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Maria's Lovers (1984)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ruining a virtual engagement to captain Al Griselli. Against Ivan's dad's advice, they get married. But Ivan became psychologically impotent, feels unworthy of her and starts wondering, even looking for another girl. Meanwhile slick guitar-and-song-busker Clarence Butts moves in to South-Western PA, and seduces Maria.
Style:
erotic, sincere, emotional, sexual, sentimental, captivating, controversial, grindhouse, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
marital problem, world war two, soldier, fall in love, couples, love affair, small town, homecoming, human nature, passion, husband and wife, wedding, husband wife relationship, marriage, erotica, love triangle, sensuality, extramarital affair, dysfunctional marriage, unfaithfulness, age difference, family relations, cheating on husband, marital infidelity, married woman ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, russian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and emotional films with plots about couples, love and romance, infidelity, love affair, couple relations, extramarital affair and love triangle mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Maria's Lovers: A Night in Heaven (1983), The Affair (1995), No Looking Back (1998), Forty Shades of Blue (2005), Ryan's Daughter (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Faye Hanlon is a community-college professor with an emotionally depressed husband and an abundance of sexual frustration. Her sister drags her to a male strip-club for a girls-night out, where she discovers that one of the dancers is her failing ...
Style:
sensual, sexy, erotic, sexual, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
marital infidelity, public nudity, older woman younger man relationship, male pubic hair, feminine wiles, erotica, heterosexuality, older woman younger man, illicit affair, husband and wife, male female relationship, nightclub ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
florida
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
Style:
erotic, sex comedy, bleak, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Place:
england, europe
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style:
emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, working class, waitress, old love, rock, love triangle, friendship, fall in love, couple relations, introspection, love and romance, starting over ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, texas, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
emotional, sincere, realistic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot:
love affair, sex with stepmother, infidelity, love triangle, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, couples, estrangement, parents and children, fall in love, love and romance ...
Place:
usa, tennessee, memphis, russia
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her ...
Style:
sentimental, epic, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
world war one, forbidden love, village, catholic, impotent husband, orgasm, village idiot, political unrest, soldier, fall in love, love triangle, couples ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1970, 70s
Place:
ireland, england, europe, california
Similarity:
20%
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:
sexy, sincere, touching, sexual, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, cheating on husband, sex scene, forbidden love, couples, love affair, extramarital affair, adultery, horny wife, sexually dissatisfied wife, husband wife relationship, sexual intercourse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
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20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, unhappy marriage, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, judge, unfulfilled love, suicide attempt, depression, family problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
20%
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, erotic, melancholic, light, intense ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, california, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self.
Style:
erotic, realistic, emotional, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
asian man white woman relationship, infidelity, adultery, sensuality, trying to get pregnant, horny wife, extramarital affair, illegal immigrant, sex for money, fertility, infertility, marital problem ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
new york, usa, korea
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, erotic drama ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
dangerous attraction, erotica, sex, sexual obsession, young lovers, sexual relations, love, love story, unfaithful wife, nudity, couples, voyeur ...
Time:
80s
Place:
southern usa, alabama
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The true story of Soldier’s Girl, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a beautiful transgendered nightclub performer was ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, dramatic, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Place:
kansas, kentucky, missouri, nashville tennessee, tennessee ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, emotional, biting ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, world war two, nazi occupation, soldier, countryside, social differences, life is a bitch, obsession, teenage life, haunted by the past, wartime life, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, emotional, anthology ...
Plot:
neighbor, crimes of passion, obsession, love story, adultery, mad love, love triangle, extramarital affair, tragic love, couples, dishonesty, destructive relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981, 1920s, 19th century
Place:
france, rio de janeiro, middle east, tokyo, paris france
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
washington state, seattle
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19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, love affair, couple relations, breakup, vengeance, downfall, introspection, jealousy, seduction, sex scene, romantic triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
Style:
philosophical, melancholic, emotional, visually stunning, art house ...
Plot:
love, love story, love affair, crumbling marriage, marriage, love triangle, passion, horse ranch, extramarital affair, amor, starting over, introspection ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 90s, 21st century
Place:
europe, paris france, oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa ...
Similarity:
18%
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:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
sailing, small town, destiny, high school, bittersweet, love, sea voyage, photojournalism, fall in love, family relations, photojournalist, couples ...
Time:
year 1986, future, 80s, 70s
Place:
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Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Russia, USA
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, romantic drama, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1997, turn of the century, 1880s
Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
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18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, romantic, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, sincere, lyrical, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, denmark, tokyo
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
American tour guide Mo Alexander misses her tour group, and then her flight out of Paris. Stuck in the city of romance, Mo runs into the very suave -- and very married -- Xavier, who attempts to seduce Mo while his family is out of town. His charms ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, romantic, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
mumblecore, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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17%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, romantic drama, sexual ...
Plot:
adultery, fall in love, love triangle, love affair, family relations, couples, parents and children, infidelity, last wish, funeral, love and romance, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, boston, usa, oceania
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, erotic drama, romantic drama ...
Plot:
tragic love, secret lover, defloration, erotica, sex, older woman younger man sex, passion, desire, love, love triangle, obsession, betrayal ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
17%
14K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, bleak, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, explicit sex, couple relations, cheating wife, sex scene, strong sexual content, obsession, erotica, sexual relations, sensuality, dysfunctional marriage, erection ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, canada
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 193 min.
Story:
Dev and Maya are both married to different people. Settled into a life of domestic ritual, and convinced that they are happy in their respective relationships, they still yearn for something deeper and more meaningful, which is precisely what they ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
true love, infidelity, family relations, couple relations, love affair, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, india
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17%
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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, disturbing, sincere, powerful ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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17%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
north carolina, southern usa, usa, california
Similarity:
17%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Russia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, sentimental, historical drama, colorful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
high society, forbidden love, imperial russia, infidelity, tragic love, aristocracy, marriage, suicide, adultery, cuckolded husband, love, depression ...
Time:
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Place:
moscow russia, russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
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17%
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