Movies like The Piano

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The Piano (1993)
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The Piano (1993)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia, France, New Zealand
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.
Style: period piece, psychological, sexual, scenic, serious, sexy, erotic, melancholic, stylized, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: piano, desire, sexual relations, adultery, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, love triangle, mother daughter relationship, human nature, couples, love and romance, pianist, mute, unfaithful wife, sensuality, love, music, voyeur, sexual desire, sign language, arranged marriage, sex scene, beach, female nudity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1850s, 90s, year 1993, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place: new zealand, oceania, scotland
Keyword: oldies, english, feminist film, change

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, romantic and erotic films with plots about couples, love and romance, love, couple relations, love affair, infidelity and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like The Piano: The Painted Veil (2006), Firelight (1997), The End of the Affair (1999), Jane Eyre (1996), 9½ Weeks (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Painted Veil (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story, couples, marriage, extramarital affair, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place: china, shanghai, africa, london, asia
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Firelight (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Firelight is a period romance/drama film written and directed by William Nicholson. It was Nicholson's first, and to date only, film as director.
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, feel good, sexy ...
Plot: fall in love, governess, love affair, couples, victorian england, estate, nanny, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, british, love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1840s, 1830s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The End of the Affair (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his ...
Style: romantic, erotic, intellectual, heartbreaking, enigmatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, obsessive love, obsession, infidelity, jealousy, love affair, private detective, passion, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place: london, england, brighton, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 10K
Jane Eyre (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, period piece, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: happy ending, orphan, love triangle, fall in love, power relations, family relations, love and romance, love affair, parents and children, haunted by the past, rich and poor, love story ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, ancient times, victorian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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9½ Weeks (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: obsession, erotica, dangerous attraction, sex scene, bdsm, sexuality, sexual relations, strong sexual content, destructive relationship, masturbation, couples, mysterious character ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 98K
Unfaithful (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, unfaithful wife, lust, sex, cheating wife, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, fatal attraction, extramarital affair, dangerous attraction, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 39K
Sex and Lucia (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, cerebral, art house ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, nudity, lust, sexual relations, porn, erotica, explicit sex, strong sexual content, female masturbation, male nudity, waitress ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, mediterranean sea, iberian peninsula, valencia spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 36K
Adore (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering ...
Style: sexy, emotional, romantic, erotic, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, lust, older woman younger man sex, sexual tension, adultery, sexual relations, love affair, sex, older woman teenage boy relationship, mother son relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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 ⇓
100%
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Dangerous Liaisons is the film based on the novel of the same name by Choderlos de Laclos set in 18th century France. Marquise de Merteuil’s asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for ...
Style: sexy, costume drama, period piece, sexual, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: aristocracy, fatal attraction, seduction, sexuality, sex, sexual manipulation, decadence, love, love letter, adultery, casanova, sexual relations ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way ...
Style: psychological, period piece, costume drama, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, depression, multiple storylines, couple relations, fall in love, infidelity, relationships, art, women, male female relationship, unhappy marriage, impossible love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1996, 1870s
Place: europe, england, florence, london, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.5
 116K
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 ⇓
67%
The Girl from the Song (2017)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young musician travels to Burning Man, a psychedelic festival in the middle of the Nevada desert, in an attempt to get the impetuous girl he has fallen in love with.
Style: uplifting, romantic, touching, sentimental, sweet
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: love, love story, couples, obsession, youth, love affair, destiny, relationships, fall in love, love and romance, male female relationship, music ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, melancholic, visually stunning, artsy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, marriage, love affair, unrequited love, love, newspaper, food, tragedy, betrayal ...
Time: 60s, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
 20K
Damage (1992)
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: forbidden love, sexuality, adultery, femme fatale, love affair, infidelity, obsession, dangerous attraction, sex, love triangle, passion, fondling ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, palm springs california, paris france, london, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Governess (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, society, love affair, loss of virginity, nanny, older man younger woman relationship, jewess, couple relations, master and servant, male nudity, love triangle ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1998, 1800s
Place: scotland, england, london, britain, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.6
 106K
Anna Karenina (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
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, emotional, sentimental, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: high society, forbidden love, imperial russia, tragic love, infidelity, aristocracy, suicide, cuckolded husband, depression, love, adultery, marriage ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2012, 1870s, ancient times ...
Place: russia, moscow russia, st. petersburg russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.8
 12K
Silk (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France, Italy, UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far away from home.
Style: romantic, stylized, realistic, sentimental, sensual ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: love story, betrayal, travel, life philosophy, smuggling, interracial love relationship, love and romance, couple relations, passion, obsession, love, adultery ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 2007, edwardian era ...
Place: japan, france, asia, europe, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Wild Orchid (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: erotica, sex scene, sexual pleasure, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, forbidden love, lust, sexuality, seduction, bdsm, femme fatale, watching sex ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 204K
The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love, memory loss, love story, love and romance, amnesia, true love, marriage, relationships, couple relations, wooing, power of love, couples ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Pride & Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will ...
Style: romantic, costume drama, sweet, dramatic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prejudice, love, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, opposites attract, strong female character, aristocracy, initially antagonists, wooing, unlikely couple, pride ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, georgian era, 1790s ...
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
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: romantic, emotional, period piece, heartbreaking, intense ...
Plot: love affair, infidelity, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, unhappy marriage, judge, unfaithful wife, suicide attempt, unfulfilled love, love, depression, family problems ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Last Mistress (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Style: erotic, serious, stylized, realistic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, infidelity, opposites attract, courtesan, forbidden love, manipulation, destructive relationship, dishonesty, couples, tragic love, love affair, looking for love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 2000s, 1830s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Beyond the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
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, colorful, atmospheric ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love triangle, love, tragedy, love story, nude girl, love and romance, dishonesty, unfulfilled love, love affair, fall in love ...
Place: italy, europe, france, new york, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
 5K
Leaving (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, forbidden love, cuckolded husband, extramarital affair, cheating wife, fatal attraction, sexless marriage, emotional blackmail, love triangle, passion, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, south of france, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.0
 2K
The Captive (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
Style: sexy, psychological, serious, erotic, slow cinema ...
Plot: obsession, sex, love triangle, captive, desire, friendship, lifestyle, voyeurism, losing-it hero, destructive relationship, infidelity, sexual relations ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel ...
Style: realistic, sexy, talky, intense, period piece ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, art, classical music, art history, composer, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, refugee, couples, blind ambition, life turned upside down ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Room with a View (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once ...
Style: scenic, touching, period piece, atmospheric, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: self discovery, couples, hotel, travel, love, passion, female protagonist, fall in love, looking for love, piano, male nudity, happy ending ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, year 1985 ...
Place: italy, england, europe, britain, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style: romantic, period piece, emotional, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, couple relations, looking for love, love story, victorian england, english countryside, love and romance, relationships, love affair, dishonesty, countryside, unrequited love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.9
 57K
Head-On (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style: psychological, depressing, bleak, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, marriage, immigrant, culture clash, love story, relationships, loneliness, sex, love affair, drug, self esteem, self destructing ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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