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Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)
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Ae Fond Kiss... (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, romantic, offbeat, serious, crying, erotic, sexy ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: racism, culture clash, forbidden love, immigrant, prejudice, marriage, immigration, family relations, love, tragic love, society, social commentary, interracial romance, muslim, religion, interracial love, sex, islam, chase, british, drinking, impossible love, refugee, sensuality, black ...
Time: year 2004, 70s
Place: scotland, britain, glasgow scotland, spain, pakistan, manchester, berlin germany ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about couples, love and romance, love, society, family relations, sex and female nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Ae Fond Kiss...: Head-On (2004), The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002), Ali and Nino (2016), Close My Eyes (1991), Solomon & Gaenor (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Head-On (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style: psychological, depressing, bleak, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, marriage, immigrant, culture clash, love story, relationships, loneliness, sex, love affair, drug, self esteem, self destructing ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
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The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. ...
Style: controversial, harsh, stylized, touching, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lust, abortion, celibacy, religion, clergy, forbidden love, priest in love, catholicism, corruption, sin, priest, hypocrisy ...
Time: year 2002
Place: mexico, latin america
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100%
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: hotel, boarding house, spinster, female nudity, desperation, loneliness, piano, mental disorder, psychopath, aging, betrayal, bittersweet ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, america, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ali and Nino (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Azerbaijan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight ...
Style: romantic, disturbing, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing, date night
Plot: muslim, couples, turk, world war one, society, impossible love, christian, secret love, family relations, love and romance, friendship, forbidden love ...
Place: azerbaijan, georgia, caucasus
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Close My Eyes (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
Style: realistic, serious, sensual, stylized, bleak ...
Plot: incest, forbidden love, brother sister incest, taboo, brother sister relationship, incestuous sex, unfaithful wife, brother sister sex, marriage, couple relations, infidelity, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place: london
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50%
Solomon & Gaenor (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating ...
Style: independent film, historical drama, sad, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, anti semitism, couples, conquering, family relations, interfaith relationship, bittersweet, single parent, fall in love, life is a bitch, opposites attract, love and romance ...
Time: edwardian era, year 1999, 1910s, 20th century
Place: wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Mississippi Masala (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
Style: romantic, light, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, immigrant, culture clash, interracial relations, racial prejudice, indians, stereotypes, family drama, honest, love affair, opposites attract, fall in love ...
Time: year 1991, 70s, 20th century, year 1990, year 1972
Place: mississippi, uganda, africa, india, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Carla's Song (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Spain, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A Glasgow man (Robert Carlyle) visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee (Oyanka Cabezas) tormented by her memories.
Style: political, independent film, thought provoking, tense, serious ...
Plot: bus driver, civil war, refugee, politics, bus, revolution, spy, international relations, immigrant, american imperialism, amor, black ...
Time: year 1996, 80s, 90s
Place: glasgow scotland, scotland, europe, nicaragua
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Broken English (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at a restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: culture clash, interracial relations, dysfunctional family, sex, violence, interracial romance, hospital, wine, chase, erotica, migration, interracial ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new zealand, europe, former yugoslavia, oceania, bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Heart of Me (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfaithful husband, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place: london, england, europe
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26%
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic ...
Style: art house, political, atmospheric, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: racism, immigrant, older woman younger man relationship, relationships, female nudity, working class, culture clash, foreigner, marriage, loneliness, age-gap relationship, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place: germany, morocco, munich germany, west germany, europe ...
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The Governess (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, society, love affair, loss of virginity, nanny, older man younger woman relationship, jewess, couple relations, master and servant, male nudity, love triangle ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1998, 1800s
Place: scotland, england, london, britain, middle east ...
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26%
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Flirting (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic ...
Style: realistic, touching, romantic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, friendship, interracial relations, high school, bullying, male nudity, love, teenage life, male pubic hair, teenage love, character study ...
Time: 60s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1965
Place: australia, uganda, paris france, kenya, africa
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25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
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Style: romantic, sexy, erotic, scenic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
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25%
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Country: Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: gay, homosexual, immigrant, self discovery, forbidden love, lifestyle, teenage life, culture clash, family relations, human nature, youth, society ...
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada, new york, hong kong, manhattan new york city
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25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Style: realistic, touching, contemplative, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: working class, alcoholic, drug, drug addiction, profanity, friendship, debt, bowling, football, drug addict, social outcast, recovery ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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25%
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Jungle Fever (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, controversial ...
Audience: date night
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Country: UK, Italy
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Style: emotional, erotic, melancholic, meditative, serious ...
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Audience: teens
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Against the background of an Australian desert landscape, so much space and so few people, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. The end of the ...
Style: emotional, stylized, captivating, atmospheric, sincere ...
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Duration: 99 min.
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24%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style: touching, heartbreaking, romantic, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: date night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: realistic, romantic, teen, intense, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, coming of age, culture clash, high school, love, father daughter relationship, relationships, teenager, young lovers, loneliness, unhappiness, self destructing ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.8
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One More Kiss (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Camila (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both ...
Style: romantic, cult classic, manga, captivating, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, priest in love, love, girl, first love, religion, sensuality, tragic love, village life, village, social differences, small town ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Firelight (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, feel good, sexy ...
Plot: fall in love, governess, love affair, couples, victorian england, estate, nanny, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, british, love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1840s, 1830s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Style: romantic, touching, realistic, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 90s, post world war two
Place: san francisco, california, sacramento california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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