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At First Sight (1983)
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At First Sight (1983)
Original name: Coup de foudre
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
Style: psychological, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, queer cinema
Plot: lesbian, world war two, lgbt, female nudity, world war, biopic, feminist, lesbianism, women, partisan, woman, judaism, girl power, glbt, friendship, family relations, refugee, store, deportation, mental illness, swimming pool, heartache, nazi occupation, lesbian relationship, school ...
Time: year 1983, year 1942, 1950s, year 1952, 50s
Place: paris france, france, lyon, europe, italy, alps, normandy
Keyword: feminist film, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and psychological films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, family relations, female nudity, unfulfillment and love mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like At First Sight: Aimee & Jaguar (1999), Lucie Aubrac (1997), November Moon (1985), The Edge of Love (2008), The Dune (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style: erotic, romantic, sad, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, holocaust, lesbian interest, gender, woman in danger, nazi, gays and lesbians, world war two, couples, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1999, ancient times, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943 ...
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
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Lucie Aubrac (1997)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious
Plot: french resistance, world war two, occupied france, gestapo, love, resistance movement, french history, biopic, resistance, judaism, nazi, nudity ...
Time: 1940s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: france, lyon
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November Moon (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: "November Moon" is a timeless and compelling love story set against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied France. On the brink of war and in the face of escalating anti-Jewish activity, November has fled her native Germany for the relative safety ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, world war two, lgbt, world war, holocaust, strong female presence, love triangle, wartime life, woman in danger, gays and lesbians, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: paris france, france, europe, germany
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The Edge of Love (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The Edge of love is a love story of two feisty women and a brilliant, charismatic poet who love both women. One woman Vera Phillips who is his first love and whom he lost for ten year, while other one is his present wife Caitlin who is adventurous ...
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, marriage, husband wife relationship, jealousy, infidelity, writers, pregnancy, world war two, unfulfillment, love, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008
Place: wales, europe, england, london
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The Dune (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An Israeli man searches for his father in France.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, family problems, estrangement, hopes, investigation, haunted by the past, parents and children, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, gender, aging ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, boss and employee, love and romance, pregnant woman, family crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Memoir of War (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: June 1944, France is still under the German Occupation. The writer Robert Antelme, major figure of the Resistance, is arrested and deported. His young wife, Marguerite, writer and resistant, was torn by the anguish of not having her news and her ...
Style: serious, romantic, heartbreaking, factual, realistic ...
Plot: french resistance, world war two, gestapo, nazism, concentration camp, wartime life, nazi, nazi occupied france, nazi occupation, beach, female protagonist, sea ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s, 20th century, year 2017, year 1944
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Love After Love (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.
Style: contemplative, thought provoking, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, adultery, couples, dark humor, family problems, breakup, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, love and romance, dishonesty, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france
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Family Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: family relations, deportation, family problems, aging, hopes, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time: 21st century
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The Children of the Century (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, sexy, visually stunning ...
Plot: sex, love affair, writers, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love and romance, sexuality, obsessive love, forbidden love, poet, female writer, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place: paris france, italy, venice, france, europe ...
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Loulou (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 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: erotic, romantic, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: sexual relations, sensuality, affair, amor, advertising agency, infidelity, abusive husband, drunk, class differences, disco, couples, society ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Giovanna's Father (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bologna 1938 - Michele Casali (Silvio Orlando) is living a desperate situation: Giovanna (Alba Rohrwacher), his only child, a teenager, has killed out of jealousy his classmate and best friend. Within the middle-class environment in which the crime ...
Style: realistic, psychological, emotional, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: mental institution, estrangement, parents and children, family problems, couples, family relations, confined, isolation, unfulfillment, father daughter relationship, murder, love ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: italy, europe
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Sonny Boy (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Waldemar Nods, a young man from Suriname, meets the older Dutch woman Rika van der Lans and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that Rika ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Bad Girl (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
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All Is Forgiven (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Betty (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: girl, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, strong female presence, performer's life, society, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, lifestyle, mentally unstable, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
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Place: france, paris france, versailles
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Replay (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: disturbing, tense, serious, psychological, realistic ...
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Country: France, Spain
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Villa Amalia (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
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A Secret (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
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Little Jerusalem (2005)
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Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother ...
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, period piece ...
Plot: lesbian, forbidden love, love affair, female friendship, family relations, couples, fall in love, society, feminism, friendship, working class, homecoming ...
Time: 1950s
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Spring 1941 (2007)
Genre: Drama, War
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Style: captivating, serious, tense, emotional, realistic ...
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I, You, He, She (1974)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 86 min.
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Style: contemplative, art house, social, experimental, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian sex, lgbt, nudity, lgbtq, feminist, feminism, isolation, breakup, lgbtqi, underground, minimalism ...
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Peppermint Soda (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, school, jewish girl, female protagonist, political protest, friendship, high school, children, woman, relationships, suicide, troubled relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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The Last Metro (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Style: sincere, art house, thought provoking, anthology, manga ...
Plot: world war two, theater, nazi, gestapo, women, world war, wartime life, infidelity, anti semitism, love triangle, actor, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 20th century, year 1942
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La séparation (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: betrayal, adultery, dysfunctional family, infidelity, unfaithful wife, cuckold, family life, lovers reunited, crumbling marriage, breakup, estrangement, couples ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Lovers of the Café Flore (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1924, Simone de Beauvoir, a girl with polished appearance, prepares for her final examination in philosophy and meets Jean-Paul Sartre. He seems to know her true personality and considers her the only woman worthy of his intellect. Their chaotic ...
Style: atmospheric, emotional, factual, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: feminism, lesbian, love affair, writer's life, philosophy, couples, love triangle, fall in love, hopes, society, idealism, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s
Place: paris france, france, usa, europe
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The Last Train (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Style: road movie, sincere, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot: world war two, train, french resistance, world war, love, railway, unhappy ending, nazi, judaism, wartime, occupied france, refugee ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 1943
Place: france, europe
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