Movies like Cactus 1986
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Cactus (1986)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
Style:
psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, crying, independent film
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sexual attraction, blind character, blindness, infidelity, nudity, female nudity, adultery, bare breasts, husband wife relationship, premarital sex, blind man, family relations, human spirit, love and romance, couples, love affair, danger, opposites attract, starting over, suburbs, disability, lifestyle, suburban life, crumbling marriage, hopes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and crying films with plots about couples, love and romance, husband wife relationship, nude, family relations, female nudity and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Cactus: The Maids of Wilko (1979), Loulou (1980), West of Here (2002), My Mistress (2014), Little Lili (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with ...
Style:
existential, contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
reminiscence, renaissance, uncle nephew relationship, family relations, female nudity, sister sister relationship, passion, electricity, nude girl, first love, love letter, immortality ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This 1980 French film features Isabelle Huppert as a restless young woman who ditches her boring, tempramental boyfriend for a wild, leather-clad bad boy (played by an incandescent, youthful Gerard Depardieu).
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sensuality, illicit affair, burglary, sexual relations, drunk, class differences, affair, amor, advertising agency, couples, infidelity, disco ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous business life in Boston when his cousin dies in a car accident. Gil ignores his father's disapproval and takes the family's antique truck for ...
Style:
road movie, sincere, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
on the road, truck, starting over, renewed love, love and romance, haunted by the past, midlife crisis, pickup truck, father son relationship, music, car accident, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, california, usa, san francisco, montana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
It's a long hot summer for Charlie Boyd. He's sixteen, his hormones are raging and he's just found out his mother is having an affair with his father's best friend. One thing takes his mind off his problems, the mysterious woman ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
bdsm, dominatrix, femdom, older woman younger man relationship, erotica, strong female lead, strong female character, sex scene, submission, sexual desire, sexy woman, skinny dipping ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili ...
Style:
serious, realistic, erotic, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
erotica, longing, sexual attraction, infidelity, outdoor sex, passion, unhappiness, dysfunctional family, filmmaking, actor's life, love triangle, couples ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
france, brittany
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cancer, chef, lost love, cancer patient, girl, love triangle, terminal illness, love, ex-lover, family relations, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, crying, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dating, age-gap relationship, family relations, couples, adult virgin, love affair, computers and web, looking for love, human nature, unfulfillment, unlikely couple, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
australia, melbourne
Similarity:
25%
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:
psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, couples, letter, adultery, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, high society, suffering, betrayal ...
Time:
1910s, year 2005
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan contracts ...
Style:
neorealism, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
mountain, nude girl, female nudity, quarantine, social injustice, medical, tuberculosis, friendship, factory, crumbling marriage, human nature, unfulfillment ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, milan italy
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
food, oral sex, passion, self discovery, feminism, betrayal, family relations, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, infidelity, friendship, suburbs ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new zealand
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, starting over, love triangle, infidelity, extramarital affair, dysfunctional family, working class, breakup, love affair, human nature, couple relations, hopes ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
washington state, seattle
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with his one great love, Claire, who is still married to her ...
Style:
romantic, sincere, touching, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, aging, loneliness, male female relationship, desire, love triangle, crumbling marriage, family problems, memory, husband wife relationship, love, marriage ...
Time:
1940s, 90s, 1950s, 70s, 50s
Place:
adelaide south australia, belgium, melbourne, australia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.
Style:
sexual, art film, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
art, nudity, longing, male pubic hair, voyeur, rich man, performer's life, dull life, couples, artists and showbiz, love and romance, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, sensual, non-linear, psychological ...
Plot:
divorce, infidelity, sex, rape, adultery, wedding, husband wife relationship, wedding night, sex scene, relationships, orgy, voyeurism ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
france, sardinia, sicily, europe, senegal ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual relations, lesbian, dangerous attraction, sex, husband wife relationship, one night stand, prostitute, fall in love, adultery, striptease, gynecologist, voyeur ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's attraction to someone.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
cheating wife, childbirth, dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, infidelity, husband wife relationship, divorce, adultery, sex, female nudity, death of husband ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
africa, europe, italy, tuscany, venice ...
Similarity:
23%
8K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
Style:
witty, melancholic, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
blind man, blind character, photograph, sex, obsession, friendship, disability, photographer, photography, blindness, trust, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
australia, cannes, california, melbourne, new york
Similarity:
23%
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:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, violin, family relations, infidelity, couple relations, couples, love affair, lifestyle, musician's life, crumbling marriage, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
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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:
sexy, realistic, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, brother sister relationship, couples, self discovery, introspection, parents and children, fall in love, midlife crisis, love affair, thirtysomething life, family relations, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, argentina
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. ...
Style:
emotional, erotic, stylized, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
marriage, unfaithful wife, infidelity, extramarital affair, lust, friendship, love quadrangle, love affair, adultery, betrayal, cheating, cheating on husband ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
oregon, england, europe, portland oregon
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, family life, family problems, couples, hopes, couple relations, mental illness, family in crisis, haunted by the past, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the ...
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, realistic, touching, romantic ...
Plot:
hospital, dogme 95, relationships, love story, love triangle, sex scene, coitus, extramarital affair, destructive relationship, fall in love, paraplegic, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark, tokyo
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
true love, cancer, infidelity, family relations, hopes, betrayal, couples, danger, dishonesty, human nature, survival, terminal illness ...
Place:
poland, nova scotia, europe, holland, canada
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in the summer of 1910 in Australia the film follows the story of 14 year old Alan Marshall (Alexander Outhread) as he stumbles out of childhood towards the exciting yet forbidding world of adulthood. For Alan, despite the effects of polio, ...
Style:
erotic, period piece, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
true love, horse, making love, youth, forbidden love, passion, skinny dipping, desire, sex scene, male female relationship, love triangle, infidelity ...
Time:
year 1993, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
australia, south australia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, melancholic, costume drama, intense ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, tragic hero, family life, hopes, village life, destructive relationship, dull life, love affair, husband wife relationship, adulterer, male female relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, turn of the century, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
normandy, france, europe, switzerland, london
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, crying, retro, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
female nudity, infidelity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, looking for sex, extramarital affair, coming of age, promiscuous daughter, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, nudity, domestic abuse ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
boarding house, spinster, hotel, female nudity, desperation, piano, loneliness, psychopath, aging, mental disorder, nude girl, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1987, 1950s, 50s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, new york, usa ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
nudity, making love, infidelity, sexual attraction, seductive, sex scene, adultery, biopic, couples, gays and lesbians, journalism, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
rome italy, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
composer, chess, biopic, prodigy, lifestyle, musician's life, love affair, couples, destructive relationship, society, fall in love, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1830s
Place:
poland, paris france, mallorca, siberia, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before ...
Style:
talky, cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, bittersweet, marriage, sexuality, adultery, novelist, desire, passion, pleasure, infidelity, love triangle, couples ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
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