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Perhaps Love (2005)
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Perhaps Love (2005)
Original name: 如果·愛
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: China, Malaysia, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A love triangle develops during the making of a musical in mainland China.
Style: stylized, captivating, emotional, psychological, sentimental, sexy, serious
Plot: love affair, rivalry, showbiz, femme fatale, ambition, introspection, actor's life, unfulfillment, love triangle, love, movie star, jealousy, film producer, gay, ex lover, filmmaker, lovers reunited, cocktail party, martial arts, love and romance, fall in love, couples, tragic love, vengeance, society ...
Place: china, hong kong, east asia, asia, shanghai, beijing china, shanghai china
Keyword: chinese

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Most similar movies to Perhaps Love

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and captivating films with plots about love and romance, couples, love affair, fall in love, love triangle, unfulfillment and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Perhaps Love: Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996), G (2002), Wuthering Heights (2003), My Kingdom (2011), The Last Tycoon (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem ...
Style: realistic, emotional, art house, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, gay, asian history, love letter, gangster, street life, friends, disorder, couples, love and romance, couple relations, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, china, new york, asia, east asia ...
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G (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot: lovers reunited, unfulfilled love, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, tragic love, social differences, showbiz, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, society ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Wuthering Heights (2003)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A musical version of the classic story set in the modern day.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, stylized
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, teenage life, young lovers, love affair, social differences, tragic love, opposites attract, fall in love, infidelity, youth, couples, lovers reunited ...
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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My Kingdom (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the 19th century, the Prince Regent of the Qing Dynasty orders the mass execution of the entire Meng clan. Before his beheading, the leader vows that his family will avenge this travesty of justice. Awaiting his death, a five-year-old Meng boy ...
Style: serious, exciting, sentimental, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: martial arts, ambition, desire for fame, vengeance, medieval, actor's life, uninhibited rivalry, love and romance, siblings relations, love triangle, teachers and students, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Together (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Comprised by two love stories: The first story features Donnie Yen as a traffic cop, “Mr. Cool” who never smiles due to a rare disease. He meets and falls in love with Michelle Chen, a patient with amnesia, and spends most of her time looking ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, love affair, couples, friends, police officer, haunted by the past, dating, amnesiac, couple relations, love and romance, cop, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
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57%
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Lost in Time (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, coping, couples, hopes, workplace, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
A Married Woman (2005)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: They fall in love before they know its meaning, Lolita, orphaned at an early age & Shekhar, who reaches out & gives her the security she craves.They share joys & sorrows through childhood & adolescence,unknown to them ...
Style: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, childhood sweetheart, family relations, couples, fall in love, couple relations, friendship, family problems, love affair, social differences, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: asia, india, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Bombay Talkie (1970)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the Movie's leading man while the Screenwriter chases after her.
Style: romantic drama, contemplative, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot: indian woman, culture clash, filmmaking, extramarital affair, opposites attract, dancer's life, human nature, writer's life, introspection, lifestyle, love and romance, society ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Slow Dancing in the Big City (1978)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, touching, sentimental
Plot: ballet, ballerina, misfit, unlikely couple, society, hopes, dancer's life, opposites attract, doctors and patients, fall in love, artists and showbiz, orphan ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Moments (1991)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 187 min.
Story: Viren (Anil Kapoor) who travels to Rajasthan with his governess, affectionately called Dai Jaa (Waheeda Rehman). He meets the beautiful Pallavi (Sridevi) and he instantly falls in love with her. However, she also happens to be older then him, though ...
Style: romantic, mesmerizing, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love story, true love, dual role, unrequited love, older man younger woman relationship, couples, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance, opposites attract, unfulfilled love, love affair ...
Time: 90s
Place: london, england, india, asia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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One Love (2003)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Jamaica, Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kassa a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father the pastor forbids her to see him and wants her to marry one of his church members. Meanwhile ...
Style: emotional, captivating, sentimental, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: jamaican, reggae, love, music, fall in love, couples, lifestyle, unfulfillment, contests and competitions, ambition, clergy, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: jamaica, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
July Rhapsody (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love affair, love triangle, moral dilemma, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, midlife crisis, family problems, breakup, youth, fall in love, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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44%
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Carmen (2005)
Genre: Musical, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 122 min.
Story: U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense
Plot: opera, murder, tragic love, dangerous attraction, vengeance, crimes of passion, love affair, love triangle, couples, destructive relationship, dishonesty, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A woman inherits her father's fireworks factory, as he had no son. The business does well and everything works in an orderly fashion until one day, an itinerant painter is hired to decorate the doors and vases at the factory. The woman, ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: destiny, painter, biopic, love triangle, couples, road not taken, true love, love affair, factory, tragic love, family life, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1994, 1910s
Place: china, asia, hong kong
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41%
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Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: friends, love affair, fall in love, wooing, couples, couple relations, looking for love, love and romance, urban, loneliness
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 315
Desire (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
Style: stylized, captivating, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: love affair, love triangle, dangerous attraction, nazism, infidelity, political unrest, state affairs, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, betrayal, society ...
Time: 1930s
Place: spain, madrid, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Nine (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from ...
Style: emotional, clever, lyrical, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: infidelity, filmmaking, midlife crisis, memory, broadway, lifestyle, femme fatale, self discovery, dancing, couples, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 2000s, year 2009, 1920s ...
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Oh, My Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Orphaned and homeless Ranbir Raj re-locates to a small town and orders a glass of milk in the RK Bar. He befriends a prostitute by the name of Gulabji, who invites him to spend the night with her, and when he refuses, she re-directs him to Lillian ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: unrequited love, couples, friendship, love and romance, prostitute, couple relations, fall in love, love affair, tragic love, hopes, idealism, small town life ...
Place: india, asia
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Carmen (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In director Vicente Aranda's adaptation of the classic opera, a French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Gypsy Carmen, who turns her charms on a young soldier, awakening his passions but ultimately leading to tragedy. Jose ...
Style: sexy, emotional, captivating, erotic, sad ...
Plot: femme fatale, tragic love, love triangle, couples, love affair, lifestyle, obsession, betrayal, sex, soldier, erotica, girl ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, love triangle, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, fall in love, longing, train travel, infidelity, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, librarian ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
An Italian Romance (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, couples, lovers reunited, impossible love, fall in love, relationships, tragic love, betrayal, love interest, male female relationship, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on Verdi's (Bizet's not Verdi's) classic opera and its all African American musical counterpart Carmen Jones, Carmen a Hiphopera is a modern retelling of the story of the tragic gypsy Carmen. The setting has been taken from the ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, stylized, black cinema
Plot: hip hop, femme fatale, tragic love, fall in love, performer's life, obsession, betrayal, destructive relationship, destiny, music, black, rapper ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Suzhou River (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, China
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A tragic love story set in contemporary Shanghai. The film stars Zhou Xun in a dual role as two different women and Jia Hongsheng as a man obsessed with finding a woman from his past.
Style: neo noir, psychological, serious, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: mermaid, river, destructive relationship, betrayal, dishonesty, couples, ransom, haunted by the past, smuggling, disorder, missing person, obsession ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, shanghai, tibet, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Touch Me (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Bridgette is an actress teaching aerobics, and she falls in love with idle playboy Adam, who runs his father's gym. One day she finds out that one of her ex-lovers died of AIDS and, thinking that Adam is having an affair with another woman, ...
Style: rom com, independent film, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: hiv, love affair, female protagonist, aids, aerobics, love, mortality, aspiring actress, playboy, sexually transmitted disease, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: love triangle, love affair, social differences, social relations, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, rivalry, society, friendship, small town, stranger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Moonlight Serenade (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A jazz musician performs alongside a coat check girl with a beautiful voice in this musical drama from director Giancarlo Tallarico. By day Nate earns his living as a financial manager, but when night falls, he helps the girl with her singing career ...
Style: sexy, serious, stylized, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: jazz, couples, love affair, fall in love, artists and showbiz, musician's life, love and romance, fired from the job, singer, musician, sexual content, anger ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot: family relations, love triangle, love affair, teacher, obsession, fall in love, infidelity, unfulfillment, small town, social differences, family problems, love ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Springtime in a Small Town (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, France, Netherlands
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband.
Style: thought provoking, serious, sentimental, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, small town, human nature, love and romance, couples, couple relations, introspection, crumbling marriage, lovers reunited, small town life, unfulfilled love, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s
Place: china, asia, shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Queen of the Gypsies (1976)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief Zobar. The story is set in early 20th century Bessarabia, ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Plot: gypsy, opposites attract, music, summer, conquering, tragic romance, couples, society, criminal heroes, unfulfillment, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, lithuania
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35%
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