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Tristana (1970)
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Tristana (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio. Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women. Taken from the novel by celebrated author Benito Perez Galdos.
Style: philosophical, political, art house, cerebral, psychological, tense, atmospheric, clever, offbeat, serious ...
Plot: wedding night, death of husband, tumor, stroke, orphan, maid, marriage of convenience, disability, amputation, time travel, women, passion, king arthur, anarchist, girl, transformation, exploitation, eroticism, interwar period, disabled, literary, deaf mute, nightmare, surrealism, socialist ...
Time: 1920s, year 1970, 20th century, 20s
Place: france, spain, europe
Keyword: bell tower

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and atmospheric films with plots about couples, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, society, dishonesty and crumbling marriage mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Tristana: Viridiana (1961), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), Beauty of the Day (1967), The Painted Veil (2006), Querelle (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Viridiana (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Style: controversial, black and white, surreal, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: religion, satire, dark humor, nun, catholic, morality, voyeurism, idealism, rape, loser, farm, priest ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: spain, madrid, europe
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That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, art house, sexy, cynical ...
Plot: surrealism, virginity, humiliation, maid, manipulation, sexuality, nudity, unrequited love, satire, older man younger woman relationship, absurd humor, fool ...
Time: 20th century, year 1977, 70s
Place: paris france, europe, spain, madrid, france
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Beauty of the Day (1967)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine ...
Style: sexual, psycho sexual, sexy, surreal, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexuality, prostitution, prostitute, surrealism, obsession, infidelity, brothel, unfaithful wife, female nudity, sex, self discovery, sexual relations ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Painted Veil (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story, couples, marriage, extramarital affair, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place: china, shanghai, africa, london, asia
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Querelle (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Here is the story of a beautiful, proud and tough loner, a sailor named Querelle, whose commanding officer Seblon worships and desires him from afar. Querelle turns on his drugs-smuggling partner and murders him. He then goes to a notorious brothel ...
Style: sexual, controversial, erotic, art house, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, murder, surrealism, lgbt, male male relationship, lgbtq, psychology, sexuality, glbt, serial killer ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
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Ploy (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: eroticism, jealousy, love triangle, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, melancholy, dream, depression, hotel room, existential crisis, women ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand
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We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jean has been married to Francoise for years, but his relationship with his wife has been all but over for a long time. She's hardly ever around, always traveling to Russia for work, and she drifts in and out of the film as well, reflecting the ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, summer, love story, marital problem, couples, breakup, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, toxic relationship, male female relationship, complicated relationship, husband wife estrangement ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, normandy, paris france, france
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20%
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Therese (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
Style: serious, realistic, sad, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, dull life, suburban life, unfulfillment, female protagonist, bourgeoisie, women in society, marriage of convenience, envy, deception, depression, women ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: france, europe
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The Letter (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
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20%
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After Him (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman (Catherine Deneuve) becomes obsessed with her son's best friend after her child dies in a car accident. Camille voit sa vie brisée par la disparition de son fils dans un accident de la route. Incapable de faire le deuil, elle ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, tense ...
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The Cat (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy, atmospheric
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Place: france, europe
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20%
The Girl on the Train (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The Girl on the Train is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
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Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Burning Secret (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Audience: adult
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Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
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19%
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The Pointsman (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.
Style: art house, psychological, serious, realistic, tense ...
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Time: 80s
Place: netherlands, holland, europe
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The Scarlet Letter (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: realistic, psychological, serious, tense, emotional ...
Plot: colonial america, infidelity, betrayal, life is a bitch, dishonesty, clergy, society, couple relations, love and romance, couples, missing person, wartime life ...
Time: 17th century
Place: massachusetts, spain, europe, salem massachusetts
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19%
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Style: psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, scary ...
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Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
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Plot: unemployment, self discovery, greed, character study, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, dishonesty, down on your luck, family problems, husband wife relationship, swindle ...
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Hip Moves (2012)
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18%
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Irene (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
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Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, danger, dealing with death, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, filmmaking, unfulfilled love, loss of loved one ...
Time: year 2009, year 1972
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