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Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
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Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
Original name: 周渔的火车
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 meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hustles through a dark tunnel of no return.
Style: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, serious, contemplative, realistic, surprise ending, non-linear
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, love triangle, fall in love, couples, longing, dishonesty, couple relations, train travel, infidelity, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, librarian, love and romance, frame up, countryside, unfulfillment, love, passion, loneliness, teacher, veterinarian, locomotive, surrealism, car, free spirit ...
Place: china, asia
Keyword: chinese, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, couples, love affair, fall in love, couple relations, infidelity and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Zhou Yu's Train: The Lonely Wife (1964), 3 Hearts (2014), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), April Snow (2005), Chinese Box (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Lonely Wife (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband Bhupati devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law,Umapada to keep her company. At the same time ...
Style: intelligent, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, summer, indian woman, hindu, affair, newspaper editor, infidelity, writers, unfulfillment, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: india, kolkata
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3 Hearts (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
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The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style: romantic, heartbreaking, atmospheric, touching, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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April Snow (2005)
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sexy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Chinese Box (1997)
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Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Style: atmospheric, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: unrequited love, love, colonialism, culture clash, death, photography, couples, politics, journalism, basement, white man asian woman relationship, barmaid ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia, beijing china, north korea
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Beijing Love Story (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A cross-generational look at how denizens of China's largest city deal with romance and commitment.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: couples, couple relations, love and romance, young lovers, infidelity, love triangle, renewed love
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
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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
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Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot: love affair, teenage life, couples, couple relations, infidelity, lovers reunited, fall in love, bittersweet, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, young love, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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A Perfect Stranger (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who is dying.
Style: serious, realistic, sexual
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, love affair, infidelity, feeling, bittersweet, dishonesty, fall in love, unfulfillment, opposites attract, love and romance, aging, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
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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
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41%
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Heartbeat (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The beautiful and talented Adrian is a writer for one of America's most popular TV soap operas. She is also pregnant, and when she refuses to abort her baby, Adrian's selfish husband deserts her. It falls to one of the soap opera's ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Time: 90s
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Peter and Vandy (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Audience: date night, chick flick
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: friends, love affair, fall in love, wooing, couples, couple relations, looking for love, love and romance, urban, loneliness
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Place: taiwan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sexual ...
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Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Country: China
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
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Place: china, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Country: China
Duration: 91 min.
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Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: couples, love affair, love, fall in love, friendship, love and romance, youth, society, couple relations, destiny, reunion
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Andy Lau plays a husband who only learns the importance of expressing his tremendous love for his wife when it is too late.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: love affair, love triangle, unfulfillment, couples, estrangement, family problems, destiny, hopes, crumbling marriage, transplant, fake identity, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
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Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: High school student Jung-Won (Cha Ye-Ryeon]) works at an amusement park, dressed up as Dragon cartoon character. Then one day, a guy, standing among his friends, twists her dragon mask around, causing her to fall flat on her back. Shortly ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, romantic
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: korea, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Wuthering Heights (2003)
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A musical version of the classic story set in the modern day.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, stylized
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, teenage life, young lovers, love affair, social differences, tragic love, opposites attract, fall in love, infidelity, youth, couples, lovers reunited ...
Place: europe, england
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37%
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Eros (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, USA
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Style: sexy, erotic, anthology, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: adult
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Place: china, hong kong, asia, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer. Director Guy Green's bittersweet romance, released in 1970, stars Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Fritz Weaver, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching
Audience: girls' night
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Place: tennessee, virginia, new york
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37%
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Tempted (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, romantic drama, sexual ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Country: China, Japan
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36%
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35%
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35%
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Duration: 122 min.
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35%
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Country: Spain, France
Duration: 97 min.
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