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The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
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The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
Original name: La Vie rêvée des anges
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to warmer climes. Marie usually is either angry or detached. Then, while Isa begins to visit the child in whose flat they live, going to hospital to read to her, Marie slowly falls for a rich youth. At first Marie keeps him at bay, then she not only pursues him, she begins to dream he is her life's love. When Isa tries to warn Marie, their friendship flounders. How will Marie handle the inevitable? And once they lose the flat, where will they go?
Style: touching, realistic, depressing, emotional, meditative, compassionate, psychological, sincere, contemplative, talky ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, working class, coma, love and romance, depression, loneliness, youth, friends, life is a bitch, couples, social differences, society, unemployment, down on your luck, hopes, couple relations, destructive relationship, homeless, melancholy, obsession, flirting, female protagonist, friend, loss of friend ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 1990s
Place: france, flanders
Keyword: flat, dreams, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films with plots about friendship, couples, life is a bitch, family relations, society, love and romance and couple relations mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Dreamlife of Angels: Late August, Early September (1998), Acid (2018), All or Nothing (2002), Louise Wimmer (2011), Nenette and Boni (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Acid (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: They have been abandoned in a world adorned with concepts such as family, friendship, love, and opportunities. In search of answers to their questions, they devour themselves like a chemical substance that corrodes the world around, in order to ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, psychological, depressing, thought provoking ...
Plot: child molestation, underage sex, suicide, friendship, child molester, sex orgy, cute girl, perversity, fondling, sex with a minor, group sex, strong sexual content ...
Time: year 2019
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All or Nothing (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, florida, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.5
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Louise Wimmer (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The middle-aged titular heroine (Masiero) of this bare-bones, Dardenne-esque debut has certainly fallen on hard times: Living between her car and a storage shed, working a part-time job as a hotel chambermaid, and trying against all odds to obtain ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: life is a bitch, starting over, human spirit, hopes, optimism, working class, cleaning lady, female protagonist, homelessness, poverty, single woman, self discovery ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Nenette and Boni (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, art house, sexy, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, obsession, sexuality, siblings relations, teenage life, love and romance, single parent, coming of age, runaway, siblings, incest, character study ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: vietnam, france
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27%
Poetical Refugee (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he ...
Style: psychological, touching, realistic, serious
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sex addict, friendship, hospital, looking for love, family life, lifestyle, social outcast, adoption, curses spells and rituals, mentally unstable, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young artist in Manhattan falls in love with a Mexican.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Town Is Quiet (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style: contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: family relations, drug abuse, assassination, life is a bitch, couple relations, unemployment, working class, parents and children, immigrant, society, love and romance, factory ...
Time: 90s
Place: marseille, provence, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Cold Showers (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life is full with Judo and his girlfriend Venessa. Then Mickael makes a decision to open up his relationship to include Clement his rich-kid ...
Style: realistic, erotic, emotional, serious, melancholic ...
Plot: coming of age, love triangle, teenage life, contests and competitions, gay, menage a trois, male nudity, teenage love, love and romance, class differences, lgbt, parents and children ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Our Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, high school, teenager, asthma, adolescence, against the odds, lifestyle, musician's life, working class, life is a bitch, hopes, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Something Like Happiness (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: mental illness, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, eccentric family, love and romance, single parent, working class, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.7
 25
G.H.B. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: on the run, friendship, obsessive quest, looking for love, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, strong female presence, friends, love
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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23%
Hysterical Blindness (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style: psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, working class, loneliness, character study, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms ...
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Two Days, One Night (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
Style: depressing, independent film, sincere, serious, compassionate ...
Audience: teens
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Take Care of My Cat (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: lyrical, psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Cooler Climate (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: housekeeper, lgbt, female bonding, master and servant, human nature, crumbling marriage, couple relations, boss and employee, follow your dream, love and romance, fall in love, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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A Single Girl (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
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Plot: pregnancy, hotel, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age, minimalism, lgbt, lust, making love, sex scene, single parent, strong female character, single mother ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Wild Reeds (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: realistic, sad, lgbt cinema, homoerotic, serious ...
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Place: france, algeria, africa, europe, south of france
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22%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
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22%
In Between Days (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style: emotional, realistic, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, youth, unfulfillment, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
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21%
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Being 14 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
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21%
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 min.
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Style: disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, psychological ...
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Time: year 1996, 70s, 90s, 20th century
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20%
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Ponette (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, talky, emotional, depressing ...
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Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
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20%
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Liam (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, sincere, depressing ...
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Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, ireland, middle east, europe, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
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Time Out (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story: An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, depressing, compassionate, stylized ...
Plot: unemployment, self discovery, greed, character study, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, dishonesty, down on your luck, family problems, husband wife relationship, swindle ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, switzerland, europe
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20%
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Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested ...
Style: touching, sad, road movie, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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God's Army (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: realistic, sincere, touching, uplifting, psychological ...
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