Movies like The Idol 2002
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The Idol (2002)
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Original name: L'idole
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, friendship, love affair, love and romance, intrigue, couples, elderly, terminal illness, dishonesty, couple relations, suicidal thoughts, unfulfillment, neighbor, retirement, curse, relationships, women, food, restaurant, woman urinating, woman peeing, age-gap relationship, friends, actor's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
paris france, france
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Most similar movies to The Idol
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sexy films with plots about love and romance, couples, love affair, infidelity, unfulfillment, female nudity and sex mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Idol: Rendez-vous (1985), Late August, Early September (1998), After Sex (1997), Breezy (1973), Circle of Love (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, anthology, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex scene, forbidden love, love triangle, public nudity, promiscuous woman, sexual promiscuity, male nudity, oral sex, female masturbation, porn actor, female pubic hair, erotica ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style:
melancholic, talky, emotional, ironic, meditative ...
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, drinking, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, complex characters, writers, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, couples, depression ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
france, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
704
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The end of an affair from the woman's point of view.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex, porn, impossible love, passion, seductive, age-gap relationship, midlife crisis, obsession, family relations, adultery, eroticism, love affair ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, europe, france, prague
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexual, avant garde, art house, anthology, cult classic ...
Plot:
sex, love, decadence, nudity, photograph, marriage, husband wife relationship, violence, obsession, porn, group sex, desire ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Breezy is a teen-aged hippy with a big heart. After taking a a ride with a man who only wants her for sex, Breezy manages to escape. She runs to hide on a secluded property where stands the home of a middle-aged divorced man, Frank Harmon. Frank ...
Style:
dramatic, aesthetic, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, hippie, age difference, forbidden love, lolita, older man younger woman sex, older man teenage girl relationship, illicit affair, female nudity, girl, hitchhiker ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
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, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war one, sex, prostitute, soldier, infidelity, bittersweet, dishonesty, love and romance, unfulfillment, assassination, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
While camping in France, Eric and Eddy fall in with two women. Eric talks to Silke, a Ugandan studying medicine in Holland. She tells him about her life and asks about the book he's writing: it's the story of his love affair with Reza. He ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, sexual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
making love, losing-it hero, infidelity, lifestyle, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, destructive relationship, couple relations, love affair ...
Similarity:
23%
911
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels romantically neglected. Gregor's deserts seduce her, first trough her brat daughter Leonie, to ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, forbidden love, infidelity, lifestyle, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, rivalry, wooing, couples, swimming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, paris france
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style:
mumblecore, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz, actor's life, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, family relations, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
betrayal, unfaithful wife, infidelity, dysfunctional family, cuckold, tragic love, family gatherings, couples, estrangement, family problems, lovers reunited, family life ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, argentina
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, unemployment, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance, couples, friends, love affair, sexual content ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
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:
art house, aesthetic, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
age difference, forbidden love, coming of age, male female relationship, older woman teenage boy relationship, mother, woman peeing, amor, new love, women, erotic art, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, london
Similarity:
21%
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:
psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, couples, letter, adultery, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, high society, suffering, betrayal ...
Time:
1910s, year 2005
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year, as a hopeless agoraphobic, until he meets a young woman who slowly coaxes him out of his self imposed bondage.
Style:
touching, psychological, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
love affair, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, dishonesty, bondage, destiny, impossible love, family problems, dull life, estate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
one night stand, couples, lifestyle, love affair, female nudity, commitment, bare breasts, love, nudity, couple relations, love and romance, singleness ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards ...
Style:
erotic, emotional, colorful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
infidelity, love, adultery, love triangle, love story, lovers reunited, coitus, passionate kiss, female pubic hair, tragedy, nude girl, couples ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe, france, paris france, new york ...
Similarity:
20%
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:
serious, realistic, erotic, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
erotica, longing, sexual attraction, infidelity, outdoor sex, passion, unhappiness, dysfunctional family, filmmaking, actor's life, love triangle, couples ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
france, brittany
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who is dying.
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, sexy
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, infidelity, passion, feeling, bittersweet, love and romance, opposites attract, fall in love, crumbling marriage, aging, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, death of child, separation, infidelity, suicide attempt, grieving, breakup, life turned upside down, grief, loss of son, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the woman he left to instead follow an easier path in life.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, love affair, couples, love, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, children, father in law daughter in law relationship, older man younger woman relationship, breakup ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, hong kong, montreal
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, age difference, senior citizen, friends, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, writer's life, couple relations, human nature, fall in love, introspection ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 1920s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, california, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A secret and deep passion marks the life of a young doctor, and threatens the existence of those around him.
Style:
realistic, serious, sexual, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
love triangle, tragic love, woman, dull life, family relations, family problems, couples, dishonesty, unsupportive spouse, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, young lovers ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
galicia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly.
Style:
independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
age-gap relationship, older man younger woman relationship, older man younger woman sex, older man younger woman romance, starting over, solace, couples, family relations, friends, human nature, elderly, hopes ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
persia, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Six people whose lives are intertwined struggle to find happiness amid broken relationships and painful life changes.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
sexual identity, lgbt, immigrant, friendship, couples, friends, love and romance, society, unfulfillment, gender, breakup, militant ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
dentist, couples, love and romance, haunted by the past, couple relations, husband wife relationship, love, self discovery, love affair, unfulfillment, family relations, recovery ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This movie is foremost distinguished by the use of a subjective camera, and nearly 100 % of the time consists of close-up of the young girl's face. She is capable of changing her facial mimic so much that she never looks artificial or ...
Style:
sexual, anthology, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
sex, hipster, infidelity, restaurant, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, sexual relations, love affair, hotel, obsessive compulsive disorder, virgin ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Stranded by her lover, a 40-ish interior decorator in Paris turns to a U.S. client's playboy son.
Style:
emotional, romantic, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mature woman, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, love affair, male female relationship, passion, dysfunctional marriage, unrequited love, open relationship, age-gap relationship, fashion, swing ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, london
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, melancholic, light, intense ...
Plot:
one night stand, male female relationship, female orgasm, love triangle, infidelity, friendship, interracial romance, couples, adultery, justice, adaptation, dialogue ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, california, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, impossible love, lovers reunited, couples, fall in love, tragic love, relationships, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, betrayal, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
nudity, making love, infidelity, sexual attraction, seductive, sex scene, adultery, biopic, couples, gays and lesbians, journalism, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
rome italy, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
18%
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