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Pretty Things (2001)
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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, twin sister, losing-it hero, twins, family relations, lifestyle, musician's life, switching roles, betrayal, rescue, love and romance, love affair, physical appearance, mentally unstable, dishonesty, identical twins, female nudity, sex scene, female protagonist, pop star, nudity, 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, unfulfillment, female nudity, love affair and couple relations mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pretty Things: The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (2014), Cet amour-là (2001), This Is My Body (2001), The Night and the Moment (1994), Betty (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
direction and purpose, family relations, aspiring writer, rising to stardom, disorder, life turned upside down, sister sister relationship, price of fame, parent child relationship, working mom, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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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, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
38%
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, realistic, serious, emotional, sociological ...
Plot:
gay, love affair, artists and showbiz, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, family business, suicide, lgbt, sociology, jealousy, dancer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
34%
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, sexual, tense, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
erotica, strong sexual content, confined, writer's life, mysterious character, wooing, prison life, dishonesty, couples, cons and scams, twists and turns, lovers reunited ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
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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:
sexual, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
high society, alcoholism, girl, alcohol abuse, performer's life, strong female presence, unfulfillment, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, society, betrayal, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, versailles
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 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:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot:
lifestyle, love affair, social relations, celebrity culture, betrayal, couples, cons and scams, love and romance, dishonesty, teachers and students, infidelity, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
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, sexual ...
Plot:
betrayal, life is a bitch, tragic hero, infidelity, love triangle, love and romance, terminal illness, nude girl, couples, unfulfillment, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, menage a trois ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
32%
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:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
suburbs, murder, relationship vs career, family life, couples, family relations, friends, social relations, couple relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
32%
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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, realistic, serious, independent film, gloomy
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, estrangement, mental illness, human nature, family problems, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
31%
426
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:
sexy, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
summer camp, couple relations, dangerous attraction, rebelliousness, unlikely couple, opposites attract, love affair, teenage life, family problems, couples, estrangement, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
28%
193
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:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female pubic hair, bullfighting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
28%
153
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, touching, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, family relations, elderly, love affair, midlife crisis, aging, gender, couples, dealing with death, fall in love, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
28%
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:
aids, female nudity, lecture, sex scene, female pubic hair, male nudity, male pubic hair, lgbt, lgbtq, pretending to be gay, unfulfillment, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
italy, france, netherlands, paris france
Similarity:
28%
866
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:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
forbidden love, physical appearance, losing-it hero, family relations, mysterious character, love and romance, couple relations, family problems, wilderness, human nature, isolation, obsession ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe
Similarity:
28%
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:
27%
873
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, couples, family relations, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
27%
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, serious, realistic
Plot:
lesbian subtext, vengeance, couples, uncover truth, rivalry, love and romance, love triangle, death of husband, female protagonist, death of lover, female female relationship, female vigilante ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
26%
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:
incest, forbidden love, love affair, musician's life, family relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, lifestyle, cause and meaning, loneliness, sexual content, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
26%
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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, life turned upside down, love affair, love triangle, dishonesty, journalism, crumbling marriage, couple relations, destructive relationship, obsession, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, france, greece, athens greece
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 118 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:
saga, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
children, wartime life, female nudity, summer, bare breasts, betrayal, soldier, dishonesty, vengeance, politics, rivalry, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1993
Place:
italy, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
26%
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, emotional, touching ...
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:
25%
637
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:
sexy, realistic, serious, sexual, psychological ...
Plot:
love affair, sexual content, rape, sexual relations, sexual desire, chinese woman, sex scene, couples, destructive relationship, eroticism, fish out of water, interracial sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A magistrate investigates a corporate executive.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
Plot:
embezzlement, dishonesty, political corruption, legal action, legal investigation, couple relations, law enforcement, couples, disorder, husband wife relationship, investigation, bodyguard ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Colombia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor ...
Style:
contemplative, sincere, gloomy, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
vengeance, female nudity, canceled wedding, rain forest, investigation, erotica, wedding, village, couples, social relations, family relations, prostitute ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
24%
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:
psychological, serious, sexy, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, love affair, fall in love, lifestyle, intrigue, bisexual, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, glbt, gay subtext, male homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, italy, france, rome italy
Similarity:
24%
133
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The setting is idyllic, and the couple’s happiness seems within reach. Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
couple relations, pregnancy, family problems, couples, family relations, babies and infants, mentally unstable, losing-it hero, introspection, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
24%
712
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Guernsey is the story of a woman who suddenly looks at her own life and wonders how she became miles apart from the people she is closest to.
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, breakup, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, sister, death in the family, sister sister relationship, female nudity, alienation, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
419
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:
realistic, psychological, serious, touching
Plot:
love affair, family relations, family problems, society, family in crisis, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, couples, betrayal, love and romance, working class, crumbling marriage ...
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
23%
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:
23%
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, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
feminist, hospital, mental illness, murder, infidelity, violent content, dishonesty, couple relations, feminism, love and romance, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
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