History StalkerWithACrush / Film

* ''Film/{{Crush|2022}}'': Chantal is really into Paige, who doesn't reciprocate, even trying to cast love spells on her (she's a Wiccan-this is a big no-no for real Wiccans as it's not consensual). However, tt turns out that Chantal [[spoiler:was trying to casting those spells [[ShipperOnDeck to get Paige and AJ to fall in love]]]].

* ''Film/{{Crush|2022}}'': Chantal is really into Paige, who doesn't reciprocate, even trying to cast love spells on her (she's a Wiccan-this is a big no-no for real Wiccans as it's not consensual).

* Brandon in ''Film/Brightburn'' has a crush on a female classmate, and early in the film it appears that she might like him as well. But when he uses his newly discovered superpowers to show up in her bedroom unannounced, she is appropriately terrified. [[Spoiler:When she rejects him later on, he seriously injures her hand.]]

* In the Spanish ''Film/{{Thesis}}'', we find out that [[spoiler: Chema, the protagonist's friend, was spying on her and filming her]], and Angela's attraction for Bosco is also on the obsessive side.

* In the movie ''Film/TheWatcher'', Creator/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.

* Frollo [[VillainousCrush to Esmeralda]] in the Disney version of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Frollo is willing to burn half of Paris down and murder dozens of Gypsies just to get her. Also can’t forget Frollo trying to kill Quasimodo and Phoebus (both her [[LoveInterest love interests]]) and if Esmeralda refuses his offer to let her be he’s, Frollo will [[IfICantHaveYou burn her alive]]. Honestly Frollo makes Gaston look tame in comparison.

* George Webber in ''Film/{{Ten}}'' becomes this once he sees Jenny. He's willing to follow her and her newlywed husband to Mexico -- their honeymoon destination -- to try and hook up with her.

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', creepy, Snape-like EvilChancellor Grima Wormtongue "haunts" the steps of the beautiful princess Eowyn, even being promised by Saruman to have her for himself once he wins as a reward.
* In the Spanish ''Film/{{Thesis}}'', we find out that [[spoiler: Chema, the protagonist's friend, was spying on her and filming her]], and Angela's attraction for Bosco is also on the obsessive side.
* ''{{Film/Stoker}}'': Charlie quite impressively manages to pull this trope off with his [[CreepyUncle niece]] India, despite the fact that they live in the ''same house''. Okay, frequently bumping into her around the family home is understandable enough, but following her to and from school? And while she's on a date? [[spoiler:And then you find out that before the movie began, he sent her ''dozens'' of letters from an asylum, since she was a child, in spite of never receiving a reply, or even having ''met'' her in person. (India's father understandably never gave the letters to her.)]]

* ''Film/BrokenBlossoms'' is about a man who loves an abused fifteen year old from afar. One day the two meet when the girl collapses in his store after being beaten by her father. It [[DownerEnding doesn't end well]] when her xenophobic father finds out that she stayed at a Chinese man's house.
* In ''Film/WelcomeHome'' Federico is a voyeur that records young couples who rent his Italian villa. He's normally content to just watch, but falls in love with Cassie and starts stalking her throughout the movie.
* ''Film/Malevolent2002'': Oliver has been stalking a stripper named Jessica, even pretending to be her ex-boyfriend. This proves to be a vital clue to tracking him down. His obsession with Detective Jack Lucas also has some homo-erotic undertones.

* In ''Film/TheMostAssassinatedWomanInTheWorld'', Paula receives frequent gifts and cards from an admirer who loves the way she dies on the stage, and hopes to make it happen off-stage...
* ''Film/{{Holidays}}'': In ''Valentine's Day'', appropriately enough. Maxine has a thing for her coach. Once he gives her a Valentine, she decides to reward him [[spoiler:with AlphaBitch Heidi's heart, since he needed a transplant]].

* The WebVideo/HonestTrailers for ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' basically [[http://youtu.be/4nJS-LPcFfw?t=1m37s summarizes]] Anakin's creepiness towards Padme as a horror/suspense thriller.

* Combined with {{Villainous Crush}} in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Kylo Ren kidnaps Rey, and then proceeds to watch her sleep, make [[FoeRomanceSubtext suggestive remarks]] and volunteer to train her. Even after he [[spoiler:stabs his father and gets shot]], Ren completely disregards the collapse of Starkiller Base and follows Rey, all in the middle of a [[VillainousBreakdown mental breakdown]]. That said, he is [[PetTheDog much nicer to her than to anybody else]], particularly in the novelization, which has him removing her restraints and apologizing during her interrogation. Snoke even accuses Ren of feeling compassion for Rey. [[spoiler: In ''Film/TheLastJedi'' after Kylo kills Snoke he outright suggests to Rey that "WeCanRuleTogether". Taken UpToEleven then subverted in ''Film/RiseOfTheSkywalker'', initially Kylo's main goal is hunting Rey herself as he desperately wants to corrupt her to TheDarkSide, at one point Kylo assures her threateningly that next he holds out his hand to her ''she will take it''. Ultimately Kylo does a HeelFaceTurn to light side and [[HeroicSacrifice gives up his life]] for Rey]].
** His behavior gains a bout of FridgeBrilliance when one considers [[spoiler:that his grandfather is Anakin Skywalker, who himself was basically a {{Yandere}}. It's quite likely Kylo inherited his obsessive nature from him.]]

* Quite possibly Jackson Rippner in ''Film/RedEye''. It's never explicitly stated but the character does seem a little fascinated by the girl he's been stalking ("When this is over, I may have to steal you.")
** Confirmed by WordOfGod; Jackson did develop feelings for Lisa over the eight weeks he had to watch her. Not ''nice'' feelings, but feelings nevertheless.
*** 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 Creator/CillianMurphy for you.
* In ''Film/TheScienceOfSleep'' Stéphane does break into Stéphanie's house to steal something of hers to make it into a gift. She does catch him the second time and tell him to get out -- this is put down to his lack of social understanding (thinking he was doing something nice for her). When she learns what his gift was ([[spoiler: making her childhood toy horse robotic enough to gallop - which she said she dreamt about as a child]]) she apologised for getting angry but does say that breaking into people's houses is wrong.
* Used rather cleverly in ''Film/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 ''Film/TheCrush'' starring Alicia Silverstone and Cary Elwes.
* Used to a very creepy effect in ''Film/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]].
* George Webber in ''Film/{{Ten}}'' becomes this once he sees Jenny. He's willing to follow her and her newlywed husband to Mexico -- their honeymoon destination -- to try and hook up with her.
* Hedy from ''Film/SingleWhiteFemale'' is a PsychoLesbian version of this towards her roommate Allie.
* ''Film/EverAfter'': Monsieur le Peu is implied to be something like this to Danielle, judging by his behavior toward her in the marketplace and then later when he ''owns'' her.
* In ''I Wake Up Screaming'', that the victim had a man stalking her turns out to be an important clue.
* Darla (Creator/LucyPunch), from the film ''Film/DinnerForSchmucks'' is a particularly terrifying example of this.
* This happens to all parties in the LoveTriangle in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''. Knives was this to Scott, though it could be her way of showing affection. And when Scott broke up with her, she got worse. Then Scott followed Ramona around during the party. And Ramona admits that she did this to Gideon.
* Philippe from ''Une histoire sans importance'' (1980) turns into this after his rejection by Claude.
* ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}''
** Louis Tully is this in the original ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}''. He apparently sits just inside his apartment door all day, just waiting for Dana Barrett to walk by so he can come out and ask her on a date. It's never made explicit, but the fact that [[spoiler: he's destined to be the Keymaster to Dana's Gatekeeper]] probably isn't helping matters.
** Janosz Poha in ''Film/GhostbustersII'' is even worse. At least Louis had a saving touch of geeky awkwardness about him; Janosz is actually ''creepy'' about it, especially when Vigo "helps" him.
* [[Music/DavidBowie Goblin King Jareth]] for Sarah in ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}''.
* ''Film/GreenLantern2011'': Hammond. He starts off with merely an infatuation, but by the time Carol gives him a hug and he smells her hair, it's gotten pretty twisted.
* The 1981 movie ''Film/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.
* Knox Overstreet in ''Film/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.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary'', in which the titular character has several stalkers who are infatuated with her.
* An early example is Katharine Hepburn's character in ''Film/BringingUpBaby''.
* Madison turns it UpToEleven with her crush on Ben in the 2002 movie ''Film/{{Swimfan}}'', killing two police officers and nearly killing Ben's girlfriend before she's finally stopped.
* ''Film/TheHauntedMansion'': Gracey to Sara. Subverted as it's revealed that he merely thought she was his old lover Elizabeth.
%%* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'': Biff to Lorraine.
%%** And [[ParentalIncest Lorraine]] to Marty/Calvin.
* Thomas in ''Film/{{P2}}''. He kidnaps Angela and holds her as a CaptiveDate. When he triggers her BerserkButton, and she TakesALevelInBadass, he veers into AxCrazy territory.
* In ''Film/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.
* Annie in ''Film/SleeplessInSeattle''. Not only does she follow Sam around, she even hires a private detective to spy on him. How romantic...
* In ''Film/TheDouble'', the protagonist, Simon, goes out of his way to talk to Hannah at work, follows her as she goes home, and has a telescope pointed at her apartment.
* Mostly PlayedForLaughs in the film version of ''Literature/LoveAndDeathOnLongIsland'', which generally presents the whole thing in a more benevolent light than the book.
* ''Film/KissOfTheTarantula'': Susan's uncle, Walter, is increasingly inappropriate with and obsessed with her. This culminates in Walter murdering a girl who was accusing Susan of murdering her friends (Which she pretty much did), thinking this would "prove his love for her (Susan.)" Did we mention the film opens with Walter carrying on an affair with Susan's mother and plotting her father's murder?
* ''Film/GhostInTheMachine'': The killer chooses his primary victims because he's attracted to them. When he focuses his attention on Terri, one of his first acts is to send her lingerie with creepy notes. He proceeds to kill off all her friends one by one and makes harassing phone calls.
* ''Film/{{Ted}}'': Donny and Robert have a shrine of Ted in their house, stalk, and kidnap him for the purpose of getting Ted to be Robert's toy.

* Combined with {{Villainous Crush}} in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Kylo Ren kidnaps Rey, and then proceeds to watch her sleep, make [[FoeRomanceSubtext suggestive remarks]] and volunteer to train her. Even after he [[spoiler:stabs his father and gets shot]], Ren completely disregards the collapse of Starkiller Base and follows Rey, all in the middle of a [[VillainousBreakdown mental breakdown]]. That said, he is [[PetTheDog much nicer to her than to anybody else]], particularly in the novelization, which has him removing her restraints and apologizing during her interrogation. Snoke even accuses Ren of feeling compassion for Rey. [[spoiler: In ''Film/TheLastJedi'' after Kylo kills Snoke he outright suggests to Rey that "WeCanRuleTogether". Taken UpToEleven then subverted in ''Film/RiseOfTheSkywalker'', initially Kylo's main goal is hunting Rey herself as he desperately wants to corrupt her to TheDarkSide, at one point Kylo assures her threateningly that next he holds out his hand to her ''she will take it''. Ultimately Kylo does a HeelFaceTurn to light side and [[HeroicSacrifice gives up his life]] for Rey]].
** His behavior gains a bout of FridgeBrilliance when one considers [[spoiler:that his grandfather is Anakin Skywalker, who himself was basically a {{Yandere}}. It's quite likely Kylo inherited his obsessive nature from him.]]

* Bobby (played by Fred Savage) in the [[LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek TV movie]] ''Film/NoOneWouldTell''.

* In the movie ''Film/WhenInRome'', Beth takes coins from a magic fountain, making the men who tossed in those coins turn into StalkerWithACrush. They all feel they are in love with her due to the magic fountain. Naturally, the main love interest, Nick, tries to contact her. HilarityEnsues.
* Creator/SandraBullock's character Mary towards the titular character in the movie ''Film/AllAboutSteve''. Which is why, [[http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2010/03/sandra-bullock-razzies-razzie-awards-news-story.html when receiving the Worst Couple award at the Razzies]], Sandra said: "Again, [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch if you had seen the film]], seen it with your eyes, it's a film about a woman stalking a man. That doesn't really set up the premise for a loving couple. So giving us the worst couple award is kind of duh."
* Creator/RoseMcGowan's character Debbie in the movie ''Film/DevilInTheFlesh''.
* Evelyn Draper from ''Film/PlayMistyForMe''. Possibly the TropeCodifier. You know it's bad when the stalker is scaring ''Creator/ClintEastwood''.
* Jacob, the JerkAss T.A. in ''Film/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".
* Alex Forrest of ''Film/FatalAttraction'' turns into this after having a one-night-stand with married man Dan Gallagher. As Dan tries to distance himself from her for the sake of his marriage, Alex's actions get increasingly violent, culminating in the infamous "bunny boiler" scene that has her killing and boiling his daughter's pet rabbit.

* Jed Parry of ''Film/EnduringLove'' and the novel upon which it was based.
* The Borg Queen of ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' is this to Captain Picard, a rare case of a galactic overlord (or lady) chasing after someone, an inversion of the LoonyFan if there ever was one.
* ''The Seduction'', starring Morgan Fairchild as a newscaster who becomes the obsession of a creepy and increasingly dangerous male loner.
* Watch how Xerxes acts around Leonidas in ''Film/ThreeHundred''. Would he have been satisfied with just taking his ''sovereignty''?
* Alec Baldwin's character, Teacher, from ''Film/TheJuror'' (1996) is a textbook example of this. He bugs Annie Laird's house so he can listen to her every move, copies and enlarges photos of her and kisses them, and sneaks a bouquet of flowers into her house without her knowledge. When it looks like she won't listen to his orders, he threatens to run her son over with his car, and sleeps with her best friend (promptly killing her afterwards).
* John Ryder from ''Film/TheHitcher'' (1986). After Jim Halsey manages to thwart his attempt at murdering him, Ryder becomes obsessed with either [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou killing Halsey or being killed by Halsey]]. He stalks him throughout the entire movie, framing Jim for crimes he committed (but rescuing him when the police are about to kill him) and killing Jim's [[OfficialCouple only female love interest]] violently. In one very disturbing scene, he holds Jim's hands, and Jim spits in his face. After Jim leaves, he is seen [[{{Squick}} rubbing the spit onto his lips, smiling]].
* The titular Adele Hugo in ''Film/TheStoryOfAdeleH'', who is so obsessed with her OldFlame that she follows him for years and does everything in her power to get him to marry her, including sabotaging his relationships with other women. TruthInTelevision due to Adele's schizophrenia and erotomania.
* Miles Haley from ''Film/PerfectStranger''. He sneaks into Rowena's house and watches her make out with her boyfriend, tries to flirt with her in instant messaging by posing as someone else, and has a freaky shrine dedicated to her in his house.

* Kayako Saeki in ''Film/{{Juon}}'' was obsessed in life with her son's teacher, Kobayashi-sensei in the Japanese films and Peter in the American remakes, and kept journals detailing every interaction with him and describing her vehement jealousy when he found someone else in college. Her yangire, AxCrazy husband finding out about her true feelings and killing the entire family in a fit of rage is what leads to her becoming the quintessential StringyHairedGhostGirl of the franchise.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/BladesOfGlory'', with Nick Swardson stalking Jon Heder's character.
--> ''"He likes food and dreams and whispers... his favorite movie is Short Circuit... and Fried Green Tomatoes. "''
* Subtle example in ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' with NumberTwo Replicant Luv’s [[VillainessesWantHeroes attitude]] towards Replicant protagonist and ChickMagnet K, as not only does Luv watch K and protect him from scavengers, with a KillSat but she also hunts him relentlessly in the latter half of the movie and her obsession seemly goes beyond even the orders of the [[EvilInc Wallace Corporation]] at one point saying he’s “a good boy” to his superior Lieutenant Joshi. Luv even invokes {{Yandere}} when she meets K’s {{Hologram}} girlfriend Joi [[spoiler: [[KickTheDog destroying]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse her]] [[ForcedToWatch in front of K]] out of spite, and taken even further in the climax when Luv gives K a ForcefulKiss after [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence stabbing him]] with a knife.]]
* ''Film/LoveActually''--
** Mark verges on this, no matter what the fans say. You're telling me it's not creepy to film a wedding with extreme close ups of the bride throughout? The time he shows up at their house is odd too.
** At least in his case he knows that his feelings are wrong and that he shouldn't have done that (since he tries to keep them from seeing the film). He also deliberately tries to avoid her out of loyalty to his best friend/her husband, which she interprets as him disliking her.
* ''Film/AmericanBeauty''--
** Ricky. His social ineptitude makes him think filming a girl and spelling out her name on her lawn is appropriate wooing strategy. Jane herself is so screwed up it works.
** Jane's dad Lester secretly lusts after her best friend Angela throughout the movie, listening in on her conversations in Jane's bedroom, calling her and hanging up!
** And [[spoiler: Ricky's dad toward Lester near the end of the film. When he can't have him, he goes as far as killing him.]]
* ''Film/TheCableGuy'' has Chip Douglas who stalks his customers to be JustFriends.
* In the movie ''Film/TheWatcher'', Creator/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.

* There's a subtle hint of this with Eddie Brock in ''Film/SpiderMan3''; 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.

* The plot of Francis Ford Coppola's ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', with the titular antagonist obsession with Mina unfortunately it's played off as StalkingIsLove for a good percent of the movie. Dracula is also a murderously [[CrazyJealousGuy jealous]] of Jonathan (Mina’s fiancé) for this reason.
* Annie Wilkes in ''Film/{{Misery}}'', except she doesn't need to stalk -- she gets home delivery!
* Creator/RobinWilliams' character in ''Film/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!").]]

* ''Film/MadLove'' stars Creator/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.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' films.
** The Joker in ''Film/Batman1989'' is this to [[DistressedDamsel Vicki]]. After seeing a picture of her he immediately develops feelings for her. The Joker even goes as far to kill everyone in a museum just so that he can talk to her and attempts [[MurderTheHypotenuse to kill Bruce her boyfriend]] when he finds the latter in her apartment. Near the end of the film, he manages to [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty kidnap Vicki]] until Batman shows up to save her.
*** After she finds out Bruce is avoiding her, Vicki resorts to following him around, digging up files about his past, and spying on him to get to know him better.
** The Penguin has a lot aspects of this [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty towards]] Catwoman in ''Film/BatmanReturns'', and is furious when she rejects him as he is a [[AbhorrentAdmirer gross penguin man]].
--> '''Penguin''': (to Batman) I saw her first... gotta fly!
** The Riddler is re-imagined into this by Creator/JoelSchumacher in ''Film/BatmanForever'' being a LoonyFan obsessed with Bruce Wayne and is heart broken when Bruce doesn't endorse his crazy MindControlDevice, and thus becomes The Riddler to get back at him; he evens sends crazy letters to Bruce as clues. Later in the film he asked Bruce's LoveInterest Chase Meridian to dance in some attempt to make Bruce jealous with his eyes never leaving Wayne.
*** Chase Meridian herself is obsessed with Batman/Bruce Wayne unlike Vicki though Chase borders on EthicalSlut, as she is completely enamored with Batman to point of building a shrine of him and exploiting the Bat-Signal so Batman would show up and she can feel him up. Meridian's interactions with Batman are pretty much sexual harassment but since she's attractive it's [[StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale lightheartedly]] played off as StalkingIsLove.

* ''Film/GreenLantern'': Hammond. He starts off with merely an infatuation, but by the time Carol gives him a hug and he smells her hair, it's gotten pretty twisted.

* In the Spanish ''Film/{{Tesis}}'', we find out that [[spoiler: Chema, the protagonist's friend, was spying on her and filming her]], and Angela's attraction for Bosco is also on the obsessive side.

!!Film - Animated

!!Film - Live Action

* Frollo [[VillainousCrush to Esmeralda]] in the Disney version of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Frollo is willingly to burn half of Paris down and murder dozens of Gypsies just to get her. Also can’t forget Frollo trying to kill Quasimodo and Phoebus (both her [[LoveInterest love interests]]) and if Esmeralda refuses his offer to let her be he’s, Frollo will [[IfICantHaveYou burn her alive]]. Honestly Frollo makes Gaston look tame in comparison.

* The plot of Francis Ford Coppola's ''Film/BramStokersDracula'', with the titular antagonist obsession with Mina unfortunately it's played off as StalkingIsLove for good percent of the movie. Dracula is also a murderously [[CrazyJealousGuy jealous]] of Jonathan (Mina’s fiancé) because for this reason.

** Louis Tully is this in the original ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}''. He apparently sits just inside his apartment door all day, just waiting for Dana Barrett to walk by so he can come out and ask her on a date.

* Gaston in ''WesternAnimation/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!!!"

* Combined with {{Villainous Crush}} in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Kylo Ren kidnaps Rey, and then proceeds to watch her sleep, make [[FoeRomanceSubtext suggestive remarks]] and volunteer to train her. Even after he [[spoiler:stabs his father and gets shot]], Ren completely disregards the collapse of Starkiller Base and follows Rey, all in the middle of a [[VillainousBreakdown mental breakdown]]. That said, he is [[PetTheDog much nicer to her than to anybody else]], particularly in the novelization, which has him removing her restraints and apologizing during her interrogation. Snoke even accuses Ren of feeling compassion for Rey. [[spoiler: In ''Film/TheLastJedi'' after Kylo kills Snoke he outright suggests to Rey that "WeCanRuleTogether". Taken UpToEleven then subverted in ''Film/RiseOfTheSkywalker'', initially Kylo's main goal is hunting Rey herself as he desperately wants to corrupt to the dark side, at one point Kylo assures her threateningly that next he holds out his hand to her ''she will take it''. Ultimately Kylo does a HeelFaceTurn to light side and [[HeroicSacrifice gives up his life]] for Rey]].

* Combined with {{Villainous Crush}} in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Kylo Ren kidnaps Rey, and then proceeds to watch her sleep, make [[FoeRomanceSubtext suggestive remarks]] and volunteer to train her. Even after he [[spoiler:stabs his father and gets shot]], Ren completely disregards the collapse of Starkiller Base and follows Rey, all in the middle of a [[VillainousBreakdown mental breakdown]]. That said, he is [[PetTheDog much nicer to her than to anybody else]], particularly in the novelization, which has him removing her restraints and apologizing during her interrogation. Snoke even accuses Ren of feeling compassion for Rey. [[spoiler: In ''Film/TheLastJedi'' after Kylo kills Snoke he outright suggests to Rey that "WeCanRuleTogether". Taken UpToEleven then subverted in ''Film/RiseOfTheSkywalker'', initially Kylo's main goal is hunting Rey herself as he desperately wants to corrupt to the dark side, at one point Kylo assures her threateningly that next he holds out his hand to her ''she will take it''. However it turns out Rey does truly she reincorporate his feelings, but she loves [[BeneathTheMask Ben Solo]] not Kylo Ren, ultimately Kylo does a HeelFaceTurn to light side and [[HeroicSacrifice gives up his life]] for Rey]].

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', creepy, Snape-like EvilChancellor Grima Wormtongue "haunts" the steps of the beautiful princess Eowyn, even being promised by Saruman to have her for himself once he wins as a reward.

* Combined with {{Villainous Crush}} in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''. Kylo Ren kidnaps Rey, and then proceeds to watch her sleep, make [[FoeRomanceSubtext suggestive remarks]] and volunteer to train her. Even after he [[spoiler:stabs his father and gets shot]], Ren completely disregards the collapse of Starkiller Base and follows Rey, all in the middle of a [[VillainousBreakdown mental breakdown]]. That said, he is [[PetTheDog much nicer to her than to anybody else]], particularly in the novelization, which has him removing her restraints and apologizing during her interrogation. Snoke even accuses Ren of feeling compassion for Rey. [[spoiler: In ''Film/TheLastJedi'' after Kylo kills Snoke he outright suggests to Rey that "WeCanRuleTogether"]].

*** Chase Meridian herself is obsessed with Batman/Bruce Wayne like Vicki though Chase borders on EthicalSlut as she is completely enamored with Batman to point of building a shrine of him and exploiting the Bat-Signal so Batman would show up and she can feel him up. Meridian's interactions Batman are pretty much sexual harassment but since she's attractive it's [[StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale lightheartedly]] played off as StalkingIsLove.

* 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!!!"
** 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.
* Frollo [[VillainousCrush to Esmeralda]] in the Disney version of ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Frollo is willingly to burn half of Paris down and murder dozens of Gypsies just to get her. Also can’t forget Frollo trying to kill Quasimodo and Phoebus (both her [[LoveInterest love interests]]) and if Esmeralda refuses his offer to let her be he’s, Frollo will [[IfICantHaveYou burn her alive]]. Honestly Frollo makes Gaston look tame in comparison.