Movies like Fedora

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Fedora (1978)
 6.8
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Fedora (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star whom he tries to lure out of retirement.
Style: romantic drama, psychological, tense, clever, serious, realistic, witty, contemplative, cynical, gloomy ...
Plot: filmmaking, mother daughter estrangement, hollywood, love, twists and turns, actor, girl, bare breasts, gay slur, guard dog, mother daughter conflict, island, love and romance, couples, showbiz, aging, lifestyle, actor's life, haunted by the past, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, couple relations, cons and scams, workplace situations, bodyguard ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century, year 1947, year 1962
Place: america, usa, california, paris france, santa monica california
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, clever and psychological films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, female nudity, infidelity, love affair and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Fedora: The Last Tycoon (1976), Bobby Deerfield (1977), The Carpetbaggers (1964), Contempt (1963), John and Mary (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Bobby Deerfield (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: tragic love, auto racing, racing, self discovery, couples, life is a bitch, ambition, love affair, hospital, motor sport, terminal illness, formula 1 ...
Time: 70s
Place: europe, florence, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film starring George Peppard as a character based largely on Howard Hughes and Alan Ladd as a former western gunslinger turned actor with the pseudonym Nevada Smith, played the following year in a prequel ...
Style: retro, stylized, clever, serious, realistic ...
Plot: showbiz, hollywood, aviation, sex, love story, friendship, filmmaking, uncontrollable, family problems, friends, couples, lifestyle ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Contempt (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker ...
Style: art house, philosophical, erotic, grindhouse, visual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, screenwriter, satire, femme fatale, film producer, writers, relationships, marriage, female nudity, estranged couple, film industry, passive aggression ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, rome italy, italy, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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John and Mary (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Style: talky, serious, psychological, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, love, commitment, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, urban, singleness ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Yvonne's Perfume (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion ...
Style: romantic drama, sexy, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: love, public nudity, gay subtext, lifestyle, love and romance, gays and lesbians, couple relations, hotel, love affair, love triangle, couples, nudity ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: switzerland, europe, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Little Lili (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, touching, erotic ...
Plot: filmmaking, older man younger woman relationship, actor's life, love triangle, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, obsession, unfulfilled love, infidelity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Day for Night (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Style: humorous, sexy, tense, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot: filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, adaptation, director, workplace situations, workplace, artists and showbiz, actor's life, nothing goes right, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1973, 70s
Place: france, europe, nice france, riviera, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Gabrielle (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, clever, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, letter, adultery, couples, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, suffering, husband wife relationship, betrayal ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.0
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Breezy (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Breezy is a teen-aged hippy with a big heart. After taking a a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the home of a middle-aged divorced man, Frank Harmon. Frank ...
Style: aesthetic, dramatic, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, age difference, lolita, forbidden love, hippie, female nudity, girl, teenage rebellion, small town, beach, one night stand ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.8
 754
A Man in Love (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
Style: erotic, sexy, sensual, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot: nudity, infidelity, making love, sensuality, sex scene, seductive, adultery, sexual attraction, biopic, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, love and romance ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: rome italy, france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Speaking Parts (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, stylized, tech noir ...
Plot: obsession, love triangle, wedding, love affair, couple relations, siblings relations, looking for love, couples, love and romance, power relations, family relations, master and servant ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 217 min.
Story: In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous ...
Style: sexual, thought provoking, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot: sex scene, cafe, prostitute, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, tragic love, love affair, lifestyle, against the rules ...
Time: 20th century, year 1973, 60s, 70s
Place: france, paris france, new york, europe, vienna ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
40%
That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of 'Richard III' and gives ...
Style: anthology, art house, cult classic, experimental, avant garde ...
Plot: porn, sex, love, nudity, orgy, decadence, group sex, sexual blackmail, husband wife relationship, marriage, violence, obsession ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature ...
Style: costume drama, romantic, emotional, scenic, stylized ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, love, lieutenant, infidelity, destructive relationship, society, social differences, love story, tragedy, filmmaking, love triangle ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 80s, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: england, france, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
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S.O.B. (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Style: funny, cynical, witty, clever, humorous ...
Plot: filmmaking, satire, depression, corpse, film producer, hollywood, cynicism, dog, tantrum, funeral, nervous breakdown, doctor ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 434
In Real Life (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In his new film a young director puts his girlfriend through a love test. By doing so he risks his real life relationship with her.
Style: psychological, captivating, emotional, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Plot: couple relations, love triangle, filmmaking, couples, infidelity, love and romance, artists and showbiz, fall in love, dishonesty, rehearsal, male female relationship, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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California Suite (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Style: funny, witty, humorous, clever, talky ...
Plot: hotel, multiple storylines, tennis, farce, sarcasm, womanizer, custody, friendship, luxury hotel, family problems, friends, couples ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Scream of the Silk (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in ...
Style: sexy, psychological, slasher, serious, realistic ...
Plot: prison, obsession, psychopath, couples, store, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, aging, destructive relationship, femme fatale, unlikely couple ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, africa, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Paradjanov: Lover of Beauty (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ukraine, France, Georgia, Armenia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A film director Sergey Paradjanov creates brilliant films. His nonconformist behavior conflicts with Soviet System. He is committed to prison for being eccentric.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, stylized
Plot: filmmaking, prison life, couple relations, artists and showbiz, isolation, maverick, celebrity, prisoner, kgb, filmmaker, couples, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 50s
Place: ukraine, russia, georgia, armenia, caucasus ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Idol (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: No Overview
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, touching, sexual
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, love affair, friendship, couples, elderly, couple relations, love and romance, intrigue, dishonesty, terminal illness, suicidal thoughts, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Illuminata (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished, and intrigue starts that ...
Style: melancholic, artsy, stylized, witty, humorous ...
Plot: farce, existentialism, life philosophy, art, love and romance, actor's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, theater, writer's life, sex scene, gilded age ...
Time: 1900s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: america, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Eva (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's ...
Style: noir, neo noir, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: writers, lust, girl, music and dance, sex, novelist, nudity, femme fatale, power relations, couples, midlife crisis, infidelity ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: venice, rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Gentle Woman (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
Style: spiritual, art house, anthology, powerful, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide, female nudity, jealousy, minimalism, hamlet, social outcast, existentialism, post war, alienation, spirit, spirituality, loan shark ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Timecode (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, into giving her a screen test. Alex's wife, Emma, knows about the affair and is considering ...
Style: ironic, psychological, enigmatic, tense, cerebral ...
Plot: manipulation, infidelity, jealousy, existentialism, surveillance, adaptation, storytelling, artists and showbiz, love and romance, couple relations, showbiz, lesbian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter ...
Style: emotional, southern gothic, intense, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: hollywood, adultery, betrayal, drug addiction, loneliness, movie star, justice, tragedy, character study, couple relations, unlikely couple, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
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Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, witty, clever ...
Plot: adultery, love, writers, infidelity, estate, world war one, writer's life, family relations, rise to the top, ambition, social differences, couple relations ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1914
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
One Night Stand (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, intense, light, touching ...
Plot: male female relationship, love triangle, infidelity, friendship, one night stand, justice, adaptation, adultery, interracial romance, couples, family problems, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, new york, los angeles, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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