Movies like The Five Senses
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The Five Senses (1999)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three sets of tenants in a live/work building have daily lives and/or current stories acutely involving one or more of the five senses.
Style:
touching, clever, emotional, psychological, erotic, non-linear, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, missing person, existentialism, melancholy, looking for love, love and romance, family problems, unfulfillment, food, voyeurism, psychology, polyamory, love, death, restaurant, guilt, drinking, erotica, lgbt, chef, deaf, glbt, sex, female nudity, threesome ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
milan italy, toronto ontario canada, canada
Keyword:
french, reading, watching a movie, doctors, jewish
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, crying and semi serious films with plots about couples, love and romance, family relations, kiss, sex, friendship and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Five Senses: Second Skin (1999), Twist and Shout (1984), Last Wedding (2001), Wonderland (1999), Saraband (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Diego is a doctor who has fallen in love with a married man with a son. Against the advice of his boss and best friend, he continues his affair with Alberto. The consequences of this affair profoundly alter not only the two men's lives, but ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, psychological, eros ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay sex, lgbt, gay, love triangle, infidelity, gays and lesbians, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, love affair, gay husband ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, female nudity, traumatic childhood, age difference, adolescence, older woman younger man, family relations, pregnancy, friendship, dating, hide and seek, friends ...
Time:
80s, 60s, year 1963
Place:
antwerp, denmark, copenhagen, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Three couples in Vancouver navigate their relationships: first jobs, first crises, professional jealousy, an affair, and lack of communication. Noah and Zipporah marry after a brief courtship. She wants to be a singer and stalls out when she fails. ...
Style:
humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, love affair, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, couples, family problems, looking for love, parents and children, human nature, hopes ...
Place:
vancouver, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, talky, erotic ...
Plot:
working class, loneliness, life, multiple storylines, existentialism, parents and children, couple relations, society, relationships, sister sister relationship, missing person, melancholy ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
london, los angeles, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The movie is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1973), where we revisit the characters of Johan and Marianne, then a married couple. After their divorce, Johan and Marianne haven't seen each other for 32 years. Marianne is still ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, meditative, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, marriage, parenthood, character study, introspection, love and romance, parents and children, human nature, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, hopes ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
eastern europe, munich germany, helsinki finland, florence, hamburg germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Follows two New York city couples -- one heterosexual and one gay who explore the peaks and the valleys of their respective relationships.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, independent film, clever, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
gay, couples, gays and lesbians, love and romance, lgbt, gay relationship, family relations, one night stand, nothing goes right, disorder, gay wedding, lgbtq ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Is love compatible with coupledom? And what of freedom and fidelity? These are some of the questions facing two married men.
Style:
witty, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, sex comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
midlife crisis, love, marriage, friendship, battle of the sexes, pregnancy, infidelity, introspection, lifestyle, love affair, buddies, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother and old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, alcoholic, small town, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, family life, parents and children, family gatherings, human nature, life is a bitch, lesbian ...
Place:
nova scotia, nova scotia, canada, canada, australia, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This is the story of human beings who know exactly what they'd do if they were somebody else, but can't handle being themselves very well, who are very simply struggling to find out who they are.
Style:
stylized, lyrical, semi serious, sincere, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, family relations, music, parents and children, writer's life, couples, family problems, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
couples, introspection, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, parents and children, midlife crisis, lovers reunited, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
argentina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh ...
Style:
road movie, sentimental, touching, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family friendly
Plot:
lesbian, aids, friendship, women, road trip, pregnancy, gay, hiv, lgbtq, female friendship, on the road, female bonding ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, san diego california, tucson arizona, pakistan, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, entertaining, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, year 1991
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Disparate individuals rationalize their infidelities.
Style:
sexy, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, writers, eccentricity, character study, complex characters, family relations, homecoming, unlikely friendships, family problems, couple relations, unlikely couple ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, michigan, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
oral sex, food, feminism, self discovery, friendship, betrayal, family relations, suburbs, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, infidelity, elderly ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, independent film, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, redemption, character study, family relations, childhood, parents and children, nursing, siblings relations, cheerleader ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, infidelity, gay relationship, family relations, fall in love, friendship, pregnancy, love triangle, looking for love, couple relations, gay couple ...
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
An ensemble cast telling 10 stories with intertwining characters. One story is about a father and son who are dating the same woman . Another features a woman who long ago gave her baby up for adoption but is now being blackmailed by a documentary ...
Style:
semi serious, clever, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, sexual relations, adoption, gay teenager, dysfunctional family, gay, lesbian, lesbian couple, gays and lesbians, relationships, family relations, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1983, 21st century
Place:
phoenix arizona, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
interracial relations, pregnancy, love affair, love triangle, couples, family problems, hopes, single parent, society, couple relations, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the ...
Style:
anthology, mind bending, comedy drama, erotic, independent film ...
Plot:
nudity, infidelity, male nudity, sex club, gay interest, cheating wife, bare chested male, male pubic hair, erotica, opera, making love, dancing ...
Time:
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Place:
albania, vienna, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Style:
emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, couples, family problems, parents and children, down on your luck, addiction, hopes, unfulfillment, breakup, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man (Lukas Haas) encounters a childhood friend (Adam Scott) who had an affair with his wife (Molly Parker) five years earlier.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Man in relationship connects with another man and tries to make love-triangle work. (Canadian)
Style:
psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, novelist, breakup, serial killer, introspection, gay, couples, tragic love, drug abuse, lifestyle, love and romance, moral dilemma ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to ...
Style:
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Plot:
dysfunctional family, loneliness, guilt, family relations, coma, family life, family problems, couple relations, society, crumbling marriage, single parent, parents and children ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Style:
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Plot:
love affair, sex with stepmother, infidelity, love triangle, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, couples, parents and children, couple relations, fall in love ...
Place:
usa, tennessee, memphis, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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30%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Through an Internet service, a Montreal professor arranges for himself a Mexican bride. But both husband and wife, even with their good intentions, are in for a bumpy ride toward marital harmony.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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30%
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