Movies like A Summer's Tale

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A Summer's Tale (1996)
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A Summer's Tale (1996)
Original name: Conte d'été
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.
Style: art house, artsy, anthology, cute, sincere, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, love, fall in love, graduation, glamour, friendship, time travel, mathematician, journey, holiday, graduate, mediterranean, young adult, daily life, crazy love, love hurts, teenager, vacation, flirting, beach volleyball, first date, summer job, coming of age, youth, friends ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1995, 1990s
Place: france, europe, brittany, english channel

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Most similar movies to A Summer's Tale

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and clever films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, friendship, friends, couple relations and twentysomething life mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Summer's Tale: Pauline at the Beach (1983), Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987), Autumn Tale (1998), Full Moon in Paris (1984), Summer (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pauline at the Beach (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emtying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday . Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and ...
Style: erotic, witty, sensitive, anthology, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: womanizer, beach, coming of age, girl man relationship, naked woman, love, jealousy, vacation, dialogue, relationships, love story, fall in love ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, mediterranean sea, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Lea, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Lea is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Lea's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied ...
Style: aesthetic, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, daily life, crazy love, passion, love letter, summer, teenager, love, suburbs, tennis, cafe, secret ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Autumn Tale (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
Style: melancholic, meditative, witty, art house, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wine, friendship, kick-butt women, autumn, women, matchmaking, starting over, midlife crisis, human nature, parents and children, love, wedding ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, south of france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Full Moon in Paris (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: "He who has two women loses his soul, he who has two houses loses his mind." So it goes with Louise played by Pascale Ogier who is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so ...
Style: anthology, talky, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: love, female nudity, crazy love, art, jealous lover, best friend, existentialism, alienation, relationship problems, couples, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Summer (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Style: talky, realistic, aesthetic, anthology, cute ...
Plot: loneliness, boredom, summer, dialogue, solitude, female nudity, self discovery, friendship, summer vacation, children, depression, isolation ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe, normandy, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but ...
Style: clever, art house, anthology, contemplative, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: female nudity, infidelity, marriage, love, glamour, love and romance, love affair, affair, passion, relationships, new love, daily life ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Good Marriage (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not ...
Style: contemplative, semi serious, realistic, captivating, talky ...
Plot: art history, female friendship, crazy love, amor, marriage, birthday party, couples, friends, screwball, love and romance, friendship, couple relations ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Tale of Springtime (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. The first in Eric Rohmer's Four Seasons series, Conte de printemps (A Tale In Springtime) is the story of an introverted young girl (Florence Darel) just reaching adulthood who takes ...
Style: talky, clever, witty, art house, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, parents and children, youth, family relations, philosophy, cousin cousin relationship, vacation, crazy love, daily life, spring, looking for love, matchmaking ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 90s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Tale of Winter (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For ...
Style: spiritual, art house, postmodern, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, skinny dipping, librarian, winter, polyamory, extramarital affair, love, spirit, cold weather, crazy love, train, female nudity ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cousins in Love (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenage Julien (Thierry Tevini) loves his teenage cousin Julia (Anja Shute) among flowers in summer of '39 France.
Style: sexy, sexual, sensual, romantic, controversial ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: erotica, incest, sexual relations, cousin cousin relationship, coming of age, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, voyeurism, youth, loss of virginity, love triangle ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Claire's Knee (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura ...
Style: sentimental, thought provoking, existential, sensitive, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: summer, older man young girl relationship, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, teenage girl, glamour, age difference, sadness, relationships, spirit, dialogue, nymphet ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Collector (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
Style: art house, psychological, sexy, talky, sad ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, relationships, holiday, art, morality, artist, italian neorealism, crazy love, love, sexual content, lust, mediterranean ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: france, saint tropez, mediterranean sea, riviera, french riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters ...
Style: art house, independent film, artsy, talky, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: crazy love, european, female bonding, love letter, culture clash, friendship, best friend, friends, village, urban, twentysomething life, village life ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
My Night at Maud's (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
Style: philosophical, cerebral, witty, sexual, talky ...
Plot: philosophy, love, catholic, christmas, marriage, engineer, existentialism, dialogue, morality, obsession, spirit, catholicism ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Aviator's Wife (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
Style: anthology, semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous ...
Plot: stalking, obsession, crazy love, love, couples, youth, aviator, unrequited love, tenderness, nosy, lovers reunited, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Rendezvous in Paris (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
Style: talky, clever, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, swedish, british, friendship, art, hotel, crazy love, infidelity, love triangle, notre dame cathedral, dating, performer's life ...
Time: 90s
Place: tahiti, paris france, france, corsica, lyon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Broken English (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), a single, career woman works at a Manhattan boutique hotel where her excellent skills in guest relations lack in the romantic department. If it is not her loving and dominant mother (Gena Rowlands) attempting to set her ...
Style: light, emotional, sweet, sexy, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: dating, loneliness, older woman younger man relationship, friendship, self discovery, looking for love, single, cliche, thirtysomething life, coming of age, relationships, hotel ...
Time: year 2007
Place: paris france, france, croatia, new york, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Party (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Style: emotional, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, crumbling marriage, puberty, teenage love, family problems, love, love and romance, first love, teenage life, friends, youth ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: france, paris france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Games of Love and Chance (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The life of a band of teenager in a suburb near Paris. But instead of showing what would be the "urban legend" of this kind of poor suburb (violence, rapes...), Abdelatif Kechiche shows us what's the daily life of those guys: not much ...
Style: slang, semi serious, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: couples, suburbs, teacher, rehearsal, theater, high school, school, fall in love, looking for love, group of friends, youth, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 178 min.
Story: Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gynecological exam, cancer, infidelity, friendship, unfaithfulness, female pubic hair, unhappiness, seduction, female nudity, extramarital affair, adultery, sex ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Voir la Mer (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it’s been a long time, because it would make her happy… There’s no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand ...
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, on the road, introspection, escapades, friendship, friends, sexual relations, lifestyle, road trip, two brothers, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 754
Love, etc. (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the world's oldest 32-year-old. The shy, well-employed Benoît's life changes when he ...
Style: romantic, talky, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, infidelity, love triangle, friendship, couples, friends, unemployment, urban, unfulfilled love, looking for love, city life, twentysomething life ...
Time: 90s
Place: english channel
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to ...
Style: talky, humorous, independent film, depressing, melancholic ...
Plot: coming of age, college, friendship, graduation, slacker, solitude, buddies, lifestyle, twentysomething life, campus, student, roommate ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, prague, milwaukee wisconsin, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Suzanne's Career (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 54 min.
Story: In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot: friends, crazy love, love, womanizer, dishonesty, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, moral dilemma, unfulfillment, twentysomething life, love triangle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Month by the Lake (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw ...
Style: sexy, romantic, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, true love, lake, hotel, love, adultery, lesbian love, summer, age-gap relationship, interwar period, nanny, family relations ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, pre world war two
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.6
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Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, light ...
Plot: friends, love, couple relations, couples, best friend, unfulfillment, friendship, buddies, midlife crisis
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.6
 53K
Reality Bites (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A small circle of friends suffering from post-collegiate blues must confront the hard truth about life, love and the pursuit of gainful employment. As they struggle to map out survival guides for the future, the Gen-X quartet soon begins to realize ...
Style: realistic, talky, romantic, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, love, coming of age, friendship, best friends in love, graduation, roommate, unlikely friendships, slacker, best friend, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: usa, seattle, chicago, texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Spanish Apartment (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, romantic, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: travel, friendship, infidelity, student, roommate, prejudice, relationships, youth, college life, coming of age, college, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: france, spain, barcelona, paris france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 3K
Funny Ha Ha (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Unsure of what to do next, 23-year-old Marnie tries her best to navigate life after college in this romantic comedy. Still partying like there's no tomorrow, Marnie drags herself out of bed for her miserable temp job and can't decide ...
Style: mumblecore, humorous, touching, clever, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: youth, lifestyle, looking for love, friendship, college, self discovery, coming of age, teenager, survival, relationships, graduation, hipster ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.5
 287
Burning Annie (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a college student with an "Annie Hall" addiction trying to make his new relationship work.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: college, lifestyle, couples, obsession, love and romance, battle of the sexes, youth, looking for love, college life, student life, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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