Movies like A Tale of Winter

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A Tale of Winter (1992)
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A Tale of Winter (1992)
Original name: Conte d'hiver
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.
Style: spiritual, art house, postmodern, sentimental, clever, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: true love, skinny dipping, librarian, winter, polyamory, extramarital affair, love, spirit, cold weather, crazy love, train, female nudity, single mother, male female relationship, single parent, chance, friendship, pregnancy, youth, friends, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, infidelity ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: paris france, france, europe
Keyword: new wave

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and talky films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, love, fall in love, friendship and love triangle mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Tale of Winter: A Summer's Tale (1996), The Lacemaker (1977), Jules and Jim (1962), Chloe in the Afternoon (1972), A Good Marriage (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Summer's Tale (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who ...
Style: art house, anthology, cute, artsy, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, love, fall in love, graduation, glamour, friendship, time travel, mathematician, journey, crazy love, love hurts, daily life ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1995
Place: france, europe, brittany, english channel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Lacemaker (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The internationally produced The Lacemaker (La Dentelliere) stars Isabelle Huppert as Pomme, a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. Here Huppert becomes the lover of middle-class ...
Style: art house, sad, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: female nudity, first love, mental disorder, character study, young lovers, mental institution, social differences, university student, introvert, young woman, breakup, nightclub ...
Time: year 1977, 70s
Place: france, normandy, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 44K
Jules and Jim (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the ...
Style: art house, black and white, philosophical, lyrical, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: marriage, friendship, love triangle, unrequited love, love, relationships, menage a trois, love story, storytelling, melancholy, manic pixie dream girl, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, year 1962, 1930s, post world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but ...
Style: clever, art house, anthology, contemplative, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: female nudity, infidelity, marriage, love, glamour, love and romance, love affair, affair, passion, relationships, new love, daily life ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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A Good Marriage (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not ...
Style: contemplative, semi serious, realistic, captivating, talky ...
Plot: art history, female friendship, crazy love, amor, marriage, birthday party, couples, friends, screwball, love and romance, friendship, couple relations ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Suzanne's Career (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 54 min.
Story: In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot: friends, crazy love, love, womanizer, dishonesty, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, moral dilemma, unfulfillment, twentysomething life, love triangle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
My Night at Maud's (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
Style: philosophical, cerebral, witty, sexual, talky ...
Plot: philosophy, love, catholic, christmas, marriage, engineer, existentialism, dialogue, morality, obsession, spirit, catholicism ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Summer (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Style: talky, realistic, aesthetic, anthology, cute ...
Plot: loneliness, boredom, summer, dialogue, solitude, female nudity, self discovery, friendship, summer vacation, children, depression, isolation ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe, normandy, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Claire's Knee (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura ...
Style: sentimental, thought provoking, existential, sensitive, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: summer, older man young girl relationship, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, teenage girl, glamour, age difference, sadness, relationships, spirit, dialogue, nymphet ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Tale of Springtime (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. The first in Eric Rohmer's Four Seasons series, Conte de printemps (A Tale In Springtime) is the story of an introverted young girl (Florence Darel) just reaching adulthood who takes ...
Style: talky, clever, witty, art house, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, parents and children, youth, family relations, philosophy, cousin cousin relationship, vacation, crazy love, daily life, spring, looking for love, matchmaking ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 90s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Full Moon in Paris (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: "He who has two women loses his soul, he who has two houses loses his mind." So it goes with Louise played by Pascale Ogier who is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so ...
Style: anthology, talky, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: love, female nudity, crazy love, art, jealous lover, best friend, existentialism, alienation, relationship problems, couples, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Sense of Humor (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Élise lives with her 10-year-old son Léo, whose father is deceased. She has a chaotic relationship with Paul her lover. They go from happy moments to intense feuds. Élise introduces him to Léo and in time, they get to know and appreciate each ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, pregnancy, parents and children, couples, single parent, breakup, love, friends, couple relations, son, divorced divorcee
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Autumn Tale (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
Style: melancholic, meditative, witty, art house, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wine, friendship, kick-butt women, autumn, women, matchmaking, starting over, midlife crisis, human nature, parents and children, love, wedding ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, south of france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Lea, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Lea is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Lea's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied ...
Style: aesthetic, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, daily life, crazy love, passion, love letter, summer, teenager, love, suburbs, tennis, cafe, secret ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters ...
Style: art house, independent film, artsy, talky, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: crazy love, european, female bonding, love letter, culture clash, friendship, best friend, friends, village, urban, twentysomething life, village life ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Two English Girls (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister ...
Style: art house, erotic drama, romantic, postmodern, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, nudity, sex, love, abuse, relationships, women, crazy love, loss of virginity, unrequited love, infidelity, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1900s, year 1971, 70s, 20th century, pre world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, normandy, europe, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Soft Skin (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Style: black and white, neo noir, depressing, art house, anthology ...
Plot: neglected wife, airport, love, transformation, doomed romance, new love, swing, infidelity, flight attendant, adultery, love at first sight, divorce ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, lisbon portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Rendezvous in Paris (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three stories of love and coincidence around the theme of dates in Paris.
Style: talky, clever, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love, swedish, british, friendship, art, hotel, crazy love, infidelity, love triangle, notre dame cathedral, dating, performer's life ...
Time: 90s
Place: tahiti, paris france, france, corsica, lyon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Aviator's Wife (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
Style: anthology, semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous ...
Plot: stalking, obsession, crazy love, love, couples, youth, aviator, unrequited love, tenderness, nosy, lovers reunited, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ⇓
23%
Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, love triangle, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, fall in love, longing, train travel, infidelity, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, librarian ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Friday Night (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paris, 1995. Laure (Valérie Lemercier) is about to meet friends for dinner to celebrate her moving in with her boyfriend. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When a handsome stranger ...
Style: sexual, serious, psychological, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: couples, dangerous attraction, love and romance, fall in love, chaos and mayhem, couple relations, danger, friendship, living together, minimalism, women, mental disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 2002
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Trouble with Men and Women (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A bitter-sweet romantic tale set in London, depicting the sentimental education of a young man who is absurdly confused about women.
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: love affair, couples, friends, love and romance, looking for love, lifestyle, buddies, wooing, love triangle, friendship, breakup, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Style: emotional, serious, psychological, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, cheating wife, parents and children, love triangle, polyamory ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: marseille, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.0
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The Discreet (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of ...
Style: anthology, contemplative, talky, sexy, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: writers, parisian, infidelity, alcohol abuse, lovers reunited, couples, power relations, thirtysomething life, opposites attract, boss and employee, writer's life, gender ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.3
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In Paris (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother, Jonathan. While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his ...
Style: humorous, realistic, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot: wooing, siblings relations, love triangle, lifestyle, infidelity, twentysomething life, unsupportive spouse, love and romance, twins, couples, brother brother relationship, gay ...
Time: year 2006
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.3
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Venus Beauty (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: beautician, beauty salon, older woman younger man relationship, new year's eve, aunt niece relationship, loneliness, love, massage, adultery, jealousy, bare breasts, witness ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Man and a Woman (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, psychological, romantic drama ...
Plot: love, fall in love, relationships, auto racing, widow, couples, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, passion, lost soul, motor racing ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Cesar & Rosalie (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Claude Sautet's romantic drama stars Romy Schneider as Rosalie, a beautiful young woman involved with successful businessman Cesar (Yves Montand). One day, Rosalie's former flame David (Sami Frey) appears and attempts to win her back. ...
Style: sexy, anthology, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: love triangle, obsession, love, couple relations, friendship, parisian, relationships, love story, violent outburst, jealous lover, violent man, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Housekeeper (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of ...
Style: sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: self discovery, infidelity, midlife crisis, housekeeper, father daughter relationship, human nature, love affair, beach volleyball, fall in love, couple relations, starting over, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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