Movies like I Love You 1986

If you like "I Love You" you are looking for atmospheric, art house and grotesque movies about / with love, motorcycle, fetish, misery, mishap, satire and loneliness themes of Drama, Fantasy and Romance genre shot in France or Italy.
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I Love You (1986)
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I Love You (1986)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In another indictment of the flaws of our so-called civilization, this satire from the late director Marco Ferreri features Christopher Lambert as Michel, a miserable man who has failed at love and finds solace in a mechanical key holder.
Style: atmospheric, art house, grotesque
Plot: love, motorcycle, fetish, misery, mishap, satire, loneliness, obsession, doll, fall in love, woman, possessed human, boredom, magical object, travel agency, going crazy, going insane, shopping mall, key, whistling, monitor, whispering, falling in love

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Most similar movies to I Love You

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, atmospheric, realistic and art house films with plots about love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, female nudity, obsession and loneliness mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like I Love You: Golden Braid (1990), Love to Eternity (1972), Wings of Desire (1987), Bye Bye Monkey (1978), India Song (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Golden Braid (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a man discovers a golden braid hidden inside an antique he has purchased, he becomes obsessed with the fantasy of a love affair from time past and the woman he imagines the braid belonged to.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: estrangement, love and romance, obsession, love, woman, fetish, masturbation, erotica
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Love to Eternity (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Liza slowly replaces Melampo, Giorgio's dog. While she accepts it, Giorgio forces her to wear collars and leashes.
Style: sexy, independent film, grotesque
Plot: fetish, erotica, girl, island, sea, boat, isolation, love, female nudity, sex, dog, nudity ...
Time: 70s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Wings of Desire (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, meditative, lyrical, cerebral ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, immortality, dream, circus, love, existentialism, philosophy, mortality, library, loneliness, love story, visceral ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, east germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
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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 ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
46%
The Luzhin Defence (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, intellectual, bad ending, sincere ...
Plot: chess, asperger's syndrome, obsession, prodigy, genius, relationships, eccentricity, loneliness, love story, mentally unstable, supportive spouse, contests and competitions ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: italy
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44%
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
Style: art house, depressing, existential, realistic, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: artist, minimalism, female nudity, suicide, mental disorder, betrayal, erotica, post war, social outcast, existentialism, love, couples ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Bear's Kiss (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, Sweden, Russia, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.
Style: touching, atmospheric, stylized, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: animal human communication, love affair, social relations, social misfits, curse, bear, circus, transformation, fall in love, forest, teenage girl, desperation ...
Place: spain, russia, siberia, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Cartagena (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: disability, paralysis, opposites attract, quadriplegic, teaching the ways of the world, fall in love, gain trust, one more chance, hopes, nursing, alcohol abuse, ex boxer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, france, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Flesh (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he ...
Style: sexy, grotesque
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, female nudity, sex, beach house, supermarket, dog, beach, surrealism, bare breasts, stork, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of 'Richard III' and gives ...
Style: anthology, art house, cult classic, experimental, avant garde ...
Plot: porn, sex, love, nudity, orgy, decadence, group sex, sexual blackmail, husband wife relationship, marriage, violence, obsession ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Priceless Beauty (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She tries to help him live again.
Style: erotic
Plot: genie, sex scene, beach, relationships, erotica, making love, brother, singer, bereavement, rock star, sea, female nudity ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style: gothic, fairy tale, surreal, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, freak, social misfits, love and romance, inventor, love story, teenage girl, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Sealed with a Kiss (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hong Kong filmmaker Derek Chiu directs this quiet romance that recalls the gentle style of Francois Truffaut. Young and attractive Mandy (Yo Yo Mung) flees the hustle of Hong Kong proper and a failed relationship for the bucolic quiet of Peng Chau, ...
Plot: mute, simple man, unspoken love, love, sign language, island, love letter, male female friendship, tomboy, tough girl, tragic love, fight ...
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34%
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 ⇓
33%
Because I Love You (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Lee Hyeong is a talented songwriter. He happens to connect people who are not good with love. Those include Hyeong-Gyeong who wants to become a singer, but she suffers from stage fright. Scully is a high school student. She helps Lee Hyeong's ...
Style: humorous, romantic
Plot: love, love and romance, in love, couple relations, assistant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, looking for love, supernatural power, love affair, love story, couples ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Suzhou River (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, China
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A tragic love story set in contemporary Shanghai. The film stars Zhou Xun in a dual role as two different women and Jia Hongsheng as a man obsessed with finding a woman from his past.
Style: neo noir, psychological, serious, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: mermaid, river, destructive relationship, betrayal, dishonesty, couples, ransom, haunted by the past, smuggling, disorder, missing person, obsession ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, shanghai, tibet, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, melancholic, visually stunning, artsy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, marriage, love affair, unrequited love, love, newspaper, food, tragedy, betrayal ...
Time: 60s, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
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30%
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Angel-A (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A beautiful and mysterious woman helps an inept scam artist get his game together...but is their meeting purely coincidence?
Style: reflective, philosophical, black and white, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, love story, life philosophy, loneliness, gangster, disorder, transformation, relationships, redemption, twists and turns, destiny, existentialism ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, y2k
Place: paris france, tibet, europe, france
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29%
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The Lake House (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, sincere, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: time travel, time, fall in love, love and romance, supernatural, impossible love, couples, architect, pen pal, autumn, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, letter ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman who lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexy, art house, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: grief, tango, strong sexual content, erotica, lust, older man younger woman relationship, suicide, hotel, sex scene, relationships, profanity, sex ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, near future, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Felix and Lola (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: couples, romantic obsession, relationship problems, obsession, couple relations, relationships, male female relationship, flashback, singer, love, murder, harmonica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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
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28%
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Knight of Cups (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily ...
Style: stylized, art house, meditative, philosophical, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love, temptation, desert, multiple storylines, tarot card, humanity, visceral, existentialism, obsession, trippy, photography, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Angel and the Woman (1977)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Unable to keep her social commentary to herself and concentrate solely on her show dancing, the girl in this film is shot to death in the Quebec woods by people who don't want propagandizing about Chile to be openly voiced. She is discovered by ...
Style: explicit, controversial
Plot: death, angel, revenge, love, woman, snow, female nudity, machine gun, pyrokinesis, subway, rebirth, ejaculation ...
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Tropical Malady (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A romance between a soldier and country boy splinters into a mythical venture based on Thai folklore.
Style: surreal, slow cinema, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: gay, jungle, shaman, lgbt, friendship, human nature, love and romance, danger, mysticism, lgbtq, folklore, mythology ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, indiana, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
What Time Is It There? (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, art house, stylized, non-linear ...
Plot: obsession, isolation, death in the family, estrangement, lifestyle, unfulfillment, loneliness, drinking, father son relationship, drinking alcohol, death, hotel ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, east asia, asia, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life ...
Style: romantic, art house, atmospheric, enigmatic, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: homeless, beggar, love, painting, painter, love story, loneliness, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, rise and fall, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Endless (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When madly in love high school graduates Riley and Chris are separated by a tragic car accident, Riley blames herself for her boyfriend's death while Chris is stranded in limbo. Miraculously, the two find a way to connect. In a love story that ...
Style: romantic, sad, sincere, touching, tear jerker ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, life after death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death, life & death, ghost, dealing with death, tragedy, car accident, out of body experience, impossible love, relationships ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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