Movies like Lea
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Lea (1996)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking resemblance to Herbert's dead wife. They get married, but their relationship seems doomed, until gradually each one manages to penetrate the mysterious world of the other, and they begin to realize that they are bound by a kind of spiritual relationship. For Lea it is the death of her mother, for Herbert it is the death of his first wife. His hard exterior slowly beings to thaw, and he starts to show feelings and responses that soften Lea's initial hatred and fear of him, and which put their relationship in a more positive light.
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, crying
Plot:
older man younger woman romance, sex, girl, male female relationship, passion, abusive husband, love, age difference, young love, family relations, human spirit, life is a bitch, couples, dysfunctional family, self discovery, society, family problems, disability, mute or deaf, haunted by the past, woman in danger, hopes, dealing with death, violent content, horse ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1991
Place:
slovakia, eastern europe, france, munich germany, hamburg germany, czech republic
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and touching films with plots about kiss, family relations, couples, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, sex and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like Lea: Yellow Asphalt (2000), When We Leave (2010), Starting Out in the Evening (2007), Moonlight Mile (2002), Zelary (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three stories set among the Bedouin of Jahalin in the hills of the Judean desert. On an almost deserted highway, two Israeli truckers strike a Bedouin lad accidentally. Before they can flee, the boy's people appear and circle the truckers. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, desert, love affair, culture clash, woman in danger, life is a bitch, society, social differences, forbidden love, crime and punishment, injustice, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against the resistance of her family. Her struggle initiates a dynamic, which results in a life-threatening situation.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, emotional, serious, cute ...
Plot:
family relations, immigrant, self discovery, family problems, against the rules, society, life is a bitch, conservative, unhappy marriage, reconciliation, parents and children, marital rape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, turkey, europe, berlin germany, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, male female relationship, masseuse, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style:
clever, sentimental, emotional, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
fall in love, murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, haunted by the past, death in the family, family problems, grief, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time ...
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, contemplative, epic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, redemption, small town, resistance, couple relations, marriage, betrayal, older man younger woman relationship, self discovery, life is a bitch, hopes, society ...
Time:
1940s, year 2003, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
central europe, prague, czechoslovakia, germany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Turkey, Portugal, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
Style:
emotional, psychological, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, friendship, fall in love, self discovery, love affair, family problems, memory loss, haunted by the past, memory, relationships, illicit affair ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, independent film, gloomy ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, island, dysfunctional family, homecoming, uncover truth, self discovery, family life, parents and children, couples, family problems, introspection ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
maine, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
22%
480
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Venezuela, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young girl is sent to a South American hacienda, where she learns about the life of her reclusive aunt, Oriana.
Style:
slasher, contemplative, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, coming of age, brother sister relationship, girl, teenage girl, death of lover, swing, outdoor sex, doomed romance, beach, estate, murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
venezuela, latin america, france, europe
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cancer, chef, lost love, cancer patient, girl, love triangle, terminal illness, love, ex-lover, family relations, couples, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
21%
258
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sexual attraction, blind character, blindness, infidelity, nudity, husband wife relationship, premarital sex, female nudity, adultery, bare breasts, blind man, dealing with death ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, melancholic, costume drama, intense ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, tragic hero, family life, hopes, village life, destructive relationship, dull life, love affair, husband wife relationship, adulterer, male female relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, turn of the century, victorian era, 1830s ...
Place:
normandy, france, europe, switzerland, london
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
Style:
independent film, disturbing, erotic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
photograph, older man younger woman relationship, photography, art, photographer, male female relationship, secrets, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, society, age difference ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, ireland, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, family life, family problems, couples, hopes, couple relations, mental illness, family in crisis, haunted by the past, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
20%
98K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style:
depressing, bleak, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
single father, redemption, death, cancer, terminal illness, parenthood, immigrant, birthday, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, reconciliation ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain, south america, iran, senegal ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style:
touching, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, family relations, best friend, terminal illness, pregnancy, tragic hero, couples, family problems, youth, hopes, life is a bitch, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will come up, and will be ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, anthology, anamorphic ...
Plot:
striptease, aging, dysfunctional family, drinking, children, hospital, father daughter relationship, outdoor sex, skinny dipping, desire, summer, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
france, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about ...
Style:
realistic, serious, black and white, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, idealism, coming of age, twins, hopes, sexual relations, injustice, couple relations, love affair, chaos and mayhem, love triangle, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1968, 20th century, year 2005, 60s, year 1969
Place:
france, paris france, europe, morocco
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style:
costume drama, sexy, sexual, psychological, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
impossible love, love, new love, love triangle, letter, magic realism, power of love, epidemic, betrayal, multiple storylines, visceral, justice ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
colombia, latin america, caribbean, paris france
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with ...
Style:
existential, contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
reminiscence, renaissance, uncle nephew relationship, family relations, female nudity, sister sister relationship, passion, electricity, nude girl, first love, love letter, immortality ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, gay club, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, unrequited love, gay slur, glbt, best friend, betrayal, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
lyon, france, europe, algeria, new york ...
Similarity:
19%
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: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before ...
Style:
talky, cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, bittersweet, marriage, sexuality, adultery, novelist, desire, passion, pleasure, infidelity, love triangle, couples ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
Style:
sexy, serious, erotic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lovers apart, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, sex scene, youth, childhood sweetheart, lovers reunited, female nudity, mother daughter relationship, teacher student relationship, teenage love, letter, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1999, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, normandy, marseille ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, infidelity, betrayal, unfaithful husband, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
19%
15K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
infidelity, betrayal, virgin, couple relations, manipulation, seduction, hypocrisy, virginity, tragedy, manipulative woman, love triangle, marriage ...
Time:
18th century, year 1989, georgian era, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
france, paris france, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
unrequited love, abuse, love, death, colonialism, culture clash, photography, politics, couples, husband wife relationship, fear, british empire ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia, beijing china, north korea
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Antoine Rey looks for a special gift for his sister Melanie on her 40th birthday. He decides to surprise her with a trip to the French Island of Noirmoutier, where they spent many summers as children until their mother's death. On the drive ...
Style:
sincere, psychological, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
dysfunctional family, secret, christmas present, family secret, father daughter relationship, childhood memory, family relations, car accident, brother sister relationship, gift, flashback, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2015
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, down on your luck, escort, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, palestine, indiana, persia, israel ...
Similarity:
19%
1K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When their abusive parents are killed in a car crash, twin sisters Rosie and Violet vow to run away to Kentucky in search of a better life. While on the road, the girls meet up with Pete, a drifter working as a grounds keeper on a derelict army ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, independent film, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, sister sister relationship, sex toy, teenage girl, male nudity, orphan, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, adultery, sex with a minor, statutory rape ...
Time:
90s
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
love affair, teenage life, introspection, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, youth, love and romance, hopes, destructive relationship, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, europe, africa, brazil
Similarity:
18%
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