Movies like The Reader
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The Reader (2008)
258K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Style:
melancholic, sexy, touching, sexual, psychological, erotic, heartbreaking, romantic, romantic drama, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, holocaust, nazi, first love, older woman younger man sex, secret, trial, world war two, sexuality, sex scene, sex, mature woman, unlikely couple, love story, lust, lawyer, teenage boy, prison, sexual relations, war crime, student, law student ...
Time:
post world war two, year 1980, year 1966, year 1988, year 1958, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe, new york, berlin germany ...
Keyword:
jewish, german, reading, feminist film, americana, eye candy
Most similar movies to The Reader
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, erotic, serious and sexy films with plots about love, sex scene, female nudity, love and romance, kiss, passion and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and War genres. Some movies like The Reader: Malena (2000), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Summer of '42 (1971), A Teacher (2013), Adore (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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111K
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hot and sexy, world war two, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, older woman younger man, wartime, longing, unrequited love, women, sexuality, life is a bitch, fascism ...
Time:
1940s, year 2000, ancient times, 20th century, year 1940
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, southern italy, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Style:
sexual, psychological, sexy, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, lesbian, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, obsession, teachers and students, adultery, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man sex, blackmail, older woman teenage boy relationship ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, age difference, older woman younger man relationship, summer vacation, sex, beach house, teenager, war widow, first love, love story, love ...
Time:
1940s, year 1971, 20th century, year 1942
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Part psychological thriller and part provocative character study, A TEACHER explores the unraveling of a young high school teacher, Diana (Lindsay Burdge), after she begins an affair with one of her teenage students, Eric (Will Brittain). What ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, teacher student relationship, teacher student sex, older woman younger man sex, high school, sexual pleasure, forbidden love, older woman teenage boy relationship, teacher student romance, passion, sex in car, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
36K
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 ⇓
83%
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One Day similar movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Style:
sexy, road movie, erotic, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, sex, sexuality, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, on the road, coming of age, gay, sexual exploration, nudity, older woman younger man sex ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2002, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, acapulco mexico, french riviera, barcelona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, adultery, love story, tragic love, betrayal, desert, life philosophy, beautiful scenery, life & death, war, wartime, power of love ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place:
sahara, italy, africa, ottoman empire, cairo egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
This film is set in 1943 when the whole of Europe was embroiled in WWII. It deals with attraction of a 15 year old boy Stig to his teacher Viola. The whole movie revolves around the sexual encounters between Stig and Viola and how he eventually ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, touching, sexy, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, teacher student sex, older woman younger man sex, forbidden love, cheating wife, love affair, older woman teenage boy relationship, female teacher, coming of age, sex with teenager, teachers and students, defloration ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia, europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
66K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Style:
erotic, psychological, sexual, sexy, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
obsession, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, lolita, age difference, lust, sexuality, older man young girl relationship, pedophilia, incest, virginity, girl man relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1947, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
cannes, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dangerous attraction, erotica, young lovers, sex, sexual relations, unfaithful wife, sexual obsession, love, love story, fall in love, nudity, social differences ...
Time:
80s
Place:
alabama, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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57K
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 ⇓
100%
298K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, sad, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, wartime, tragic love, redemption, injustice, unfulfilled love, love story, false accusation, love and romance, forbidden love, innocence, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 2007, 2000s, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london, britain, dunkirk, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, sexy, stylized, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
virginity, virgin, first sexual experience, first sex, coming of age, innocence lost, sexual awakening, sex, nymphet, lust, female nudity, sex scene ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
italy, tuscany, europe, mediterranean sea, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
23K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, lolita, interracial romance, lust, sex with a minor, nymphet, love affair, loss of virginity, erotica, asian man white woman relationship ...
Time:
1920s, ancient times, year 1992, 20th century, year 1929
Place:
vietnam, indochina, southeast asia, china, saigon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity ...
Style:
depressing, sad, realistic, heartbreaking, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, against humanity, nazi, concentration camp, mental illness, wartime life, obsession, tragedy, melancholy, loneliness, relationships ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1982, 1930s, post world war two
Place:
poland, new york, middle east, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Films like Malena
11K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves ...
Style:
emotional, erotic, period piece, romantic, depressing ...
Plot:
love, unhappy marriage, erotica, social injustice, family relations, destiny, forbidden love, sex scene, sex, mentor, adultery, tragedy ...
Time:
19th century, year 1996, victorian era, 1890s, 1880s
Place:
england, britain, europe, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
131K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style:
sexy, erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
incest, sexuality, protest, rebellion, couples, youth, sex, love triangle, nudity, friends, brother sister incest, sexual relations ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two strangers have an intense casual encounter but later, both will realize that what has emerged is superior to pure physics, understanding that human relationships are more complex than a simple exchange of caresses.
Style:
touching, captivating, emotional, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot:
sensuality, sex with a stranger, desire, marriage, rough sex, lust, love, insanity, friendship, infidelity, seduction, dancing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip. ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, taboo sex, sex with a minor, milf, sex, older woman younger man sex, age difference, older woman younger man, aging, ship, sexual tension, unlikely couple ...
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. ...
Style:
emotional, stylized, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
infidelity, unfaithful wife, extramarital affair, marriage, friendship, adultery, love affair, betrayal, lust, cheating on husband, cheating, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, england, portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
touching, romantic, psychological, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, alienation, strong sexual content ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
20K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot:
infidelity, therapist, nylons, therapy, adultery, police investigation, divorce, police, sexuality, unfaithfulness, betrayal, jealousy ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
20K
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 ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A coming of age drama from the fall of the Berlin Wall era.
Style:
controversial
Audience:
teens
Plot:
underage sex, children, troubled relationship, young love, judge, first love, lolita, female nudity, sex, teacher, rape, puberty ...
Place:
east berlin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A minute's silence is being observed in the grammar school of Hirtshafen, a small fishing town on the Baltic shore - in memory of Stella Petersen, the school's young English teacher. For one of her students, however, Stella was more than a ...
Style:
captivating, psychological
Plot:
teacher student sex, older woman younger man relationship, teacher student romance, older woman younger man sex, teacher student relationship, older woman teenage boy relationship, english teacher, female teacher, first love, public nudity, teenage sexuality, first sex ...
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, film tells the story of Kurt, a young art student who falls in love with fellow student, Ellie. Ellie’s father, Professor Seeband, a famous doctor, is dismayed at his daughter’s ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, captivating, sincere, intellectual ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
painter, nazi, art gallery, artist, nazism, berlin wall, father daughter relationship, sex scene, world war two, forced abortion, romantic relationship, pregnancy ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1948 ...
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, west berlin west germany, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style:
bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
108K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's ...
Style:
sexual, disturbing, psychological, sexy, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, lolita, age difference, pedophilia, girl man relationship, seduction, older man younger woman relationship, lust, teenage girl, nymphet, obsession, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1962, near future, 1950s ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
566
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women.
Style:
erotic, sentimental, psychological, disturbing, sexy ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, sex with teenager, sex with a minor, older woman teenage boy relationship, older woman teenage boy sex, forbidden love, seductress, older woman younger man sex, age difference, first sexual experience, sexually liberated, female pedophile ...
Time:
year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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