Movies like Bluebeard 2009

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Bluebeard (2009)
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Bluebeard (2009)
Original name: Barbe Bleue
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.
Style: fairy tale, tense, atmospheric, serious, surreal, witty, surprise ending, offbeat, non-linear, crying ...
Plot: serial killer, husband wife relationship, convent, family relations, redhead girl, feminism, couples, gender, siblings relations, battle of the sexes, couple relations, murderer, nun, sister sister relationship, wedding, aristocrat, belief in god, little girl, girl man relationship, murder of wife, belief in the afterlife, belief in heaven, convent school, child bride, solar eclipse ...
Time: 16th century, 2000s, medieval times, 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe
Keyword: reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, atmospheric and emotional films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, husband wife relationship, female nudity, family relations and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Bluebeard: The Sleeping Beauty (2010), The Last Mistress (2007), Goodbye First Love (2011), Perfect Love (1996), 36 fillette (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Sleeping Beauty (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: On the heels of the mesmeric “Bluebeard” comes this wonderfully idiosyncratic, heady and erotic exploration of another classic Charles Perrault fairy tale by French cinema’s endlessly probing and brilliant provocateuse. Time-tripping with a ...
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, surreal, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: witch, self discovery, teenage love, love and romance, youth, hopes, imaginary, miraculous event, imaginary kingdom, curses spells and rituals, antidote, sleeping beauty ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Last Mistress (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Style: erotic, serious, stylized, realistic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, infidelity, opposites attract, courtesan, forbidden love, manipulation, destructive relationship, dishonesty, couples, tragic love, love affair, looking for love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 2000s, 1830s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
48%
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Perfect Love (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A teenage girl helps investigators reconstruct her mother's (Isabelle Renauld) murder.
Style: controversial, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: minimalism, age-gap relationship, wedding, crimes of passion, disco, murder, male pubic hair, nudity, male nudity, rape, bare breasts, couples ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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36 fillette (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers ...
Style: sensual, erotic, controversial, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, virgin, lolita, older man younger woman relationship, beach, sensuality, erotica, minimalism, hardcore, young love, nymphet, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, south of france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Maids of Wilko (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with ...
Style: existential, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, uncle nephew relationship, female nudity, renaissance, first love, love letter, death, birthday, jealousy, childhood friend, friendship, farm ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Goodbye to Language (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story: About a man who’s angry at his wife because she’s met another man on a park bench and they no longer even speak the same language.
Style: surreal, experimental, atmospheric, serious, stylized ...
Plot: introspection, battle of the sexes, couple relations, love, crumbling marriage, fight, communication problem, dog, book, unsettling, bookstore, moving ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.1
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The Future (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.
Style: surreal, meditative, sentimental, cerebral, indie film ...
Plot: infidelity, cat, talking cat, pets, life turned upside down, follow your dream, road not taken, destiny, couples, disorder, hopes, dancer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Ashamed (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Arts professor Jung Ji Woo is searching for a nude model for a video clip that will be played at her exhibition. When Hee-jin, one of her students, recommends Yoon Ji Woo for the job, the three woman head to the beach to shoot the video. As they ...
Style: emotional, contemplative, atmospheric, sentimental, surreal ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, love affair, self discovery, coming of age, introspection, gender, couples, beach, youth, gays and lesbians, storytelling, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Romance (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Although deeply in love with her boyfriend - and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him - a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, disturbing, sensual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, bdsm, sexuality, female masturbation, explicit sex, love, adultery, male nudity, nymphomania, female nudity, masturbation, sexual promiscuity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Madame Bovary (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, sexy, costume drama, intense ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, literature, family life, tragic hero, village life, life is a bitch, village, love affair, hopes, destructive relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1991, 1850s
Place: normandy, france, europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002)
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, serious, psychological, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, cheating wife, parents and children, love triangle, polyamory ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: marseille, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Wild Grass (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: dentist, couples, love and romance, haunted by the past, couple relations, husband wife relationship, love, self discovery, love affair, unfulfillment, purse snatcher, mysterious past ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Happiness (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Style: art house, anthology, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, french countryside, love, summer, adultery, bittersweet, love triangle, cheating, family relations, daily life, new love ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Lancelot of the Lake (1974)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between Lancelot and Mordred, Arthur urges his knights to bury their differences and ...
Style: arthurian, spiritual, fairy tale, anthology, surreal ...
Plot: medieval, arthurian legend, holy grail, knight, betrayal, true love, castle, female nudity, minimalism, king arthur, minimal dialogue, spirituality ...
Time: medieval times, year 1974, middle ages, 6th century
Place: france, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Last Day (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: At Christmas time, 19 year old Simon returns home to visit his dysfunctional family with Louise, a fearless girl he met during his train ride. While Simon struggles to cope with the growing distance between him and his parents, he starts to examine ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: gender, love triangle, teenage life, youth, jealousy, lovers reunited, social misfits, love and romance, couples, family relations, family gatherings, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.8
 82
Bas-fonds (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min.
Story: On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a ...
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, tense, surreal ...
Plot: murder, manipulation, destructive relationship, femme fatale, life is a bitch, lifestyle, couples, family relations, female psychopath, strong female presence, gender, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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3 Hearts (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: love triangle, brother in law sister in law relationship, unfulfilled love, wedding ceremony, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, bittersweet, sister sister relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Bird People (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An overstressed American businessman and a French chambermaid make a connection at an airport hotel in Paris.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: hotel, airport, supernatural, cause and meaning, supernatural romance, love and romance, hopes, starting over, husband wife relationship, hipster, woman, mental disorder ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Lovespell (1981)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde.
Style: arthurian, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, medieval, love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, tragic love, couples, head of state, love and romance, unfulfillment, fall in love, rivalry ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 6th century, year 1981
Place: ireland, cornwall, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Everyone Else (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.
Style: captivating, sincere, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, architect, young lovers, love and romance, resort, lifestyle, couple relations, hiking, depression, orgasm, sensuality ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: europe, italy, sardinia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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India Song (1975)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an ...
Style: art house, cult classic, experimental, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: feminist, sisters, hardcore, women, success, minimalism, love letter, feminism, sister, sensuality, dancing, voice over narration ...
Time: 1930s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: india, france, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.8
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Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, witty, clever ...
Plot: adultery, love, writers, infidelity, estate, world war one, writer's life, family relations, rise to the top, ambition, social differences, couple relations ...
Time: 1900s, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era, year 1914
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Shoe Fairy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dodo is indulged in collecting and wearing beautiful high heels until she encounters an accident and loses her legs.
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: obsession, couples, disability, family relations, wedding, dentist, painting, against the odds, supernatural, magic, revenge, love and romance ...
Place: taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Brief Crossing (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Because something fleeting and futureless is not necessarrily pathetic or trivial. A brief crossing, perhaps an initiatory trip. ...
Style: psychological, touching, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, taboo sex, sex with a minor, milf, sex, older woman younger man sex, age difference, older woman younger man, aging, ship, sexual tension, unlikely couple ...
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.8
 573
7 Days (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When one of the brothers (Ohayn) dies, all the whole family comes for Shiva (Jewish tradition,when the family sits seven days at the home after the death one of their family). A large family with a lot of problems and conflicts between them.
Style: tense, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: israeli, gulf war, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, death in the family, siblings relations, family life, jewish family, brother brother relationship, funeral, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a Carpathian village, Ivan falls in love with Marichka, the daughter of his father's killer. When tragedy befalls her, his grief lasts months; finally he rejoins the colorful life around him, marrying Palagna. She wants children but his mind ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, stylized, emotional, psychedelic ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, wedding, medieval, true love, marriage, religion, friendship, rivalry, forbidden love, couple relations, couples, rain ...
Time: 19th century, year 1965, medieval times
Place: ukraine, soviet union, ussr, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Valmont (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style: stylized, period piece, sensual, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: betrayal, virginity, seduction, manipulation, infidelity, virgin, tragedy, hypocrisy, couple relations, wager, love triangle, love ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Governess (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, society, love affair, loss of virginity, nanny, older man younger woman relationship, jewess, couple relations, master and servant, male nudity, love triangle ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1998, 1800s
Place: scotland, england, london, britain, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style: gothic, fairy tale, surreal, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, date night, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, freak, social misfits, love and romance, inventor, love story, teenage girl, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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