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Pretty Things (2001)
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Pretty Things (2001)
Original name: Les jolies choses
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lucie, who works as a white-hot fashion model, exhibits a dominant, often controlling, "Type A" personality, whereas identical twin Marie consistently projects a backward, reserved, laconic and unassuming attitude. When Lucie receives a covetable French recording contract, a significant problem stands in her way: the inability to sing. Marie possesses the voice of an angel, however, and quickly jets off to Paris to stand in for her sister, unannounced - little realizing the dangerous and even violent string of consequences that she is igniting.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, stylized, deep, realistic
Plot: singer, family relations, twins, lifestyle, musician's life, switching roles, betrayal, rescue, love and romance, love affair, physical appearance, mentally unstable, dishonesty, losing-it hero, twin sister, identical twins, nudity, female nudity, sex scene, female protagonist, pop star, profanity, couples, sexual content, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: paris france, france

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Most similar movies to Pretty Things

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and gloomy films with plots about couples, love and romance, family relations, love affair, unfulfillment, female nudity and couple relations mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pretty Things: The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (2014), This Is My Body (2001), Cet amour-là (2001), The Night and the Moment (1994), Charlie Says (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two sisters, their families, and sometimes complicated lives.
Style: realistic, compassionate, sincere, cynical, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: family relations, direction and purpose, rising to stardom, disorder, aspiring writer, life turned upside down, sister sister relationship, parent child relationship, price of fame, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, working mom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
This Is My Body (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot: love affair, couple relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, family relations, family business, gay, suicide, lgbt, sociology, dancer, jealousy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.2
 369
Cet amour-là (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Plot: destiny, wartime life, soldier, lifestyle, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, couple relations, family relations, couples, culture clash, love affair ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Night and the Moment (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes ...
Style: sexy, serious, tense, sexual, realistic ...
Plot: erotica, confined, cons and scams, writer's life, lovers reunited, prison life, lifestyle, mysterious character, twists and turns, love and romance, strong sexual content, dishonesty ...
Time: 18th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Movie in collections
 5.1
 559
Charlie Says (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: lifestyle, love affair, cons and scams, teachers and students, couples, infidelity, celebrity culture, betrayal, social relations, dishonesty, love and romance, small town ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
 2K
Betty (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: girl, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, strong female presence, performer's life, society, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, lifestyle, mentally unstable, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: france, paris france, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Particles of Truth (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, mental illness, human nature, introspection, haunted by the past, family life, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Les corps impatients (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous ...
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: betrayal, life is a bitch, tragic hero, infidelity, love triangle, love and romance, terminal illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, unfulfillment, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, menage a trois ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Movie in collections
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 427
Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Comedy of Power (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Plot: legal, embezzlement, dishonesty, political corruption, disorder, couples, legal action, legal investigation, couple relations, law enforcement, husband wife relationship, investigation ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.5
 388
Wild Camp (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Un camping au bord d'un lac pendant les vacances d'été. Camille, 17 ans, y traîne son ennui coincée entre ses parents et son petit ami. Elle rencontre Blaise, la quarantaine, tout juste embauché comme moniteur de voile. Camille et ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: summer camp, opposites attract, couple relations, rebelliousness, dangerous attraction, unlikely couple, love affair, teenage life, family problems, couples, estrangement, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 819
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 ⇓
28%
I Love You Too (2001)
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, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: infidelity, lifestyle, dangerous attraction, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, couples, dishonesty, destructive relationship, love and romance, couple relations, love affair, sexual relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Absent Season (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When love has to compete with artistic inspiration and memories from a sheltering past come to take the artist to imaginary worlds that exist deep in his mind. This is the story of young Adrian, pianist and composer, in love with his sister and ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, atmospheric, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: forbidden love, love affair, musician's life, lifestyle, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, family relations, cause and meaning, loneliness, sexual content, love and romance, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Signs & Wonders (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Style: serious, realistic, clever, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: infidelity, introspection, love affair, life turned upside down, love triangle, couple relations, crumbling marriage, betrayal, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, germany, greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy
Plot: gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, aids, sex scene, female nudity, lecture, female pubic hair, pretending to be gay, unfulfillment, society, losing-it hero ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, france, netherlands, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.4
 247
Lola (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story follows a troubled woman and her search for identity. She is given a choice between a return to the dysfunction of the past, or a new life in self assumed identity.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspense, independent film
Plot: mistaken identity, hidden identity, self discovery, couples, family relations, mentally unstable, society, couple relations, parents and children, female protagonist, female nudity, deadly ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.7
 856
Anna M. (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Anna, a somewhat introverted woman, becomes obsessed with the orthopedic surgeon who helped with her recuperation following a car accident. Incorrectly believing the love to be reciprocated, she embarks on several attempts to try and stay in touch ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, obsession, mental illness, doctors and patients, doctor, hate, hopes, women, femme fatale, family relations, couples, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Movie in collections
 5.1
 184
Bad Girl (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: parents and children, family problems, couples, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female nudity, bullfighting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.8
 1K
Wild Flower (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, saga
Plot: children, wartime life, female nudity, summer, rivalry, soldier, betrayal, politics, dishonesty, fall in love, vengeance, love and romance ...
Time: year 1993
Place: italy, paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Woman's Revenge (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Suzy, a beautiful woman, is coming back to Paris to attend the funeral of her lover, a married man. Cecile, his wife, is holding Suzy responsible for his suicide. By finding Suzy in Paris, Cecile is trying to seek the truth by playing a ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious
Plot: lesbian subtext, couples, rivalry, love and romance, vengeance, uncover truth, love triangle, female vigilante, female protagonist, female female relationship, death of husband, death of lover ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.3
 132
The Truce (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Martín Santomé has been woking in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.
Style: stylized, emotional, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, elderly, love affair, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, gender, couples, hopes, fall in love, midlife crisis, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.6
 597
Flower (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hua, a young woman from Beijing, is a recent arrival in Paris. Exiled in an unknown city, she wanders between her tiny apartment and the university, drifting between former lovers and recent French acquaintances. She meets Matthieu, a young worker ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: sexual content, love affair, rape, sexual relations, destructive relationship, couples, eroticism, fish out of water, sexualized violence, sex scene, chance meeting, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
 5.1
 117
Little Foxes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alzbeta and Tina are sisters bound by jealousy and love, an unspoken history hovering over them like a dark cloud. It is this history that compels Alzbeta to refuse Tina's help in finding a better life, until the day arrives that forces them to ...
Style: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, touching, emotional ...
Plot: jealousy, sibling relationship, haunted by the past, family relations, envy, betrayal, couples, sister sister relationship, rivalry, au pair, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, slovakia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.0
 302
Belonging (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Crossed Tracks (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological, clever ...
Plot: serial killer, meet the parents, hidden identity, mysterious character, writers, intrigue, dishonesty, lifestyle, twists and turns, missing person, rivalry, writer's life ...
Time: year 2007
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.4
 274
Love Forbidden (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rodolphe Marconi writes, directs, and stars in the coming-out drama Défense d'Aimer (Love Forbidden). Marconi plays Bruce, a young student from Paris who accepts a fellowship in Rome. He takes a flat at the Villa Medicis and writes full time. ...
Style: serious, psychological, sexy, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love affair, lifestyle, fall in love, intrigue, bisexual, gays and lesbians, glbt, lgbtq, gay interest, gay subtext ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, paris france, france, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.4
 2K
Jealousy (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director’s son Louis and Anna Mouglalis.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, black and white ...
Plot: love, love affair, love and romance, couples, family problems, couple relations, hidden identity, dysfunctional family, dishonesty, single mother, suicide attempt, frustration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
My Brother's Wife (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After almost 10 years of marriage, attractive Zoe discovers that her marriage lacks passion and surprise, and is seduced by the possibility of finding those sensations already forgotten in her husband's brother. From this premise a series of ...
Style: romantic, captivating, erotic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, infidelity, sexual desire, unhappy marriage, passion, cheating wife, love triangle, neglectful husband, family relations, love and romance, male female relationship, profanity ...
Place: usa, mexico, los angeles, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Dancing in the Dark (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: feminist, hospital, infidelity, murder, mental illness, violent content, unfulfillment, feminism, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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