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Nearest to Heaven (2002)
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Nearest to Heaven (2002)
Original name: Au plus près du paradis
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: People and life can be cruel, and in their face, Fannette is cool: toward an old acquaintance, to her daughter, to colleagues. Beneath the surface, she roils with passion for a lost love, Philippe. She watches "An Affair to Remember" again and again, and when she receives a letter from Philippe asking her to meet him atop the Empire State Building, she swoons. She's writing a book on an aged painter, so she organizes a trip to New York ostensibly to secure photographs of some of his pieces. The publisher assigns her a photographer, Matt, on the surface spontaneous and flip, but also aggressive about his attraction to her. Will she be with the one she loves? Will she smile? Written by
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, realistic, serious
Plot: passion, love and romance, infidelity, looking for love, destiny, midlife crisis, impossible love, lifestyle, haunted by the past, lovers reunited, artists and showbiz, destructive relationship, lost love, fashion, singleness, couples, bittersweet, unfulfillment, performer's life, dull life, painter, wedding, female nudity, photographer, hotel ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, new york, paris france, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, love affair, unfulfillment, bittersweet, infidelity and fall in love mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Nearest to Heaven: G (2002), One Night (2007), Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005), Guilty Hearts (2006), An Italian Romance (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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G (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot: lovers reunited, unfulfilled love, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, tragic love, social differences, showbiz, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, society ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, long island, usa
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One Night (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Fifteen New Yorkers go into a Friday night unaware of the fact that their lives are about to change.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couple relations, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, infidelity, nightclub, meaning of life, male female relationship, multiple storylines, music band ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, family outing
Plot: couples, family relations, tragic love, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, looking for love, baby born, diary, baby, holiday, letter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 4.6
 825
Guilty Hearts (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidelity, dishonesty and heartbreak that plagues their varied pasts. In overcoming their challenges, these diverse individuals embrace a brighter ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: looking for love, infidelity, haunted by the past, couple relations, love and romance, couples, friendship, redemption, friends, bittersweet
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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An Italian Romance (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, couples, lovers reunited, impossible love, fall in love, relationships, tragic love, betrayal, love interest, male female relationship, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Violets Are Blue... (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie (Spacek), a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up
Style: sentimental, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sailing, small town, high school, destiny, bittersweet, love, photojournalism, sea voyage, fall in love, family relations, photojournalist, friends ...
Time: year 1986, future
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Peter and Vandy (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Flashbacks and flash-forwards illustrate the rise and fall of a love affair between two New Yorkers.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, mind bending ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: sexual content, couples, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hopeless romantic, breakup, unfulfillment, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Mademoiselle (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
Style: sexy, touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, love and romance, opposites attract, lovers reunited, love affair, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, couples, disorder, husband wife relationship, one night stand ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Love Songs (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a ...
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, captivating, sexual
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: dancing, age-gap relationship, single parent, infidelity, music band, music, love and romance, lifestyle, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, gender ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, europe, new york, usa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Purple Violets (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially after running into her first love Brian Callahan, a successful crime novelist. Kate is Patti's ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, realistic, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: love affair, chef, looking for love, fall in love, introspection, couples, love triangle, college, family problems, love and romance, unlikely couple, haunted by the past ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Sam the Man (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, infidelity, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, dishonesty, womanizer, estrangement, breakup, profanity, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Nuts for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, talky ...
Plot: love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, political unrest, destiny, love and romance, state affairs, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Beautiful Memories (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, offbeat
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, alzheimer's disease, love affair, mental institution, couples, disability, doctors and patients, dementia, psychiatry, trauma, wine ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Heartbeat (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The mistress (Catherine Deneuve) of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
Style: stylized, realistic, serious
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, seduction, older man young girl relationship, wealth, mistress, social differences, tragic love, crumbling marriage, infidelity, love and romance, lovers reunited, society ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Falling in Love Again (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style: sweet, romantic, melancholic, intense, light ...
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, self discovery, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place: usa, bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Marriage Is a Crazy Thing (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jun-young (Kam Woo-seong) is a man in his early thirties who has seen his friends and younger brother get married but has yet to open himself to a serious relationship. Rather he is happy floating through life with little direction or ambition. ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sexy, erotic ...
Plot: true love, love affair, looking for sex, looking for love, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, thirtysomething life, couples, destructive relationship, battle of the sexes, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Love on a Pillow (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot: mental illness, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, love triangle, small town, sexual relations, pain, lust, jazz, couples, dishonesty, fall in love ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france, italy, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Raincoat (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Tells the story of two lovers, separated by destiny, who meet again one day. This encounter allows each to realize the truth about the lives they are living.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lovers reunited, love affair, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, selflessness, unrequited love, love and romance, unfulfillment, business venture, bittersweet, money, friend ...
Place: kolkata, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young man, with whom she begins an affair.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, sexual intercourse, loss of husband, love triangle, looking for love, infidelity, unfulfilled love, forbidden love, unrequited love, family problems, couples, midlife crisis ...
Place: italy, rome italy, tennessee, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot: love affair, teenage life, couples, couple relations, infidelity, lovers reunited, fall in love, bittersweet, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, young love, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Hotel America (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Helene (Catherine Deneuve), a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles (Patrick Dewaere), a young man who lives for free at his ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious, gay cinema
Plot: love, fall in love, hotel, beach, casino, gambling, gays and lesbians, opposites attract, love and romance, dealing with death, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Maze (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Artist Lyle Maze is reconciled to a life without romance thanks to his dual afflictions: Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder. But his life takes an unexpected turn when his friend Mike departs on a humanitarian mission, ...
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pregnancy, friends, couples, family relations, introspection, love and romance, friendship, self discovery, moral dilemma, fall in love, lifestyle, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.9
 3K
3 Hearts (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: love triangle, brother in law sister in law relationship, unfulfilled love, wedding ceremony, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, bittersweet, sister sister relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Circle of Love (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Style: art house, contemplative, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, sex, prostitute, soldier, infidelity, bittersweet, dishonesty, lifestyle, assassination, love and romance, unfulfillment, love affair ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.4
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Just a Sigh (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Ireland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stranger and, for the most fleeting of afternoons, imagines what the future could hold down a different ...
Style: sentimental, disturbing, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, actor's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, life turned upside down, destiny, escapades, love story, love, relationships, fall in love, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 5.3
 488
But Always (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After relocating to New York, former lovers feel the pull of romance once again.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious, retro
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lovers reunited, love and romance, unfulfilled love, love, first love, high school sweetheart, true love, lost love, friends, heartwarming
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Christmas in August (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a quiet corner of Seoul, Jung-won runs a small photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung-won goes about his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: maid, fall in love, friendship, single parent, tragic hero, love affair, tragic love, teenage love, destiny, family relations, youth, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Living 'til the End (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year, as a hopeless agoraphobic, until he meets a young woman who slowly coaxes him out of his self imposed bondage.
Style: touching, psychological, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, couples, impossible love, destiny, bondage, dishonesty, love and romance, life is a bitch, hopes, estate, family problems, dull life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Two for the Seesaw (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jerry Ryan wanders aimlessly around New York after giving up his Nebrascan law practice. His wife asks for a divorce. He meets Gittel, a struggling dancer from Greenwich Village and they try to sort out their lives. An extended conversation piece ...
Style: black and white, independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, crazy love, midlife crisis, unlikely couple, love and romance, hopes, young lovers, society, crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, nebraska, usa, new york state, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Falling Overnight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Falling Overnight tells the story of twenty-two year old Elliot Carson on the day before he has risky surgery to remove a brain tumor. Facing what could be his last night, Elliot’s path intersects with Chloe Webb, a young photographer who invites ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, sentimental, cute ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, lifestyle, cancer, male female relationship, brain tumor, escapades, photographer, terminal illness, coming of age, thoughtful, hipster, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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