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Fedora (1978)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 114 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:
bare breasts, mother daughter estrangement, filmmaking, hollywood, gay slur, guard dog, mother daughter conflict, love, twists and turns, actor, girl, 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, american
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Most similar movies to Fedora
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and psychological films with plots about couples, love and romance, female nudity, couple relations, love, nude and infidelity mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Fedora: The Last Tycoon (1976), The Carpetbaggers (1964), Bobby Deerfield (1977), John and Mary (1969), Yvonne's Perfume (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
stylized, realistic, captivating, sentimental, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, loneliness, literary, bare breasts ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, 70s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
95%
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, cynical, clever, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
hollywood, showbiz, aviation, stepmother, sex, love story, friendship, filmmaking, uncontrollable, couples, family problems, friends ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
76%
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:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
terminal illness, tragic love, tragic romance, formula 1, near death experience, road trip, love, racing, racecar driver, auto racing, self discovery, ambition ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, france, paris france, florence
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68%
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:
serious, realistic, psychological, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, commitment, bare breasts, love, nudity, couple relations, love and romance, singleness ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
67%
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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:
sexy, sexual, romantic drama, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love, public nudity, gay subtext, nudity, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, gays and lesbians, hotel, love triangle, love affair, couples ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
switzerland, europe, algeria
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 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, erotic, philosophical, biting, grindhouse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, screenwriter, satire, femme fatale, writers, film producer, estranged couple, car accident, film industry, passive aggression, swimming pool, relationships ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
rome italy, italy, france, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
Similarity:
55%
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:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
nudity, making love, infidelity, sexual attraction, seductive, sex scene, adultery, biopic, couples, gays and lesbians, journalism, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
rome italy, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
49%
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:
sexy, tense, humorous, atmospheric, romantic ...
Plot:
filmmaking, art, nervous breakdown, satire, adaptation, director, workplace, actor's life, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, workplace situations, love and romance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1973, future, 70s, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, nice france, french riviera, riviera
Similarity:
49%
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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:
serious, realistic, erotic, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
erotica, longing, sexual attraction, infidelity, outdoor sex, passion, unhappiness, dysfunctional family, filmmaking, actor's life, love triangle, couples ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
france, brittany
Similarity:
46%
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:
sexy, psychological, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
wedding, obsession, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, looking for love, siblings relations, couples, love and romance, family relations, power relations, master and servant ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, multicultural ...
Plot:
actor's life, desire for fame, rise to the top, ambition, theater, youth, teachers and students, celebrity culture, showbiz, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, backstage ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
london, england, europe, palestine
Similarity:
44%
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:
psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, couples, letter, adultery, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, high society, suffering, betrayal ...
Time:
1910s, year 2005
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
43%
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:
sexual, avant garde, art house, anthology, cult classic ...
Plot:
sex, love, decadence, nudity, photograph, marriage, husband wife relationship, violence, obsession, porn, group sex, desire ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
43%
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, atmospheric, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
couple relations, love triangle, filmmaking, couples, infidelity, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, rehearsal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
43%
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, emotional, romantic, scenic, stylized ...
Plot:
adultery, love, love affair, filmmaking, lieutenant, infidelity, destructive relationship, society, social differences, love story, doomed romance, love triangle ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 80s, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
england, britain, france, europe, london
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 210 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, sexy, black and white, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
sex scene, cafe, love triangle, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, love affair, tragic love, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, new york, hamburg germany, europe ...
Similarity:
40%
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, stylized, humorous, witty, intellectual ...
Plot:
sex scene, farce, existentialism, art, life philosophy, love and romance, actor's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, theater, writer's life, female nudity ...
Time:
1900s, year 1998, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
america, new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style:
sensual, black and white, art house, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
married woman, love triangle, nudity, unwanted pregnancy, birth control, magazine, in love, unfaithful wife, society, couples, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
1940s, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
37%
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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:
psychological, slasher, realistic, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
obsession, prison, love and romance, femme fatale, aging, mentally unstable, unlikely couple, dishonesty, destructive relationship, hidden identity, fall in love, losing-it hero ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, africa, north africa
Similarity:
36%
643
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
No Overview
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, love affair, friendship, couples, love and romance, intrigue, couple relations, dishonesty, elderly, terminal illness, suicidal thoughts, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
36%
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, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
suicide, female nudity, minimalism, jealousy, spirituality, spirit, nude girl, social outcast, existentialism, alienation, post war, hamlet ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
36%
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:
serious, realistic, captivating, stylized
Plot:
filmmaking, prison life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, isolation, maverick, celebrity, prisoner, kgb, filmmaker, biopic, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
ukraine, russia, georgia, armenia, caucasus ...
Similarity:
35%
519
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A once-powerful, but now ailing movie director nears the end of his life. As he awaits death, he slips into a "dream" and is shown three "snippets" of the movie of his son's life. At first suspicious, then curious, and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, touching, emotional, spiritual ...
Plot:
filmmaking, introspection, self discovery, a vision, aging, family relations, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, father and son, love, friendship, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
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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:
sexual, intellectual, black and white, depressing, neo noir ...
Plot:
neglected wife, love triangle, flight attendant, adultery, doomed romance, airport, infidelity, love, marriage, mistress, transformation, swing ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, lisbon portugal, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A schizophrenic romantic tracks down her college sweetheart to help her find their son she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago to the dismay of his new wife.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, offbeat ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, lost love, on the road, love and romance, couple relations, tragic romance, skinny dipping, psychologist, family relations, love, kidnapping, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, year 1982
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, southern california, san francisco ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
swimming, swimming pool, love affair, family relations, human nature, lifestyle, writer's life, artists and showbiz, parents and children, love, secret, impossible love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
33%
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, serious, psychological, realistic, depressing ...
Plot:
love, lost love, passion, couples, hospital, casino, fall in love, gambling, hotel, beach, love and romance, dealing with death ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, paris france, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
33%
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:
dramatic, aesthetic, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, hippie, age difference, forbidden love, lolita, older man younger woman sex, older man teenage girl relationship, illicit affair, female nudity, girl, hitchhiker ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
33%
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, jealousy, infidelity, couple relations, existentialism, surveillance, adaptation, storytelling, love and romance, artists and showbiz, showbiz, lesbian ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
31%
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, erotic, melancholic, light, intense ...
Plot:
one night stand, male female relationship, female orgasm, love triangle, infidelity, friendship, interracial romance, couples, adultery, justice, adaptation, dialogue ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, california, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
31%
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