Movies like Sweet Bird of Youth
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom 'Boss' Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
Style:
emotional, intense, atmospheric, serious, tense, realistic, psychological, sexy, clever, talky ...
Plot:
hollywood, adultery, betrayal, loneliness, drug addiction, ambition, tragedy, justice, movie star, character study, comeback, actor's life, unlikely couple, couple relations, infidelity, father son relationship, revenge, politics, hotel, filmmaking, flashback, catastrophe, gangsters, time travel, violence ...
Time:
60s, 1930s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
florida, london, usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out talky, realistic, melancholic and sexy films with plots about mentor, catastrophe, dialogue, couples, runaway, storytelling and pornography mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Sweet Bird of Youth: The Last Tycoon (1976), The House of Mirth (2000), Blue Sky (1994), Personal Velocity (2002), The Great Gatsby (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
stylized, realistic, captivating, sentimental, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, producer, ambition, introspection, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, brutality, nude, runaway ...
Time:
1930s, 70s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california
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95%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, melancholic, talky, intense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
infidelity, love affair, destiny, happy ending, tragedy, debt, gambling, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, edwardian era, 90s, turn of the century ...
Place:
new york, usa, mediterranean sea, monte carlo
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons-testing in 1950's America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different ...
Style:
melancholic, light, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, infidelity, couples, adultery, love, dysfunctional marriage, character study, secrets, couple relations, family problems, nymphomania, love affair ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
alabama, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style:
talky, intense, stylized, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
abusive husband, starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, couple relations, human nature, parents and children, love affair, life is a bitch, self discovery, couples ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, new york state, haiti ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession ...
Style:
captivating, stylized, sexy, serious, dramatic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, fall in love, love and romance, society, love triangle, love affair, bittersweet, gangsters, runaway, secrets, writers, mentor ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, post world war one, 70s
Place:
new york, long island, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Tale of 19th century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Style:
touching, sexy, stylized, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
high society, love triangle, countess, marriage, infidelity, forbidden love, aristocracy, lawyer, love, destiny, love and romance, lovers ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, victorian era, 1870s, 1890s
Place:
new york, philadelphia, usa, paris france, washington d.c. ...
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59%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young ladies in show business.
Style:
cynical, stylized, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
drug addiction, showbiz, price of fame, glamour, drugs, rise and fall, filmmaking, terminal illness, husband wife relationship, couples, artists and showbiz, porn actress ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, new york, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Drama while a tour bus driver shows church ladies around Mexico. Helped establish Puerto Vallarta as tourist destination.
Style:
atmospheric, talky, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot:
church, mental illness, bus, hotel, redemption, iguana, clergy, bishop, priest, self discovery, tour guide, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
mexico, usa, virginia, texas, tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, it is about a husband and wife (Ethan and Zeena), who need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, ...
Style:
emotional, intense, sexy, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, family problems, forbidden love, family relations, dull life, fall in love, destiny, true love, love, adultery, women ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
usa, massachusetts, england, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, controversial ...
Plot:
interracial romance, architect, interracial relations, african american, racism, society, drug addiction, love affair, drugs, prejudice, relationships, social differences ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, africa, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Style:
psychological, touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, adaptation, brother sister relationship, aging, parents and children, family life, family in crisis, family problems, unfulfillment, domineering mother, cripple, nude ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, future, 1920s, 70s
Place:
tennessee, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, talky, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay, infidelity, adultery, existentialism, secrets, character study, city life, lifestyle, introspection, love and romance, artists and showbiz, actor's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, london, czech republic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son if it is true; when the lad denies ...
Style:
talky, clever, witty, sexy, melancholic ...
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, legal, justice, hotshot lawyer, father, world war one, manipulation, parenthood, chase, obsession ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, tense, sexy, visually appealing ...
Plot:
interracial relations, shakespeare, black man white woman relationship, betrayal, racism, murder, tragedy, jealousy, tragic love, revenge, love and romance, rivalry ...
Time:
18th century, 1930s, 16th century, middle ages
Place:
england, venice, italy, europe, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way ...
Style:
psychological, intellectual, talky, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
manipulation, friendship, depression, multiple storylines, couple relations, infidelity, fall in love, relationships, art, women, male female relationship, impossible love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 18th century
Place:
europe, england, california, london, florence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The film follows one day in the lives of the Tyrone family, each member is troubled and has been damaged by alcohol and/or drugs. In addition, they have issues with each other that lead to fights and an inability to reconcile completely with one ...
Style:
tense, depressing, talky, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, addiction, family relations, alcohol abuse, drug addiction, redemption, actor, lifestyle, actor's life, human nature, family life, morphine ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
ireland, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
Style:
stylized, cynical, witty, tense, humorous ...
Plot:
hollywood, murder, yacht, infidelity, adultery, secrets, police investigation, gossip, mistress, crimes of passion, actor's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, greece, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, extramarital affair, marriage, friendship, adultery, love affair, cheating wife, betrayal, lust, cheating, forbidden love, character study ...
Place:
england, europe, oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, serious, romantic, stylized ...
Plot:
love, love triangle, relationships, nude, greed, death, betrayal, fall in love, power relations, rich and poor, couple relations, melancholy ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era, 1920s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style:
sexy, cynical, erotic, intellectual, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, adultery, love affair, love at first sight, love, stripper, betrayal, marriage, sex, couples, photographer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, canada, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style:
witty, melancholic, clever, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
sex, infidelity, writers, women, seduction, pimp, love affair, family problems, open marriage, adultery, money problems, death ...
Place:
california, santa monica california, pasadena california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Hungary, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of ...
Style:
stylized, emotional, entertaining, witty, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, older woman younger man relationship, theater, adaptation, complex characters, women, loneliness, actor's life, love, art, adultery, vengeance ...
Time:
1930s, 50s, 20th century, year 1938
Place:
england, canada, new jersey, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
Style:
romantic, stylized, sexy, sweet, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
spinster, women, love, betrayal, father daughter relationship, couple relations, love and romance, marriage, feminist, suspense, catastrophe, secrets ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 18th century, 1850s
Place:
new york, geneva switzerland, alps, manhattan new york city, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples.
Style:
sexy, emotional, romantic, thought provoking, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, adultery, loneliness, multiple storylines, love story, character study, complex characters, lifestyle, couple relations, looking for love, dishonesty, singleness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, seattle, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
naval officer, mccarthyism, love story, couples, love and romance, adultery, friendship, jewish, writers, politics, young lovers, college ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 1930s, 70s, year 1944 ...
Place:
usa, new york, california, washington d.c., malibu california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Maureen is pregnant and her husband Eddie is missing. Nervous, Maureen shares a couple of drinks with neighbor Kiefer, who tries to rape her and then beats her. When Eddie returns and finds his wife bruised, he goes ballistic, shoots a paramedic and ...
Style:
melancholic, psychological, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
obsession, mental illness, dysfunctional family, mental institution, couple relations, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, love triangle, love and romance, mentally unstable, family problems, infidelity ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Style:
emotional, serious, talky, feminist film, philosophical ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, wedding, drug addiction, favoritism among siblings, sister sister relationship, addiction, marriage, wedding preparations and rituals, character study, family problems, psychology, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, canada, usa, hawaii, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
Style:
erotic, sexy, disturbing, satirical, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, loneliness, sexual promiscuity, adultery, sex scene, depression, sexual abuse, one night stand, sexual relations, looking for love, self discovery, sexual humiliation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1975, year 1976
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of ...
Style:
melancholic, intense, psychological, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex, infidelity, threesome, friendship, love triangle, betrayal, loneliness, complex characters, college, haunted by the past, buddies, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, england, europe, usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lawrence, an aging, lonely civil servant falls for Gina, an enigmatic young woman. When he takes her to the G8 Summit in Reykjavik, however, their bond is tested by Lawrence's professional obligations.
Style:
touching, intellectual, emotional, melancholic, sweet ...
Plot:
couples, politics, character study, power of love, against the rules, state affairs, social differences, society, hypocrisy, fighting the system, shyness, justice ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
iceland, africa, united kingdom, reykjavik iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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