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The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
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The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style: witty, melancholic, clever, touching, sexy, entertaining, independent film, art house, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: sex, infidelity, writers, seduction, pimp, love affair, family problems, open marriage, adultery, money problems, love, death, betrayal, escort, book, bookstore, marriage, older woman younger man relationship, rock, basement, age-gap relationship, vandalism, rejection, love triangle, menage a trois ...
Time: year 2001, contemporary
Place: los angeles, santa monica california, pasadena california, california
Keyword: reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, clever and semi serious films with plots about infidelity, couples, love and romance, sex, husband wife relationship, adultery and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Man from Elysian Fields: The Leading Man (1996), Forty Shades of Blue (2005), XX/XY (2002), One Night Stand (1997), We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Leading Man (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with ...
Style: sweet, semi serious, realistic, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, husband wife relationship, love triangle, seduction, love affair, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, actor's life, couple relations, love and romance, dedication event ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: england, london, europe
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Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: love affair, sex with stepmother, infidelity, love triangle, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, couples, parents and children, couple relations, fall in love ...
Place: usa, tennessee, memphis, russia
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XX/XY (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of ...
Style: melancholic, intense, psychological, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, infidelity, threesome, friendship, love triangle, betrayal, loneliness, complex characters, college, haunted by the past, buddies, couple relations ...
Time: year 2002, year 1993, 90s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
One Night Stand (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, intense, light, touching ...
Plot: male female relationship, love triangle, infidelity, friendship, one night stand, justice, adaptation, adultery, interracial romance, couples, family problems, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: usa, new york, los angeles, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
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We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. ...
Style: emotional, stylized, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, extramarital affair, marriage, friendship, adultery, love affair, betrayal, lust, cheating on husband, cheating, forbidden love ...
Time: year 2004
Place: europe, england, portland oregon, oregon
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32%
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Fling (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An attractive young couple's open relationship is stretched to the breaking point when each partner finds themselves falling in love with other people.
Style: sexy, realistic, sincere, disturbing, powerful ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: open relationship, sexuality, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, lifestyle, human nature, young lovers, dishonesty, seduction, seductress, sex ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Too Beautiful for You (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before ...
Style: talky, cynical, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, bittersweet, sexuality, adultery, marriage, love triangle, infidelity, pleasure, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style: realistic, touching, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation, masseuse, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Closer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, marriage, love at first sight, passion, sex, stripper, photographer, sexuality, obsession ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Discreet (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: There is an author who has been dumped by his girlfriend and has no inspiration for a next novel. In an attempt to find a solution to both crises, he, along with his publisher friend, decides to seduce a young woman with the singular purpose of ...
Style: anthology, contemplative, talky, sexy, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: writers, parisian, infidelity, alcohol abuse, lovers reunited, couples, power relations, thirtysomething life, opposites attract, boss and employee, writer's life, gender ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Sleep with Me (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend. ...
Style: sexy, talky, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, marriage, sexual relations, marriage proposal, redemption, lgbt, relationships, lesbian, poker, wedding, friendship ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen. As they delve into Austen's literature, the club members find themselves dealing with life experiences that parallel the themes of the books they are reading.
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, sweet, witty ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love and romance, literature, friendship, infidelity, book, writers, crumbling marriage, couple relations, family relations, love, loneliness, multiple storylines ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Price Above Rubies (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: About a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of the woman wanting something more out of her life.
Style: touching, emotional, light, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: judaism, women, stereotypes, loneliness, self discovery, love and romance, love affair, introspection, jewelry, job, infidelity, orthodox jew ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, israel, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Feelings (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, erotic, sensitive ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, love triangle, infidelity, fall in love, starting over, life turned upside down, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, family life, female nudity ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
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Flirt (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Japan). A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. In each case there are other people involved, an ex-partner and someone else in a ...
Style: art house, independent film, talky, witty, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: homosexual, lgbt, loneliness, flirting, in love, infidelity, couples, dark humor, ultimatum, love triangle, gender, couple relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, japan, asia, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Oh in Ohio (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Priscilla and Jack appear to be the perfect couple, but they have a secret: She is sexually frustrated. They separate in the hope of resolving the situation. While Jack moves into a bachelor pad and begins an affair with a student, Priscilla ...
Style: light, stylized, sex comedy, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: orgasm, infidelity, depression, sexual dysfunction, adultery, high school, fall in love, love triangle, female masturbation, age difference, lesbian cunnilingus, love ...
Time: year 2006
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Come Undone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up ...
Style: erotic, sensual, touching, sincere, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, adultery, cheating on husband, extramarital affair, sexually dissatisfied wife, cheating wife, infidelity, horny wife, forbidden love, couples, unfaithful husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Falling in Love Again (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style: sweet, romantic, melancholic, intense, light ...
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, self discovery, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place: usa, bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Elegy (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style: sexy, sincere, suspenseful, enigmatic, touching ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, teacher student sex, obsession, hedonism, infidelity, couples, male teacher female student affair, love and romance, teachers and students, teacher, adultery ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Charlotte Sometimes (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young roommate.
Style: sincere, sexy, light, captivating, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, friendship, love and romance, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, youth, infidelity, nightclub, aunt nephew relationship, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Place: san francisco
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23%
The Simian Line (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita (Tyne Daly) predicts that one of the three couples present at the party will break up by the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating, sex comedy ...
Plot: breakup, family relations, ghost, introspection, looking for love, lifestyle, love and romance, supernatural ability, battle of the sexes, dull life, couples, family problems ...
Time: 1920s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
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, sensual, erotic, sexual, romantic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: infidelity, sex, passion, adultery, photography, waitress, female nudity, love triangle, menage a trois, sexual promiscuity, voyeurism, existentialism ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century, year 1988
Place: central europe, czechoslovakia, geneva switzerland, switzerland, california ...
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23%
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Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Style: humorous, witty, melancholic, philosophical, cult classic ...
Plot: infidelity, friendship, fetish, self discovery, life philosophy, character study, introspection, buddies, couple relations, dialogue, food, adultery ...
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23%
Indecent Proposal (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).
Style: sexy, sexual, emotional, psychological, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: gambling, adultery, husband wife relationship, infidelity, moral dilemma, love triangle, love story, sexual relations, cuckold, millionaire, lust, wealth ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Little Children (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style: sexual, sexy, disturbing, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love affair, housewife, sex, small town, sexual pleasure, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, parenthood ...
Time: year 2006, y2k, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Blume in Love (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) ...
Style: romantic comedy, funny, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: divorce, marriage, lawyer, satire, law, infidelity, love triangle, female nudity, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, couples, obsession ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, los angeles, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Crooked Hearts (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The father of a family has a an affair. This affects every member of the family.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Plot: voyeur, dysfunctional family, infidelity, shakespeare, affair, family relations, pregnancy, adultery, extramarital affair, bare breasts, family secret, nudity ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, virginia, los angeles, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Feast of Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Style: touching, romantic, semi serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: infidelity, lesbian, lesbian sex, love, friendship, woman on top, coffee shop, female nudity, american football, sex on first date, female pubic hair, small town ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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5 to 7 (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Style: touching, realistic, independent film, captivating, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: adultery, fall in love, unfaithful wife, love and romance, extramarital affair, polyamory, cheating on husband, couples, cheating wife, relationships, love affair, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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