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The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)
Original name: La Veuve de Saint-Pierre
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 that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of army Captain.
Style: emotional, compassionate, atmospheric, sincere, touching, intense, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: murder, prison, death penalty, tragic love, fighting the system, love, death sentence, introspection, destiny, isolation, social differences, society, hopes, unfulfillment, prisoner, death row, husband wife relationship, compassion, marriage, fisherman, execution, atonement, revenge, friendship, love triangle ...
Time: 19th century, year 2000, 1850s, 50s, 1950s
Place: france, europe, paris france
Keyword: french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and touching films with plots about love and romance, unfulfillment, society, couples, love, family relations and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like The Widow of Saint-Pierre: Les Misérables (1995), Les Misérables (1998), Ashes in the Snow (2018), Wuthering Heights (1992), Love Unto Death (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Les Misérables (1995)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Style: epic, emotional, fairy tale, anthology, captivating ...
Plot: world war two, lawyer, redemption, destiny, revenge, rich and poor, christian, broadway, manhunt, nun, boxer, harassment ...
Place: france, paris france, normandy
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Les Misérables (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Style: touching, costume drama, sincere, dramatic, epic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: redemption, ex convict, freedom, going straight, rise to the top, hopes, revenge, prison escape, prisoner, prejudice, christian, parole ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1998, ancient times
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ashes in the Snow (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.
Style: atmospheric, emotional, serious, suspense, sad ...
Plot: world war two, political repression, military camp, survival, violent man, hopes, saving a life, teenage girl, hostage, rescue, murder, destiny ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s
Place: siberia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Wuthering Heights (1992)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until ...
Style: gothic, romantic, atmospheric, emotional, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: obsession, tragic love, forbidden love, social differences, passion, revenge, master and servant, betrayal, haunted by the past, love, love story, love and romance ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, regency period, 1800s, year 1992 ...
Place: britain, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Maias: Story of a Portuguese Family (2014)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The tragedy and comedy in Carlos' life begins, grows and ends like the tragedy and comedy of Portugal. In the company of his close friend, João da Ega, allegedly a brilliant writer, Carlos, with his idle existence as an aristocratic doctor, ...
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: incest, love affair, love and romance, family relations, friends, society, fall in love, unfulfillment, writer's life, couple relations, friendship, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Love Unto Death (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, surreal, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: love and romance, dealing with death, tragic love, introspection, unfulfillment, death of loved one, near death experience, death, life after death, clergy, hopes, society ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Mayerling (1968)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Omar Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (James Mason), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Ava Gardner plays his mother Empress Elisabeth. Rudolf soon feels he is ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: forbidden love, royal family, tragic love, infidelity, politics, revolution, royalty, hopes, rebelliousness, state affairs, fall in love, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Alice and Martin (1998)
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: melancholic, enigmatic, emotional, psychological, romantic ...
Plot: secrets, betrayal, loneliness, love and romance, haunted by the past, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship, male model, older woman younger man relationship, lgbt, gay, sex scene ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Story of Women (1988)
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, thought provoking, sincere, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: abortion, world war two, women's prison, street prostitution, unhappy marriage, ends with death, death row, nazi, wartime life, unwanted pregnancy, feminist, women ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, year 1943, 20th century
Place: europe, normandy, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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A Simple Heart (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: servant, social differences, family relations, friendship, hopes, unfulfilled love, family life, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in ...
Style: costume drama, sad, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: french revolution, charles dickens, revolution, historical event, literary, fall in love, friendship, love triangle, unrequited love, couples, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s
Place: paris france, london, england, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Nuts for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, talky ...
Plot: love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, political unrest, destiny, love and romance, state affairs, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Last September (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, UK, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying to cover up that they are presently homeless. The niece ...
Style: period piece, emotional, gloomy, realistic, psychological ...
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Place: ireland, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, stylized, bleak, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
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Plot: obsession, family problems, hopes, human nature, life is a bitch, murder, estrangement, redemption, friendship, curses spells and rituals, death in the family, prisoner ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Camille Claudel (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The life of Camille Claudel, a french scupltor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
Style: psychological, emotional, intense, heartbreaking, touching ...
Plot: biopic, mental illness, artist, art, painter, sculptor, obsession, storytelling, art history, fall in love, love, couples ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
White Nights on the Pier (2014)
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, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: seaport, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, unfulfillment, love, women, loneliness, orphan, night, love letter, school teacher ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Someone I Loved (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story: One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the woman he left to instead follow an easier path in life.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, love affair, couples, love, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, children, breakup, sexual content, nudity ...
Time: year 2009, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, montreal, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Feast of All Saints (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 213 min.
Story: Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
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Place: new orleans, louisiana, haiti, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Fanny (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: "Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
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Time: year 1999, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: sincere, serious, realistic
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Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min.
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Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 161 min.
Story: The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the ...
Style: period piece, sexy, epic, visually appealing, historical drama ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China, Germany, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 116 min.
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22%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Old Garden (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Activist Hyun-woo is released from prison after a 17-year stint. Journeying back to the village where he spent some time as a fugitive he recalls the time spent with Yoon-hee, a woman who gave him shelter and companionship.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 132 min.
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Style: romantic, surreal, melancholic, captivating, touching ...
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Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1997, 1800s
Place: australia, england, britain, europe, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Belizaire the Cajun (1986)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire (Armand Assante) is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who don't see eye to eye with local racists who wish to eradicate all Cajuns. Complicating matters is the fact that ...
Style: independent film, political, serious, realistic, sincere ...
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Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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