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The Green Ray (1986)
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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:
cute, realistic, talky, anthology, aesthetic, psychological, sincere, clever, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
female nudity, boredom, solitude, summer, dialogue, summer vacation, crazy love, friendship, self discovery, children, depression, holiday, isolation, living alone, shyness, seaside, public nudity, small talk, vegetarianism, love, time travel, nude girl, sadness, road trip, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, normandy, alps, ireland, tokyo
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Most similar movies to The Green Ray
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, talky, clever and semi serious films with plots about love and romance, couples, friendship, couple relations, male female relationship, love and fall in love mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Green Ray: Cesar & Rosalie (1972), A Summer's Tale (1996), To Have (Or Not) (1995), Love in the Afternoon (1972), Jules and Jim (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 104 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, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love triangle, obsession, love, friendship, couple relations, violent man, male female relationship, jealous lover, violent outburst, passion, businessman, jealousy ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, art house, cute, sexual, anthology ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, friendship, summer, beach volleyball, crazy love, glamour, fall in love, graduation, teenager, young man, meaning of life, vacation ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, year 1995
Place:
france, brittany, europe, english channel
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 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 ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, romantic drama, thought provoking, sex comedy ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, female protagonist, working class, unemployment, social realism, slice of life, depression, hotel, resilience, seaside, job seeking ...
Time:
future
Place:
lyon, israel, canada, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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, anthology, art house, contemplative, talky ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
female nudity, passion, love and romance, infidelity, crazy love, glamour, affair, illicit affair, marriage, love, love affair, desire ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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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:
sexy, art house, black and white, philosophical, lyrical ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
marriage, menage a trois, friendship, unrequited love, love triangle, love, relationships, storytelling, love story, melancholy, manic pixie dream girl, crazy love ...
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, germany
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100%
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, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, working class, summer vacation, rebel, child prodigy, coming of age, adolescence, crazy love, friendship, age difference, children, female nudity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
100%
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, lyrical, meditative, surreal, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
philosophy, love, angel, circus, dream, immortality, mortality, surrealism, existentialism, suicide, actor, love story ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place:
berlin germany, germany, west germany, east germany, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexual, art house, spiritual, postmodern, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
true love, skinny dipping, polyamory, librarian, winter, extramarital affair, longing, love, train, female nudity, christmas time, male female relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
34%
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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, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Plot:
jealous lover, temptation, female nudity, crazy love, love, urban setting, youth, loneliness, sadness, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, seduction ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
34%
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, pre-teens
Plot:
womanizer, beach, coming of age, girl man relationship, naked woman, jealousy, cousin cousin relationship, vacation, teenager, love, teenage girl, love story ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, mediterranean sea, normandy, paris france
Similarity:
33%
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, talky, captivating ...
Plot:
art history, crazy love, marriage, female friendship, amor, birthday party, screwball, couples, friends, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, maine
Similarity:
33%
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:
meditative, witty, melancholic, 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, london, paris france ...
Similarity:
31%
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:
sexy, sexual, relaxing, sensitive, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
summer, teenage girl, older man young girl relationship, french girl, glamour, age difference, male female relationship, forbidden love, lolita, older man younger woman relationship, countryside, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
31%
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, serious, psychological, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
crazy love, friends, love, womanizer, love and romance, buddies, moral dilemma, unfulfillment, lifestyle, dishonesty, student life, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
31%
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:
crazy love, passion, friendship, secret, restaurant, cafe, love letter, daily life, summer, teenager, love, suburbs ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
31%
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, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Plot:
aviator, crazy love, obsession, stalking, power of love, tenderness, unrequited love, love, couples, youth, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
28%
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, witty, art house, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, crazy love, parents and children, youth, family relations, philosophy, spring, daily life, vacation, looking for love, matchmaking, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1990, 80s, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, berlin germany, california, tokyo ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 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:
sexual, philosophical, black and white, cerebral, saga ...
Plot:
philosophy, catholic, love, christmas, marriage, engineer, morality, dialogue, existentialism, crazy love, woman seduces a man, obsession ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
25%
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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:
artsy, art house, independent film, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
european, female bonding, love letter, crazy love, culture clash, friendship, best friend, friends, twentysomething life, urban, village life, city life ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
23%
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:
housekeeper, self discovery, midlife crisis, beach volleyball, father daughter relationship, human nature, love affair, starting over, couple relations, fall in love, police investigation, family drama ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, brittany, tokyo ...
Similarity:
21%
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, sentimental, realistic, road movie, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
summer vacation, love triangle, on the road, fall in love, friends, introspection, escapades, friendship, sexual relations, lifestyle, road trip, two brothers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
21%
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:
melancholic, talky, emotional, ironic, meditative ...
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, drinking, midlife crisis, older man younger woman relationship, complex characters, writers, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, couples, depression ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
france, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 89 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:
realistic, humorous, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male, lifestyle, siblings relations, love triangle, wooing, couples, unsupportive spouse, twins, love and romance, infidelity ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
20%
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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:
clever, realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, looking for love, couples, disorder, nothing goes right, human nature, siblings relations, parents and children, male female relationship ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
france, paris france, europe, italy, venice
Similarity:
19%
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:
fall in love, youth, impossible love, lost love, love affair, couples, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, lifestyle, losing-it hero, twentysomething life, loneliness ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Veteran French director Agnes Varda's Le Petit Amour is based on a short story by actress/songstress Jane Birkin. Birkin herself plays the main character, a loving but lonely 40-year-old divorcee. Her life is brightened a bit by the presence of ...
Style:
art house, aesthetic, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
age difference, forbidden love, coming of age, male female relationship, older woman teenage boy relationship, mother, woman peeing, amor, new love, women, erotic art, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, london
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.
Style:
romantic, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cleaning lady, love and romance, friends, nursing, fighting illness, chef, loner, opposites attract, neighbor, grandmother grandson relationship, male female relationship, family relations ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
19%
538
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, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
fall in love, unlikely couple, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, wartime life, unfulfilled love, friendship, unfulfillment, dogma, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, paris france, europe, germany ...
Similarity:
19%
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:
sexy, art house, psychological, talky, erotic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
swimming pool, summer, passion, sex, holiday, art, relationships, crazy love, threesome, morality, artist, sex scene ...
Time:
60s, year 1967
Place:
saint tropez, france, mediterranean sea, cote d'azur, french riviera ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In a mosaic of human relationships and day-to-day situations, men and women of different ages feel a pressing need to reinvent themselves. As they cross each other's paths, they all are at a turning point in their lives.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
couple relations, introspection, couples, starting over, hopes, solitude, life changing, male female relationship, relationships, romantic relationship, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
19%
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