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Story of Women (1988)
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Story of Women (1988)
Original name: Une affaire de femmes
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat.
Style: anthology, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, crying, eighties
Plot: abortion, world war two, women's prison, street prostitution, ends with death, unhappy marriage, death row, nazi, wartime life, unwanted pregnancy, women, feminist, occupied france, lawyer, death penalty, love, holocaust, historical event, female villain, bureaucracy, empowerment, female empowerment, cheating wife, pregnancy, prostitute ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, year 1943, 20th century, 40s
Place: europe, paris france, normandy, france
Keyword: feminist film, jewish, reading

Most similar movies to Story of Women

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and psychological films with plots about love and romance, couples, infidelity, husband wife relationship, female nudity, adultery and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Story of Women: My Mother (2004), Madame Bovary (1991), The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000), Gabrielle (2005), Elective Affinities (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Mother (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal, Austria, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on George Bataille's posthumous and controversial novel: When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity.
Style: disturbing, sexual, contemplative, controversial, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mother son incest, mother son relationship, incest, depravity, incestuous relationship, nude beach, sexual promiscuity, sexual relations, dominatrix, lust, sex with mother, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canary islands, europe, nice france, spain, france
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100%
Madame Bovary (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, sexy, costume drama, intense ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, literature, family life, tragic hero, village life, life is a bitch, village, love affair, hopes, destructive relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1991, 1850s
Place: normandy, france, europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small ...
Style: emotional, compassionate, atmospheric, sincere, touching ...
Plot: murder, prison, death penalty, tragic love, fighting the system, love, death sentence, introspection, destiny, isolation, social differences, society ...
Time: 19th century, year 2000, 1850s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Gabrielle (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, clever, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, letter, adultery, couples, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, suffering, husband wife relationship, betrayal ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Elective Affinities (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's attraction to someone.
Style: emotional, gloomy, serious, realistic
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, infidelity, age difference, young love, unfaithful wife, pregnancy, death of husband, cheating wife, comedy of manners, husband wife relationship, divorce ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: europe, africa, italy, tuscany, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
La séparation (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: betrayal, adultery, dysfunctional family, infidelity, unfaithful wife, cuckold, family life, lovers reunited, crumbling marriage, breakup, estrangement, couples ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A French Woman (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to ...
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot: adultery, women, occult, world war, military, infidelity, world war two, wedding, cheating wife, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 1930s, year 1940, year 1939 ...
Place: europe, france, germany, paris france, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Loulou (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This 1980 French film features Isabelle Huppert as a restless young woman who ditches her boring, tempramental boyfriend for a wild, leather-clad bad boy (played by an incandescent, youthful Gerard Depardieu).
Style: erotic, romantic, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: sexual relations, sensuality, affair, amor, advertising agency, infidelity, abusive husband, drunk, class differences, disco, couples, society ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Betty (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: girl, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, strong female presence, performer's life, society, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, lifestyle, mentally unstable, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: france, paris france, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Cactus (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: blind character, blindness, infidelity, nudity, blind man, husband wife relationship, premarital sex, sexual attraction, adultery, extramarital affair, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, paris france
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23%
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Free Men (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: german occupation, world war two, resistance, friendship, human spirit, idealism, rebellion, moral dilemma, fighting the system, anti semitism, wartime life, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1944, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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23%
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Five Times Two (2004)
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, enigmatic, psychological, sensual, stylized ...
Plot: divorce, sex, infidelity, rape, adultery, wedding, wedding night, unfaithful wife, relationships, husband wife relationship, up and down relationship, family life ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, sardinia, europe, senegal, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.3
 16K
The Last Metro (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Style: sincere, art house, thought provoking, anthology, manga ...
Plot: world war two, theater, nazi, gestapo, women, world war, wartime life, infidelity, anti semitism, love triangle, actor, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 20th century, year 1942
Place: france, paris france, europe, montmartre paris
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Late August, Early September (1998)
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: talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Married Woman (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style: black and white, sensual, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, society, in love, birth control, nudity, magazine, sexual pleasure, sandstorm, married, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, betrayal ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The School of Flesh (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 110 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, enigmatic, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot: obsession, sex, infidelity, fashion, violence, relationships, adultery, betrayal, loneliness, destructive relationship, fall in love, love affair ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
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 ⇓
21%
The King's Daughters (2000)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free ...
Style: captivating, touching, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: royalty, women's rights, boarding school, hysteria, mistress, human spirit, nobility, society, obsessive quest, idealism, youth, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Almost Peaceful (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, anti semitism, holocaust, survival, human spirit, starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, life is a bitch, couple relations, moral dilemma, society ...
Time: 1940s, year 1946, post world war two
Place: paris france, france, europe, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 217 min.
Story: In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous ...
Style: sexual, thought provoking, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot: sex scene, cafe, prostitute, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, tragic love, love affair, lifestyle, against the rules ...
Time: 20th century, year 1973, 60s, 70s
Place: france, paris france, new york, europe, vienna ...
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21%
Passion of Love (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor ...
Style: novela, serious, realistic, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: obsession, duel, illness, broadway, soldier, female nudity, relationships, loneliness, amor, military, love triangle, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1981, 1860s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Round Up (2010)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of ...
Style: emotional, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: holocaust, concentration camp, nazism, german occupation, holocaust survivor, world war two, nazi, world war, against humanity, injustice, genocide, nazi concentration camp ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2009, post world war two, year 1942
Place: france, vichy, paris france, middle east, europe ...
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20%
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Quantum Love (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A family man's encounter with a beautiful woman develops into a mutual fascination.
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, serious
Audience: date night
Plot: sex scene, nightclub, love and romance, unfulfillment, divorce, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, love triangle, fall in love, hotel, love, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, london, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Silver City (1984)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel, where even married men and women were housed in separate barracks, the adults lived for two years ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: immigrant, unfaithful husband, world war two, migration, fall in love, unfaithfulness, love, husband wife conflict, adultery, father son relationship, humanism, prejudice ...
Time: post world war two, year 1962, 1940s, 60s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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20%
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Style: costume drama, period piece, factual, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: countess, politics, conspiracy, royal family, revenge, justice, police investigation, nobility, french revolution, royalty, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, ancient times, year 2001, 1780s ...
Place: france, paris france, versailles, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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To Our Loves (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style: erotic, art house, anthology, retro, sensual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female nudity, infidelity, dysfunctional family, coming of age, bare breasts, extramarital affair, promiscuous daughter, nudity, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, looking for sex, loveless marriage ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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20%
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Adalen 31 (1969)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A 1969 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg. It depicts the 1931 Ådalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill district of Ådalen, killing five people, including a young ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, sincere, interesting
Plot: nordic, protest, social realism, nudity, labor union, violent content, sexual content, workplace, dishonesty, boss and employee, rebellion, society ...
Time: 1930s, year 1969, year 1931, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Love After Love (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.
Style: contemplative, thought provoking, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, adultery, couples, dark humor, family problems, breakup, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, love and romance, dishonesty, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france
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20%
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W.E. (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great excitement. For one woman, Wally Winthrop, it has much more meaning. Wally becomes obsessed by their historic love story. As she learns more about the sacrifices ...
Style: historical drama, sentimental, serious, realistic, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, royal family, true love, royalty, infidelity, obsession, love and romance, couples, love affair, abusive husband, brother brother relationship, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, future, 50s, 20th century, year 1998 ...
Place: england, london, cannes, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Too Beautiful for You (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before ...
Style: talky, cynical, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, bittersweet, sexuality, adultery, marriage, love triangle, infidelity, pleasure, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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