her medication - instead using it to make a mosaic of the doctor.]]
* The whole plot of ''TheCrush'' starring Alicia Silverstone and Cary Elwes.

* Sally is a relatively benign version of this in ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', following Jack Skellington around a few times and sending him small gifts. After Jack becomes obsessed with Christmas this turns to trying to protect him from himself, as Jack has the enthusiasm of a thousand passionate actors and the common sense of a wet cabbage.

*** In the commentary during the restroom scene, when Lisa revealed that she had been raped, WesCraven notes, "He looks jealous." He sounded sort of creeped out as he said it. Let me repeat: ''Wes Craven was creeped out.'' That's CillianMurphy for you.

* Evelyn Draper from ''Film/PlayMistyForMe''. Possibly the TropeCodifier. You know it's bad when the stalker is scaring ''ClintEastwood''.

* Sally is a relatively benign version of this in ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', following Jack Skellington around a few times and sending him small gifts. After Jack becomes obsessed with Christmas this turns to trying to protect him from himself, as Jack has the enthusiasm of a thousand passionate actors and the common sense of a wet cabbage.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{WALL-E}}''. He [[spoiler: stows away on a massive, ominous spaceship with no idea where it's going]] just so he doesn't have to be separated from EVE. His obsession is probably justified in that until EVE came along, he had no-one to talk to except cockroaches for centuries. EVE was perfectly aware that WALL-E was stalking her due to [[NonActionGuy his bumbling nature]], but didn't seem to care, and she ''was'' armed with a laser-weapon that could blow holes through mountains. They fall in love with each other at the end.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{WALL-E}}''. He [[spoiler: stows away on a massive, ominous spaceship with no idea where it's going]] just so he doesn't have to be separated from EVE. His obsession is probably justified in that until EVE came along, he had no-one to talk to except cockroaches for centuries.
** Slightly subverted in the fact that EVE was perfectly aware that WALL-E was stalking her due to [[NonActionGuy his bumbling nature]], but didn't seem to care, and she ''was'' armed with a laser-weapon that could blow holes through mountains. They fall in love with each other at the end.

* Evelyn Draper from ''PlayMistyForMe''. Possibly the TropeCodifier. You know it's bad when the stalker is scaring ''ClintEastwood''.
* Jacob, the JerkAss T.A. in ''RoadTrip'' is this to Beth. Despite her insistence that they are not, nor ever will be a couple, he acts as though they are and tells Josh that she's "spoken for".

* ''MySuperExGirlfriend''.

** Arguably, Forte from ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'' as well. His obsession with Beast and desire to drive off any competition comes across more and more like a jilted lover as the movie goes on.

* Knox Overstreet in DeadPoetsSociety when it comes to Chris, is a variation, but still disturbing. He shows up at her cheerleading practice wearing dark glasses though. He then grabs her boob at a party and then follows her to her school and rambles at her disturbing assumptions.

* Creator/MarkWahlberg's character David [=McCall=] in the 1996 movie ''Film/{{Fear}}''.

* Creator/MarkWahlberg's character David [=McCall=] in the 1996 movie ''Fear''.

* In ''TheFisherKing'', Parry (Robin Williams) stalks Lydia (Amanda Plummer). He is as mad as a hatter, so this is one of the more normal aspects of his character.

* The 1981 movie TheFan is about an actress named Sally Ross who is being stalked by an obsessed fan named Douglas Breen. He starts with constant letters and requests for pictures and then moves on to murdering everyone she knows.

* How the two main characters met in Film/DeadFriend (aka The Ghost)...although it's treated as something ''sweet'':

* How the two main characters met in DeadFriend (aka The Ghost)...although it's treated as something ''sweet'':

'''Boy''': "When you were in school...I saw you crying in the rain. Because your father had died. I couldn't just walk by, so I bought you some hot noodles. ''(Smiles fondly)'' After that, you waited for me every night in an alley. Somehow you got my numbe and you kept calling. "\\

** Also applicable to ''PrmNightIIITheLastKiss''.

* MarkWahlberg's character David [=McCall=] in the 1996 movie ''Fear''.

* Mark Wahlberg's character David [=McCall=] in the 1996 movie ''Fear''.

* Used to a very creepy effect in ''ManonDesSources'' (''Manon of the Spring''). Ugolin, an ugly man in his 30s, spies on the teenage Manon as she is bathing. He then proceeds to spend days silently following her around as she herds goats, going so far as to fill her traps with game, but never allowing her to see him. The extent of his crush is revealed when he finds the bit of cloth she used to tie her hair back -- he takes it home and [[{{squick}} sews it onto his naked chest]].

* Sally is a relatively benign version of this in ''TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', following Jack Skellington around a few times and sending him small gifts. After Jack becomes obsessed with Christmas this turns to trying to protect him from himself, as Jack has the enthusiasm of a thousand passionate actors and the common sense of a wet cabbage.

* Gaston in ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Yes, he loves himself more than he'll ever love Belle, but pursuing a girl who hates you, threatening to chuck her father in the asylum, and [[MurderTheHypotenuse murdering your rival]] surely counts. He loves himself so much that it is either incomprehensible or maddening to him that she does not, or just an intolerable affront to his towering ego. "BELLE IS MINE!!!"
** Arguably, Forte from ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeastTheEnchantedChristmas'' as well. His obsession with Beast and desire to drive off any competition comes across more and more like a jilted lover as the movie goes on.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{WALL-E}}''. He [[spoiler: stows away on a massive, ominous spaceship with no idea where it's going]] just so he doesn't have to be separated from EVE. His obsession is probably justified in that until EVE came along, he had no-one to talk to except cockroaches for centuries.
** Slightly subverted in the fact that EVE was perfectly aware that WALL-E was stalking her due to [[NonActionGuy his bumbling nature]], but didn't seem to care, and she ''was'' armed with a laser-weapon that could blow holes through mountains. They fall in love with each other at the end.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', the nerdy cameraman has a big crush on the news reporter woman he's normally assigned to film. [[spoiler:So when he becomes Tighten/Titan, his infatuation becomes a ''lot'' more dangerous.]]

* Madison Bell in ''Swimfan''. It's ''Film/FatalAttraction'' but with high school students.