Movies like Lovers 1999

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Lovers (1999)
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Lovers (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.
Style: erotic, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: dogme 95, dogma, bookstore, erotica, painter, immigration, sensuality, couples, deportation, lovers, illegal immigration, love and romance, life is a bitch, fall in love, tragic love, love affair, society, sexual content, lifestyle, immigrant, love, artist, police officer, police, female nudity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place: paris france, former yugoslavia, france, yugoslavia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and sexual films with plots about love and romance, couples, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, love affair, nudity and couple relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Lovers: Poetical Refugee (2000), Too Much Flesh (2000), American Translation (2011), Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday (1998), Full Body Massage (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Poetical Refugee (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he ...
Style: psychological, touching, realistic, serious
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sex addict, friendship, hospital, looking for love, family life, lifestyle, social outcast, adoption, curses spells and rituals, mentally unstable, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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Too Much Flesh (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In an Illinois farming community, Lyle lives quietly with his wife Amy. But their life is set spinning when Lyle's friend Vernon visits with his girlfriend Juliette. Soon Lyle and Juliette have embarked on a passionate affair which has the town ...
Style: erotic, suspense, disturbing, psychological, independent film
Plot: adult virgin, loss of virginity, eroticism, male female relationship, adultery, sexuality, puritanism, virgin, relationships, family problems, society, marital infidelity ...
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50%
American Translation (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A sexually ambiguous Frenchman tours his native countryside with his naive American lover in pursuit of the ultimate thrill. From the moment they meet, brooding Chris (Pierre Perrier) and the beautiful Aurore (Lizzie Brocherè) fall instantly and ...
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, disturbing, sexual ...
Plot: threesome, serial killer, young lovers, gay, love affair, murder, destructive relationship, couples, couple relations, love and romance, female nudity, erection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms ...
Style: contemplative, serious, psychological, rough
Plot: necrophilia, dominatrix, strong sexual content, female pubic hair, overdose, male nudity, sex, female nudity, nudity, couples, mentally unstable, human nature ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Full Body Massage (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Nina, an art dealer, has her weekly massage appointment and is surprised to find out her usual masseur, Douglas, has sent a replacement named Fitch. The pair develop an easy rapport during the session, with talk about past relationships. As Nina ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, talky, sincere ...
Plot: massage, erotica, masseur, female nudity, love and romance, lifestyle, starting over, femme fatale, dishonesty, love affair, infidelity, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 ⇓
52%
Little Jerusalem (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, culture clash, society, lifestyle, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, infidelity, social differences, youth, male female relationship ...
Place: middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
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52%
The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
Story: The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: painter, painting, art, artist, eroticism, husband wife relationship, couples, creative process, taxidermy, model, drawing, human nature ...
Time: year 1991
Place: provence, usa, france, los angeles, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Letter (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, moral dilemma, couples, love triangle, unfulfilled love, singer, car accident, concert, nun ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: portugal, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Insecure (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: couples, society, fall in love, working class, immigrant, life is a bitch, misfit, security guard, gang, pursuit, youth, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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
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43%
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Harem (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a North African desert hideaway by Selim, an Arab mogul.
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: stockholm syndrome, sheik, kidnapping, sexual relations, relationships, culture clash, couples, obsession, harem, nudity, moral ambiguity, age difference ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: ottoman empire, new york
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42%
The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to ...
Style: realistic, touching, depressing, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, working class, coma, love and romance, depression, loneliness, society, youth, life is a bitch, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Young Lady Chatterley (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cynthia inherits a large estate and moves in. She reads her aunt's diary and finds out how she was taught in the ways of love by her gardener in 1901 at the age of 21. She decides to continue the fruitful relationship and gets it on with the ...
Style: erotic, sexy, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: mate swapping, erotica, estate, gardener, love and romance, infidelity, social differences, fetish, sexual content, inheritance, diary, love ...
Time: 70s, 1900s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Where Horses Go to Die (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Daniel is an artist who has lost his desire to paint. An unexpected meeting with three « working girls » one evening marks the beginning of a surreal adventure. Later that night, the wildest dreams and the worst nightmares of his three new muses ...
Style: touching, sexy, psychological, melancholic, romantic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, male nudity, painter, gay couple, love and romance, lovers, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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41%
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Here Below (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, gloomy
Plot: impossible love, catholic church, nun, german occupation, forbidden love, love affair, wartime life, fall in love, dishonesty, betrayal, society, clergy ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Single Girl (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style: sexual, erotic, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, hotel, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age, minimalism, lgbt, lust, making love, sex scene, single parent, strong female character, single mother ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Let's Talk About Sex (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Four women filmmakers examine sexuality in this anthology. Segment 1 is entitled "Let's Talk About Sex" and is the story of an aspiring actress whose day job is as a phone-sex operator. Tiring of listening to callers' fantasies, ...
Style: erotic, sexy, anthology, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lesbian sex, female masturbation, erotica, lesbianism, threesome, opposites attract, phone sex, nudity, thirtysomething life, couples, gender, love and romance ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Style: sexy, manga, explicit, realistic, serious ...
Plot: writers, female nudity, erotica, art, prostitution, literary, exodus, lifestyle, writer's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, womanizer ...
Time: 1930s
Place: paris france, europe, france
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38%
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Eden Is West (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Elias (Riccardo Scamarcio) is an immigrant in his twenties who tries to get to Europe by a boat along with other illegal immigrants. When the boat is near the Greek shores and they hope they will soon disembark, a marine patrol approaches and Elias ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological, political ...
Plot: illegal immigrant, social differences, refugee, society, life is a bitch, politics, self discovery, fish out of water, on the road, migration, greek, immigration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alps, europe, france, greece, ancient greece ...
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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
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36%
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Love Forbidden (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rodolphe Marconi writes, directs, and stars in the coming-out drama DĂ©fense 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 ⇓
34%
Cet amour-lĂ  (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cet Amour-lĂ  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 ⇓
34%
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Sweet Sex and Love (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story: They meet and they make love. They live together and they make love. Dong-Ki has one night stand with Shin-Ah, a woman who has hardly any faith in true love but indulge herself in sex. Shacking up and making love with each other day in and day out, ...
Style: sexy, serious, erotic, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: strong sexual content, sex, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, couples, swing, relationships, love affair, love interest, in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Hip Moves (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: obsession, pregnancy, prostitute, unfulfillment, hospital, nightshift, love, couples, society, lonely, gays and lesbians, dull life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young artist in Manhattan falls in love with a Mexican.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: nightclub, social differences, missing person, love affair, social relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, israeli palestinian conflict, friendship, couple relations, conspiracy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Living on Love Alone (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, youth, love and romance, college graduate, adolescence vs adulthood, love affair, couples, rebelliousness, clubbing, twentysomething life, nudity, coitus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?
Style: serious, talky, psychological, clever, sexy ...
Plot: dogme 95, mental illness, depression, family problems, starting over, family relations, mentally unstable, dogma, real world, dysfunctional family, human nature, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
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31%
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Girlfriends (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Architect Paul Thomas insinuates himself into the relationship of two bisexual women living in a St. Tropez villa with tragic consequences.
Style: erotic, serious, psychological, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, love triangle, menage a trois, bisexual, polyamory, gay, triad, swing, architecture, lesbianism, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: france, saint tropez, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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G.H.B. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, strong female presence, friends, love
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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