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New Wave (2025)
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Original name: Nouvelle Vague
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.
Style:
experimental, art house, black and white, period drama
Plot:
film history, filmmaking, improv, moral ambiguity, voice over narration, boxer, cinema, actor, stuntman, actress, makeup artist, cinematographer, husband wife relationship, film producer, film critic, man with glasses, bare chested male, french new wave, film criticism, cigarette smoking, short haired female, boxing gym
Time:
year 1959
Place:
paris france, france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, humorous, realistic and sexy films with plots about husband wife relationship, biopic, actress, cigarette smoking, filmmaking, actor and art mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres. Some movies like New Wave: Filmlovers! (2024), Redoubtable (2017), Being Maria (2024), The Great Arch (2025), Stan & Ollie (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age ...
Style:
poetic, reflective, art house, experimental, meditative
Plot:
cinema, film history, nostalgia, celebration, memory, intimate, coming of age, melancholy, voice over narration, childhood, identity, obsession ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Myanmar
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, disturbing, captivating, romantic, entertaining
Plot:
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Time:
year 1960, year 1968, year 1967, 90s, year 2017 ...
Place:
paris france, france, south of france, italy, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Maria is a young, struggling actress with promise. When an emerging Italian director casts her to headline a new film alongside an American superstar, her dreams are coming true. But what seems like a big breakthrough turns out to be the start of a ...
Style:
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Plot:
filmmaker, filmmaking, female nudity, actress, sexploitation, biopic, daughter, mother daughter relationship, career, 16 year old, single mother, film set ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france
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80%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
1983. The biggest architectural competition in history, both anonymous and open, is launched under the impetus of a new socialist president, François Mitterrand. Coveted by all the biggest international architectural firms, the competition is ...
Style:
historical drama, intellectual, period piece, inspirational
Plot:
architect, architecture, biopic, ambition, modernism, anonymity, legacy, french president, cold war era, perfectionist, bare chested male, fishing ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, italy
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, History
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
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With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille and Ida – a formidable ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
funny, period piece, sexual, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, black man, profanity, actor, comedian, blaxploitation, showbiz, telephone call, film industry, black, money, biopic ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, britain, europe, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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46%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, stylized, clever, witty, mind bending ...
Plot:
filmmaking, cat burglar, latex, nervous breakdown, satire, movie actress, actress playing herself, female nudity, culture clash, hotel, paranoia, kung fu ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, los angeles, new york ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
sketch comedy, witty, period drama
Plot:
sexual innuendo, chaos, biopic, television studio, che guevara, marijuana, male protagonist, behind the scenes, llama, contract, cocaine, backstage ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
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104K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Style:
black and white, period piece, historical drama, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
screenwriter, beach, filmmaking, wealth, writers, biopic, movie business, politics, friendship, loneliness, movie studio, film history ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1936 ...
Place:
los angeles, mojave desert, california, usa, berlin germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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204K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
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Style:
costume drama, visual, thrilling, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
film history, filmmaking, hedonism, orgy, party, hollywood, movie star, film industry, gambling, profanity, sex scene, graphic violence ...
Time:
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Place:
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39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
anthology, thought provoking, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, portugal, asia, latin america, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, south of france, europe, tokyo ...
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Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 260 min.
Story:
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Style:
weird, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
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Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1937, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, england ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House ...
Style:
political, serious, captivating, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 94 min.
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Country: France
Duration: 252 min.
Story:
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Style:
black and white, black comedy, experimental, avant garde
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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