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Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)
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Oh, Woe Is Me (1993)
Original name: Hélas pour moi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Romance about Simon Donnadieu and his decision to leave his ever-loving wife Rachel.
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, experimental, contemplative, stylized, gloomy ...
Plot: women, minimalism, ocean, investigation, love triangle, miraculous event, church, love and romance, journalism, infidelity, supernatural romance, mysterious character, battle zone, religions or cults, female nudity, adultery, wife, surrealism, frustration, visitor, female full frontal nudity, romance
Time: year 1993
Keyword: ocean or sea

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and psychological films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, female nudity, love triangle, infidelity and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Oh, Woe Is Me: Goodbye to Language (2014), Chloe in the Afternoon (1972), Bye Bye Monkey (1978), Hail Mary (1985), A Married Woman (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Goodbye to Language (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
Style: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized ...
Plot: introspection, battle of the sexes, couple relations, love, crumbling marriage, fight, communication problem, dog, book, unsettling, bookstore, moving ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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 ⇓
89%
Bye Bye Monkey (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small ...
Style: neorealism, experimental, independent film, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, king kong, monkey, chimpanzee, dystopia, nude women, distopia, giant ape, pregnancy, absurd humor, rape ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Hail Mary (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story: In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, ...
Style: avant garde, controversial, disturbing, spiritual, art house ...
Plot: female pubic hair, female nudity, basketball, breaking the fourth wall, female athlete, gas station, controversy, virgin, jesus, bible, exploitation, sex ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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A Married Woman (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style: black and white, sensual, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, society, in love, birth control, nudity, magazine, sexual pleasure, sandstorm, married, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, betrayal ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Mad Love (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Mary who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he ...
Style: romantic comedy, art house, erotic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: female nudity, nudity, sex, surrealism, women, nude women, gangster, bank robbery, mental illness, existentialism, psychological abuse, female orgasm ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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 ⇓
80%
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India Song (1975)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an ...
Style: art house, cult classic, experimental, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: feminist, sisters, hardcore, women, success, minimalism, love letter, feminism, sister, sensuality, dancing, voice over narration ...
Time: 1930s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: india, france, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Faithless (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by ...
Style: psychological, sincere, atmospheric, lyrical, contemplative ...
Plot: adultery, infidelity, betrayal, fall in love, parenthood, custody, love affair, family problems, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, rivalry, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, denmark, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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A Lake (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
Style: emotional, psychological, stylized, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: physical appearance, family relations, mysterious character, human nature, wilderness, obsession, couple relations, family problems, love and romance, losing-it hero, isolation, woods ...
Time: year 2008
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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The Salamander (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde....
Style: poetic, realistic, serious, psychological, offbeat ...
Plot: journalism, human nature, media, investigation, amateur detective, showbiz, murder, creative block, journalist, female nudity, feminism, menage a trois ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: geneva switzerland, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
White Nights on the Pier (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.
Style: contemplative, realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: seaport, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, unfulfillment, love, women, loneliness, orphan, night, love letter, school teacher ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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 ⇓
77%
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The Bridge (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, emotional, semi autobiographical
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love triangle, midlife crisis, looking for love, parents and children, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Loulou (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This 1980 French film features Isabelle Huppert as a restless young woman who ditches her boring, tempramental boyfriend for a wild, leather-clad bad boy (played by an incandescent, youthful Gerard Depardieu).
Style: erotic, romantic, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: sexual relations, sensuality, affair, amor, advertising agency, infidelity, abusive husband, drunk, class differences, disco, couples, society ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Godard's Passion (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory worker that has been laid off by a boss who did not like her union activities.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative
Plot: nemesis, couples, factory, filmmaking, performer's life, creative block, infidelity, anti semitism, hotel, showbiz, price of justice, celebrity culture ...
Time: year 1982, 70s
Place: france, europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Juha (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Style: black and white, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: countryside, love triangle, bittersweet, urban, city life, infidelity, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, dishonesty, innocence lost, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 ⇓
72%
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The Woman Next Door (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, emotional, anthology ...
Plot: adultery, neighbor, obsession, crimes of passion, love story, extramarital affair, love triangle, tragic love, couples, destructive relationship, dishonesty, infidelity ...
Time: year 1981, 20th century, 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Our Music (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jean-Luc Godard's poetic meditation on war, violence and defeat. The film is structured in three parts. The three segments are "Hell", "Purgatory", and "Heaven". The first segment is a montage of war images from ...
Style: philosophical, meditative, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Plot: politics, life philosophy, existentialism, self discovery, greed, society, anti war, memory, journalist, poetry, religion, minimalism ...
Time: year 2004, 90s, 21st century
Place: middle east, sarajevo, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
In Praise of Love (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and ...
Style: enigmatic, stylized, psychological, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Plot: art, humanity, loneliness, life & death, politics, artist, philosophy, painter, existentialism, memory, women, conversation ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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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 ⇓
69%
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 ⇓
69%
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Friday Night (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paris, 1995. Laure (Valérie Lemercier) is about to meet friends for dinner to celebrate her moving in with her boyfriend. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When a handsome stranger ...
Style: sexual, serious, psychological, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: couples, dangerous attraction, love and romance, fall in love, chaos and mayhem, couple relations, danger, friendship, living together, minimalism, women, mental disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 2002
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
Style: controversial, sad, spiritual, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: religion, priest, catholic, religious, spirituality, ghost, god, redemption, miraculous event, supernatural, suicide, leadership ...
Time: year 1987, 1920s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
City of Women (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Style: surreal, cerebral, satirical, art house, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, sex, female nudity, satire, sexual relations, women, feminism, psychology, fetish, voyeurism, solidarity, human relationship ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
My American Uncle (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by ...
Style: cerebral, philosophical, clever, witty, existential ...
Plot: bittersweet, surrealism, social commentary, reward, summer, time travel, television, graduation, psychiatry, family drama, island, anxiety ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s, year 1977, year 1979
Place: france, europe, brittany, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Gabrielle (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, clever, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, letter, adultery, couples, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, suffering, husband wife relationship, betrayal ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Sinbad (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád.
Style: touching, emotional, gloomy, atmospheric, sexual ...
Plot: magic realism, womanizer, haunted by the past, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, aging, couple relations, church, memory, food, snow ...
Time: year 1971, 1920s
Place: hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Tangled 8 (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: People from diverse social backgrounds, races and ages manage grief through its different phases.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, talky, independent film ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, couples, unfulfilled love, sexual content, dealing with death, unfulfillment
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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