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Gilles' Wife (2004)
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Original name: La Femme de Gilles
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, crying, sexy
Plot: love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, couples, society, family problems, crumbling marriage, human nature, dishonesty, clergy, countryside, family relations, husband wife relationship, summer, age difference, suicide attempt, factory worker, extramarital affair, twins, carnival, love and romance ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, pre world war two
Keyword: movie theatre, watching a movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and psychological films with plots about infidelity, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, couple relations, female nudity and family problems mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Gilles' Wife: The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002), Les corps impatients (2003), Don't Move (2004), My Brother's Wife (2005), Wild Camp (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york state
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Les corps impatients (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
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Don't Move (2004)
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Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 125 min.
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My Brother's Wife (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min.
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