Movies like The Phantom Lover
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The Phantom Lover (1995)
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Original name: 夜半歌聲
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1936 China, a nearly bankrupt drama troupe starts performing in a burned-out theater where the great actor Song Danping was killed. One of the actors, Wei Qing, starts seeing strange apparitions that could revive his troupe and deliver him to the same fate as Song Danping.
Style:
sexual, sentimental, serious, realistic, stylized, sexy
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, tragic love, love affair, phantom of the opera, ghost, destiny, vengeance, lifestyle, actor's life, unfulfilled love, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, performer's life, sex, horse, water, running, fire, architect, blind man, singing, theater, weather, rain, asian ...
Time:
1930s, 90s
Place:
china, asia
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Most similar movies to The Phantom Lover
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, unfulfillment, love affair, lifestyle, artists and showbiz and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like The Phantom Lover: Rouge (1987), Lost Paradise (1997), Farewell My Concubine (1993), La Bohème (2008), Alexander the Last (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong's "flower houses" - bordellos and night clubs of the 1930's. A detached and beautiful performer, she falls in love with Twelfth Master Chan, heir to a chain of pharmacies. They agree to ...
Style:
visual, cult classic, realistic, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
impossible love, dialogue, women, existentialism, street walker, regret, brothel, prostitute, ghost, couples, lifestyle, journalism ...
Time:
1930s, year 1987, year 1934, 80s
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The tragic tale of two lovers whose passion burns so intensely it destroys them.
Style:
sexy, art house, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, love, illicit affair, affair, midlife crisis, bittersweet, couples, love affair, unfulfilled love, infidelity, tragic love, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled, "Farewell My Concubine," that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou ...
Style:
visually stunning, visual, epic, retro, realistic ...
Plot:
homosexuality, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, gender bending, theater, suicide, homoerotic friendship, crazy love, cultural revolution, chinese history, boy, sexual abuse ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 1930s, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
china, beijing china, tibet, asia, japan ...
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100%
414
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera, in a high budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm, stars opera's 'Golden Couple', Rolando Villazon and Anna Netrebko as the protagonists, Rodolfo and Mimi. ...
Style:
serious, stylized, captivating, romantic, realistic
Plot:
love affair, opposites attract, lifestyle, tragic love, fall in love, couple relations, unfulfilled love, love and romance, social differences, couples, male female relationship, opera ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style:
mumblecore, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, crumbling marriage, artists and showbiz, actor's life, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, family relations, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A woman inherits her father's fireworks factory, as he had no son. The business does well and everything works in an orderly fashion until one day, an itinerant painter is hired to decorate the doors and vases at the factory. The woman, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, art house, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
destiny, painter, biopic, love triangle, couples, forbidden love, true love, fall in love, road not taken, love affair, factory, tragic love ...
Time:
year 1994, 1910s
Place:
china, asia, hong kong, tokyo
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This poignant love story stars Amy Grant as a beautiful, blind concert cellist who falls for a famous, self-centered pianist but doesn't realize that true love is right before her eyes.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, feel good ...
Plot:
blindness, blind character, blind man, love, relationships, concert, disability, power relations, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
819
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, unfulfilled love, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, social differences, tragic love, infidelity, showbiz, love affair, society, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
23%
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539
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Jamaica, Norway, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Kassa a free-wheelin rasta man, falls for a straight laced gospel singer Serena, when they both meet as they enter a music contest. Serena's father the pastor forbids her to see him and wants her to marry one of his church members. Meanwhile ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
jamaican, rastafarian, reggae, love, music, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, contests and competitions, unfulfillment, ambition, clergy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jamaica, africa
Similarity:
23%
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:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
He is Kikuji Murao (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former best-selling novelist who has had a decade-long dry spell that has reduced him to university teaching and magazine hackery. After divorcing his wife (Reiko Takashima) and leaving behind his teenage ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom drama, love affair, couples, tragic love, legal, rivalry, destructive relationship, courtroom, death wish, sex, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set 10 years later, the Phantom has escaped from Paris to New York where he lives amongst the joyrides and freak shows of Coney Island. He has finally found a place for his music to soar, all that is missing is his love Christine Daaé. In a bid to ...
Style:
gothic, sentimental, stylized, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
longing, tragic hero, couples, destructive relationship, haunted by the past, love triangle, disfigurement, unfulfillment, phantom of the opera, live performance, theater, broadway ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, paris france, new york, france, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Singapore
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of three people whose lives are pulled into review and assessment when their paths cross. The initial sparks of what could be a new romance plays off against a couple falling out of love, a student and teacher, a father and son, a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
medieval, dance school, couples, ambition, follow your dream, couple relations, fall in love, family relations, hopes, parents and children, love triangle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
singapore, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
composer, chess, biopic, prodigy, lifestyle, musician's life, love affair, couples, destructive relationship, society, fall in love, friendship ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1830s
Place:
poland, paris france, mallorca, siberia, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: China, Germany, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two blind men pursue ephemeral and unlikely hopes. One is an aged master, a wandering troubador venerated as a saint, in physical decline, waiting to break his 1,000th banjo string, an event his own master promised years before would bring him ...
Style:
art film, road movie, spiritual, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
blindness, disability, forbidden love, peasant, kite, spirituality, music, minimal dialogue, village, mountain village, friends, couples ...
Time:
year 1991
Place:
china, mongolia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but ...
Style:
realistic, visual, semi autobiographical, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
tango, dancing, dancer, passion, dance, partner, flirting, woman power, destiny, women, art, mad love ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
london, paris france, argentina, latin america, england ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Classic ballet by Kenneth MacMillan to the music of Prokofiev.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
shakespeare, couples, forbidden love, true love, tragic love, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, dancer's life, love and romance, music, tragedy, ballet ...
Time:
year 1966
Place:
england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the Movie's leading man while the Screenwriter chases after her.
Style:
romantic drama, contemplative, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
indian woman, extramarital affair, filmmaking, culture clash, lifestyle, society, couple relations, writer's life, love and romance, human nature, introspection, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, india, bombay india
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Ireland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stranger and, for the most fleeting of afternoons, imagines what the future could hold down a different ...
Style:
sentimental, disturbing, captivating, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, actor's life, life turned upside down, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, destiny, escapades, love story, love, relationships, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
fall in love, coping, hopes, starting over, love affair, workplace, couples, love and romance, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
Similarity:
20%
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, emotional, sincere, talky ...
Plot:
love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, destiny, political unrest, state affairs, love and romance, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, captivating, realistic, serious
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
age-gap relationship, dancing, single parent, infidelity, unfulfillment, music, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, gender, music band, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
paris france, europe, new york, france, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
While rehearing Carmen of Bizet, the middle-aged choreographer Antonio brings the sexy Carmen to perform the lead role. Antonio falls in love for Carmen, who is an independent and seductive woman incapable to accept a possessive love. When Carmen ...
Style:
atmospheric, inspirational, art house, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive love, passion, music and dance, dancing, dancer, jealousy, underdog, scenery, sensuality, girl, artist, tragic love ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling gospel show takes her on the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
love and romance, hopes, lifestyle, parents and children, youth, destructive relationship, friendship, couples, christian, religion, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A charismatic rapper falls in love with a young Jewish girl despite the confines of her religious background.
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, serious, crime drama ...
Plot:
interracial relations, friendship, culture clash, street life, social decay, tragic love, social differences, opposites attract, unlikely couple, musician's life, racism, love affair ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, stylized
Audience:
date night
Plot:
rock, love triangle, musician, suicide, motorcycle, rock star, concert tour, musical performance, female singer, farm, music band, musician's life ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
england, europe, pennsylvania
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Seung Min was on his first year at the Academy of Architecture, he met Seo Yeon. She was a musician student, and Seung Min totally fell in love with her. Years have passed, and now he meets Seo Yeon again - she asks him to rebuild her ...
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, romantic comedy, non-linear ...
Plot:
love story, young lovers, architect, youth, unfulfilled love, asian, architecture, employer employee relationship, lovers reunited, workplace situations, workplace, male female relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
east asia, seoul, jeju island, korea, asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: China, Malaysia, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A love triangle develops during the making of a musical in mainland China.
Style:
sexy, stylized, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
love affair, rivalry, showbiz, femme fatale, ambition, introspection, actor's life, unfulfillment, movie star, love, jealousy, film producer ...
Place:
hong kong, china, east asia, asia, beijing china ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
piano, love, fall in love, music, love affair, female nudity, bare breasts, male nudity, sex, in love, musician, family relations ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A dark psychological drama, Shooting Livien explores the inner psyche of John Livien, a disillusioned New York musician who deals with a childhood trauma by claiming an alter ego. His band on the brink of success, fantasy becomes dangerously blurred ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
musician's life, addiction, drug abuse, music, life is a bitch, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, alcohol abuse, nightlife, identity crisis, lgbt ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
18%
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