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Under the Sand (2000)
12K
Original name: Sous le Sable
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, surreal, art house, suspense, twisted ...
Plot:
disappearance, love, relationships, obsession, coping, couple relations, female masturbation, delusion, tourist, missing person, love and romance, haunted by the past, mentally unstable, sadness, beach, melancholy, husband wife relationship, tragic event, male nudity, marriage, sex, female nudity, supermarket, insane asylum, women ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Most similar movies to Under the Sand
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, serious, realistic and weird films with plots about husband wife relationship, loneliness, female nudity, storytelling, death, obsession and marriage mostly in Drama, Mystery and Romance genres. Some movies like Under the Sand: Proof (2005), In the House (2012), Humanity (1999), Lantana (2001), The Happiest Place on Earth (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
48K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, inspirational, sexy, serious ...
Plot:
mathematics, mental illness, prodigy, insanity, paranoia, university, notebook, campus, illness, schizophrenia, manic, mental disorder ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, new york, wisconsin, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his ...
Style:
suspense, witty, disturbing, surreal, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
writers, teacher, obsession, high school, privacy invasion, mind game, student, stalking, direction and purpose, art, desire, high school life ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style:
erotic, contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
small town, sex, female nudity, female pubic hair, voyeur, orgasm, masturbation, psychiatric hospital, dead body, rape, strike, police protagonist ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
france, flanders, europe
Similarity:
100%
21K
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:
sexy, emotional, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, disappearance, therapist, nylons, unfaithfulness, therapy, passion, telephone call, sexuality, photograph, divorce, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A daycare teacher's dreams of a home and family of her own are threatened by the loss of her husband's newspaper job and his subsequent disappearance.
Style:
neo noir, neorealism, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
economic crisis, job seeking, police detective, american dream, unemployment, marriage, husband wife relationship, tragedy, troubled marriage, mother daughter relationship, money, deep south ...
Place:
florida, orlando florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
missing person, iranian, matchmaking, family relations, friendship, guilt, journey, parents and children, wedding planning, love and romance, couple relations, couples ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, maghreb, asia
Similarity:
44%
9K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
horse, sex, religion, male nudity, therapy, obsession, mental illness, psychiatrist, psychology, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, mental disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, europe, greece, ancient greece
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe ...
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
nightmare, incest, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, abuse, family secret, family relations, introspection, self discovery, father daughter incest, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
usa, los angeles, italy
Similarity:
32%
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52K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters ...
Style:
sincere, cerebral, captivating, art house, realistic ...
Plot:
coma, depression, dysfunctional family, relationships, divorce, parenthood, muslim, childhood, suicide, love and romance, haunted by the past, family reunited ...
Time:
year 2013, 90s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, iran, middle east, persia, maghreb ...
Similarity:
32%
11K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
Style:
psychological, bleak, meditative, compassionate, atmospheric ...
Plot:
obsession, youth, redemption, forgiveness, apprentice, going straight, teenage life, family problems, parents and children, teachers and students, working class, death in the family ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 90s, future, 21st century
Place:
france, belgium, usa, europe, los angeles ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all ...
Style:
surreal, cerebral, psychological, meditative, erotic ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, dark humor, imagination, riddles and clues, life, human nature, insanity, destruction, trippy, mission, cognitive science, photograph ...
Time:
year 2005, 70s
Place:
hong kong, france, paris france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, melancholic, art house, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, obsession, sexuality, siblings relations, teenage life, love and romance, single parent, runaway, teenage pregnancy, coming of age, siblings, incest ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
vietnam, france, tokyo, london
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
military, suicide of husband, french foreign legion, bad father, family relations, mental illness, murder, youth, prostitute, estrangement, family problems, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, europe, indochina, algeria, alps
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, talky ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay interest, tumor, photograph, grandparent grandchild relationship, photographer, gay cruising, gay brother, group sex ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
male nudity, brother brother relationship, teacher, high school, haunted by the past, teachers and students, self discovery, power relations, couples, couple relations, introspection, sex on a train ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 70s, year 1992, 1920s ...
Place:
england, pittsburgh, london, europe, germany
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
obsession, serial killer, murder, darkness, friendship, violence, investigation, imagination, family relations, writers, couple relations, poet ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Four inseparable high-school seniors gain from each other the courage to face the harsh realities of their rapidly approaching adulthood.
Style:
stylized, serious, realistic, psychological, witty ...
Plot:
female nudity, murder, nude girl, best friend, intrigue, mysterious character, actor's life, gang, gender, artists and showbiz, love and romance, power relations ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In Paris, Dominique, a middle-aged fashion professional, solicits the services of the handsome Quentin , a bisexual bartender and prostitute who is 15 years her junior. After they first sleep together, their business transaction becomes transformed ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, enigmatic, serious ...
Plot:
obsession, sex, violence, making love, infidelity, relationships, forbidden sex, fashion, fall in love, adultery, betrayal, loneliness ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
france, morocco, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, sensual, non-linear, psychological ...
Plot:
divorce, infidelity, sex, rape, adultery, wedding, husband wife relationship, wedding night, sex scene, relationships, orgy, voyeurism ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
france, sardinia, sicily, europe, senegal ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The Long Absence (French: Une aussi longue absence) is a 1961 French film directed by Henri Colpi. It tells the story of Therese (Alida Valli), a café owner mourning the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
homelessness, cafe, memory loss, couples, hopes, couple relations, life is a bitch, human nature, haunted by the past, physical appearance, truck driver, junkyard ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Poland, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Julie is haunted by her grief after living through a tragic auto wreck that claimed the life of her composer husband and young daughter. Her initial reaction is to withdraw from her relationships, lock herself in her apartment and suppress her pain. ...
Style:
cerebral, sexy, philosophical, visual, art house ...
Plot:
grief, classical music, musician, solitude, loss of child, sex, mourning, trauma, loneliness, depression, stripper, car accident ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
25%
13K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.
Style:
clever, sexy, emotional, philosophical, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, love affair, existentialism, paranoia, time loop, women, memory, character study, unfulfillment, surgery, psychology, relationships ...
Place:
korea, asia, india
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A stylish suspense thriller that confounds the audience while presenting them with an extraordinary and elusive mystery. Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel. However, during a business trip, ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, tense, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
obsession, cafe, infidelity, mistaken identity, manipulation, crazy love, relationships, twists and turns, lost love, love triangle, flirting, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, montmartre paris, paris france, tokyo, new york
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, art house, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, obsession, dream, alternate reality, parallel universe, hollywood, filmmaking, lesbian sex, nightmare ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california, mulholland drive
Similarity:
24%
90K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, clever, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
suicide, nightmare, guilt, childhood, haunted by the past, hidden camera, dysfunctional family, videotaping, found footage, psychology, voyeurism, lie ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, germany, iraq ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. ...
Style:
sincere, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
drug overdose, hopes, child abandonment, starting over, life is a bitch, recluse, strong female character, friendship, self discovery, lgbt, death of loved one, grief ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, basque country, paris france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, UK, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style:
disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, sex, love story, love, marriage, crazy love, obsession, depression, tragic love, sex with a stranger, melancholy, self sacrifice ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to ...
Style:
surreal, mind bending, avant garde, psychedelic, experimental ...
Plot:
obsession, mystery woman, alternate reality, surrealism, parallel universe, fetish, femme fatale, love and romance, dealing with death, mysterious character, power relations, love affair ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
23%
236K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style:
surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, obsession, mental illness, symbolism, paranoia, nightmare, lookalikes, infidelity, disturbed individual, spider, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Style:
independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, angst, heartache, memory, world war two, obsession, investigation, solitude, dinner party, school teacher, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
england, yorkshire
Similarity:
23%
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