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Angst (2003)
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Original name: Der alte Affe Angst
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they are having a very rocky time. Robert learns that his father, whom he is estranged from, has died. This disturbs Robert so much that he visits a prostitute, and is able to engage in sex with her. Marie discovers the infidelity, and the prostitute has a surprise of her own. Angst was screened at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
dysfunctional marriage, terminal illness, life is a bitch, lifestyle, relationship problems, infidelity, family problems, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, depression, father son relationship, loss of father, sex therapy, prostitute, psychologist, aids, love and romance, couples, unfulfillment, sex, pregnancy, female nudity, cancer, hospital, cocaine ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
berlin germany
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Most similar movies to Angst
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, family problems, couple relations, female nudity and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Angst: Stricken (2009), Alexander the Last (2009), Off Beat (2004), Never Say Goodbye (2006), The Mouth Agape (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
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cancer, true love, self discovery, cancer patient, family in crisis, infidelity, womanizer, husband wife relationship, love affair, crumbling relationship, life turned upside down, terminal illness ...
Time:
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Place:
holland, europe
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95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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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:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, human nature, love and romance, looking for love, underdog, haunted by the past, male pubic hair, dream, workaholic, sleeping, ambulance, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 193 min.
Story:
Dev and Maya are both married to different people. Settled into a life of domestic ritual, and convinced that they are happy in their respective relationships, they still yearn for something deeper and more meaningful, which is precisely what they ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
true love, infidelity, family relations, couple relations, love affair, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, india
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, death of mother, love letter, family relations, mother son relationship, death, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, elderly, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, hopes, love affair, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, breakup, family life, parents separation, couples, family problems, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, death of child, separation, infidelity, suicide attempt, grieving, breakup, life turned upside down, grief, loss of son, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
terminal illness, buddhism, couples, couple relations, family reunited, marriage, dancer, dancer's life, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, elderly, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, mount fuji, tokyo, germany, europe ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Eve is an emergency medical technician who falls in love with Damien (Sagamore Stévenin), a handsome and caring man who runs a neighborhood bar in the Belgian countryside. When Damien and Eve become a couple, she joins him in looking after the bar ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, sexy, realistic ...
Plot:
couple relations, outdoor sex, female pubic hair, life turned upside down, dishonesty, misfit, love and romance, hopes, infidelity, couples, family problems, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Style:
art house, contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war one, sex, prostitute, soldier, infidelity, bittersweet, dishonesty, love and romance, unfulfillment, assassination, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up ...
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, love and romance, couples, family problems, youth, society, religions or cults, marital discord, gays and lesbians, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
55%
437
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a passionate but turbulent affair with an emotionally troubled girl results in pregnancy, a struggling writer and his tight-knit family are forced to decide how the story will end.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couples, family problems, parents and children, danger, love and romance, father son relationship, premarital sex, woman on top, sex scene, unwed pregnancy, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, new york, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
midlife crisis, starting over, love triangle, infidelity, extramarital affair, dysfunctional family, working class, breakup, love affair, human nature, couple relations, hopes ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
washington state, seattle
Similarity:
54%
429
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The story of two couples - each with their own struggles to survive as a couple and as individuals. After living in London for a few years, Rahul and Nandita have recently moved back to Kolkata and become friends with Amit and Preeti. It is the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
couple relations, love and romance, friendship, friends, crumbling marriage, family relations, infidelity, best friend, dishonesty, family problems, couples, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, england, kolkata, asia, europe ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, unfulfillment, couples, family problems, estrangement, destiny, crumbling marriage, hopes, transplant, fake identity, ambulance ...
Time:
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Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
While camping in France, Eric and Eddy fall in with two women. Eric talks to Silke, a Ugandan studying medicine in Holland. She tells him about her life and asks about the book he's writing: it's the story of his love affair with Reza. He ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, sexual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
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Duration: 192 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, romantic, sincere, period drama
Plot:
female nudity, skinny dipping, family relations, self discovery, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, writer's life, crumbling marriage, love and romance ...
Time:
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Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
couples, infidelity, crumbling marriage, marriage, adultery, family relations, pregnancy, family life, sister sister relationship, love and romance, siblings relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Place:
vietnam, east asia, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, touching, sexual, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, cheating on husband, sex scene, forbidden love, couples, love affair, extramarital affair, adultery, horny wife, sexually dissatisfied wife, husband wife relationship, sexual intercourse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
46%
400
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
love triangle, terminal illness, friends, couples, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, tragic hero, love and romance, friendship, unfulfilled love, best friend, jealousy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year, as a hopeless agoraphobic, until he meets a young woman who slowly coaxes him out of his self imposed bondage.
Style:
touching, psychological, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
love affair, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, dishonesty, bondage, destiny, impossible love, family problems, dull life, estate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-brothers and their disturbed sexuality. After a chaotic childhood with a hippie mother only caring ...
Style:
psychological, sentimental, erotic, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
sexuality, nudist camp, swinger couple, hippie, absent mother, teacher, loss of loved one, sex addict, introspection, mentally unstable, obsession, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
Similarity:
45%
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, father in law daughter in law relationship, older man younger woman relationship, breakup ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, hong kong, montreal
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cheating wife, marriage proposal, society, couple relations, family relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, introspection, village, village life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory, twins, patient, terminal illness, hospital, couples, family problems, family relations, hopes, youth, life is a bitch, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
cheating wife, fall in love, skinny dipping, family relations, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, polyamory ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
marseille, europe, france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
small town, unwanted pregnancy, waitress, food, alien contact, family relations, getting home, siblings relations, small town life, parents and children, love and romance, hopes ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
texas
Similarity:
40%
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:
sexual, realistic, serious, sexy
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, infidelity, passion, feeling, bittersweet, love and romance, opposites attract, fall in love, crumbling marriage, aging, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and constantly harasses him. She reappears again and again on Rímini's horizon to reconquer ...
Style:
serious, realistic, erotic, sexual, melancholic ...
Plot:
couples, breakup, family problems, crumbling marriage, obsession, introspection, downfall, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, mentally unstable, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
39%
643
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
No Overview
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, love affair, friendship, couples, love and romance, intrigue, couple relations, dishonesty, elderly, terminal illness, suicidal thoughts, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
39%
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