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Obsessive Rhythms (2013)
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Obsessive Rhythms (2013)
Original name: Cadences Obstinées
Genre: Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge to one of the men, Furio: he has 4 months to restore the hotel and inaugurate it with great pomp. Aware of the difficulties but anxious to prove the point, Furio accepts encouraged by his wife Margo who believes that this assignment will allow the couple to rediscover the lost momentum.
Style: tense, serious, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy
Plot: couple relations, couples, ambition, crumbling marriage, relationship vs career, obsession, jealousy, corruption, relationship problems, hotel, unfulfillment, designer, architect, classical music, husband, cellist, cello, romance, female director
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and atmospheric films with plots about couples, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, crumbling marriage, love affair and love mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Obsessive Rhythms: The Island (2011), Texture of Skin (2007), Frontier of the Dawn (2008), Love and Rage (2009), Tangled 8 (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Island (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Bulgaria, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In Paris, Sophie and Daneel make a solid couple. Nothing, it seems, can separate them - until the day when Sophie tells her partner she has organised a surprise trip to Bulgaria. Daneel refuses to go, but Sophie insists and soon discovers just why ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, atmospheric
Plot: self discovery, manipulation, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, law firm, mysterious character, island, shower
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Texture of Skin (2007)
Genre: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This atmospheric drama follows photographer Min-woo, who enters into a torrid affair with a now-married ex-girlfriend, although he is distracted by a building obsession with the tormented ghost of the young woman who used to live in his apartment.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, erotica, loneliness, couple relations, couples, sexual content, male female relationship, love, love story, ex couple relations, love affair, love interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Frontier of the Dawn (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane and kills herself.
Style: atmospheric, serious, black and white, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, couples, haunted by the past, tragic love, obsession, love affair, fall in love, european, unfulfillment, longing, jealousy, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.3
 371
Love and Rage (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Daniel is a very talented piano student and loves Sofie, but he is terrified by the thought of losing her and accuses her of seeing another man. Everybody says he is wrong, but the suspicion grows as does an uncontrollable side of Daniel.
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: obsession, prodigy, couples, unfulfillment, love, jealousy, mental illness, self mutilation, musician, pianist, assault, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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 6.7
 15
Tangled 8 (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: People from diverse social backgrounds, races and ages manage grief through its different phases.
Style: realistic, contemplative, serious, talky, independent film ...
Plot: love and romance, couple relations, couples, unfulfilled love, sexual content, dealing with death, unfulfillment
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Bridge (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, emotional, semi autobiographical
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love triangle, midlife crisis, looking for love, parents and children, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Dramatics: A Comedy (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When an out of work actress unexpectedly lands a starring role in the sexually explicit mini-series adaptation of a best selling erotic novel, her aimless, stoner boyfriend does his best to be supportive. But when her volatile, Oscar winning co-lead ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, artists and showbiz, womanizer, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, love and romance, actor's life, couples, showbiz, sex scene, infidelity, jealousy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
This Sweet Sickness (1977)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: French filmmaker Claude Miller's This Sweet Sickness is based on a suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, of Strangers on a Train fame. In the original, the murder-protagonist was a psychotic, pure and simple (if such words are appropriate ...
Style: noir, realistic, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: love, insanity, love of one's life, castle, renovation, jealousy, destructive relationship, love and romance, unfulfillment, misfit, obsession, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Hotel America (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Helene (Catherine Deneuve), a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles (Patrick Dewaere), a young man who lives for free at his ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious, gay cinema
Plot: love, fall in love, hotel, beach, casino, gambling, gays and lesbians, opposites attract, love and romance, dealing with death, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 ⇓
52%
A Gentle Woman (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
Style: spiritual, art house, anthology, powerful, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suicide, female nudity, jealousy, minimalism, hamlet, social outcast, existentialism, post war, alienation, spirit, spirituality, loan shark ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Engeyum Kadhal (2011)
Genre: Romance
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Kamal, a young billionaire, doesn't believe in love; his philosophy is simple: No love, no commitments = no disappointments. He works hard for 11 months and takes a month's break from all the work related commitments. Cute violinist ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, sincere, romantic
Plot: family relations, love and romance, womanizer, fall in love, parents and children, couples, playboy, disaster, bare chested male, catastrophe, telugu, guilty pleasure
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, india, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Past (2007)
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, touching, melancholic, erotic ...
Plot: couples, breakup, family problems, crumbling marriage, obsession, introspection, downfall, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, mentally unstable, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.2
 2K
Quartet (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean ...
Style: romantic drama, costume drama, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: couples, dancing, prison, male pubic hair, coffee, hotel, theft, performer's life, womanizer, destructive relationship, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1920s, year 1981
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.0
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Monogamy (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Exhibitionism, voyeurism, jealousy, lust. Brooklyn wedding photographer Theo’s side business shooting surveillance-style photos of clients on the sly takes an unexpected turn—and creates a rift with his fiancée —when he’s hired by a ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, realistic, independent film ...
Plot: voyeurism, obsession, stalking, lifestyle, couple relations, dishonesty, mysterious character, strained relationship, fiance fiancee relationship, jealousy, photograph, vicious ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Not Easily Broken (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: relationship vs career, hopes, family problems, love and romance, ambition, couples, infidelity, crumbling marriage, couple relations, black, christian, african american protagonist ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Soft Skin (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Style: black and white, neo noir, depressing, art house, anthology ...
Plot: neglected wife, airport, love, transformation, doomed romance, new love, swing, infidelity, flight attendant, adultery, love at first sight, divorce ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, lisbon portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 781
I'm Staying (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A love triangle between a businessman, his wife, and a writer.
Style: witty, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: battle of the sexes, dysfunctional family, love triangle, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, breakup, family problems, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Paper Soldier (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Plot: space travel, military, crumbling marriage, moral dilemma, infidelity, power relations, soldier, couple relations, space and aliens, love affair, cosmonaut, underground ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1961
Place: russia, soviet union, kazakhstan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
White Nights on the Pier (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.
Style: contemplative, realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: seaport, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, unfulfillment, love, women, loneliness, orphan, night, love letter, school teacher ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Spanning years of both Harry and Leona Helmsley's cutthroat control of their eponymonous empire, this made-for-TV movie chronicles both the high and low points of the couple's life together.
Style: cynical, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: fraud, manipulation, couples, cons and scams, dishonesty, ambition, rise and fall, couple relations, blind ambition, unfulfillment, biopic, hotel ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 80s, 70s, 50s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: family life, self discovery, midlife crisis, couple relations, family relations, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, unfulfillment, playwright, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 2K
Friday Night (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paris, 1995. Laure (Valérie Lemercier) is about to meet friends for dinner to celebrate her moving in with her boyfriend. But on her way out, she discovers that the entire city is stalled by a massive transit strike. When a handsome stranger ...
Style: sexual, serious, psychological, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: couples, dangerous attraction, love and romance, fall in love, chaos and mayhem, couple relations, danger, friendship, living together, minimalism, women, mental disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 2002
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Romeo and Juliet (2014)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad take on the title characters in a modern adaptation of the timeless classic, Romeo and Juliet. This Broadway stage production is being broadcast in movie theaters.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, serious, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, interracial relations, parents and children, tragic hero, true love, society, love and romance, fall in love, young lovers, youth, tragic love, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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 ⇓
38%
La séparation (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: betrayal, adultery, dysfunctional family, infidelity, unfaithful wife, cuckold, family life, lovers reunited, crumbling marriage, breakup, estrangement, couples ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.6
 349
Foreign Body (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, Italy, Russia
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A dashing young Italian in Poland finds himself caught between two women — a novitiate nun and a ruthless corporate ladder-climber — in this lacerating vision of contemporary Poland from master filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, erotic, thought provoking
Plot: couple relations, couples, clergy, workplace situations, human nature, workplace, dishonesty, christianity, manipulation, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Married Woman (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style: black and white, sensual, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, society, in love, birth control, nudity, magazine, sexual pleasure, sandstorm, married, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, betrayal ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Love on a Pillow (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot: mental illness, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, love triangle, small town, sexual relations, pain, lust, jazz, couples, dishonesty, fall in love ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france, italy, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Breaking Upwards (2009)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 'Breaking Upwards' explores a young, real-life New York couple who, four years in and battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up. Based on an actual experiment devised by director/actor Daryl Wein and ...
Style: mumblecore, romantic, sincere, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: open marriage, couples, couple relations, lifestyle, breakup, looking for love, hopes, love and romance, romantic relationship, crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, young lovers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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