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La chinoise (1967)
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La chinoise (1967)
Original name: La Chinoise
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Style: political, philosophical, artsy, art house, cult classic, thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, talky ...
Plot: revolution, communism, politics, anarchist, protest, marxist, hippie, anarchy, communist, isolation, legal, exodus, reform, modernism, dialectical materialism, university, marxism, roommate, youth, student life, rebellion, fighting the system, society, satire, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 1960s
Place: france, paris france, europe, usa, britain, united kingdom, soviet union ...
Keyword: oldies, new wave

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and clever films with plots about society, politics, french new wave, satire, couples, state affairs and female nudity mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like La chinoise: Joy of Learning (1969), Masculin Féminin (1966), Just Great (1972), Weekend (1967), Band of Outsiders (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Joy of Learning (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late ...
Style: eros, avant garde, contemplative, tense, talky ...
Plot: revolution, politics, hipster, repression, black panthers, theory, television studio, education, man in underwear, marxism, philosophy, capitalism ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france, america, vietnam, cuba ...
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Two or Three Things I Know About Her... (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of a housewife who must work the streets to earn an extra living - and who becomes the starting point for a larger socio-political essay.
Style: absurd, surreal, political, cynical, talky ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, sex, satire, vietnam war, society, obsession, female nudity, social commentary, coffee, anarchist, european ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: paris france, france, vietnam, europe, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Masculin Féminin (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine (Chantal Goya, a real life Yé-yé girl).
Style: intellectual, philosophical, talky, clever, erotic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: counterculture, women, relationships, politics, revolution, hippie, european, sexuality, social commentary, violence, sex, hipster ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Just Great (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Godard examines the structure of movies, relationships and revolutions through the life of a couple in Paris.
Style: surreal, political, contemplative, clever, witty ...
Plot: reporter, strike, dialectical materialism, female journalist, love, chaos, anarchism, anarchy, communism, revolution, factory, politics ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place: france, paris france, asia, vietnam, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Weekend (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Style: black comedy, road movie, surreal, disturbing, experimental ...
Plot: satire, surrealism, cannibalism, murder, violence, traffic jam, anarchism, road trip, nihilism, cruelty, car accident, car crash ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Band of Outsiders (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, neo noir, postmodern, talky ...
Plot: robbery, love triangle, gunfight, alienation, caper, crime gone awry, danger, louvre, teenage girl, modernism, isolation, time travel ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Irma Vep (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
Style: stylized, art house, witty, clever, surreal ...
Plot: filmmaking, latex, cat burglar, actress playing herself, nervous breakdown, satire, culture clash, kung fu, paranoia, hotel, slave, fantomas ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The European equivalent of "The Return of the Secaucus 7," this Swiss film looks at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; ...
Style: talky, experimental, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: utopia, anarchist, politics, rebellion, protest, civil unrest, bohemian, professor, friends, couples, idealism, self discovery ...
Time: future, year 1976, 60s, 70s
Place: switzerland, paris france, geneva switzerland, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Six in Paris (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place ...
Style: anthology, semi serious, realistic
Plot: society, human nature, prostitute, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, destructive relationship, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, city life, love affair, down on your luck ...
Time: 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Early Works (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Inspired by Karl Marx's "Das Kapital", three men and a girl named Jugoslava decide to wake up the conscience within the working class and peasants. Faced with the primitivism and a lack of morale, their revolution fails and the girl ...
Style: black and white, biting, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: revolution, black, protest, revolutionary, politics, feminism, sexual content, coming of age, youth, state affairs, society, rebellion ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: slovakia, balkan, former yugoslavia, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Carabineers (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story: During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.
Style: cult classic, thought provoking, biting, cynical, surreal ...
Plot: exodus, satire, anti war, battles, military life, down on your luck, betrayal, war, life is a bitch, imaginary, military, soldier ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: middle east, usa, africa, egypt, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Something in the Air (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, political, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, politics, teenage life, self discovery, fighting the system, rebellion, society, youth, working class, counterculture, riot ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1968, year 1971, 60s
Place: france, europe, paris france, florence, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Age of Panic (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunday in Paris: two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy ...
Style: realistic, humorous, emotional, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: politics, family relations, parents and children, state affairs, journalist, election, ex husband ex wife relationship, child custody, love, rivalry, society, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: fashion, counterculture, fashion industry, satire, model, fashion model, hippie, designer, swing, lust, modernism, art ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The socialist mayor of a small village in France dreams of building an arts center but he runs up against some opposition.
Style: satirical, semi serious, realistic, cynical, biting ...
Plot: architecture, satire, french teacher, social relations, couples, opposites attract, politics, society, small town life, small town, rural setting, environmental ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Very Well, Thank You (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The tough lives of two ordinary individuals: Alex, an accountant and his wife Béatrice, a taxi driver.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, biting
Plot: life turned upside down, life is a bitch, fighting the system, injustice, society, wrongfully committed, satire, loss of job, husband wife relationship, taxi driver, disorder, mental institution ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Let's Have a Brainwash (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New ...
Style: anthology, contemplative, surreal, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: human relationship, religion, italian neorealism, love letter, thief, stewardess, satire, post-apocalyptic future, society, human nature, religions or cults, nuclear holocaust ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Stolen Kisses (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, ...
Style: humorous, art house, anthology, detective, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: private detective, existentialism, relationships, adultery, prostitution, coming of age, hotel room, swing, couples, female nudity, european, new love ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, montmartre paris, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Tomorrow's Another Day (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Such an inconsequential event - the unfortunate purchase of a package of cling film - reveals the character and behavior of a small group of individuals caught up in the chaos of today's society. Though it creates arguments and inner ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, clever, offbeat
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, couple relations, human nature, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, couples, friends, unfulfillment, cellist, suicide, car accident ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Little Soldier (1963)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man ...
Style: political, black and white, political thriller, serious, realistic ...
Plot: spy, algerian war, assassination, politics, assassin, fighting the system, revolution, death, hotel, torture, lovers, exodus ...
Time: year 1958, 1950s
Place: algeria, switzerland, france, europe, geneva switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Witness (1969)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Known as the best satire about communism, banned for over a decade in Hungary. 'The Witness' has become a cult classic, well received by critics and general audiences when it was finally released outside of Hungary. 'The Witness' ...
Style: satirical, black comedy, parody, cult classic, dark comedy ...
Plot: satire, communism, society, political satire, dark humor, corruption, world war two, totalitarian regime, bureaucracy, social criticism, corrupt, meat ...
Time: year 1969, 50s, 1950s
Place: hungary, budapest, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.7
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Detective (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a ...
Style: neo noir, detective, contemplative, tense, talky ...
Plot: murder, minimalism, cop, mafia, female nudity, gangster, legal investigation, police investigation, dishonesty, against the rules, going straight, femme fatale ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.
Style: anthology, thought provoking, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: filmmaking, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, world spanning, cinema, surrealism, filmmaker, art, film history, artist, cowboy, respect ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, portugal, europe, africa, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Film socialisme (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned ...
Style: serious, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, avant garde ...
Plot: family relations, politics, parents and children, state affairs, society, ship, social differences, parent child relationship, justice, filmmaking, family business, marxist ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, barcelona, africa, italy, palestinian authority ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Hi, Mom! (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Vietnam vet John Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwhich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, funny, social, cult classic ...
Plot: surveillance, problem, adult film industry, african, blaxploitation, film industry, comedian, social satire, surrealism, voyeurism, peeping tom, manipulation ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: new york, vietnam, usa, asia, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Trotsky (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public ...
Style: realistic, witty, not serious, humorous, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, revolution, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, rebelliousness, fighting the system, youth, destiny, teenage life, reincarnation, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Grassroots (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Grant Cogswell, a liberal music critic decides to run for city council against a popular black incumbent and is assisted by a reporter who recently lost his job. Initially given no chance, things turn dark when Cogswell makes it into the general ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, political ...
Plot: politics, ambition, satire, against the odds, society, campaign, friends, unemployment, election campaign, political campaign, campaigning, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.7
 699
Running Mates (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A governor running for President gets revealed to be a serial philanderer.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, political, biting
Plot: campaign, rise to the top, lifestyle, ambition, fighting the system, democrat, love affair, political intrigue, workplace, society, head of state, legal ...
Time: 90s
Place: michigan, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters ...
Style: art house, independent film, artsy, talky, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: crazy love, european, female bonding, love letter, culture clash, friendship, best friend, friends, village, urban, twentysomething life, village life ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Your Excellency (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, cynical, biting, offbeat ...
Plot: politics, satire, true love, humanism, ideology, power struggle, corruption, diplomacy, leader, ambassador, military coup, rebellion ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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