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The Girl on the Bridge (1999)
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Original name: La Fille sur le pont
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.
Style:
black and white, psychological, touching, humorous, stylized, sentimental, heartbreaking, serious, anthology, postmodern ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
starting over, love, older man younger woman relationship, knife thrower, life & death, loneliness, sexuality, mentor, existentialism, haunted by the past, suicidal, sex, relationships, circus, love story, gambling, secrets, older man younger woman romance, amor, luck, male female relationship, psychologist, ocean liner, bride and groom, psychology ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
paris france, france, greece, europe, italy, istanbul turkey, turkey ...
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Most similar movies to The Girl on the Bridge
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, touching and talky films with plots about couples, love and romance, love, fall in love, relationships, couple relations and male female relationship mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Girl on the Bridge: Happenstance (2000), The Housekeeper (2002), A Heart in Winter (1992), Le Week-End (2013), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
How, thanks to what's known as the "Butterfly theory" (a random series of unlinked events), can a young woman and a young man meet?
Style:
melancholic, stylized, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
destiny, coincidence, chance meeting, butterfly effect, chaos, love and romance, couples, couple relations, naked man, old woman, stranger, depression ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life ...
Style:
romantic, enigmatic, art house, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
homeless, beggar, painting, love story, painter, crazy love, couple relations, fall in love, boat, water skiing, loneliness, love affair ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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:
housekeeper, self discovery, midlife crisis, beach volleyball, father daughter relationship, human nature, love affair, starting over, couple relations, fall in love, police investigation, family drama ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, brittany, tokyo ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Style:
psychological, heartbreaking, anthology, art house, sincere ...
Plot:
love, classical music, violin, passion, unrequited love, music, obsession, violinist, love story, passionate love, glamour, asexual ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, amsterdam, vienna ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage ...
Style:
touching, sincere, humorous, happy, powerful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elderly lovers, elderly, dark humor, weekend, love and romance, life is a bitch, aging, verbal byplay, crumbling marriage, old man, marijuana, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, montmartre paris, france, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, surreal, art house, sexual ...
Plot:
satire, surrealism, humiliation, sexuality, sex scene, unrequited love, manipulation, maid, female nudity, frustration, rich man, absurd humor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1977, 70s
Place:
paris france, spain, europe, madrid, france
Similarity:
100%
37K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together...but is their meeting purely coincidence?
Style:
reflective, philosophical, emotional, black and white, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
angel, love story, life philosophy, loneliness, relationships, gangster, twists and turns, destiny, disorder, prostitute, blonde, redemption ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, y2k
Place:
paris france, tibet, europe, france, seattle ...
Similarity:
100%
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, realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
beautician, bare breasts, beauty salon, coworker relationship, travel agent, eavesdropping, loneliness, older woman younger man relationship, aunt niece relationship, massage, new year's eve, christmas ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, light, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, love, dating, loneliness, happiness, love story, ex convict, food ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include ...
Style:
anthology, stylized, clever, romantic, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, tourist, love story, multiple storylines, dating, loneliness, love, new love, looking for love, storytelling, gay, justice ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, montmartre paris, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A group of strangers find friendship, family and love within an Italian beginners’ course.
Style:
touching, melancholic, romantic comedy, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, dogme 95, culture clash, fall in love, hotel, dogma, starting over, lifestyle, couples, food, love story, relationships ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
italy, venice, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Antoine is a maitre d' in a Paris brasserie, Chez Jean, and is so full of being of service to others that he can't say 'no'. Late for dinner with his girlfriend, Christine, he takes a shortcut home through the park but finds a ...
Style:
romantic, compassionate, light, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, farce, nothing goes right, suicide attempt, fall in love, love, mentor, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, rescue, restaurant ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
france, paris france, europe, brittany, seattle ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style:
stylized, disturbing, melancholic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
jealous husband, love story, female nudity, brutality, lifestyle, dishonesty, actor's life, couple relations, journalism, couples, relationship vs career, sex ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
waitress, fall in love, pianist, friendship, reconciliation, lifestyle, couples, artists and showbiz, couple relations, collector, terminal illness, marital problem ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
28%
14K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, sensual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, cafe, unlikely couple, love triangle, loss of loved one, office romance, love affair, bereavement, grief, death of husband, employer employee relationship, elevator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
FOR LOVERS ONLY is a story of a MAN and a WOMAN in love. After seeing each other for the first time in years while on separate work assignments in Paris, the LOVERS flee together and travel by train, car and motorcycle, as their love affair takes ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, realistic, black and white, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, photograph, couples, on the road, haunted by the past, lovers reunited, photographer, photography, journey, fall in love, self discovery, art ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, french riviera, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The film centres on a retired, widowed professor living in Paris who develops a special relationship with a younger French woman.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, heartbreaking, sad ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
estrangement, elderly, passion, loneliness, chance meeting, death of wife, character study, suicide attempt, friendship, odd couple, dancer, optimism ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, belgium, brussels
Similarity:
27%
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, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot:
jealous lover, temptation, female nudity, crazy love, love, urban setting, youth, loneliness, sadness, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, seduction ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a British seaside resort, several lives intertwine following the funeral of a gay restaurant owner
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, talky ...
Plot:
adultery, gay, infidelity, glbt, sex in car, unfaithfulness, eccentricity, relationships, love and romance, love affair, multiple storylines, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2001, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, france, london, prague
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, sex comedy, controversial ...
Plot:
sex addict, sensuality, making love, sex scene, dating, forbidden love, nudity, bachelor, female nudity, writers, relationships, nude girl ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Julien and Emma are brother and sister, living in rural France with their father, who writes children's books. Julien is a gifted pianist but the loss of his mother has sucked the joie de vivre out of him; his best friend Alice knows it ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, starting over, love and romance, hopes, teenage life, couples, human nature, family problems, gays and lesbians, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the woman he left to instead follow an easier path in life.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, love affair, couples, love, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, children, father in law daughter in law relationship, older man younger woman relationship, breakup ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, hong kong, montreal
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Adam Goldberg delivers "an uproarious study in transatlantic culture panic" as Jack, an anxious, hypochondriac-prone New Yorker vacationing throughout Europe with his breezy, free-spirited Parisian girlfriend, Marion. But when they make a ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, romantic, witty, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
male nudity, profanity, parenthood, fish out of water, society, lifestyle, relationship problems, relationships, hipster, taxi driver, lovers, vacation ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, venice, new york ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. ...
Style:
philosophical, sentimental, sexy, intellectual, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, chance meeting, destiny, lovers, tourist, young lovers, fall in love, relationships, coincidence, love story, teenage girl, stranger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
vienna, austria, europe, france, los angeles ...
Similarity:
25%
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, anthology, art house, contemplative, talky ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
female nudity, passion, love and romance, infidelity, crazy love, glamour, affair, illicit affair, marriage, love, love affair, desire ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
suicide attempt, depression, love triangle, redemption, mental health, mental illness, family relations, fall in love, dark humor, hopes, human nature, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, ireland, california
Similarity:
25%
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:
meditative, witty, melancholic, 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, london, paris france ...
Similarity:
25%
12K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
Style:
sexy, costume drama, sexual, period piece, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, age difference, older woman younger man sex, lovers, lost love, longing, prostitution, desire, prostitute, love story, male female relationship, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century, edwardian era, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The South of France. Internationally famous pianist Aurore collapses one night during a performance, over-exhausted from too many concerts. Tired of music, she believes she no longer has anything to offer her public. Then she meets Jean, an ...
Style:
emotional, romantic, captivating, humorous, light ...
Plot:
couple relations, romantic relationship, couples, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, musician's life, life turned upside down, love triangle, love, infidelity, concert ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex, love, fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, siblings relations, family life, couple relations, introspection, youth, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
25%
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