Movies like Happy End 2009
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Happy End (2009)
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Original name: Les Derniers jours du monde
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Robinson, appropriately named as we will soon discover, is on vacation in Biarritz with his wife. What follows is the story behind the loss of his arm, a story that becomes increasingly bizarre and eventually apocalyptic, leading us down a narrative path of labyrinthine complexity. The resulting film is an extraordinary feat of imagination and daring, set against the backdrop of a world on the verge of destruction.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, offbeat, non-linear, mind bending
Plot:
husband wife relationship, virus, contamination, father daughter relationship, poison, end of the world, snow, death, fictional war, apocalypse, couple relations, vacation, obsession, on the road, love and romance, fall in love, chases and races, couples, chaos, post apocalypse, love, female nudity, war, boat, bicycle ...
Place:
france, spain, europe
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Most similar movies to Happy End
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, apocalyptic, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about apocalypse, couples, danger, husband wife relationship, distopia, chaos and post apocalypse mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Comedy genres. Some movies like Happy End: 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011), The New Eve (1999), Love Is Not What It Used to Be (2013), To Paint or Make Love (2005), 21 Nights with Pattie (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
Style:
serious, apocalyptic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
couples, end of the world, couple relations, introspection, chaos, danger, disaster, global warming, post apocalypse, painter, friendship, artist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of ephemeral relationships and one-night stands. However, her lifestyle fails to satisfy her fully, and in a ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
lesbian sex, adultery, drunkenness, lesbian, female nudity, lesbian relationship, sister in law sister in law relationship, obsession, pregnancy, couples, thirtysomething life, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alex comes across Lucias life, two youngsters who start discovering each other, the escape velocity will determine their future.Paz y Jorge see how their relationship is fading and they don't know what to do, hyperbola, whose bodies will never ...
Style:
witty, semi serious, touching, realistic, feel good
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
couples, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, city life, husband wife relationship, female nudity, restaurant, urban, professor, swimming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, valencia spain
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple.
Style:
captivating, sensual, sexual, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
swinger, mate swapping, swingers, swinger couple, wife swapping, husband wife relationship, marriage, couple relations, couples, self discovery, male female relationship, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
During the height of summer, Caroline, a forty-year-old Parisian and mother, arrives in a small village in the south of France. She must hastily organize the funeral of her mother, a flighty lawyer, whom she barely used to see. Caroline is welcomed ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, skinny dipping, dead body, bare chested male, public nudity, swimming pool, male objectification, writers, female nudity, sex scene, cemetery ...
Place:
south of france
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Inside a quarantined apartment building a man must protect his pregnant wife from his new neighbors.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
epidemic, couple relations, disease, quarantine, post apocalyptic, apartment building, neighbor, survival, virus, chaos, confined, isolation ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Bahamas, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A descendant of Shakespeare attemps to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Style:
spiritual, independent film, postmodern, experimental, surreal ...
Plot:
shakespeare, post apocalypse, apocalypse, royalty, epidemic, spirituality, tragic love, distopia, dancing, celtic, playwright, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
france, europe, switzerland, chernobyl
Similarity:
65%
732
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A suspenseful drama about a young couple on a road trip who get caught in the midst of a worldwide gas shortage.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
on the road, couple relations, couples, social differences, chaos, life is a bitch, escapades, danger, global warming, distopia, apocalypse, epidemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marithé works in a training center for adults. Her mission: to help other people to change direction in their work and to find their vocation. Carole, who lives and works in the shadow cast by her husband, Sam, an energetic and talented ...
Style:
humorous, tragicomedy, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love triangle, teaching the ways of the world, couples, fall in love, food, infidelity, self fulfillment, chef, restaurant, passionate kiss, marital infidelity, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive this crisis.
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
survival, infidelity, couple relations, post apocalypse, human nature, danger, dishonesty, betrayal, life is a bitch, vestiges of humanity, chaos, couples ...
Time:
future
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible ...
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, nuclear holocaust, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, post apocalyptic, wasteland, bombing, dystopia, train ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful ...
Style:
apocalyptic, spooky, serious, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, disaster, dystopia, post apocalyptic, distopia, apocalypse, radiation, solar flare, wasteland, doomsday, desolation, 666 ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on real events, in 1972 Juan and José are two textile workers from Tarrasa, Catalonia (northeast to Spain) who meet during an UFOs' convention. Both share their passion about the paranormal, specially about UFOs. In these years where was ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, bleak
Plot:
ufo, uncover truth, odd couple, obsession, social misfits, riddles and clues, misfit, danger, alien encounter, space and aliens, suicide, mentally unstable ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain, barcelona
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, France, USA, Japan, Sweden, UK, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of two lovers and their attempts to save their relationship in a near-future world on the brink of cosmic collapse. John, and world-famous ice skating star, Elena, are about to sign divorce papers when they realise that, in spite of ...
Style:
philosophical, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cloning, lovers on the run, dystopian future, couple relations, life is a bitch, danger, chaos, estrangement, passion, apocalypse, divorce, climate change ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The failed story of a love triangle in a post-apocalyptic world.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, futuristic, psychological, touching
Plot:
post apocalypse, love and romance, friendship, danger, survival, love triangle, isolation, apocalypse, zombie, love, distopia, hot and sexy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's ...
Style:
apocalyptic, offbeat, cult classic, controversial, depressing ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, post apocalyptic, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, wasteland, rape, gang rape, attempted rape ...
Time:
future
Place:
england, northern england, london
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Retrovirus, which was conceived as a tool for industrial genetic engineering, has gotten out of control and is spreading rapidly. While it crosses all organisms within our ecological system completely indiscriminately (mixing plant with animal and ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, isolation, infection, survivor, genetic mutation, death, chaos, danger, on the road, post apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than ...
Style:
erotic, clever, art house, hispanic, contemplative ...
Plot:
writers, women, obsession, suicide attempt, love and romance, novelist, daily life, surrealism, old woman, parent child relationship, journal, family problems ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, tokyo, madrid
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The interwoven stories of three couples which are forced to make life altering decisions in the face of a disastrous war. Inspired and sometimes blinded by their love, Len, Mia, Andy, Esther, Anna and Erik are as flawed and beautiful as any of the ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, chaos, virus, couple relations, post apocalypse, love and romance, danger, couples, epidemic, fiance fiancee relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
usa, middle east
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to ...
Style:
erotic, humorous, sentimental, sexual, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, hidden identity, disorder, couples, obsession, sex, love, fetish, health, architecture, eroticism, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
spain, barcelona, europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Style:
apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, child in peril, father daughter relationship, forest, girl, survival, immunity, virus, epidemic, distopia, post apocalyptic, fight ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
persia
Similarity:
43%
512
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.
Style:
exciting, funny, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
musician, female nudity, guitarist, street musician, performer's life, artist, music, singer, singing, street performer, apparition, mistaken identity ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
42%
284
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A rare astronomical event causes a permanent worldwide black out, forcing residents of a middle-class suburb to get by with no modern conveniences. The community pulls together and adapts to a simpler way of life, but their success draws the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, rivalry, society, dystopia, isolation, suburbs, danger, life turned upside down, chaos, confined, post apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An out of touch family man moves with his wife and daughter from the big city to his dream house on the outskirts of a small town just in time for the apocalypse.
Style:
apocalyptic, satirical, disturbing, captivating, ironic ...
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, family relations, asteroid, father daughter relationship, meteor shower, changing lives, husband wife relationship, satire, lifestyle change, family drama, end of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style:
semi serious, witty, touching, humorous, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, infidelity, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
38%
803
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
unfulfillment, midlife crisis, family relations, actor's life, theatre director, lifestyle, theater, parents and children, rivalry, friendship, childlessness, single ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
obsession, serial killer, murder, darkness, friendship, violence, investigation, imagination, family relations, writers, couple relations, poet ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home. The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, family in danger, life is a bitch, on the run, woods, chaos, gory, disease, virus, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard, the mayor of the city, is not one to let them down and decides to try everything to save his village ...
Style:
humorous, funny, melancholic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
female nudity, farmer, wedding ceremony, mayor, countryside, economic crisis, roadblock, debt, small town life, protestor, american abroad, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, normandy
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Various citizens of Toronto anxiously await the end of the world, which is occurring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day. While widower Patrick Wheeler braces for his fate, he meets Sandra, the wife of a businessman who is intent on ...
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, semi serious, sincere, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
apocalypse, doomsday, chaos, end of the world, distopia, existentialism, satire, solitude, post apocalypse, hopes, danger, armageddon ...
Time:
year 1998, y2k, turn of the century, year 2000, future ...
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
36%
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