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The Lover (2002)
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The Lover (2002)
Original name: Любовник
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya’s attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn’t really know her.
Style: romantic, captivating, spiritual
Plot: loss, husband wife relationship, death of wife, relationships, family relations, love and romance, male female relationship, spirituality, sex, teacher, journalist, death, girlfriend, adultery, lie, private detective, funeral, smoking, renovation, father son relationship, infidelity, fatherhood, letter, stoicism, military officer ...
Keyword: russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, romantic, psychological and disturbing films with plots about male female relationship, relationships, love and romance, family relations, love affair, love story and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Lover: A Love Story (2007), American Kamasutra (2018), Hirugao (2017), The Reunion: Forbidden Love (2016), Lead with Your Heart (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Love Story (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min.
Story: What if you met the woman you wanted to make your wife after you married someone else? Ian Montes is a picture of success. Despite being a son of a shipping tycoon, Ian refused to just ride in his father's empire. He built his own real estate ...
Style: tagalog, captivating, romantic
Plot: father son relationship, business trip, love affair, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, couple relations, male female relationship, relationships, romantic relationship, rich, extramarital affair ...
Place: the philippines
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American Kamasutra (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young woman finds herself involved in a dangerous love triangle when she gets involved with the writer of a popular steamy novel.
Style: sexy, touching, melancholic, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: sex scene, sexual relations, sex, strong sexual content, dangerous attraction, submission, female masturbation, sexual awakening, love, lifestyle, love and romance, self discovery ...
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Hirugao (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Set 3 years after the drama series. Kitano Yuichiro comes to give a lecture in the town where divorcee Sasamoto Sawa now lives quietly. The two meet again and their love story continue.
Style: captivating, romantic, romantic drama
Plot: teacher, love affair, cheating on husband, relationship problems, marital problem, suspicion of adultery, husband wife relationship, marriage, couple relations, adultery, forbidden love, love interest ...
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39%
The Reunion: Forbidden Love (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A romantic drama depicting a housewife vacillating between a former lover and her husband directed by Narita Yusuke who was involved in the "Abunai Deka" and "BE-BOP High School" series. Odashima Yumiko (Kumakiri Asami), a ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: ex boyfriend, husband wife relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, ex couple relations, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love and romance, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic triangle, lovers reunited, romantic relationship, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Lead with Your Heart (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ben and Maura have been married for years, and they are in a rut…so much of a rut that they are contemplating if it would be better to live separate lives. That’s when their two teenage children step in and scheme to try to get them back ...
Style: romantic, captivating, emotional
Plot: husband wife relationship, love and romance, relationship problems, marital problem, family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, small town life, relationships, couple relations, family problems, romantic relationship ...
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38%
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The Good Life (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Christopher Nolen's "The Good Life" is the story of Jacques and Marianne Vandelay, a highly successful African American couple. They are happy but both are keeping dark secrets from each other.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, romantic, dark
Plot: couples, family secret, love and romance, relationships, romantic relationship, male female relationship, family relations, family life, secret, husband wife relationship, marital problem, african american ...
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38%
My Retirement, My Life (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Michitaro Sano’s wife passed away 18 years ago. Since her death, he has lived with his daughter Yumiko at their home. Now, Michitaro retires from his work. Yumiko though tells him to start doing housework. Michitaro is also surprised to learn that ...
Style: romantic, uplifting, captivating
Plot: father daughter relationship, family relations, retirement home life, gymnastics, male female relationship, romantic relationship, relationships, love and romance, hobby, family life, gymnast, lifestyle ...
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36%
My Friend's Mom (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After her mother dies, Young-jae visits her older sister's house, who took care of herself like her, and reunites with her sister, Soon-ae. She is incredibly greedy and charming. With the provocation of Soon-ae, the two develop into a secret ...
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: love affair, love story, male female relationship, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, couples, parents and children, romantic relationship, family problems, love and romance, new love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Case of Unfaithful Klara (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In contemporary Prague a young musician is obsessed by jealousy for his beautiful girlfriend Klara. He engages a private detective to spy on Klara but this starts an uncontrollable series of accidents, misunderstandings and traps culminating in an ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing, detective
Plot: jealousy, voyeur, infidelity, marital problem, husband wife relationship, adultery, jealous husband, family problems, relationship problems, espionage, family relations, couple relations ...
Place: prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Satellite of Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Catherine and Blake just tied the knot. Samuel and Catherine have a long and intimate history which is significant to the fact that Samuel and Blake are best friends. When Samuel decides not to attend their wedding under some pretense that no one ...
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: love triangle, friendship, romantic triangle, couple relations, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unrequited love, relationships, love affair, love and romance, romantic relationship, husband wife relationship ...
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36%
A Flower Aflame (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Sonoko enters a traditional Japanese arranged marriage with Amamiya facilitated by her parents the resulting union is loveless including the functional and goal-oriented sex.
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: husband wife relationship, japanese woman, relationships, love and romance, love triangle, loveless marriage, love story, romantic triangle, couple relations, male female relationship, dysfunctional marriage, love affair ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Love and Other Catastrophes (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rosa is a psychologist. She is married to Frederik and they have two children. Frederik has an affair with the photographer Sonja, who gets pregnant. But Sonja's psychologist is Rosa, and when she finds out who Sonja's lover is, all hell ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, light, captivating
Plot: infidelity, psychologist, pregnancy, love triangle, adultery, adulterous husband, mistress, lovers, male female relationship, family relations, love story, relationships ...
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35%
The Love Affair (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Often in the backseat and a second priority to her partner, a lawyer decides to end her relationship and focuses on herself with a help of a man out of her league.
Style: realistic, romantic, atmospheric, emotional
Plot: extramarital affair, lawyer, marriage, husband wife relationship, infidelity, love triangle, love story, workplace romance, love and romance, life philosophy, adultery, betrayal ...
Place: the philippines
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35%
Summer in Portugal (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Portugal
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Workaholic hotel architect effectively drifted apart from his family. He interrupts the latest, Moroocan project to spend a holiday with his wife Liane in Lisbon, but is delayed. Friendly local interior decorator João, a widower, enjoys hosting ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: adultery, infidelity, love affair, cancer, romantic relationship, seduction, male female relationship, relationship problems, forbidden love, love triangle, love story, seductress ...
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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All My Life (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sam and Louie meet aboard the Star Cruise. Despite being strangers and complete opposites, with Sam being carefree and Louie being obsessive-compulsive, they become unlikely acquaintances and eventually friends. Both pained on carrying life’s ...
Style: captivating, romantic, rough, tagalog
Plot: cruise ship, romantic friendship, male female relationship, romantic relationship, relationships, in love, love interest, love affair, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, meeting ...
Place: the philippines
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35%
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Loco Love (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young man and woman fall in love but are threatened to be torn apart by the tensions between their Latino and Caucasian communities in Arizona.
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: fall in love, father son relationship, love and romance, in love, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, community, love story, society, male female relationship, couple relations, romantic relationship ...
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35%
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Love Affair (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ga-hee appeared in front of Seong-min who was bored running a book store after retiring. Ga-hee runs a ballet school and wasn"t on very good terms with her husband, which led to her and Seong-min falling madly in love together. They know they ...
Style: light, captivating, romantic, erotic, sexy
Audience: adult
Plot: passionate sex, love affair, married woman, romantic relationship, cheating boyfriend, adultery, love triangle, love story, adulterous husband, relationships, husband wife relationship, love and romance ...
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35%
Paper Moon Affair (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An enigmatic Japanese woman, abandoned by her wealthy Chinese husband in a remote Pacific Northwest village, becomes entwined in the lives of two rugged locals.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, intercultural
Plot: unhappy marriage, love triangle, loveless marriage, adultery, extramarital affair, infidelity, male female relationship, relationship problems, marital problem, social misfits, family relations, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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All the Good Ones Are Married (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ben Gold gets the break of his life as aspiring author, but must stay home with his kids, Luke and Madison, to make his 5 months deadline. His feminist wife, workaholic fashion executive Alex, selfishly decides to take in promising rebel designer ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: unfaithful husband, husband wife relationship, adultery, kids and family, love triangle, infidelity, family relations, love interest, male female relationship, writer's life, family problems, relationships ...
Place: new york
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35%
A Serious Game (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.
Style: romantic, psychological, captivating, sincere, costume drama
Plot: love, adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, loveless marriage, opera, unhappy marriage, love and romance, romantic triangle, ex couple relations, love affair, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 1910s
Place: eastern europe
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35%
Brooklyn Love Stories (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: What do a young graffiti artist, a middle-aged widow, a teenage poet, a vampire, and two lovers stuck in separate timelines have in common? Though their paths don't always cross, their lives unfold in Brooklyn's vibrantly multicultural ...
Style: romantic, thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: relationship problems, multiple storylines, male female relationship, love story, in love, love, love and romance, true love, love affair, romantic relationship, couple relations, fall in love ...
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35%
The Mermaid Chair (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
Style: serious, touching, romantic, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mermaid, family relations, forbidden love, self discovery, clergy, religions or cults, estrangement, family problems, couples, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
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34%
Shyam Singha Roy (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A young filmmaker is in a soup right when he’s about to find his footing in the film industry. When he sets out to find an answer, turns out it’s in the past.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, romantic, spiritual
Plot: reincarnation, love affair, couples, couple relations, love story, relationships, love and romance, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love interest, telugu, hindi
Time: 2020s
Place: india
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34%
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Give Love Away (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Story: A heartwarming family drama centering on a couple’s remarriage in the twilight years of their lives, forcing two families of grown adult children to become one big family. This drama will describe how those grown-up children will re-act and deal ...
Style: romantic, captivating, light
Plot: family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, marriage, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, love and romance, love story, romantic relationship, relationships, love affair, couple relations
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34%
You're Killing Me Susana (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It is the journey of an educated man from Mexico City to the center of the United States, with its rigid society, its frigid winter, but most of all, it is an inner journey to face the contradictions between his love for his wife and the macho ...
Style: psychological, captivating, rom com, feel good
Plot: love and romance, cuckolded husband, unrequited love, husband wife relationship, unhappy wife, relationship problems, marital problem, relationships, female writer, male female relationship, love story, couple relations ...
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34%
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two unhappy people's lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who's trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, middle age romance, true love, love and romance, couples, infidelity, parents and children, death, summer, love, inn, family drama ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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34%
Five Moments of Infidelity (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A true to life sensual drama showing intense moments of infidelity across five different worlds in the same city; the sexy young things, who think they have nothing to lose; the upwardly mobile thirty-something couple bored with their perfect ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, independent film
Plot: cheating boyfriend, unfaithful husband, infidelity, gay relationship, cheating girlfriend, cheating wife, neglectful husband, neglected wife, marital infidelity, relationship problems, family problems, male female relationship ...
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34%
Anna Karenina (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
Style: costume drama, romantic, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: imperial russia, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, cheating wife, age difference, death, love, true love, american civil war, russian woman, women ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1880s
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Resisting Roots (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Genevieve Harper makes the most out of raising her two siblings after their parents' tragic accident. At just 24, Viv has devoted herself to providing her family with the best life possible, sacrificing her own dreams along the way. When Trent ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic
Plot: baseball, siblings, relationships, love and romance, romantic relationship, male female relationship, love interest, love affair, love story, fall in love, couple relations, romantic friendship ...
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34%
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Classic Again (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In a love triangle that miraculously mirrors her mother's romance years ago, a young woman let's her heart lead.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic
Plot: romantic triangle, love interest, love and romance, relationship problems, love triangle, family problems, romantic rivalry, star crossed lovers, love story, relationships, love affair, in love ...
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34%
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