Movies like Four Nights of a Dreamer
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Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
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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:
art house, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
date night
Plot:
artist, female nudity, 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, painting ...
Time:
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 touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, unfulfillment, love affair, love triangle, fall in love and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Four Nights of a Dreamer: A Gentle Woman (1969), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), The Last Mistress (2007), Frontier of the Dawn (2008), Heartbeat (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
art house, captivating, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
suicide, female nudity, jealousy, loan shark, alienation, social outcast, existentialism, post war, memories, male female relationship, memory, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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, lyrical, romantic, colourful, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love, love triangle, young lovers, marriage, unfulfilled love, separation, pregnancy, relationships, first love, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century, year 1958, year 1963 ...
Place:
france, tokyo, paris france, normandy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, sexy, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
infidelity, opposites attract, femme fatale, courtesan, forbidden love, manipulation, dishonesty, couples, looking for love, destructive relationship, love affair, tragic love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1830s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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, sentimental, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, couples, haunted by the past, tragic love, obsession, love affair, fall in love, unfulfillment, longing, cemetery, death, jealousy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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800
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:
realistic, serious, stylized
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, seduction, older man young girl relationship, mistress, wealth, love affair, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, social differences, tragic love, crumbling marriage, couple relations ...
Time:
60s
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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:
brother in law sister in law relationship, love triangle, unfulfilled love, fall in love, couple relations, bittersweet, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, sister sister relationship, wedding ceremony, infidelity ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
strike, anger, female nudity, weakness, couples, sexual dysfunction, family relations, injustice, love and romance, unfulfillment, prostitute, infidelity ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
brittany, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
mental illness, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, love triangle, small town, hotel, sexual relations, pain, lust, jazz, mate swapping, couples ...
Time:
60s
Place:
france, paris france, tuscany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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, fall in love, dangerous attraction, love and romance, chaos and mayhem, couple relations, living together, friendship, women, mental disorder, traffic jam, chaos ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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, disturbing ...
Plot:
youth, fall in love, impossible love, love affair, losing-it hero, lifestyle, unfulfillment, destructive relationship, twentysomething life, couples, loneliness, depression ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A family man's encounter with a beautiful woman develops into a mutual fascination.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, serious
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sex scene, fall in love, nightclub, love and romance, unfulfillment, husband wife relationship, divorce, mother daughter relationship, love triangle, love, hotel, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, london, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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, impossible love, fall in love, hopes, life is a bitch, love and romance, couples, friendship, unfulfilled love, wartime life, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, germany, france, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love affair, love triangle, longing, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, fall in love, train travel, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chinese ...
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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, breakup, nude, sexual content ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, hong kong, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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:
art house, sexy, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
neglected wife, airport, doomed romance, transformation, love, flight attendant, adultery, breakup, love at first sight, divorce, double life, couples ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, lisbon portugal, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, actor's life, crumbling marriage, couple relations, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, family relations, couples, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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, atmospheric, art house, enigmatic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
homeless, beggar, love, painter, love story, painting, loneliness, couple relations, love affair, fall in love, rise and fall, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
paris france, france, europe, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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, tragic hero, family relations, tragedy, unsupportive spouse, forbidden love, destructive relationship, love affair, fall in love ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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:
sexy, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot:
duchess, love and romance, erotica, isolation, sensuality, jealousy, obsession, prostitute, couples, power relations, gender, femme fatale ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy
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, colourful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, love triangle, love, tragedy, love story, nude girl, love affair, unfulfilled love, love and romance, dishonesty, filmmaking ...
Place:
europe, italy, berlin germany, france, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Servais Mont, a photographer, meets Nadine Chevalier who earns her money starring in cheap soft-core movies. Trying to help her, he borrows the money from the loan sharks to finance the theatrical production of 'Richard III' and gives ...
Style:
art house, experimental, avant garde, sexy, realistic ...
Plot:
porn, sex, female nudity, love, orgy, group sex, husband wife relationship, marriage, violence, obsession, decadence, loan ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In director Vicente Aranda's adaptation of the classic opera, a French writer documents the seductive power of the beautiful Gypsy Carmen, who turns her charms on a young soldier, awakening his passions but ultimately leading to tragedy. Jose ...
Style:
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Plot:
femme fatale, tragic love, love triangle, love affair, lifestyle, obsession, couples, betrayal, sex, soldier, passion, girl ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Veteran French director Agnes Varda's Le Petit Amour is based on a short story by actress/songstress Jane Birkin. Birkin herself plays the main character, a loving but lonely 40-year-old divorcee. Her life is brightened a bit by the presence of ...
Style:
art house, sexy, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
older woman teenage boy relationship, women, age-gap relationship, boyhood, forbidden love, age difference, male female relationship, coming of age, divorced mother, video game, mother daughter relationship, couple relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, france, paris france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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:
art house, erotic, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
female nudity, surrealism, sex, women, nude, gangsters, mental illness, bank robbery, existentialism, psychological abuse, strong violent content, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, slasher, sexy ...
Plot:
obsession, prison, losing-it hero, unlikely couple, hidden identity, aging, femme fatale, love and romance, dishonesty, mentally unstable, couples, psychopath ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, africa, france, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
age-gap relationship, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, family relations, unfulfillment, coming of age, dishonesty, obsession, innocence lost, love and romance, youth, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, 19th century
Place:
russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style:
art house, serious, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love triangle, society, birth control, magazine, sandstorm, married, dull life, family problems, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, lifestyle ...
Time:
1940s, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love, terminal illness, airport, nude, alcohol abuse, fall in love, unfulfilled love, doctors and patients, love affair, forbidden love, tragic love, midlife crisis ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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, sexy ...
Plot:
gay, love triangle, teenage life, youth, jealousy, lovers reunited, love and romance, social misfits, gender, family relations, couples, family gatherings ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A student is devastated when he finds that his girlfriend is cheating on him. In order to find out why she did it, he decides to spy on her and her airline pilot lover. Then he sees the pilot with a blonde woman and he begins to follow them…
Style:
semi serious, realistic, talky, clever, humorous ...
Plot:
stalking, obsession, crazy love, love, couple relations, human nature, unfulfillment, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, old love, couples ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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