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Friday Night (2002)
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Original name: Vendredi soir
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Paris, 1995. Laure (Valérie Lemercier) is about to meet friends for dinner to celebrate her moving in with her boyfriend. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When a handsome stranger (Vincent Lindon) offers her a ride, Laure takes a highly charged, impossibly erotic detour.
Style:
sexual, serious, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, stylized, road movie, contemplative, erotic, sexy
Plot:
love and romance, fall in love, couples, dangerous attraction, danger, couple relations, chaos and mayhem, friendship, living together, minimalism, women, mental disorder, journey, traffic jam, chaos, sex, female nudity, sex scene, hotel, moving, claustrophobia, cafe, stranger, dinner, one night stand ...
Time:
90s, year 2002
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Most similar movies to Friday Night
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and psychological films with plots about couples, love and romance, infidelity, female nudity, fall in love, couple relations and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Friday Night: Loulou (1980), Mademoiselle Chambon (2009), Strangers (2007), White Nights on the Pier (2014), La séparation (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 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:
sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sensuality, illicit affair, burglary, sexual relations, drunk, class differences, affair, amor, advertising agency, couples, infidelity, disco ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, sexual, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
teacher, family relations, love triangle, love affair, fall in love, obsession, infidelity, unfulfillment, family problems, social differences, small town, student ...
Place:
france, europe
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67%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
fall in love, unlikely couple, hopes, love and romance, life is a bitch, couples, wartime life, unfulfilled love, friendship, unfulfillment, dogma, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, paris france, europe, germany ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.
Style:
contemplative, realistic, atmospheric, talky, serious ...
Plot:
seaport, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, unfulfillment, love, women, orphan, unrequited love, love letter, port, school teacher ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
66%
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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, thought provoking ...
Plot:
betrayal, unfaithful wife, infidelity, dysfunctional family, cuckold, tragic love, family gatherings, couples, estrangement, family problems, lovers reunited, family life ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, argentina
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This movie is foremost distinguished by the use of a subjective camera, and nearly 100 % of the time consists of close-up of the young girl's face. She is capable of changing her facial mimic so much that she never looks artificial or ...
Style:
sexual, anthology, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
sex, hipster, infidelity, restaurant, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, sexual relations, love affair, hotel, obsessive compulsive disorder, virgin ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marco returns to Paris after his brother-in-law's suicide, where he targets the man his sister believes caused the tragedy - though he is ill-prepared for her secrets as they quickly muddy the waters.
Style:
neo noir, sexy, realistic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
bankruptcy, family problems, uncover truth, rivalry, family business, hidden identity, love and romance, parents and children, suicide of father, orgy, female nudity, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Jean and Sara have been living together for 10 years. When they first met, Sara was living with François, Jean’s best friend and an admirer from back when he played rugby. Jean and Sara love each other. One day, Sara sees François in the street. ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, romantic, psychological
Plot:
love triangle, male female relationship, love, women, love story, romantic relationship, romantic triangle, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, romantic rivalry, relationships ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains ...
Style:
enigmatic, melancholic, emotional, erotic, psychological ...
Plot:
loneliness, betrayal, runaway, love and romance, haunted by the past, male model, sex scene, making love, brother brother relationship, older woman younger man relationship, lgbt, male female relationship ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, spain
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In this anthology film centered around the theme of "Eros," five seperate stories are presented by five top Korean directors. The main characters from each segment are connected with each other in one way or another.
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, touching, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, young lovers, sexual relations, looking for love, love affair, lovers reunited, couple relations, youth, fall in love, teenage love, lifestyle, eroticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For ...
Style:
sexual, art house, spiritual, postmodern, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
true love, skinny dipping, polyamory, librarian, winter, extramarital affair, longing, love, train, female nudity, christmas time, male female relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1992
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, sexual, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, first time, prostitution, adolescence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, young love, family relations, reggae, prostitute, couples, looking for love, high school life ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
europe, france, jamaica
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, age difference, senior citizen, friends, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, writer's life, couple relations, human nature, fall in love, introspection ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 1920s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, california, tokyo
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, lyrical, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, betrayal, fall in love, parenthood, custody, love affair, family problems, destructive relationship, crumbling marriage, rivalry, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, denmark, tokyo
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards ...
Style:
erotic, emotional, colorful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
infidelity, love, adultery, love triangle, love story, lovers reunited, coitus, passionate kiss, female pubic hair, tragedy, nude girl, couples ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe, france, paris france, new york ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, emotional, psycho sexual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
obsession, sex, teacher, sex scene, older man younger woman sex, erotica, woman urinating, female pubic hair, marriage proposal, midlife crisis, sexuality, sexual relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
italy, france, europe
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Young Dutch dropout, Berry, falls in love with slightly older nightclub dancer and ex-nude model Thera and gives up his social live with his dodgy comrades and fine family to make a three-stop 'world tour' together. Suddenly Thera ODs ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, entertaining, erotic
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
drug abuse, fall in love, love and romance, obsession, unfulfilled love, couples, life is a bitch, dangerous attraction, older woman younger man relationship, love, brother brother relationship, unrequited love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland, amsterdam
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style:
erotic, sexual, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hotel, sex scene, unwanted pregnancy, strong female character, single mother, coming of age, lgbt, lust, minimalism, single parent ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Loving husband Lino is on a mission: His wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers wh make their ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, tagalog ...
Plot:
missing person, fall in love, couples, infidelity, couple relations, society, dangerous attraction, love and romance, travel, wife, woman, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, the philippines, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, unemployment, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance, couples, friends, love affair, sexual content ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Style:
sexual, intellectual, black and white, depressing, neo noir ...
Plot:
neglected wife, love triangle, flight attendant, adultery, doomed romance, airport, infidelity, love, marriage, mistress, transformation, swing ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, lisbon portugal, europe
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, romantic drama, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love, public nudity, gay subtext, nudity, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, gays and lesbians, hotel, love triangle, love affair, couples ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
switzerland, europe, algeria
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
cheating wife, fall in love, skinny dipping, family relations, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, polyamory ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
marseille, europe, france
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
Style:
spiritual, art house, anthology, powerful, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
suicide, female nudity, minimalism, jealousy, spirituality, spirit, nude girl, social outcast, existentialism, alienation, post war, hamlet ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
While camping in France, Eric and Eddy fall in with two women. Eric talks to Silke, a Ugandan studying medicine in Holland. She tells him about her life and asks about the book he's writing: it's the story of his love affair with Reza. He ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, sexual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
making love, losing-it hero, infidelity, lifestyle, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, destructive relationship, couple relations, love affair ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean ...
Style:
romantic drama, costume drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
couples, male pubic hair, hotel, dancing, prison, theft, performer's life, dishonesty, lifestyle, couple relations, womanizer, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, year 1981
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
61%
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:
61%
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:
61%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
Style:
sexy, sexual, psychological, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
obsession, captive, sex scene, making love, sex, losing-it hero, voyeur, friendship, lifestyle, destructive relationship, infidelity, sexual relations ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
paris france, europe, france, normandy
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
prostitute, fall in love, wartime life, couples, prostitution, teenage sex, erotica, world war two, black market, love and romance, card playing, singing competition ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
61%
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