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The Flower of My Secret (1995)
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The Flower of My Secret (1995)
Original name: La flor de mi secreto
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 happy relationship with her husband Paco, a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally.
Style: clever, erotic, art house, hispanic, sensual, psychological, tense, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: women, writers, obsession, suicide attempt, love and romance, surrealism, old woman, daily life, parent child relationship, novelist, midlife crisis, journalism, couples, self discovery, infidelity, family problems, strong female presence, introspection, writer's life, crumbling marriage, journal, artists and showbiz, hopes, unfulfillment, couple relations ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, tokyo, madrid
Keyword: gangsters, doctors, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and serious films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, infidelity, family problems and family relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Flower of My Secret: High Heels (1991), Plans for Tomorrow (2010), Dark Habits (1983), The Romantic Englishwoman (1975), One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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High Heels (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: High Heels is a murder mystery comedy centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo and her daughter Rebecca, a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life when she comes to perform a concert. ...
Style: sentimental, art house, enigmatic, serious, sexy ...
Plot: transvestism, murder, obsession, guilt, women, mother daughter reunion, family relations, couples, lgbt, mother daughter relationship, lgbtq, transvestite ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 70s
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, caribbean ...
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95%
Plans for Tomorrow (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Three stories intertwined which occur in a single day. The day Ines discovers she is pregnant, Antonia decides to abandon her family and Marian realizes she is going to die.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: pregnancy, friendship, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, introspection, singleness, woman in danger, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Dark Habits (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.
Style: dark comedy, erotic, surreal, social, hispanic ...
Plot: satire, lgbt, catholic, catholic church, gays and lesbians, nun, drug addiction, religion, gay, lgbtq, surrealism, sin ...
Time: year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: What is real and what is fiction? Faced with writer's block with his novel, Lewis Fielding turns to a film script about a woman finding herself after his wife Elizabeth returns from Baden Baden. She didn't quite find herself there but had ...
Style: psychological, humorous, light, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: novelist, poet, drug smuggling, manipulation, dishonesty, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love triangle, family problems, writers, infidelity, writer's block ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
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, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, crumbling marriage, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, ...
Style: sexy, romantic, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot: infidelity, feminist, love triangle, satire, women, child abuse, domestic violence, abuse, domestic abuse, adultery, housewife, marital problem ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, enigmatic, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, female protagonist, farce, adultery, twists and turns, frustration, suicide attempt, couple relations, women, satire, mental health, male female relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, year 1998, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: family life, self discovery, midlife crisis, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, unfulfillment, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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To Return (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their ...
Style: black comedy, emotional, dark comedy, touching, hispanic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: secret, death, ghost, rape, child abuse, lust, twists and turns, family secret, dark secret, superstition, adultery, women ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, stylized, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, male pubic hair, grandmother grandson relationship, telekinesis, pedophilia, exhibitionist, dressmaker, dark humor, male nudity, domestic abuse, maid ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, germany, europe ...
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55%
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Old Love (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. LOVE COMES LATELY is a ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological
Plot: love and romance, friendship, couples, couple relations, youth, looking for love, introspection, society, teachers and students, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
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55%
How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, dog, single parent, writers, introspection, couple relations, family life, parents and children, family problems, family relations, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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53%
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Empty Nest (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: aging, couples, couple relations, midlife crisis, family relations, family problems, elderly, parents and children, love and romance, leaving home, college, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: friendship, age difference, senior citizen, couples, friends, human nature, introspection, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, unfulfillment, writer's life ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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51%
The Bilingual Lover (1993)
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: humorous, erotic, sentimental, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, hidden identity, couples, disorder, obsession, love, fetish, health, architecture, sex, eroticism, nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, barcelona, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Cleopatra (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A retired teacher and a soap star leave their routines and the men in their lives behind and embark on a weekend trip.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, self discovery, friendship, human nature, on the road, introspection, looking for love, best friend, family business, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
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50%
Signs & Wonders (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Style: serious, realistic, clever, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: infidelity, introspection, love affair, life turned upside down, love triangle, couple relations, crumbling marriage, betrayal, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, germany, greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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How to Be (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and become his personal life coach.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, melancholic ...
Plot: introspection, coming of age, self discovery, unfulfillment, lifestyle, hopes, artists and showbiz, youth, musician, psychology, musician's life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Kika (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him. They might live happily ...
Style: sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, tabloid journalism, stepfather stepson relationship, murder disguised as suicide, escaped prisoner, voyeurism, masturbation, gays and lesbians, photographer, lgbt, lesbian, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Love at the Top (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The relationship between a successful businessman and a prostitute is exploited by a cynical novelist.
Style: satirical, erotic, biting, talky, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: manipulation, love, murder, old friend, womanizer, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, quitting job, election campaign, cuckold, bare breasts, sexuality ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Marie and Bruce (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A day in the life of a couple trapped in a sadomasochistic relationship. When Marie decides to break up with Bruce, their conversation devolves into a torrent of foul-mouthed rippings and ferociously humorous musings on their marriage, love, hate ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, introspection, family problems, crumbling marriage, unsupportive spouse, women, couples, urban, city life, unfulfillment, couple relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
My Mother Likes Women (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: "Sofia introduces her three adult daughters to her new lover who is their age and happens to be a woman. The women, in particular Elvira find it extremely difficult to accept their mothers sudden apparent sexual reversal. The news pushes the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian seduction, gays and lesbians, family relations, lgbt, friendship, couple relations, youth, unfulfillment, lifestyle, looking for love, gay ...
Place: spain, europe, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Door in the Floor (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East ...
Style: psychological, emotional, erotic, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: writers, older woman younger man relationship, writer's life, dysfunctional family, masturbation, infidelity, unfaithful wife, older woman younger man sex, literature, art, cheating wife, secrets ...
Time: year 2004, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Amour Fou (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A "romantic comedy" based loosely on the suicide of the poet Henrich von Kleist in 1811.
Style: atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Plot: poet, suicide, couples, love and romance, writer's life, tragic love, playwright, aristocracy, loneliness, writers, society, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, 18th century
Place: germany, europe, prussia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Live Flesh (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
Style: sexy, psychological, intense, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, lust, unfaithful wife, nudity, disability, obsession, desire, older woman younger man, betrayal, sex, love triangle, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1970, year 1990 ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, sarajevo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Only When I Laugh (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the terrors of returning to work with the demands of all around her with humor and insight, while ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, clever, talky ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, drug, alcoholic, slice of life, women, best friend, socialite, drunkenness, parent child relationship, alcoholism, bittersweet, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Love After Love (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.
Style: contemplative, thought provoking, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, adultery, couples, dark humor, family problems, breakup, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, love and romance, dishonesty, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Rated R (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Madrid, Spain, 1975. Sandra, Lina and Eva are three beautiful women who work as actresses in erotic movies. After meeting during a shoot, they become friends and begin to share experiences, concerns and successes in an era of increasing openness, ...
Style: erotic, humorous, realistic, serious, sexy ...
Plot: filmmaking, erotica, friends, couples, love and romance, friendship, porn actress, society, artists and showbiz, actress, eroticism, erotic fantasy ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Heartburn (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living ...
Style: melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: journalism, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, divorce, journalist, battle of the sexes, cheating, marriage, writers, infidelity, crumbling marriage, fall in love ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 349
In the Heart (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Masha (37) is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
Style: touching, psychological, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: couple relations, tragic love, love and romance, parents and children, terminal illness, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, relationships, fighting illness, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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