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Rust and Bone (2012)
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Rust and Bone (2012)
Original name: De rouille et d'os
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Singapore
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Style: heartbreaking, sad, sentimental, touching, independent film, realistic, sexy, depressing, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: disability, love, depression, female nudity, illegal fistfight, sex with neighbor, opposites attract, disabled person, family drama, redemption, ex boxer, amputee, orca, relationships, complex characters, boxing, family relations, tragic event, single parent, killer whale, human spirit, unlikely couple, amputation, parent child relationship, coming of age ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, y2k, 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, cote d'azur, french riviera, europe, riviera, nice france, california
Keyword: french, sport, fighting movie, challenge, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about love, couples, kiss, female nudity, love and romance, mother daughter relationship and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Rust and Bone: Two Days, One Night (2014), From the Land of the Moon (2016), Annette (2021), Cartagena (2009), X+Y (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
Plot: depression, unemployment, injustice, working class, female protagonist, solidarity, workplace, loss of job, employer employee relationship, moral dilemma, guilt, poverty ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, france, ethiopia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
From the Land of the Moon (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An adaptation of Milena Agus' eponymous novel set after WWII, "Mal de Pierres" ("Mal di Pietre") spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another ...
Style: psychological, suspense, sexy, tense, retro ...
Plot: unrequited love, love, female nudity, twists and turns, female protagonist, war veteran, delusional woman, baby, soldier, marriage, doctor, cigarette smoking ...
Time: post world war two, 50s, future, 1950s
Place: provence, south of france, somalia, france, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
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Annette (2021)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Mexico, Switzerland
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfect couple, healthy, happy, and glamourous. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious girl ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: stand up comedian, oral sex, courtroom, male female relationship, murder, prison, storm at sea, singing, baby, relationships, musician's life, family relations ...
Place: los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 1K
Cartagena (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: disability, paralysis, opposites attract, quadriplegic, teaching the ways of the world, fall in love, gain trust, one more chance, hopes, nursing, alcohol abuse, ex boxer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, france, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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X+Y (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: autism, mathematics, coming of age, teenager, child prodigy, prodigy, death of father, disability, genius, adolescence, mentor, family relations ...
Time: year 1996, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, taiwan, asia, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
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Chloé (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After a violent dispute with her mother, sixteen-years old Chloé ends up in the streets with nowhere to go. Then she finds Jean-Michel, a charming young man who will lead her to prostitution.
Style: sexy
Plot: teenage prostitute, prostitution, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, love, sex, teenage girl, girl, bare breasts, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, dancing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 57K
Head-On (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style: psychological, depressing, bleak, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, marriage, immigrant, culture clash, love story, relationships, loneliness, sex, love affair, drug, self esteem, self destructing ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
15%
 7.3
 210K
Blue Valentine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style: touching, romantic, psychological, emotional, sad ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, alienation, strong sexual content ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
 7.3
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Betty Blue (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Betty Blue, a mentally unbalanced and sexually aggressive free spirit who becomes involved with Zorg, a repairman moonlighting as a writer. The two engage in a variety of sexual encounters, and grow more passionate toward each other. Betty finds ...
Style: erotic, sexy, atmospheric, sexual, breathtaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, nudity, borderline personality disorder, sexuality, obsessive love, mental illness, sex scene, love story, insanity, sex, public nudity, sensuality ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.4
 94K
Biutiful (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story: This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style: depressing, bleak, sad, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: single father, cancer, terminal illness, death, parenthood, immigrant, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, reconciliation, parents and children ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, iran, senegal, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Goodbye First Love (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: sex scene, lovers reunited, lovers apart, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, youth, older man younger woman relationship, bare chested male, childhood sweetheart, letter, love and romance ...
Time: 2010s, year 1999, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, marseille, normandy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.5
 116K
Little Children (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Style: sexual, sexy, disturbing, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love affair, housewife, sex, small town, sexual pleasure, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, parenthood ...
Time: year 2006, y2k, 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.4
 284K
Me Before You (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, quadriplegic, euthanasia, caregiver, handicapped, relationships, death, accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, usa, mallorca, paris france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Life Without Me (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Pedro Almodovar production in which a fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies with out telling her family of her illness.
Style: sad, touching, contemplative, philosophical, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, secret love, illness, love and romance, dealing with death, death, parents and children, infidelity, hospital, relationships, love story ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Style: erotic, sexual, emotional, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, sexuality, lesbian love, coming of age, youth, lovers, lesbian relationship, lesbian teen, lesbianism, adolescence, gays and lesbians ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.7
 22K
Dear Frankie (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, ...
Style: heartbreaking, sweet, realistic, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: single parent, coming of age, disability, family drama, friendship, father son relationship, boy, stranger, passion, letter, youth, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: scotland, europe, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 10K
Five Times Two (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles ...
Style: sexy, enigmatic, psychological, sensual, stylized ...
Plot: divorce, sex, infidelity, rape, adultery, wedding, wedding night, unfaithful wife, relationships, husband wife relationship, up and down relationship, family life ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, sardinia, europe, senegal, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, crying, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, family problems, cheating wife, midlife crisis ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1955, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Closer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, marriage, love at first sight, passion, sex, stripper, photographer, sexuality, obsession ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 36K
Adore (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering ...
Style: sexy, emotional, romantic, erotic, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, lust, older woman younger man sex, sexual tension, adultery, sexual relations, love affair, sex, older woman teenage boy relationship, mother son relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
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The Immigrant (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style: atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation, sisters ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 20th century
Place: poland, israel, america, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Somersault (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sexy, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, teenager, mother daughter relationship, self discovery, teenage life, unfaithfulness, runaway, love and romance, youth, dysfunctional family, visceral, solitude ...
Time: year 2004
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.0
 2K
L'ennui (1998)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to ...
Style: erotic, psychological, sexy, psycho sexual, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, obsession, older man younger woman relationship, sex scene, older man younger woman sex, female nudity, teacher, erotica, midlife crisis, rough sex, depression, sexuality ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Movie in collections
 7.0
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Sex and Lucia (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, cerebral, art house ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, nudity, lust, sexual relations, porn, erotica, explicit sex, strong sexual content, female masturbation, male nudity, waitress ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, mediterranean sea, iberian peninsula, valencia spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.
Style: heartbreaking, sad, touching, depressing, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: grief, terminal illness, depression, relationships, love story, love, cancer, musician, character study, honest, mental illness, parenthood ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, near future, 90s, 2000s ...
Place: belgium, scandinavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Love Me If You Dare (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might ...
Style: feel good, heartbreaking, romantic, surreal, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: youth, love hate relationship, game, friendship, relationships, friends, best friends in love, love story, lovers, music box, prank, childhood love ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Secret Life of Words (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Ireland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate ...
Style: touching, romantic, melancholic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Plot: blind character, haunted by the past, disability, loneliness, nurse patient relationship, accident, burn victim, love, friendship, blind man, trauma, depression ...
Time: year 2005
Place: ireland, northern ireland, balkan, former yugoslavia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.8
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The Vow (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love, memory loss, love story, love and romance, amnesia, true love, marriage, relationships, couple relations, wooing, power of love, couples ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.2
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Candy (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, romantic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heroin, drug abuse, addiction, junkie, drug addict, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, obsession, drug, love story, love, mental illness ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne
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