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Rouge (1987)
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Rouge (1987)
Original name: 胭脂扣
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 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 a suicide pact. Jump ahead 50 years to modern Hong Kong: Fleur's ghost appears in Yuen's newspaper office, wanting to place an ad to find Chan, who never arrived in the afterlife. Yuen, and his equally bewildered girlfriend, An Chor, are captivated by Fleur and her story.
Style: realistic, surreal, visual, cult classic, sentimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized
Audience: date night
Plot: women, prostitution, brothel, dialogue, existentialism, regret, ghost, prostitute, afterlife, supernatural, obsession, love triangle, missing person, love and romance, fall in love, supernatural ability, journalism, couples, tragic love, love affair, impossible love, infidelity, looking for love, lifestyle, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1930s, 80s, year 1934, year 1987, 30s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
Keyword: chinese, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, atmospheric and stylized films with plots about love and romance, couples, love affair, love, unfulfillment, fall in love and tragic love mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Rouge: The Phantom Lover (1995), Farewell My Concubine (1992), Zhou Yu's Train (2002), Wuthering Heights (1985), July Rhapsody (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Phantom Lover (1995)
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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, sentimental, stylized
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, tragic love, love affair, phantom of the opera, vengeance, performer's life, unfulfillment, lifestyle, actor's life, ghost, artists and showbiz, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 1930s, 90s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Farewell My Concubine (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
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: visual, epic, visually stunning, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot: gays and lesbians, suicide, homosexuality, gender bending, theater, lgbt, child abuse, communism, drug addiction, childhood, lgbtq, transsexual ...
Time: 1940s, 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1993 ...
Place: china, beijing china, tibet, asia, japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, love triangle, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, fall in love, longing, train travel, infidelity, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, librarian ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Wuthering Heights (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Rivette's unique take on Bronte's famous novel "Wuthering Heights".
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric
Audience: girls' night
Plot: wuthering heights, haunted house, obsession, mental illness, couples, vengeance, orphan, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations, forbidden love, impossible love ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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July Rhapsody (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love affair, love triangle, moral dilemma, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, midlife crisis, family problems, breakup, youth, fall in love, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Together (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Comprised by two love stories: The first story features Donnie Yen as a traffic cop, “Mr. Cool” who never smiles due to a rare disease. He meets and falls in love with Michelle Chen, a patient with amnesia, and spends most of her time looking ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, love affair, couples, friends, police officer, haunted by the past, dating, amnesiac, couple relations, love and romance, cop, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
An Italian Romance (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, couples, lovers reunited, impossible love, fall in love, relationships, tragic love, betrayal, love interest, male female relationship, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Days of Being Wild (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The movie is set in Hong Kong and the Philippines in 1960. Yuddy, or 'York' in English, is a playboy in Hong Kong and is well-known for stealing girls' hearts and breaking them. His first victim is Li Zhen who suffered emotional and ...
Style: surreal, artsy, contemplative, atmospheric, aesthetic ...
Plot: obsession, unrequited love, love, melancholy, adoption, asian, violence, friendship, drinking, hotel, fight, radio ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, the philippines, asia, macau
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Oh, My Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Orphaned and homeless Ranbir Raj re-locates to a small town and orders a glass of milk in the RK Bar. He befriends a prostitute by the name of Gulabji, who invites him to spend the night with her, and when he refuses, she re-directs him to Lillian ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: unrequited love, couples, friendship, love and romance, prostitute, couple relations, fall in love, love affair, tragic love, hopes, idealism, small town life ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Temptress Moon (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her ...
Style: stylized, captivating, suspenseful, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: secret lover, marriage, addiction, revenge, love, revolution, violence, murder, obsession, sex crime, blackmail, family relations ...
Time: 1920s, year 1996, 1910s, 20th century
Place: china, asia, shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (1994)
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
Plot: destiny, painter, biopic, love triangle, couples, road not taken, true love, love affair, factory, tragic love, family life, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1994, 1910s
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Eros (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve ...
Style: sexy, erotic, anthology, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prostitute, sexuality, love affair, social differences, society, lovers reunited, psychiatrist, erotica, lifestyle, obsession, obsessive love, infidelity ...
Time: 1950s, year 2004, 20th century, 50s
Place: china, hong kong, asia, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
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Heartbeat (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The mistress (Catherine Deneuve) of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
Style: stylized, realistic, serious
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, seduction, older man young girl relationship, wealth, mistress, social differences, tragic love, crumbling marriage, infidelity, love and romance, lovers reunited, society ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.2
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One Night (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Fifteen New Yorkers go into a Friday night unaware of the fact that their lives are about to change.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lifestyle, looking for love, couple relations, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, infidelity, nightclub, meaning of life, male female relationship, multiple storylines, music band ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Bride with White Hair (1993)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against foreign tribes and an evil cult. One day, he meets the beautiful ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, surreal, exciting, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, wuxia, betrayal, kung fu, supernatural, love and romance, escapades, tragic hero, good versus evil, vengeance, female warrior, tragic love ...
Time: year 1993
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Who's the Man, Who's the Woman (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The sequel to the blockbuster comedy He's a Woman, She's a Man, Who's the Woman, Who's the Man picks up right where the original left off! Music producer Sam (Leslie Cheung) and his cross-dressing protege Wing (Anita Yuen) have ...
Style: captivating, sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: impostor, lgbt, switching roles, transsexual, gays and lesbians, dishonesty, hidden identity, artists and showbiz, gender, lifestyle, performer's life, transvestism ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Virgin of Lust (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 151 min.
Story: In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her ...
Style: psychological, emotional, serious, surreal, sexy ...
Plot: prostitute, obsession, love triangle, femme fatale, destructive relationship, power relations, tragic love, addiction, lifestyle, life is a bitch, drug abuse, male female relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Only God Knows (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Mexico, Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story: On a lark in Tijuana, a carefree Brazilian art student crosses paths with a brooding Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil. As Dolores and Damián discover an intimate love and a mysterious spiritual ...
Style: semi serious, serious, realistic, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: couple relations, self discovery, impossible love, love and romance, journalism, fall in love, religions or cults, estrangement, looking for sex, destiny, love, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, brazil, latin america, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Carmen (2005)
Genre: Musical, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 122 min.
Story: U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense
Plot: opera, murder, tragic love, dangerous attraction, vengeance, crimes of passion, love affair, love triangle, couples, destructive relationship, dishonesty, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem ...
Style: realistic, emotional, art house, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, gay, asian history, love letter, gangster, street life, friends, disorder, couples, love and romance, couple relations, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, china, new york, asia, east asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.7
 34K
Happy Together (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.
Style: art house, emotional, visual, independent film, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gay asian, loneliness, love, tango, lgbtq, heartache, lgbtqi, lgbt, melancholy, glbt, sexuality ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, year 1996
Place: buenos aires argentina, hong kong, china, asia, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Other Side of the Tracks (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending, suspense ...
Plot: obsessive love, love triangle, haunted by the past, love and romance, tragic love, small town life, psychic, obsession, male female relationship, coma, loneliness, loss ...
Place: connecticut, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.1
 782
G (2002)
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: serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot: lovers reunited, unfulfilled love, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, tragic love, social differences, showbiz, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, society ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Movie in collections
 7.4
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Carmen (1983)
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, emotional, stylized ...
Plot: obsessive love, dancing, music and dance, dancer, jealousy, sensuality, girl, scenery, underdog, passion, artist, tragic love ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.3
 1K
Lost in Time (2003)
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, serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, coping, couples, hopes, workplace, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.2
 4K
Green Snake (1993)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A mischievous snake who assumes human form interferes with the romance between her reptilian sister and a hapless man.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, stylized, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: martial arts, monk, good versus evil, hidden identity, dangerous attraction, snake, fall in love, supernatural, rivalry, danger, curses spells and rituals, clergy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Cry of the Owl (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: voyeurism, injustice, dead woman, murder, mentally unstable, dishonesty, vengeance, destructive relationship, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, love and romance, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: vichy, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: obsession, high society, nun, kidnapping, unrequited love, duchess, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfilled love, love affair, social differences, tragic love ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, victorian era, 1810s, 1820s
Place: paris france, france, africa, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.4
 6K
Suzhou River (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, China
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A tragic love story set in contemporary Shanghai. The film stars Zhou Xun in a dual role as two different women and Jia Hongsheng as a man obsessed with finding a woman from his past.
Style: neo noir, psychological, serious, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: mermaid, river, destructive relationship, betrayal, dishonesty, couples, ransom, haunted by the past, smuggling, disorder, missing person, obsession ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, shanghai, tibet, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Great Gatsby (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style: captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, social differences, dishonesty, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, yale university, oxford university, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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