Movies like Summer

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Summer (1986)
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Summer (1986)
Original name: Le Rayon vert
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A lonely Parisian woman comes to terms with her isolation and anxieties during a long summer vacation.
Style: realistic, talky, anthology, cute, aesthetic, psychological, sincere, clever, touching, humorous ...
Plot: loneliness, boredom, summer, dialogue, female nudity, solitude, friendship, self discovery, summer vacation, children, depression, isolation, love, time travel, sadness, road trip, coming of age, hipster, crazy love, fall in love, living alone, shyness, seaside, public nudity, small talk ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe, alps, normandy, ireland, tokyo
Keyword: reading, dreams, french

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Most similar movies to Summer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and talky films with plots about love and romance, couples, love, couple relations, friendship, friends and crazy love mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Summer: Cesar & Rosalie (1972), A Summer's Tale (1996), To Have (Or Not) (1995), Jules and Jim (1962), An Impudent Girl (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cesar & Rosalie (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Claude Sautet's romantic drama stars Romy Schneider as Rosalie, a beautiful young woman involved with successful businessman Cesar (Yves Montand). One day, Rosalie's former flame David (Sami Frey) appears and attempts to win her back. ...
Style: sexy, anthology, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: love triangle, obsession, love, couple relations, friendship, parisian, relationships, love story, violent outburst, jealous lover, violent man, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Summer's Tale (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who ...
Style: art house, anthology, cute, artsy, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, love, fall in love, graduation, glamour, friendship, time travel, mathematician, journey, crazy love, love hurts, daily life ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1995
Place: france, europe, brittany, english channel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
To Have (Or Not) (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic ...
Plot: hotel, depression, loneliness, fired from the job, seduction, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, drug overdose, interracial relations, male female relationship, factory, job seeking ...
Place: lyon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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%
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An Impudent Girl (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlotte is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: working class, coming of age, summer vacation, rebel, child prodigy, teenage girl, adolescence, friendship, age difference, children, childhood, first love ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wings of Desire (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style: atmospheric, surreal, meditative, lyrical, cerebral ...
Audience: date night
Plot: angel, immortality, dream, circus, love, existentialism, philosophy, mortality, library, loneliness, love story, visceral ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, east germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Tale of Winter (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For ...
Style: spiritual, art house, postmodern, talky, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, skinny dipping, librarian, winter, polyamory, extramarital affair, love, spirit, cold weather, crazy love, train, female nudity ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Good Marriage (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but Edmond does not ...
Style: contemplative, semi serious, realistic, captivating, talky ...
Plot: art history, female friendship, crazy love, amor, marriage, birthday party, couples, friends, screwball, love and romance, friendship, couple relations ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Autumn Tale (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali.
Style: melancholic, meditative, witty, art house, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wine, friendship, kick-butt women, autumn, women, matchmaking, starting over, midlife crisis, human nature, parents and children, love, wedding ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, south of france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but ...
Style: clever, art house, anthology, contemplative, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: female nudity, infidelity, marriage, love, glamour, love and romance, love affair, affair, passion, relationships, new love, daily life ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Full Moon in Paris (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: "He who has two women loses his soul, he who has two houses loses his mind." So it goes with Louise played by Pascale Ogier who is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-à-terre in the city so ...
Style: anthology, talky, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: love, female nudity, crazy love, art, jealous lover, best friend, existentialism, alienation, relationship problems, couples, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Aviator's Wife (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
Style: anthology, semi serious, realistic, talky, humorous ...
Plot: stalking, obsession, crazy love, love, couples, youth, aviator, unrequited love, tenderness, nosy, lovers reunited, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Pauline at the Beach (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fifteen year old Pauline and her older cousin, model-shaped Marion, go to the emtying Atlantic coast for an autumn holiday . Marion ignores the approaches of a surfer and falls for Henri, a hedonist who is only interested in a sexual adventure and ...
Style: erotic, witty, sensitive, anthology, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: womanizer, beach, coming of age, girl man relationship, naked woman, love, jealousy, vacation, dialogue, relationships, love story, fall in love ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, mediterranean sea, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Suzanne's Career (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 54 min.
Story: In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot: friends, crazy love, love, womanizer, dishonesty, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, moral dilemma, unfulfillment, twentysomething life, love triangle ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Claire's Knee (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura ...
Style: sentimental, thought provoking, existential, sensitive, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: summer, older man young girl relationship, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, teenage girl, glamour, age difference, sadness, relationships, spirit, dialogue, nymphet ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Lea, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Lea is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Lea's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied ...
Style: aesthetic, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, daily life, crazy love, passion, love letter, summer, teenager, love, suburbs, tennis, cafe, secret ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
A Tale of Springtime (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. The first in Eric Rohmer's Four Seasons series, Conte de printemps (A Tale In Springtime) is the story of an introverted young girl (Florence Darel) just reaching adulthood who takes ...
Style: talky, clever, witty, art house, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, parents and children, youth, family relations, philosophy, cousin cousin relationship, vacation, crazy love, daily life, spring, looking for love, matchmaking ...
Time: year 1990, 80s, 90s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
My Night at Maud's (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
Style: philosophical, cerebral, witty, sexual, talky ...
Plot: philosophy, love, catholic, christmas, marriage, engineer, existentialism, dialogue, morality, obsession, spirit, catholicism ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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In Paris (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother, Jonathan. While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his ...
Style: humorous, realistic, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot: wooing, siblings relations, love triangle, lifestyle, infidelity, twentysomething life, unsupportive spouse, love and romance, twins, couples, brother brother relationship, gay ...
Time: year 2006
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two young girls meet, Reinette from the countryside and Mirabelle from Paris, and decide to take a flat together in Paris where they attend University. Four successive stories about their daily lives illustrate the very different views, characters ...
Style: art house, independent film, artsy, talky, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: crazy love, european, female bonding, love letter, culture clash, friendship, best friend, friends, village, urban, twentysomething life, village life ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Housekeeper (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of ...
Style: sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot: self discovery, infidelity, midlife crisis, housekeeper, father daughter relationship, human nature, love affair, beach volleyball, fall in love, couple relations, starting over, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 8.1
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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 ⇓
21%
Sense of Humor (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Élise lives with her 10-year-old son Léo, whose father is deceased. She has a chaotic relationship with Paul her lover. They go from happy moments to intense feuds. Élise introduces him to Léo and in time, they get to know and appreciate each ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, pregnancy, parents and children, couples, single parent, breakup, love, friends, couple relations, son, divorced divorcee
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Voir la Mer (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it’s been a long time, because it would make her happy… There’s no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand ...
Style: humorous, realistic, sentimental, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, on the road, introspection, escapades, friendship, friends, sexual relations, lifestyle, road trip, two brothers, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.7
 520
Strangers (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: unlikely couple, fall in love, love and romance, hopes, life is a bitch, couples, wartime life, friendship, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, dogma, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: palestine, israel, middle east, paris france, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
 10K
The Collector (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
Style: art house, psychological, sexy, talky, sad ...
Audience: date night
Plot: summer, relationships, holiday, art, morality, artist, italian neorealism, crazy love, love, sexual content, lust, mediterranean ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: france, saint tropez, mediterranean sea, riviera, french riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love, couples, disorder, human nature, nothing goes right, siblings relations, parents and children, male female relationship ...
Time: year 2006
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Best Way to Walk (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In a vacation camp somewhere in the French country, 1960. Marc et Philippe are two of the counsellors. Marc is very virile, while Philippe is more reserved. A night, Marc surprises Philippe dressed and made-up like a woman. From now on, he will keep ...
Style: lgbt cinema, crying, psychological, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: summer camp, gay, outdoor sex, gay interest, humiliation, swimming pool, assault, lgbt, female nudity, bullying, youth, racism ...
Time: 80s, 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Late August, Early September (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style: talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Boy Meets Girl (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas, but gives up ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, avant garde, black and white ...
Plot: youth, fall in love, impossible love, love affair, couples, losing-it hero, lifestyle, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, twentysomething life, depression, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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