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Once Upon an Angel (2002)
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Once Upon an Angel (2002)
Original name: Peau d'ange
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A grief-stricken man who just lost his mother has a one night stand with a maid. What he doesn't know is that she's a virgin. He returns to his sad world of perfume business while she, unable to forget her first lover, follows him.
Style: humorous, serious, realistic, touching, light
Plot: family relations, love and romance, sexual relations, couples, power relations, husband wife relationship, love, first love, singer, father daughter relationship, marriage, hotel, master and servant, dealing with death, boss and employee, sex, business, train, pregnancy, mother, doctor, teenage girl, maid, salesman, funeral ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and humorous films with plots about couples, love and romance, family relations, love affair, love, husband wife relationship and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Once Upon an Angel: Clara and Me (2004), Preacher's Kid (2010), Rain (2008), Every Blessed Day (2012), The Scent of Green Papaya (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Clara and Me (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot: couples, introspection, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, parents and children, midlife crisis, lovers reunited, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, paris france
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95%
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Preacher's Kid (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling gospel show takes her on the ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, love and romance, destructive relationship, youth, couples, friendship, christian, religion, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Rain (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Buenos Aires. It rains. Alma is in her car, stuck in Buenos Aires' traffic. She has recently broken-up with her boyfriend, and she has been living in her little car since then. Suddenly, Roberto gets into the car. He's wet and hurt, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Plot: hotel, forbidden love, family relations, couples, hopes, love and romance, destiny, missing person, pregnancy, friendship, traffic jam, one night stand ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Every Blessed Day (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposing characters and working schedules: he works a night job as a doorman in a hotel, and she works as an employee for a rental car service. This is the story of what happens to Guido and Antonia when ...
Style: touching, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: love and romance, love affair, couples, family relations, pregnancy, parents and children, young lovers, young love, hotel
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Vietnam
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A little girl, Mui, went to a house as a new servant. The mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. In her mind she treated Mui as her daughter. 10 years later Mui (now a young woman) was sent to another ...
Style: erotic, aesthetic, inspirational, retro, independent film ...
Plot: buddhism, cooking, friendship, music, food, coming of age, youth, animal abuse, vietnam war, destiny, master and servant, death ...
Time: year 1993, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: vietnam, saigon, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Let's Ruin It with Babies (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock star lifestyle, and a loving husband intent on ruining it all by knocking her up.
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, couples, couple relations, youth, babies and infants, love and romance, marriage, art, on the road, travel, karaoke
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Rashevski's Tango (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot: couples, family problems, introspection, society, youth, family life, adoption, boarding school, dealing with death, hopes, love and romance, nanny ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.2
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Gabrielle (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, clever, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, letter, adultery, couples, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, suffering, husband wife relationship, betrayal ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Singer (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, couples, change of heart, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, performer's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, unlikely couple, singer, single mother ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Song for Martin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, infidelity, couple relations, couples, love affair, violin, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life, crumbling marriage, fall in love, family problems ...
Time: year 2001
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Sense of Humor (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Élise lives with her 10-year-old son Léo, whose father is deceased. She has a chaotic relationship with Paul her lover. They go from happy moments to intense feuds. Élise introduces him to Léo and in time, they get to know and appreciate each ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, pregnancy, parents and children, couples, single parent, breakup, love, friends, couple relations, son, divorced divorcee
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Welcome to L.A. (1976)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.
Style: realistic, talky, psychological, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: womanizer, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, looking for love, love triangle, love affair, sexual relations, couples, musician's life, unfulfillment, infidelity ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
A Slipping-Down Life (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
Style: touching, feel good, captivating, sincere, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: groupie, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love affair, lifestyle, rock, opposites attract, musician's life, singer, infatuation, art, obsession ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: north carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Banned Woman (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This movie is foremost distinguished by the use of a subjective camera, and nearly 100 % of the time consists of close-up of the young girl's face. She is capable of changing her facial mimic so much that she never looks artificial or ...
Style: anthology, contemplative, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: sex, hipster, infidelity, restaurant, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, sexual relations, love affair, hotel, virgin, divorce ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Per tutta la vita (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, disturbing, light, atmospheric ...
Plot: remarry, family relations, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, double wedding, love, love affair, sex, couples, love and romance, wedding
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43%
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Backstage (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An adolescent groupie zeroes in on her Blondie-like idol after the singer chances to cross her orbit on a publicity tour. Gradually their lives intertwine as, with near-operatic intensity, the film delves into the emotional dependency on both sides ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, crying
Plot: lesbian subtext, obsession, love affair, desire for fame, self discovery, musician's life, rising to stardom, actor's life, stalking, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.4
 108
Parsley Days (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A young woman mulls how to terminate her unwanted pregnancy and whether to leave her boyfriend.
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, experimental, offbeat ...
Plot: pregnancy, starting over, couples, love and romance, youth, adoption, breakup, family problems, hopes, babies and infants, teenage love, teenage pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: nova scotia
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42%
 5.7
 5K
Pola X (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
Style: sexy, disturbing, meditative, psychological, serious ...
Plot: incest, intimate, penetration, sex, erotica, existentialism, mysterious character, femme fatale, human nature, chaos, introspection, female nudity ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Wild Grass (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: dentist, couples, love and romance, haunted by the past, couple relations, husband wife relationship, love, self discovery, love affair, unfulfillment, purse snatcher, mysterious past ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Another Life (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The South of France. Internationally famous pianist Aurore collapses one night during a performance, over-exhausted from too many concerts. Tired of music, she believes she no longer has anything to offer her public. Then she meets Jean, an ...
Style: emotional, captivating, romantic, light, humorous ...
Plot: couple relations, couples, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, romantic relationship, musician's life, life turned upside down, love triangle, love, infidelity, concert ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: france, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Song from the Heart (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This poignant love story stars Amy Grant as a beautiful, blind concert cellist who falls for a famous, self-centered pianist but doesn't realize that true love is right before her eyes.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, feel good, emotional ...
Plot: blindness, blind character, blind man, love, relationships, concert, couples, disability, power relations, musician's life, music, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Lace (1998)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Egypt
Story: Directed by Inas Al Degheidy.
Plot: family relations, divorce, friend, lawyer, singer, love, love triangle, marriage, dancing, husband wife relationship, singing, polygamy ...
Place: alexandria egypt, canada
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40%
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, ...
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, harsh, cynical ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, couples, coming of age, friendship, dysfunctional family, relationships, teenage love, love story, loneliness, family relations, youth, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, dominican republic, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Madame Butterfly (1995)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.
Style: emotional, stylized, sentimental, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: suicide, betrayal, interracial romance, marriage, interracial relations, u.s. sailor, couples, unfulfillment, innocence lost, destructive relationship, love and romance, opposites attract ...
Time: 1900s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.0
 92K
The Last Song (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A drama centered on a rebellious girl who is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect.
Style: touching, romantic, serious, teen, emotional ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: fall in love, love, teenage love, teenage life, father daughter relationship, youth, teen romance, love and romance, parents and children, love story, cancer, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: georgia, north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
My First Time (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing should close and yet, the year of ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, opposites attract, fall in love, high school hunk, couples, loss of virginity, virginity, virgin, first love, high school, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Competition (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: piano, love, music, fall in love, love affair, in love, musician, family relations, female nudity, bare breasts, sex, male nudity ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: obsession, high society, nun, kidnapping, unrequited love, duchess, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfilled love, love affair, social differences, tragic love ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, victorian era, 1810s, 1820s
Place: paris france, france, africa, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Speaking Parts (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, stylized, tech noir ...
Plot: obsession, love triangle, wedding, love affair, couple relations, siblings relations, looking for love, couples, love and romance, power relations, family relations, master and servant ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Merry Widow (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Anne-Marie vient de perdre son mari dans un accident de voiture. Elle est enfin libre d'aimer celui qu'elle voit en cachette depuis deux ans. Mais elle n'a pas prévu que sa famille, pétrie de bons sentiments, a décidé de rester à ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: family relations, couples, love triangle, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, dealing with death, family gatherings, eccentric family, infidelity, mother son relationship, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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