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Madly (2025)
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Original name: FolleMente
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say?
Style:
psychological, mind bending, existential, emotional, experimental, surreal, art house, tension, psychological thriller, non-linear ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
consciousness, self discovery, identity, self awareness, split personality, existential crisis, identity crisis, relationships, moral ambiguity, metaphysics, intimate, obsession, memory, confession, slow burn, minimalism, urban, love, first date, internal monologue, cunnilingus, romance
Time:
contemporary
Place:
italy
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Most similar movies to Madly
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, emotional, captivating and existential films with plots about intimate, urban, identity, relationships, love, self discovery and obsession mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Madly: Remember Me? (2014), Another You (2025), Poligamy (2009), One of Us Cannot Be Wrong (2007), Ninnila Ninnila (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sharing the same psychologist, a kleptomaniac (Robert) that writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic (Beatrice) that documents everything in her life, begin to see that love can be a cure for their ailments. But ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, offbeat ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
obsession, love affair, memory loss, fall in love, social misfits, misfit, self discovery, psychotherapy, mental health, narcolepsy, personal growth, companionship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Mümtaz and Derya are condemned to live out their last moments each day in someone else's skin.
Style:
poignant, psychological, surreal, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
mortality, body swapping, identity, empathy, existential crisis, identity crisis, rehearsal, ethical dilemma, fate, isolation, desperation, memory ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
András, the struggling screenwriter one day wakes up to find his girlfriend replaced by a different girl, who acts like nothing happened.
Style:
surreal, humorous, feel good, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, couple relations, wish come true, love and romance, imaginary, body swapping, identity crisis, alternate reality, confusion, character study, surprise twist, intimate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hungary, budapest
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.
Style:
art house, psychological, existential, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
devil, temptation, supernatural, regret, melancholy, memory, symbolism, obsession, writers, fate, moral dilemma, television director ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In London, Dev, an overweight, genius chef who suffers with muscle spasms, meets Tara and love blossoms, but things take an interesting turn when he crosses paths with Maya.
Style:
satirical, captivating, thrilling, psychological, romantic drama ...
Plot:
love triangle, chef, love, love affair, love and romance, love interest, couple relations, lifestyle change, satire, couples, changing lives, relationships ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
53%
445
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a young man's life spirals out of control, he tries to regain focus by seeking out an offbeat hypnosis treatment. Things take a turn when the girl from his dreams starts to appear in real life. While he tries to unlock the mystery of who she ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, sentimental, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
memory, magic realism, hospital, brain, life, couples, love, secret, doctor, identity, hypnosis, relationships ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil, Chile
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man who is tormented by his intuitions and by dreams goes away to find answers to his discomfort. Revelations are made to him along his path, until he meets his soul mate and is prepared to the Blue Desert.
Style:
experimental, psychological, existential, philosophical, mystical ...
Plot:
self discovery, desert, life philosophy, revelation, symbolism, transcendence, introspection, self awareness, serendipity, relationships, human existence, meaning of life ...
Place:
chile, brazil
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Romina begins to fall in love with Valentin, a tourist on holiday in Costinești with plans to become a musician. Romina helps Valentin to become an artist and, without realizing, he is starting to look a lot like someone from Romina's past.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house
Plot:
love interest, summer, musician, coming of age, coastal town, struggling artist, nostalgia, longing, first love, identity, tourist, self discovery ...
Place:
romania
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, Canada, France
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çevik's second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the ...
Style:
atmospheric, art house, tense, suspenseful, experimental ...
Plot:
murder, motive, flashback, narration, alienation, haunting, love, urban, relationships, confession, city, investigation ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lovely by Surprise follows the journey of novelist Marian Walker as she attempts to finish her first novel. Facing the age-old problem of writer’s block, Marian seeks advice from a mentor and ex-lover. His seemingly innocent advice to kill the ...
Style:
light, entertaining, captivating, surreal, existential ...
Plot:
writers, creative block, imagination, female protagonist, writer's block, novelist, creative process, crisis, travel, relationships, literary, magic realism ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Bryn and Eckland escape the stress of a small apartment in the big city to rejuvenate their relationship, only to realize a relationship without walls will make you go crazy. This all-improvised-dialogue feature shot in 5 days, aims to reset the bar ...
Style:
independent film, tension, emotional, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
slice of life, intimate, vacation, personal growth, minimalism, rejuvenation, engagement, love, cheating, dysfunctional relationship, improv
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a struggling writer meets a superstitious Portuguese beauty, he has no idea that his life and luck are both about to change. A romantic comedy about cross-cultural relationships.
Style:
romantic, feel good, captivating, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
relationships, luck, couples, writers, changing lives, chance meeting, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, lifestyle change, love interest, male female relationship ...
Place:
portugal, canada
Similarity:
38%
894
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The love of 34-year-old Dora's life, has broken up with her - or worse: he has remarried. Her only joy, the pastry shop she owns, also appears to be lost. She makes up her mind to get both her ex-boyfriend and her pastry shop back, even if it ...
Style:
talky, psychological, romantic, emotional, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
female protagonist, lovers, young lovers, bakery, self discovery, love, candy store, love and romance, love affair, youth, relationships, love interest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A new bride's happiness is put to the test when she notices her husband's suspicious behaviour.
Style:
romantic, tension, emotional, twisted, serious ...
Plot:
revelation, domestic drama, marriage, newlyweds, suspicion, betrayal of trust, deception, intimate, secrets, slow burn, investigation, betrayal ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
What is stranger than the big hole that opens up in Lucy Sherrington's living room floor? As it turns out, love.
Style:
light, entertaining, romantic, captivating, surreal ...
Plot:
love, female protagonist, mysticism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love story, love affair, love and romance, relationships, small town ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As the lights flicker on a warm August night, amidst vacant Athens' stillness, a modern bohemian flirts with a woman he just met at a phone booth, while strolling around the city's quiet night streets.
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, art house, road movie, emotional ...
Plot:
night, self discovery, chance meeting, character study, urban, bohemian, slice of life, intimate, transformation, poet, flirting, bittersweet ...
Place:
athens greece, greece
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Diego, just a few weeks after his wedding with Julia, the perfect girlfriend, is forced by his father to remodel a hotel that he destroyed in his uncontrolled bachelor party. There he meets Lu, the hotel manager, a free, audacious and beautiful ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic comedy, romantic drama ...
Plot:
love triangle, romantic triangle, couples, husband wife relationship, family problems, love interest, love and romance, love story, love, young lovers, male female relationship, relationship problems ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, art house, romantic comedy
Plot:
love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, male protagonist, longing, relationships, ex lover, intimate, personal growth, russian immigrant, social realism, melancholy ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Anna and Thomas are missing something: love. They will follow their encounter through confusing crushes and lack of commitment, but can love survive when you don't want to compromise your own dreams for your partner?
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, psychological, satirical, thrilling ...
Plot:
love interest, satire, male female relationship, love affair, love story, relationships, self discovery, realism, young adult, slice of life, bittersweet, intimacy ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
Thirty years old, a nothing job, a timid love affair: Rémi is a little at sea in his life. Until the day when he must share it with his double, another him, invasive and not so nice. Which one will be the true Rémi?
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, art house, tense ...
Plot:
character study, identity crisis, identity, lifestyle, lookalikes, problem, lifestyle change, changing lives, introspection, existential crisis, self discovery, loneliness ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Egypt
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of the film, in a different context of a successful and wealthy engineer named Hossam Khedive, but recently suffers from problems in his natural life resort to alternative life through a new device enters the world of dreams.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, mind bending, emotional ...
Plot:
dream, engineer, relationship problems, family problems, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, escape, dreamscape, technology, self discovery, virtual reality ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Riley has recently been discharged from rehab after struggling with food and body image issues. She soon meets Ethan and finds herself navigating the line between unconditional love and a new addiction.
Style:
emotional, entertaining, captivating, melancholic, psychological ...
Plot:
addiction, rehabilitation, food, eating disorder, love, mental health, relationships, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, rehabilitation center, illness ...
Similarity:
35%
568
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A famous writer begins suffering from a crippling case of writer's block. His agent sends him a strange, belligerent woman to be his new assistant, hoping the change will inspire him.
Style:
psychological, suspense, sincere, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
writers, friend, creative block, creative process, writer's block, social problems, relationships, writer's life, crisis, male female relationship, couple relations, identity crisis ...
Place:
boston
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A wonderfully charming and bittersweet story about teenage friendship, idealist dreams and a city that transcend changing times, this rare Hong Kong-produced gem influenced by Hayao Miyazaki and Shunji Iwai sweeps with nostalgia. In search of an ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, semi serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, female protagonist, high school friends, high school reunion, coming of age, memory, friendship, high school, bored housewife, couples, love story, satire ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a style evocative of Fellini at his most surreal, this bizarre French Canadian fantasy follows the romance between a young filmmaker and a bearded lady from a local circus during the 1960s. The story begins in a contemporary theater where a ...
Style:
art house, surreal, avant garde, romantic, experimental ...
Plot:
circus, magic realism, sideshow, freakshow, filmmaking, memory, identity, loss, nostalgia, love story, obsession, ghost ...
Time:
60s
Place:
louisiana, montreal
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Albert marries the woman of his dreams, but he's about to lose her trying to discover the answer to why men cheat that will make him famous.
Style:
psychological, satirical, disturbing, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, satire, unfaithful boyfriend, marriage, relationship problems, unlikely couple, unrequited love, relationships, marital infidelity, family problems, adulterous husband ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Dear Sidewalk tells the story of Gardner, a 24 year old mail-carrier, who is struggling to contend with his identity as his quarter-life crisis is in full swing. His regimented routine is thrown out the window when he meets Paige, a divorcee, ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, semi serious, romantic drama ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, midlife crisis, relationships, character study, identity, self discovery, age difference, postman, social problems, love affair, male female relationship, lifestyle ...
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As a result of a drug experiment, Misi will be able to travel through time, but only if he drinks from a special homemade spirit.
Style:
existential, psychological, surreal, mind bending, tense ...
Plot:
travel, experimental drug, alternate reality, character study, identity crisis, experimental narrative, coming of age, laboratory, dark humor, urban, minimalism, time travel ...
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One fatal morning, John's door is left ajar. A strange woman slips through the crack in his orderly life. Is she a squatter, a wanderer or a woman from his past? As John's tidy flat is rapidly invaded, his inner space is also besieged. ...
Style:
psychological, existential, black comedy, art house, absurd ...
Plot:
character study, male protagonist, claustrophobia, identity crisis, mystery woman, intruder, minimalism, moral ambiguity, slow burn, single, obsession, persecution ...
Similarity:
33%
387
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Stella is a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. After a life-changing car accident involving a dog, she convinces herself she must count her age in dog years: one year of her life counts for seven, and now that she’s turning ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, adolescence, coming of age, self discovery, female protagonist, mortality, bucket list, lifestyle, teenage girl, couple relations, teenage life, satire ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
32%
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