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Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
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Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
Original name: Quatre nuits d'un rêveur
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
Style: depressing, art house, existential, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience: date night
Plot: artist, female nudity, minimalism, erotica, mental disorder, betrayal, suicide, post war, existentialism, social outcast, love, love triangle, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, losing-it hero, destructive relationship, loneliness, hippie, desire, male female relationship, night ...
Time: year 1971, 19th century
Place: paris france, france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, contemplative and atmospheric films with plots about love and romance, couples, unfulfillment, love affair, fall in love, love and love triangle mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Four Nights of a Dreamer: A Gentle Woman (1969), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), White Nights on the Pier (2014), The Lovers on the Bridge (1991), Frontier of the Dawn (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening ...
Style: sentimental, visual, colorful, romantic, lyrical ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, love triangle, unfulfilled love, young lovers, marriage, separation, teenage girl, pregnancy, relationships, first love, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957 ...
Place: france, algeria, normandy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
48%
The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life ...
Style: romantic, art house, atmospheric, enigmatic, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: homeless, beggar, love, painting, painter, love story, loneliness, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, rise and fall, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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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 ⇓
39%
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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 ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
38%
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Circle of Love (1964)
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, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, sex, prostitute, soldier, infidelity, bittersweet, dishonesty, lifestyle, assassination, love and romance, unfulfillment, love affair ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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 ⇓
36%
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards ...
Style: erotic, touching, emotional, colorful, atmospheric ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love triangle, love, tragedy, love story, nude girl, love and romance, dishonesty, unfulfilled love, love affair, fall in love ...
Place: italy, europe, france, new york, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Boy Meets Girl (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas, but gives up ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, avant garde, black and white ...
Plot: youth, fall in love, impossible love, love affair, couples, losing-it hero, lifestyle, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, twentysomething life, depression, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.4
 841
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 ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
34%
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Strangers (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Six days in the lives of an Israeli living in a kibbutz and a Palestinian living in Paris, which starts with an accidental meeting in the Berlin Subway during the World cup finals, will change them completely.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: unlikely couple, fall in love, love and romance, hopes, life is a bitch, couples, wartime life, friendship, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, dogma, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: palestine, israel, middle east, paris france, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Zhou Yu's Train (2002)
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 ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, love triangle, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, fall in love, longing, train travel, infidelity, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, librarian ...
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Swann in Love (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: duchess, love and romance, erotica, sensuality, lovers, fantomas, star crossed lovers, jealousy, obsession, prostitute, french president, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Faithless (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by ...
Style: psychological, sincere, atmospheric, lyrical, contemplative ...
Plot: adultery, infidelity, betrayal, fall in love, parenthood, custody, love affair, family problems, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, rivalry, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, denmark, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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A Place for Lovers (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Globe-trotting clothes-horse Faye Dunaway, who's harboring a secret, embarks on a 10-day fling with Marcello Mastroianni in Italy. This 1968 film was directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love, terminal illness, airport, unfulfillment, unlikely couple, lifestyle, forbidden love, love and romance, ego clash, womanizer, young lovers, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, venice, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Two English Girls (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister ...
Style: art house, erotic drama, romantic, postmodern, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, nudity, sex, love, abuse, relationships, women, crazy love, loss of virginity, unrequited love, infidelity, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1900s, year 1971, 70s, 20th century, pre world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, normandy, europe, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
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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 ⇓
30%
Identification of a Woman (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears (shades also of L'Avventura) while searching for her, he meets a ...
Style: erotic, psychological, sexual, philosophical, metafiction ...
Plot: filmmaking, loneliness, male nudity, love, crazy love, conversation, passion, minimalism, female nudity, artists and showbiz, self discovery, introspection ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 6.5
 395
First Love (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Switzerland, Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on Ivan Turgenev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental, stylized ...
Plot: age-gap relationship, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, family relations, obsession, innocence lost, coming of age, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfillment, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 19th century
Place: russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.3
 367
Anna Karenina (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Style: serious, emotional, psychological, realistic, epic ...
Plot: infidelity, betrayal, tragic love, love triangle, family relations, tragic hero, tragedy, destructive relationship, fall in love, unsupportive spouse, forbidden love, love affair ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, love, post war, love triangle, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, farm, male female relationship, love affair, tragic love ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
29%
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Mad Love (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Mary who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he ...
Style: romantic comedy, art house, erotic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: female nudity, nudity, sex, surrealism, women, nude women, gangster, bank robbery, mental illness, existentialism, psychological abuse, female orgasm ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Scream of the Silk (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in ...
Style: sexy, psychological, slasher, serious, realistic ...
Plot: prison, obsession, psychopath, couples, store, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, aging, destructive relationship, femme fatale, unlikely couple ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, africa, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Alice and Martin (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 124 min.
Story: At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains ...
Style: melancholic, enigmatic, emotional, psychological, romantic ...
Plot: secrets, betrayal, loneliness, love and romance, haunted by the past, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship, male model, older woman younger man relationship, lgbt, gay, sex scene ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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