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Pater (2011)
537
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Vincent Lindon and Alain Cavalier drink together in bars while coming up with tall tales.
Style:
serious, realistic, experimental, contemplative, fake documentary
Plot:
friends, buddies, artists and showbiz, filmmaking, money, politics, role playing, ethics, french politics, prime minister, business ethics, bakery, retiring, law, legal, film within a film, camera, necktie, handshake, breaking the fourth wall, video camera
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, paris france, france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and gloomy films with plots about friends, friendship, family relations, love and romance, society, lifestyle and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Pater: Irene (2009), The Moon Child (2011), The Pianist (1998), Medea Miracle (2007), The Portuguese Nun (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
235
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A video diary shot and recorded by the filmmaker, using little more than his imagination and the happenstance and flow of the everyday, finally layering in a lifetime of memories.
Style:
serious, touching, psychological, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
introspection, couple relations, love and romance, couples, danger, unfulfilled love, dealing with death, artists and showbiz, hopes, unfulfillment, filmmaking, death ...
Time:
year 2009, year 1972
Place:
lyon, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
David, a professor of dermatology, has been treating 13-year-old Romain since he was a baby. Afflicted with a rare skin condition, Romain must avoid sunlight and is condemned to live in the shade. David and Romain have become the closest of friends ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, friends, power relations, child illness, terminal illness, hospital, teenage boy, man boy relationship, genetics, skin disease ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a transvestite club, he learns his lifelong friend Albert Rossell (Serge Reggiani) is the house ...
Style:
emotional, gloomy, serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
piano, civil war, love triangle, friends, love and romance, state affairs, confined, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch, musician's life, haunted by the past ...
Time:
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Place:
barcelona, paris france, spain, france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Irene moves to Paris to begin a new life with her husband Jason and their two daughters, but an act of betrayal and her desire for revenge soon sends her to the brink of madness.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
disorder, redemption, friendship, friends, introspection, family life, life turned upside down, family relations, immigrant, adoption, misfit, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
church, love and romance, lifestyle, filmmaking, culture clash, clergy, actor's life, self discovery, artists and showbiz, religions or cults, love affair, frenchwoman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, age difference, senior citizen, friends, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, writer's life, couple relations, human nature, fall in love, introspection ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 1920s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, california, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
french politics, politics, workplace, workplace situations, state affairs, boss and employee, disagreement, politician, prime minister, business, female nudity, fatal accident ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
22%
337
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, exciting, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, friends, buddies, lifestyle, city life, on the road, lgbt, teenager, gay bar, gay interest, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Taiwan
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
A Buddhist monk walks barefoot and incredibly slowly through Marseille – so slowly, that his progress is barely perceptible and he becomes a calming influence in the midst of the town’s goings-on.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
clergy, solitude, monk, self discovery, introspection, journey, art, underground, spirit, buddhist monk, urban, tiger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
marseille, france, french riviera, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a group of friends, all around 30, who live in the Le Panier district of Marseille, France. It's not a bad life, made up of slightly shady dealings, nights out, sun and just hanging out. But the neighborhood is an inescapable ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
criminal heroes, gangster, society, musician's life, buddies, friends, working class, racism, artists and showbiz, prank, music, hip hop ...
Time:
90s
Place:
marseille, france, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the little way" to God are shown clearly, using plain ...
Style:
slow cinema, spiritual, aesthetic, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
saint, catholic, nun, spirituality, convent, christian, religion, erotica, girl, catholic saint, victorian england, spirit ...
Time:
year 1986, victorian era, 80s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
578
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michał jedzie do miasta swojego urodzenia, aby załatwić sprawę o którą prosi go szef i od razu wracać. Sprawy przybierają jednak inny obrót. Michał musi pozostać tu parę dni dłużej. Chodząc po mieście spotyka bliskie mu niegdyś ...
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, haunted by the past, homecoming, family relations, buddies, parents and children, redemption, estrangement, bittersweet, profanity, friends, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Style:
talky, realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
friendship, college, youth, friends, power relations, college life, betrayal, teachers and students, student life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, student, mishap ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a ...
Style:
sexy, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
self discovery, unfulfillment, dull life, scientist, frustration, estrangement, love, women, father daughter relationship, bittersweet, love affair, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, scandinavia, france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, sentimental, serious, contemplative ...
Plot:
young lovers, love and romance, family relations, suburbs, friendship, parents and children, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, twentysomething life, friends, homecoming, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Three first-time filmmakers, Justin, Dana and John set out to make a documentary about the hardships of inner-city life. Justin follows two NYPD officers while Dana and John focus on Thomas (a black youth poised to move up from his hardships). ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, hood ...
Plot:
found footage, law enforcement, friendship, moral dilemma, social decay, teenage life, youth, social differences, society, danger, partner, filmmaking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
suburbs, murder, relationship vs career, family life, couples, family relations, friends, social relations, couple relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
20%
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:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, haunted by the past, on the road, life is a bitch, city life, self discovery, female friendship, sexuality, sensuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, shanghai, new york, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, couples, friends, couple relations, hopes, love and romance, introspection, love affair, gender, gays and lesbians, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Spiker & Cobakka are two self-confessed 'pieces of Moscow scum' who come to London to rip it off. This is their guide.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealing, buddies, immigrant, partner, cons and scams, friends, misfit, dishonesty, mental illness, junkie, violent content, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A symphony in three movements. Things such as a Mediterranean cruise, numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday... Our Europe. At night, a sister and her younger brother have summoned ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, avant garde ...
Plot:
politics, family relations, parents and children, state affairs, society, ship, social differences, parent child relationship, justice, filmmaking, family business, dictator ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, barcelona, palestinian authority, egypt, africa ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rodolphe Marconi writes, directs, and stars in the coming-out drama Défense 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:
psychological, serious, sexy, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, love affair, fall in love, lifestyle, intrigue, bisexual, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, glbt, gay subtext, male homosexuality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, italy, france, rome italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couple relations, friendship, breakup, workplace, couples, theater, boss and employee, love and romance, family problems, male female relationship, pregnant woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
19%
262
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
auschwitz, starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, hopes, human spirit, girlfriend, reunited friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
How should you spend your time if your days are numbered? This is the question facing Linda, a young woman suffering from a congenital heart defect. Contrary to her doctors’ expectations she has managed to survive to celebrate her thirtieth ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
sisters, introspection, family relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, surgical operation, journey, dealing with death, unfulfillment, siblings relations, sister sister relationship, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany, hamburg germany, paris france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, semi serious, humorous, gloomy ...
Plot:
swing, classical music, eviction, down on your luck, city life, musician's life, artists and showbiz, downfall, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, composer, chance ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Though its aftertitles detailing the history of French nuke experiments suggest otherwise, writer/director Marion Hänsel’s Black Ocean is not a political treatise or a history lesson, instead taking advantage of the remote, isolated environments ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
military life, friendship, ship, soldier, power relations, partner, crew, nuclear, nuclear testing, gay subtext, coming of age, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe, pacific ocean
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years after the end of the previous film. In the earlier film, a young man has moved with his family to Marseilles from ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
armenian genocide, turkish history, diaspora, immigration, genocide, survivor, immigrant, love and romance, elderly lovers, elderly, writer's life, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ottoman empire, europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
19%
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