Movies like The Libertine 2000
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The Libertine (2000)
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Original name: Le Libertin
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, period piece, sex comedy, clever, realistic, beautiful, campy
Plot:
enlightenment, fighting the system, rebelliousness, writer's life, against the rules, rebellion, society, clergy, idealism, couple relations, religions or cults, nudity, lust, lesbian, erotica, religion, sexual attraction, male pubic hair, black slave, philosophy, artist, castle, philosopher, libertarian, couples ...
Time:
georgian era, 18th century
Place:
france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and sexy films with plots about couples, couple relations, nudity, nude, female nudity, male nudity and society mostly in Comedy, History and Romance genres. Some movies like The Libertine: What a Drag (1996), The Dumbfounded King (1991), Longwave (2013), A Crime in Paradise (2001), Absolutely Fabulous (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, realistic, feel good, not serious ...
Plot:
transvestism, homosexual, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, infidelity, disco, gay subtext, farce, hidden identity, love triangle, restaurant ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, History
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King (Gabino Diego) is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa (Laura del Sol), the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he ...
Style:
manga, semi serious, realistic, sexual, humorous ...
Plot:
nude painting, time machine, royal court, satire, prostitute, head of state, couple relations, society, clergy, human nature, religions or cults, monastery ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
An "adults only" retelling of the legend of the Three Musketeers.
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, spoof, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
voyeurism, lesbian, female nudity, porn, nudity, female pubic hair, musketeer, bare breasts, erotica, three musketeers, sex spoof, legend ...
Time:
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79%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Switzerland, France, Portugal
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, witty, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
revolution, feminism, rebellion, society, on the road, memory loss, language barrier, scoop, womanizer, radio dj, countryside, female pubic hair ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
portugal, europe, france, switzerland, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, fairy tale, realistic ...
Plot:
unhappy marriage, lawyer, couple relations, husband wife relationship, notoriety, countryside, divorce, farmer, village life, goat, alcoholic, trial ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, france, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
fashion, mother daughter relationship, starting over, family relations, parents and children, celebrity culture, society, love and romance, thirtysomething life, alcohol abuse, friendship, satire ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, canada, woodstock
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
Style:
sexy, erotic, humorous, surprise ending, sex comedy ...
Plot:
lesbian, polyamory, adultery, lesbian love, lgbt, lgbtq, husband wife relationship, strong female character, love triangle, lesbianism, sex scene, women ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s
Place:
france, south of france, europe, spain
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Josette about to leave him. When he comes after her, ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, funny, humorous ...
Plot:
christmas, trapped in an elevator, transvestite, lgbtq, psychology, xmas, christmas time, exodus, suicide, theatre play, pharmacist, suffering ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, japan, tokyo
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Comedy, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On his death bed in the 1820s, King Ferdinando I of Naples tries to escape the ghosts of his bloody kingship by remembering his younger days, when he was allowed to go hunting and have fun, and inventing love games. Then he was obliged to marry Mary ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, epic, humorous ...
Plot:
true love, italian history, empress, forbidden love, nudity, sex scene, mutiny, marriage, sex, female nudity, royalty, manipulation ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
naples italy, austria, italy
Similarity:
59%
307
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
-In the absence of her sister Rim, what was Yasmina doing in a parking with Salim and Majid, their cronies? If Rim knows nothing, it is because Yasmina done everything for it that she does not find out. What therefore? The unmentionable - the worst ...
Style:
sex comedy, humorous, sincere, entertaining, contemplative ...
Plot:
teenager, sister sister relationship, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, love, friends, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as ...
Style:
parody, funny, black comedy, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
french revolution, satire, farce, twins, woman in labor, mistaken identity, voice over narration, sibling rivalry, nobleman, swashbuckler, revolution, identical twins ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1780s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, england, spain
Similarity:
49%
564
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in Carhaix, in the heart of Brittany. A small hospital, with a calm maternity clinic, where few births take place. Mathilde, a mid-wife, Firmine, a pediatric nurse, and Louise, the owner of the Carhaix bowling alley, are all ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
bowling, hospital, friendship, fighting the system, rebellion, human spirit, rebelliousness, workplace, society, strong female presence, maternity ward, championship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Drama based of the classic book with the same name. Marcus and Trand explore their youth together.
Style:
captivating, contemplative, psychological, unusual plot structure, humorous ...
Plot:
18 year old, male pubic hair, sex scene, teenage boy, teenager, teenage protagonist, couple relations, couples, love and romance, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Israel, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis. Following a dream vacation to Israel ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rabbi, culture clash, fish out of water, midlife crisis, religions or cults, society, nothing goes right, disorder, husband wife relationship, israeli, immigrant, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, france, paris france, europe, middle east ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, History
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Croatia, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, naked man, taboo, male nudity, sexuality, renaissance, theater, human nature, painter, performer's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
16th century, 2010s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
45%
1K
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, captivating, biting ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, fish out of water, couples, love and romance, infidelity, misfit, rich and poor, social differences, social relations, couple relations, disorder, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
44%
292
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Claude, an auctioneer in his 50s, forms with Marie a couple united for fifteen years and still in love. However, in the intimacy, and in spite of a desire always alive, Claude has problems of erection. While Marie agrees with a smile of these ...
Style:
erotic, sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex scene, making love, desire, nudity, dishonesty, gender, couple relations, couples, family relations, sexual relations, infidelity, parents and children ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, switzerland, europe, paris france, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
43%
391
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble.
Style:
sex comedy, cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
bourgeoisie, sexploitation, naked woman, satire, nudity, infidelity, wedding, disaster, farce, sexual relations, love triangle, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and then she also has to face the reality that her father is a well-known actor disavowed by the regime. ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
idealism, teenage life, fighting the system, youth, rebelliousness, hopes, politics, actor's life, parents and children, political unrest, adolescence, couples ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1977, year 1968
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
Style:
sexy, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexual
Plot:
friendship, friends, couple relations, infidelity, resort, couples, love and romance, gays and lesbians, revelation, seaside, luxury hotel, catastrophe ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
france, mediterranean sea, sardinia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The film Liebesmarkt featuring a cute blonde Ingrid Steeger, not only became a cult actress stupidity of German youth who watched only American cinema. Ingrid was a true nudist and undressed in front of the camera without any pose. She wore a gold ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, slapstick comedy, slapstick
Plot:
female nudity, naturist, countryside, caught having sex, female voyeur, nude model, cousin cousin relationship, damsel in distress, masturbation, swinger couple, sex game, swinger party ...
Place:
central europe, munich germany, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A series of vignettes depict different sexual fantasies.
Style:
erotic, sex comedy, raunchy comedy
Plot:
bowling, hospital, violin, sauna, nymphomaniac, sensuality, nude model, female masturbation, peeping tom, female nudity, sex, erotica ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, central europe, zurich switzerland
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized
Plot:
writers, playwright, royal court, politics, artists and showbiz, writer's life, lifestyle, rise and fall, ambition, couple relations, introspection, master and servant ...
Time:
18th century, year 1996, 1770s, 1780s
Place:
france, europe, london, versailles, paris france
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For ...
Style:
sexual, sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
marriage proposal, doctor, marriage, jealousy, aristocrat, relationships, violent content, nudity, friends, couples, power relations, adventurer ...
Time:
18th century
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Francis, the boss of a small plumbing supply company, is harassed by tax collectors, striking employees, and an impossible wife and daughter. His only joy is sharing lunch with his friend Gerard. Then a TV show called "where are you?" ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever, witty ...
Plot:
missing person, mistaken identity, twins, best friend, body swapping, couple relations, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, hidden identity, buddies ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, south of france
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, sex comedy, fairy tale ...
Plot:
nudity, womanizer, extramarital affair, love and romance, couples, nato, wooing, sexual relations, looking for sex, sexual content, snow, psychoanalysis ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty, surreal ...
Plot:
filmmaking, actor's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, showbiz, actress, actor, film industry, television, jazz, midlife crisis, homeless man ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
nothing goes right, family life, family problems, couples, couple relations, domestic disturbance, countryside, family in crisis, house, silly humor, disorder, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Style:
sexy, period piece, talky, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
royal court, nobility, food, lechery, chess, french history, royalty, courtroom, society, ambition, idealism, marquis ...
Time:
18th century, year 1996, 1790s, 1780s
Place:
france, england, versailles, paris france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, feel good
Plot:
winter, practical joke, group of friends, cold, frozen, friendship, mountain, friends, silly humor, womanizer, couple relations, resort ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
alps, france, europe
Similarity:
37%
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