Movies like Lola 1961

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Lola (1961)
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Lola (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lola, is a 1961 film, the debut film directed by Jacques Demy as a tribute to director Max Ophüls and is described by Demy as a "musical without music". Anouk Aimée starred in the title role. The film was restored and re-released by Demy's widow, French filmmaker Agnès Varda.
Style: art house, black and white, eros, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, feel good, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience: date night
Plot: swing, cabaret, true love, love, women, single mother, girl, recovery, showgirl, lost soul, love triangle, single parent, unrequited love, seaside town, youth, family relations, destiny, love and romance, couples, love affair, young lovers, opposites attract, introspection, seaport, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century, post world war two, 1960s
Place: france, europe, amsterdam, marseille, johannesburg south africa, brittany, chicago
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, unfulfillment, fall in love, male female relationship and love triangle mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Lola: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Bay of Angels (1963), A Man and a Woman (1966), The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), The Soft Skin (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening ...
Style: sentimental, visual, colorful, romantic, lyrical ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, love triangle, unfulfilled love, young lovers, marriage, separation, teenage girl, pregnancy, relationships, first love, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957 ...
Place: france, algeria, normandy, europe
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100%
Bay of Angels (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Monaco
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A compulsive gambler falls in love with a bank clerk (Claude Mann) on holiday in Nice. At first, the two lovers simply use each other as good luck charms; but what happens to love when luck runs out?
Style: technicolor, sexy, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: roulette, gambling, casino, gambler, luck, con artists, bank, blonde, couples, destructive relationship, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: cote d'azur, monte carlo, france, south of france, nice france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Man and a Woman (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, psychological, romantic drama ...
Plot: love, fall in love, relationships, auto racing, widow, couples, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, passion, lost soul, motor racing ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. They are both looking for love, without being aware that their ideal partner is very close... A film where the scenario is much less important than its feeling of euphory, according to the ...
Style: inspirational, romantic, art house, visual, technicolor ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: twins, dancing, ballet, painting, love story, in love, music and dance, hardcore, european, swing, feminist, siblings ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Soft Skin (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Style: black and white, neo noir, depressing, art house, anthology ...
Plot: neglected wife, airport, love, transformation, doomed romance, new love, swing, infidelity, flight attendant, adultery, love at first sight, divorce ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, lisbon portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Model Shop (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: While trying to raise money to prevent his car from being repossessed, George is attracted to Lola, a Frenchwoman who works in a "model shop" (an establishment which rents out beautiful pin-up models to photographers). George spends his ...
Style: art house, psychedelic, realistic
Plot: model, infidelity, swing, semi nudity, urbanization, lost soul, architecture, hipster, fashion model, fashion, architect, photography ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: los angeles, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Boy Meets Girl (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas, but gives up ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, avant garde, black and white ...
Plot: youth, fall in love, impossible love, love affair, couples, losing-it hero, lifestyle, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, twentysomething life, depression, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Tale of Winter (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For ...
Style: spiritual, art house, postmodern, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, skinny dipping, librarian, winter, polyamory, extramarital affair, love, spirit, cold weather, crazy love, train, female nudity ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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A Room in Town (1982)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: female nudity, strike, injustice, family relations, weakness, couples, sexual dysfunction, destructive relationship, prostitute, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Place: france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.8
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Fanny (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is ...
Style: independent film, touching, feel good, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teenage pregnancy, boat, broadway, yacht, loneliness, girl, journey, love, ocean, couples, relationship vs career, love affair ...
Time: year 1961, 1930s
Place: marseille, france, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
White Nights on the Pier (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.
Style: contemplative, realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: seaport, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, unfulfillment, love, women, loneliness, orphan, night, love letter, school teacher ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.1
 286K
Before Sunset (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style: philosophical, sentimental, romantic, independent film, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, relationships, lovers reunited, love and romance, couples, dialogue, lovers, bookstore, great ending, passion, bittersweet, conversation ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.0
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The Last Day (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: At Christmas time, 19 year old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While Simon struggles to cope with the growing distance between him and his parents, he starts to examine ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: gender, love triangle, teenage life, youth, jealousy, lovers reunited, social misfits, love and romance, couples, family relations, family gatherings, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 6K
Three Times (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: There are three stories of women and men: in "A Time for Love" set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool; "A Time for Freedom," set in a bordello in 1911, revolves around a singer's ...
Style: anthology, thought provoking, touching, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: longing, love affair, tragic love, social differences, couples, fall in love, wartime life, love triangle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, time, minimalism, asian ...
Time: 60s, 1910s, 2000s, year 2005, 20th century ...
Place: taiwan, taipei, tokyo, shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.7
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Jules and Jim (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the ...
Style: art house, black and white, philosophical, lyrical, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: marriage, friendship, love triangle, unrequited love, love, relationships, menage a trois, love story, storytelling, melancholy, manic pixie dream girl, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, year 1962, 1930s, post world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.6
 9K
Happiness (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Style: art house, anthology, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, french countryside, love, summer, adultery, bittersweet, love triangle, cheating, family relations, daily life, new love ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Regular Lovers (2005)
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, suspenseful ...
Plot: coming of age, idealism, politics, love triangle, political corruption, chaos and mayhem, love affair, injustice, twins, couple relations, hopes, sexual relations ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, year 2005, 60s, year 1969
Place: france, paris france, europe, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.6
 468
Nuts for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, talky ...
Plot: love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, political unrest, destiny, love and romance, state affairs, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Violets Are Blue... (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie (Spacek), a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up
Style: sentimental, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sailing, small town, high school, destiny, bittersweet, love, photojournalism, sea voyage, fall in love, family relations, photojournalist, friends ...
Time: year 1986, future
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Springtime in a Small Town (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, France, Netherlands
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband.
Style: thought provoking, serious, sentimental, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, small town, human nature, love and romance, couples, couple relations, introspection, crumbling marriage, lovers reunited, small town life, unfulfilled love, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s
Place: china, asia, shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Ruby in Paradise (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Reeling from her mother's recent death, Ruby Lee Gissing relocates to Florida to start anew. After finding a job at a souvenir store, Ruby becomes friends with the shop's owner, Mildred Chambers, and slowly acclimates to her new ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, road movie, mumblecore ...
Plot: self discovery, coming of age, friendship, bittersweet, drinking, shoplifting, suburbs, girl power, feminist, women, spring break, society ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: florida, tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Goodbye First Love (2011)
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: serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: sex scene, lovers reunited, lovers apart, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, youth, older man younger woman relationship, bare chested male, childhood sweetheart, letter, love and romance ...
Time: 2010s, year 1999, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, marseille, normandy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.9
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3 Hearts (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: love triangle, brother in law sister in law relationship, unfulfilled love, wedding ceremony, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, bittersweet, sister sister relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Clara and Me (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot: couples, introspection, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, parents and children, midlife crisis, lovers reunited, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 217 min.
Story: In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous ...
Style: sexual, thought provoking, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot: sex scene, cafe, prostitute, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, tragic love, love affair, lifestyle, against the rules ...
Time: 20th century, year 1973, 60s, 70s
Place: france, paris france, new york, europe, vienna ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.0
 2K
The Light (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual
Audience: date night
Plot: island, love triangle, fall in love, love of one's life, love affair, dishonesty, lighthouse, family secret, lighthouse keeper, sensuality, storm, village ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, france, brittany, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Maids of Wilko (1979)
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, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, uncle nephew relationship, female nudity, renaissance, first love, love letter, death, birthday, jealousy, childhood friend, friendship, farm ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.6
 224
Intentions (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Renee leads a fulfilling life as a professor of theater, mother of two girls, and wife to a kind and successful husband. Her life of contentment is changed forever when she discovers an undeniable attraction between herself and a female graduate ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, sincere, independent film
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, sexual content, family relations, college, infidelity, love and romance, forbidden love, couples, life turned upside down, teachers and students, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, love, post war, love triangle, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, farm, male female relationship, love affair, tragic love ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 8.1
 337K
Before Sunrise (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. ...
Style: philosophical, emotional, melancholic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, chance meeting, destiny, relationships, fall in love, tourist, young lovers, conversation, coincidence, love story, travel, teenage girl ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: austria, europe, france, vienna, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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