Movies like The Mother and the Whore
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The Mother and the Whore (1973)
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Original name: La Maman et la Putain
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 210 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 of Alexandre's fling with Veronika. As the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, serious, tense, realistic, talky, sexy, sexual, erotic, captivating ...
Plot:
sex scene, prostitute, friendship, infidelity, obsession, cafe, love and romance, tragic love, love affair, introspection, friends, couples, lifestyle, hopes, against the rules, couple relations, relationships, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, prostitution, mother son relationship, female nudity, revolution, erotica ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, 1960s
Place:
france, paris france, new york, europe, china, vienna, hamburg germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and sexual films with plots about couples, love and romance, infidelity, couple relations, nude, sex and death mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like The Mother and the Whore: Swann in Love (1984), Loulou (1980), Little Lili (2003), Claire's Knee (1970), L'ennui (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She ...
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sexy, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot:
duchess, love and romance, erotica, isolation, sensuality, jealousy, obsession, prostitute, couples, power relations, gender, femme fatale ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This 1980 French film features Isabelle Huppert as a restless young woman who ditches her boring, tempramental boyfriend for a wild, leather-clad bad boy (played by an incandescent, youthful Gerard Depardieu).
Style:
erotic, romantic, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sexual relations, affair, sensuality, cult, advertising agency, infidelity, drunk, class differences, disco, couple relations, love and romance, opposites attract ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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100%
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, clever, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
filmmaking, actor's life, love triangle, couples, obsession, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, unfulfilled love, fall in love, dysfunctional family, unhappiness ...
Place:
france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura ...
Style:
sentimental, thought provoking, talky, relaxing, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
summer, older man younger woman relationship, older man young girl relationship, forbidden love, teenage girl, nymphet, relationships, love, erotica, writers, sensuality, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
60s, year 1970, 20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to ...
Style:
erotic, psychological, sexy, emotional, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
obsession, sex, erotica, older man younger woman sex, sexual obsession, teacher, sex scene, midlife crisis, depression, sexuality, female nudity, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
italy, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style:
talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, human nature, love and romance, couple relations, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, tokyo
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100%
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, touching, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
coming of age, revolution, idealism, politics, couple relations, hopes, twins, political corruption, love triangle, love affair, chaos and mayhem, injustice ...
Time:
year 1968, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
france, paris france, europe, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister ...
Style:
art house, romantic, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot:
love triangle, sex, love, women, relationships, abuse, loss of virginity, masturbation, infidelity, sister sister relationship, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, turn of the century, pre world war one
Place:
france, paris france, normandy, europe, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Friends of painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The dozen travelers include art historian François and his lover Louis, who develops an interest in ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay, art, lgbt, painter, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, transvestism, transsexual, marriage, male nudity, writers, death ...
Time:
70s, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, egypt, cambodia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine ...
Style:
sexual, erotic, psycho sexual, sexy, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, sexuality, obsession, surrealism, infidelity, female nudity, sex, self discovery, brothel, sexual relations, sexual fantasy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Lolita
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring ...
Style:
psychological, sentimental, serious, clever, erotic ...
Plot:
sexuality, nudist camp, hippie, teacher, loss of loved one, sex addict, scientist, introspection, mentally unstable, obsession, human nature, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
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:
stylized, sexy, realistic, clever, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
betrayal, virginity, seduction, manipulation, infidelity, virgin, tragedy, hypocrisy, couple relations, wager, love triangle, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, erotic, sexual ...
Plot:
obsession, love triangle, captive, sex, paranoia, desire, friendship, dangerous attraction, lifestyle, voyeurism, destructive relationship, losing-it hero ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed by the man's materialistic nature.
Style:
art house, philosophical, surreal, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Plot:
loneliness, art, love, love story, existentialism, alienation, relationships, greed, obsession, complex characters, creativity, childhood ...
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Place:
italy, rome italy, tokyo, europe, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal, Austria, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on George Bataille's posthumous and controversial novel: When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexual, controversial, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mother son incest, mother son relationship, incest, depravity, sexual promiscuity, lust, nude beach, dominatrix, sexual relations, parents and children, milf, exhibitionism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canary islands, europe, spain, nice france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Films like Before Sunrise
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, talky, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
gynecological exam, jewish, friendship, infidelity, abortion, unhappiness, divorce, female nudity, sex, extramarital affair, seduction, adultery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Style:
erotic, melancholic, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
obsession, older man younger woman relationship, lolita, forbidden love, age difference, lust, sexuality, older man young girl relationship, incest, pedophilia, girl man relationship, virginity ...
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1940s, year 1947, 20th century, 50s, 1920s
Place:
new england, cannes
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Germany, Brazil, France, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Pilar's befriended neighbour Aurora dies, Pilar starts to dig into Aurora's past and learns about Aurora's very tragic love story.
Style:
clever, serious, surreal, captivating, cerebral ...
Plot:
crocodile, aging, tragic love, love affair, unfulfillment, society, love, neighbor neighbor relationship, plantation, haunted by the past, nude, sexual content ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
africa, portugal, lisbon portugal, east africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young girl. The story follows the arc of ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, controversial, experimental, art house ...
Plot:
erotica, female nudity, nude model, oral sex, love, artist, strong sexual content, sensuality, explicit sex, mental disorder, dutch history, blaxploitation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
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erotic, sexy, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
gay teenager, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, coming out, betrayal, youth, racism, love triangle, friendship, homosexuality ...
Time:
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Place:
france, lyon, europe, new york, algeria ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles ...
Style:
sexy, enigmatic, non-linear, psychological, stylized ...
Plot:
divorce, sex, adultery, infidelity, rape, wedding, childbirth, wedding night, relationships, husband wife relationship, up and down relationship, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, sardinia, europe, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
Style:
erotic, sexy, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, infidelity, oral sex, explicit sex, male female relationship, extramarital affair, marriage, female masturbation, coitus, betrayal, exhibitionism, exhibitionist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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, philosophical, sexy, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
love triangle, friendship, marriage, love, relationships, women, love story, melancholy, couples, adultery, promiscuity, unrequited love ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, pre world war two ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, art house, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
oral sex, sex scene, forbidden love, love triangle, sexual promiscuity, male nudity, erotica, suicidal thoughts, sexuality, making love, filmmaking, self destructing ...
Time:
80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud as Paul, a romantic young idealist and literary lion-wannabe who chases budding pop star, Madeleine (Chantal Goya, a real life Yé-yé girl).
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, talky, clever, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
relationships, women, politics, revolution, counterculture, sexuality, sex, violence, french, idealism, satire, modernism ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Films like In the Realm of the Senses
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:
melancholic, sexy, realistic, intense, romantic ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, village, husband wife relationship, family relations, literature, family life, village life, tragic hero, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 1850s, 70s ...
Place:
normandy, france, london, europe, switzerland
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20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, art house, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, sex, love, love triangle, waitress, voyeurism, adultery, existentialism, female nudity, sexual promiscuity, menage a trois, love story ...
Time:
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Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia, geneva switzerland, california, ussr ...
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20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo who develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, emotional, non-linear, artsy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
sex, dream girl, love, coming of age, flirting, erotica, seduction, love triangle, blonde, sexual relations, friends, obsession ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, poland, marseille ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
gay, aids, gay sex, friendship, opera singer, moral dilemma, sexual promiscuity, siblings relations, love and romance, gender, teenage boy, lgbt ...
Time:
year 1984, year 1985, 80s
Place:
paris france, munich germany, marseille, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards ...
Style:
erotic, touching, emotional, colourful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, love triangle, love, tragedy, love story, nude girl, love affair, unfulfilled love, love and romance, dishonesty, filmmaking ...
Place:
europe, italy, berlin germany, france, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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