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The Housekeeper (2002)
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The Housekeeper (2002)
Original name: Une femme de ménage
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After his wife leaves him for another man, Jacques hires a housekeeper, Laura, to keep his Paris apartment in order. As he starts increasing her hours and spending more time with her on her days off, Jacques is torn between the pleasure of Laura's company, and the headache that such an intrusion brings to his new domain of singlehood.
Style: sentimental, harsh, semi serious, touching, realistic, talky, sensitive, humorous, sexual, road movie ...
Plot: midlife crisis, self discovery, infidelity, housekeeper, father daughter relationship, love affair, human nature, beach volleyball, fall in love, starting over, couple relations, older man younger woman relationship, family drama, police investigation, loneliness, love, sex, painter, female nudity, massage, chicken, chicken farm, nudity, bare chested male, family relations ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, contemporary
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany, california, tokyo, new jersey
Keyword: doctors, french

Most similar movies to The Housekeeper

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, love affair, family relations, fall in love and infidelity mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Housekeeper: The Hairdresser's Husband (1990), Not My Type (2014), When the Sea Rises (2004), Living Out Loud (1998), In a Wild Moment (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hairdresser's Husband (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The film begins in a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, sexual, erotic drama ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, hairdresser, sex, obsession, love, barber, seaside, unrequited love, existentialism, melancholy, marriage, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 1940s, 20th century
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
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Not My Type (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and bodies as they try to overcome the cultural and social divide between them.
Style: touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, social differences, couples, society, young lovers, beauty salon, provincial life, professor, unrequited love, giant, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
When the Sea Rises (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An actress, who goes all over rural France with her monologe "Sex and Crime", meets and falls in love with a man, since that moment starts helping him in his plays.
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, feel good, realistic
Plot: opposites attract, starting over, family life, love affair, painter, ocean, fall in love, artists and showbiz, stalking, love and romance, actor's life, impossible love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, flanders, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Living Out Loud (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan), has been having an affair ...
Style: realistic, clever, touching, romantic drama, surreal ...
Plot: masseur, infidelity, divorce, marriage, massage, brooklyn bridge, loneliness, female protagonist, elevator operator, relationships, strong female presence, couples ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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In a Wild Moment (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. On the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez, Jacques and Pierre discuss marriage and being ...
Style: anthology, sex comedy, sexy, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage sex, father daughter relationship, sex with a minor, beach, friendship, age difference, incest, extreme, best friend, farce, teenage sexuality, summer vacation ...
Time: 70s
Place: riviera, saint tropez, mediterranean sea, france, south of france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Cousins in Love (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenage Julien (Thierry Tevini) loves his teenage cousin Julia (Anja Shute) among flowers in summer of '39 France.
Style: sexy, sexual, sensual, romantic, controversial ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: erotica, incest, sexual relations, cousin cousin relationship, coming of age, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, voyeurism, youth, loss of virginity, love triangle ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Decameron (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a ...
Style: anthology, sexy, erotic, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: erotica, female nudity, male pubic hair, adult humor, siblings relations, infidelity, sexual relations, medieval, love affair, society, clergy, lifestyle ...
Time: middle ages, year 1971, medieval times, 14th century
Place: italy, europe, germany, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
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White Palace (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, relationships, erotica, obsession, older woman younger man, love, infidelity, bittersweet, dating, seductive ...
Time: 80s
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cookies (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Henri Serin, a sales rep in umbrellas who lives in Saumur, is bored with his life. Married to an unloving, uptight wife, who, unlike him, has no interest in sex, he is also rejected by his children. Thus, he spends most of his time travelling from ...
Style: sex comedy, erotic, anthology, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: sexual exploration, painting, portrait, priest, beach, sexual initiation, bare chested male, painter, drunkenness, hotel, sex with a minor, clergy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: brittany, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, crumbling marriage, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Solange is depressed: she's stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic ...
Plot: age difference, sexual initiation, sex education, pregnancy, smart kid, teenage boy, menage a trois, sex with a minor, coming of age, sexual frustration, unrequited love, humiliation ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Feelings (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, erotic, sensitive ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, love triangle, infidelity, fall in love, starting over, life turned upside down, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, family life, female nudity ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style: sentimental, psychological, humorous, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: female nudity, divorce, midlife crisis, breakup, marital separation, starting over, self discovery, couple relations, betrayal, fall in love, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.7
 777
Actresses (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot: unfulfillment, midlife crisis, family relations, actor's life, theatre director, lifestyle, parents and children, theater, rivalry, friendship, love of one's life, theatre play ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Venus Beauty (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Madam Nadine manages with pride the "Vénus Beauté" Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. The owner and her three beauticians: Samantha, Marianne and Angèle are pros. Contrary to her friend Marianne, who still ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: beautician, beauty salon, older woman younger man relationship, new year's eve, aunt niece relationship, loneliness, love, massage, adultery, jealousy, bare breasts, witness ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Comedy-drama about a middle-aged Italian businessman Vittorio Gassman who is married to Eleanor Parker and is innocently introduced one day to a schoolgirl with pigtails named Carolina. Years later, that young schoolgirl has become a vivacious ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, woman with a gun, redheaded woman, mistress, older man younger woman relationship, elderly, love and romance, self discovery, crumbling marriage, couple relations, unfulfillment, human nature ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 2K
Expired (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: young lovers, fall in love, opposites attract, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, unlikely couple, single parent, lifestyle, family relations, couples, unfulfilled love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Manual of Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, marital crisis, love affair, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, family life, infidelity, love, husband wife relationship, amor, multiple storylines ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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A Business Affair (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA, Romania
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This is the story of the lovely Kate Swallow and the loves of her life. At the start she is with Alec Bolton, a noted author, who discourages her when she wants to write a novel. Later she is swept off her feet by Alecs publisher, Vanni Corso, and ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, thought provoking, entertaining ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, writer's life, relationship vs career, couples, infidelity, fall in love, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, extramarital affair, love of one's life, strong female presence, feminism ...
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Sense of Humor (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Élise lives with her 10-year-old son Léo, whose father is deceased. She has a chaotic relationship with Paul her lover. They go from happy moments to intense feuds. Élise introduces him to Léo and in time, they get to know and appreciate each ...
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, pregnancy, parents and children, couples, single parent, breakup, love, friends, couple relations, son, divorced divorcee
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Denial (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Couples split up after a comment at an LA dinner party sets up arguments about how truthful partners are in their relationships.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, looking for love, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, thirtysomething life, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, unlikely couple, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Another Woman's Life (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When the fun loving Marie sets her eyes on brooding comic book artist Paul, it sets off the kind of romantic sparks that quickly culminate in the bedroom. But the next morning brings its share of surprises as Marie crawls out of bed to discover her ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: disorder, family problems, love and romance, wooing, romantic relationship, couples, family relations, renewed love, crumbling marriage, introspection, hopes, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Taste of Others (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Agnès Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy ...
Style: biting, meditative, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot: infidelity, midlife crisis, bohemian life, extramarital affair, opposites attract, fish out of water, disorder, snobbism, couple relations, fall in love, adultery, artist ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 5.3
 275
Hard Off (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Claude, an auctioneer in his 50s, forms with Marie a couple united for fifteen years and still in love. However, in the intimacy, and in spite of a desire always alive, Claude has problems of erection. While Marie agrees with a smile of these ...
Style: sex comedy, erotic, sexual, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex scene, making love, nudity, couple relations, dishonesty, gender, couples, family relations, infidelity, sexual relations, parents and children, sexual content ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, switzerland, paris france, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 1K
Mariages! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ils ont 25 ans et se marient aujourd'hui.Ils ont 35 ans, se sont unis il y a dix ans et se déchirent aujourd'hui.Ils ont 45 ans, se sont déchirés il y a dix ans et tentent aujourd'hui de se réconcilier...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: family gatherings, midlife crisis, obsession, parents and children, love and romance, wooing, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, couples, lovers reunited, impossible love, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.6
 14K
Delicacy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: cafe, unlikely couple, love and romance, love triangle, office romance, love affair, loss of loved one, elevator, death of husband, employer employee relationship, cemetery, bereavement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 468
Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, light ...
Plot: friends, love, couple relations, couples, best friend, unfulfillment, friendship, buddies, midlife crisis
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Va Savoir (Who Knows?) (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
Style: disturbing, lyrical, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: female nudity, lovers reunited, infidelity, dysfunctional family, love triangle, love affair, midlife crisis, couple relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, obsessive quest, actor's life ...
Time: year 2001
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Flirting with Forty (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, thirtysomething life, unlikely couple, couple relations, fall in love, love and romance, love affair, couples, lifestyle, hopes, starting over, age difference ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Girl on a Bicycle (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day turns Paolo's life upside ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: life turned upside down, couple relations, fall in love, comedy of errors, love and romance, dishonesty, buddies, disorder, couples, infidelity, bicycle, inspiration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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