Movies like Pierrot le Fou

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Pierrot le Fou (1965)
 7.4
 37K
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Original name: Pierrot le fou
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style: road movie, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visual, stylized, meditative, light, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: on the road, on the run, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, betrayal, infidelity, surrealism, couples, couple relations, vietnam war, tragic love, beautiful scenery, mediterranean, satire, freedom, husband wife relationship, tragic event, money, love, swing, lovers, female nudity, storytelling, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, near future, year 1965, 60s, 1960s
Place: france, paris france, mediterranean sea, europe, africa, provence
Keyword: gangsters, avant-garde, new wave, oldies, reading, movie theatre, watching a movie, lebanese, french, eye candy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, art house, serious and atmospheric films with plots about couples, love, love and romance, french new wave, death, cigarette smoking and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Pierrot le Fou: Fallen Angels (1995), Mississippi Mermaid (1969), Jules and Jim (1962), A Woman Is a Woman (1961), Band of Outsiders (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fallen Angels (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In this bifurcated crime narrative, a disillusioned hitman attempts to escape from his violent lifestyle against the wishes of his partner, who is infatuated with him, and an eccentric mute repeatedly encounters, then subsequently falls for, a ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, visual, neo noir, art house ...
Plot: couples, killer, hitman, couple relations, existentialism, love, criminal heroes, partners in crime, love affair, dialogue, triad, asian ...
Time: year 1995, 90s, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a noirish tale of a man who orders a mail-order bride but receives instead a con woman.
Style: neo noir, suspense, anthology, serious, realistic ...
Plot: femme fatale, nudity, mail order bride, murder, plantation, marriage, love story, bdsm, female villain, time travel, dangerous women, american south ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, mississippi, nice france, lyon, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
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Jules and Jim (1962)
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, black and white, philosophical, lyrical, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: marriage, friendship, love triangle, unrequited love, love, relationships, menage a trois, love story, storytelling, melancholy, manic pixie dream girl, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, year 1962, 1930s, post world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Exotic dancer Angéla attempts to have a child with her unwilling lover Émile. In the process, she finds herself torn between him and his best friend Alfred.
Style: melancholic, light, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: love, pregnancy, infidelity, loneliness, dysfunctional family, couples, couple relations, love and romance, love triangle, fall in love, sexual relations, relationships ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Band of Outsiders (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, neo noir, postmodern, talky ...
Plot: robbery, love triangle, gunfight, alienation, caper, crime gone awry, danger, louvre, teenage girl, modernism, isolation, time travel ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
My Life to Live (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Style: art house, philosophical, intellectual, black and white, visual ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, gunfight, pimp, street prostitution, shootout, lack of money, women, european, great ending, solitude, existentialism ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.5
 36K
Contempt (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker ...
Style: art house, philosophical, erotic, grindhouse, visual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, screenwriter, satire, femme fatale, film producer, writers, relationships, marriage, female nudity, estranged couple, film industry, passive aggression ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, rome italy, italy, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
First Name: Carmen (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The protagonist is Carmen X, a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the ...
Style: experimental, art house, psychedelic, erotic, tense ...
Plot: bank, kidnapping, terrorism, masturbation, sex, female pubic hair, erotica, gang, eroticism, robbery, hostage, money ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Masculin Féminin (1966)
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: intellectual, philosophical, talky, clever, erotic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: counterculture, women, relationships, politics, revolution, hippie, european, sexuality, social commentary, violence, sex, hipster ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.0
 11K
Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the ...
Style: grindhouse, lyrical, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: lovers on the run, depression, justice, visceral, mafia, loneliness, train, female nudity, chases and races, on the road, great depression, anarchist ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1972
Place: usa, arkansas, chicago, illinois, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 22K
L'Eclisse (1962)
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, black and white, philosophical, neorealism, visual ...
Plot: loneliness, alienation, art, love, stock broker, great ending, love story, existentialism, minimalism, unrequited love, minimal dialogue, passion ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, usa, europe, los angeles, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Married Woman (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style: black and white, sensual, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, society, in love, birth control, nudity, magazine, sexual pleasure, sandstorm, married, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, betrayal ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Soft Skin (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Style: black and white, neo noir, depressing, art house, anthology ...
Plot: neglected wife, airport, love, transformation, doomed romance, new love, swing, infidelity, flight attendant, adultery, love at first sight, divorce ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, lisbon portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
Style: disturbing, lyrical, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: female nudity, lovers reunited, infidelity, dysfunctional family, love triangle, love affair, midlife crisis, couple relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, obsessive quest, actor's life ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 8.0
 56K
Le Samurai (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: loner, hitman, gangster, assassination, police investigation, loneliness, assassin, betrayal, chase, anti hero, organized crime, character study ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.2
 100K
Wild at Heart (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Style: surreal, road movie, black comedy, avant garde, dark comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: on the road, murder, surrealism, forbidden love, on the run, road trip, violence, sex scene, domineering mother, rape, haunted by the past, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place: new orleans, texas, austin texas, usa, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 8.1
 286K
Before Sunset (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style: philosophical, sentimental, romantic, independent film, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love story, relationships, lovers reunited, love and romance, couples, dialogue, lovers, bookstore, great ending, passion, bittersweet, conversation ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Beauty of the Day (1967)
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, psycho sexual, sexy, surreal, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexuality, prostitution, prostitute, surrealism, obsession, infidelity, brothel, unfaithful wife, female nudity, sex, self discovery, sexual relations ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Thief of Paris (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the ...
Style: neo noir, crime drama, semi serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: heist, orphan, swing, thief, guillotine, family relations, injustice, criminal heroes, couple relations, dishonesty, clergy, society ...
Time: year 1967, 1890s
Place: paris france, france, europe, england, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.9
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Weekend (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Style: black comedy, road movie, surreal, disturbing, experimental ...
Plot: satire, surrealism, cannibalism, murder, violence, traffic jam, anarchism, road trip, nihilism, cruelty, car accident, car crash ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
Style: melancholic, touching, tricky, light, lyrical ...
Plot: amnesia, memory loss, love story, justice, master criminal, police, fall in love, couple relations, couples, love affair, love and romance, dangerous attraction ...
Time: year 2002
Place: france, paris france, morocco, england, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Borsalino (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, friendship, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, tough heroes, ex convict, boxing, italian mafia, organized crime, interwar period, mediterranean ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: europe, france, south of france, marseille, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Swimming Pool (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his ...
Style: neo noir, crime drama, technicolor, anthology, art house ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: summer vacation, nudity, death by drowning, swimming pool, summer, love triangle, haunted by the past, female nudity, crimes of passion, police officer, lust, mediterranean ...
Time: 60s
Place: french riviera, cote d'azur, south of france, mediterranean sea, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, art house, sexy, cynical ...
Plot: surrealism, virginity, humiliation, maid, manipulation, sexuality, nudity, unrequited love, satire, older man younger woman relationship, absurd humor, fool ...
Time: 20th century, year 1977, 70s
Place: paris france, europe, spain, madrid, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Second Breath (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the ...
Style: neo noir, black and white, noir, crime drama, exciting ...
Audience: manly
Plot: robbery, criminal, caper, fugitive, jazz, post war, dream, escape, manipulation, organized crime, mafia, planning ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe, south of france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Two for the Road (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The ten-year marriage of Mark and Joanna Wallace is on the rocks. In flashback they recall their first meeting, memorable moments in their courtship and early wedded life, their travels through Europe, their broken vow never to have children, and ...
Style: road movie, stylized, witty, esoteric, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: road trip, infidelity, on the road, love story, architect, love, travel, marriage, adultery, crumbling marriage, bittersweet, summer ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, mediterranean sea, france, south of france, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.7
 78K
Badlands (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
Style: road movie, rough, surreal, visual, art house ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, on the road, killing spree, road trip, lovers on the run, psychopath, killer, on the run, murder, father daughter relationship, first sex, true crime ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1973, 1950s
Place: south dakota, montana, usa, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Consequences of Love (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Titta di Girolamo has been living in a small hotel in Lugano for ten years, he leads a dull and rigid live and has apparently lost his capability to feel human emotion. This all changes when he decides to talk to Sofia, the Barmaid.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, philosophical, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loneliness, age difference, haunted by the past, fall in love, unlikely couple, couples, dull life, dishonesty, love and romance, manipulation, drug abuse, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.2
 9K
Bad Blood (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country; it's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment. While a serum that can ...
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, psychedelic, art house, deep ...
Plot: unrequited love, aids, older man younger woman relationship, crazy love, mafia, robbery, love, ex convict, doom, in love, new love, underworld ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.9
 28K
The Red Circle (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a ...
Style: neo noir, tense, stylized, suspense, noir ...
Plot: heist, gangster, robbery, caper, organized crime, nightclub, mafia, great ending, thief, prison, gunfight, existentialism ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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