Movies like Claire's Knee

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Claire's Knee (1970)
 7.5
 12K
Claire's Knee (1970)
Original name: Le Genou de Claire
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.
Style: sentimental, thought provoking, spiritual, existential, sensitive, talky, relaxing, sexy, clever, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: summer, older man young girl relationship, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, teenage girl, glamour, age difference, love, erotica, time travel, relationships, writers, spirit, dialogue, fetish, sadness, mediterranean, sensuality, marriage, french girl, nymphet, ethical dilemma, amor, love triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s, 1960s
Place: france, europe
Keyword: avant-garde, new wave

Most similar movies to Claire's Knee

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, clever, talky and contemplative films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, love, fall in love, crazy love and love affair mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Claire's Knee: Pauline at the Beach (1983), Lolita (1962), The Mother and the Whore (1973), One Wild Moment (2015), Chloe in the Afternoon (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pauline at the Beach (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emtying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday . Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and ...
Style: erotic, witty, sensitive, anthology, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: womanizer, beach, coming of age, girl man relationship, naked woman, love, jealousy, vacation, dialogue, relationships, love story, fall in love ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, mediterranean sea, normandy
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 7.5
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Lolita (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's ...
Style: sexual, disturbing, psychological, sexy, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: forbidden love, lolita, age difference, pedophilia, girl man relationship, seduction, older man younger woman relationship, lust, teenage girl, nymphet, obsession, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1962, near future, 1950s ...
Place: new hampshire, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 217 min.
Story: In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous ...
Style: sexual, thought provoking, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot: sex scene, cafe, prostitute, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, tragic love, love affair, lifestyle, against the rules ...
Time: 20th century, year 1973, 60s, 70s
Place: france, paris france, new york, europe, vienna ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
One Wild Moment (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Antoine and Laurent, old friends, spend their vacation in Corsica with their respective daughters: seventeen-year-old Louna and eighteen-year-old Marie. One evening at the beach, Louna seduces Laurent. Louna is in love, but for Laurent it was ...
Style: erotic, emotional, romantic, sentimental, witty ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, older man young girl relationship, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, sex with teenager, lust, older man younger woman sex, sex with a minor, sexual awakening, older man younger woman romance, teenage sexuality ...
Time: year 2015, 70s
Place: corsica
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
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, art house, anthology, contemplative, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: female nudity, infidelity, marriage, love, glamour, love and romance, love affair, affair, passion, relationships, new love, daily life ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 44K
Jules and Jim (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the ...
Style: art house, black and white, philosophical, lyrical, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: marriage, friendship, love triangle, unrequited love, love, relationships, menage a trois, love story, storytelling, melancholy, manic pixie dream girl, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, year 1962, 1930s, post world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 66K
Lolita (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Style: erotic, psychological, sexual, sexy, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: obsession, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, lolita, age difference, lust, sexuality, older man young girl relationship, pedophilia, incest, virginity, girl man relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, year 1947, 20th century, 1920s
Place: cannes, new england
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100%
The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, sexual, erotic drama ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, hairdresser, sex, obsession, love, barber, seaside, unrequited love, existentialism, melancholy, marriage, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 1940s, 20th century
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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My Night at Maud's (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
Style: philosophical, cerebral, witty, sexual, talky ...
Plot: philosophy, love, catholic, christmas, marriage, engineer, existentialism, dialogue, morality, obsession, spirit, catholicism ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Tale of Winter (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For ...
Style: spiritual, art house, postmodern, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, skinny dipping, librarian, winter, polyamory, extramarital affair, love, spirit, cold weather, crazy love, train, female nudity ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Suzanne's Career (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 54 min.
Story: In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot: friends, crazy love, love, womanizer, dishonesty, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, moral dilemma, unfulfillment, twentysomething life, love triangle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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43%
A Summer's Tale (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who ...
Style: art house, anthology, cute, artsy, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, love, fall in love, graduation, glamour, friendship, time travel, mathematician, journey, crazy love, love hurts, daily life ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1995
Place: france, europe, brittany, english channel
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.6
 10K
Summer (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Style: talky, realistic, aesthetic, anthology, cute ...
Plot: loneliness, boredom, summer, dialogue, solitude, female nudity, self discovery, friendship, summer vacation, children, depression, isolation ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe, normandy, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Good Marriage (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not ...
Style: contemplative, semi serious, realistic, captivating, talky ...
Plot: art history, female friendship, crazy love, amor, marriage, birthday party, couples, friends, screwball, love and romance, friendship, couple relations ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe, maine
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41%
 7.3
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The Collector (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
Style: art house, psychological, sexy, talky, sad ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, relationships, holiday, art, morality, artist, italian neorealism, crazy love, love, sexual content, lust, mediterranean ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: france, saint tropez, mediterranean sea, riviera, french riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Lea, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Lea is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Lea's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied ...
Style: aesthetic, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, daily life, crazy love, passion, love letter, summer, teenager, love, suburbs, tennis, cafe, secret ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.6
 9K
Happiness (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Style: art house, anthology, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, french countryside, love, summer, adultery, bittersweet, love triangle, cheating, family relations, daily life, new love ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Full Moon in Paris (1984)
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, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: love, female nudity, crazy love, art, jealous lover, best friend, existentialism, alienation, relationship problems, couples, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: france, paris france, europe
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34%
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The Soft Skin (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Style: black and white, neo noir, depressing, art house, anthology ...
Plot: neglected wife, airport, love, transformation, doomed romance, new love, swing, infidelity, flight attendant, adultery, love at first sight, divorce ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, lisbon portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Tale of Springtime (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. The first in Eric Rohmer's Four Seasons series, Conte de printemps (A Tale In Springtime) is the story of an introverted young girl (Florence Darel) just reaching adulthood who takes ...
Style: talky, clever, witty, art house, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, parents and children, youth, family relations, philosophy, cousin cousin relationship, vacation, crazy love, daily life, spring, looking for love, matchmaking ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 90s
Place: france, paris france
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34%
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Circle of Love (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Style: art house, contemplative, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, sex, prostitute, soldier, infidelity, bittersweet, dishonesty, lifestyle, assassination, love and romance, unfulfillment, love affair ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
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33%
 6.7
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Damage (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Style: sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: forbidden love, sexuality, adultery, femme fatale, love affair, infidelity, obsession, dangerous attraction, sex, love triangle, passion, fondling ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, palm springs california, paris france, london, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Exotic dancer Angéla attempts to have a child with her unwilling lover Émile. In the process, she finds herself torn between him and his best friend Alfred.
Style: melancholic, light, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: love, pregnancy, infidelity, loneliness, dysfunctional family, couples, couple relations, love and romance, love triangle, fall in love, sexual relations, relationships ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Two English Girls (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister ...
Style: art house, erotic drama, romantic, postmodern, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, nudity, sex, love, abuse, relationships, women, crazy love, loss of virginity, unrequited love, infidelity, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1900s, year 1971, 70s, 20th century, pre world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, normandy, europe, wales
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33%
Kung-Fu Master (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Veteran French director Agnes Varda's Le Petit Amour is based on a short story by actress/songstress Jane Birkin. Birkin herself plays the main character, a loving but lonely 40-year-old divorcee. Her life is brightened a bit by the presence of ...
Style: aesthetic, art house, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: older woman teenage boy relationship, age difference, forbidden love, male female relationship, coming of age, boyhood, women, woman peeing, new love, amor, age-gap relationship, mother ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, france, london, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.3
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Feelings (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, erotic, sensitive ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, love triangle, infidelity, fall in love, starting over, life turned upside down, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, family life, female nudity ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france
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32%
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Before Sunset (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style: philosophical, sentimental, romantic, independent film, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, relationships, lovers reunited, love and romance, couples, dialogue, lovers, bookstore, great ending, passion, bittersweet, conversation ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Aviator's Wife (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
Style: anthology, semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous ...
Plot: stalking, obsession, crazy love, love, couples, youth, aviator, unrequited love, tenderness, nosy, lovers reunited, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.2
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Little Lili (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, touching, erotic ...
Plot: filmmaking, older man younger woman relationship, actor's life, love triangle, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, obsession, unfulfilled love, infidelity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Disenchanted (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A worldly French teen (Judith Godrèche) is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot: strong female lead, couples, family relations, love and romance, human nature, coming of age, destructive relationship, lifestyle, youth, innocence lost, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france
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32%
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