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Harlequin: Broken Lullaby (1994)
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Harlequin: Broken Lullaby (1994)
Original name: Broken Lullaby
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, Hungary, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rich Hungarian-born orphan Katya Davidov commissions Jordan Kirkland to research her past starting from a photograph, showing her as a child next to an elusive Fabergé music box. Luckily experienced Yankee-Hungarian treasure hunter and womanizer Nick Rostov gently forces his help upon her, although Jordan stubbornly risks dealing with his dodgy competitor Gudrun Kuper and her ruthless employer, count Borodin.
Style: sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: orphan, love and romance, love affair, haunted by the past, amateur detective, human nature, mysterious character, riddles and clues, dancing, fight, party, womanizer, communism, photograph, treasure hunter, family secret, russian history, private investigator, wealthy family, henchman, embarrassment, attempted murder, music box, competitor, male female partnership ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe

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Most similar movies to Harlequin: Broken Lullaby

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, atmospheric and suspenseful films with plots about love and romance, couples, love affair, dishonesty, fall in love, love and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Harlequin: Broken Lullaby: Northern Lights (2009), Recipe for Revenge (1998), A Change of Place (1994), Diamond Girl (1998), The Polish Bride (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Northern Lights (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hoping to leave behind troubled days in the Baltimore city police department, Nate Burns (Eddie Cibrian) journeys to Alaska, where he takes up a quiet life as a small-town sheriff and begins a romance with spirited bush pilot Meg Galligan (LeAnn ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, mind bending, tense, realistic ...
Plot: small town, law enforcement, danger, curses spells and rituals, small town life, love affair, winter, snow, brother brother relationship, beautiful scenery, love and romance, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alaska, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Recipe for Revenge (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: One fateful dinner party ends in a complicated murder case where Carly Hunter forced to work against both the police and the media. Police Jack Brannigan commissioned to protect her when threats begin to pile up and a fiery unexpected love affair ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, sexual, suspenseful ...
Plot: food, murder, law enforcement, legal, protagonist as suspect, witnessing a crime, chases and races, dedicated lawyer, gender, righting the wronged, cooking and food, false accusation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Change of Place (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Hungary, USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kim Jameson is a university professor while Kate Jameson - also known as Dominique, Kim’s twin sister - is a troubled model working in Paris. Kate is a drunk, in desperate need of rehabilitation. Kim checks her twin sister into a rehab center, ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: tall woman, twins, family relations, fashion, college, rehabilitation, power relations, impossible love, siblings relations, love affair, teachers and students, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Diamond Girl (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Denny Montana never looks at Claire. She has been working for him for four years and fallen in love at a distance. When Denny's brother Regan returns to oversee the sale of the family vineyard, Claire and Reganen makes pact. To make Denny ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sex comedy
Plot: womanizer, family relations, dishonesty, starting over, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, homecoming, couples, hopes, siblings relations, unrequited love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Polish Bride (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot: couple relations, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, haunted by the past, countryside, farm, happy ending, forced prostitution, flashback, rural setting, prostitute ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Swann (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, social relations, friends, countryside, murder, friendship, small town life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Safe Harbour (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Melissa Gilbert stars in this film adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestselling novel, in which a young girl named Pip and her mother meet an artist on the beach in Safe Harbour, where they have retreated in order to recover from the devastating ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: love affair, haunted by the past, starting over, couples, love and romance, hopes, fall in love, lifestyle, death of husband, love, serial killer, embezzlement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Driftwood (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric
Plot: amnesia, beach, memory loss, isolation, island, love affair, life is a bitch, love and romance, obsession, performer's life, lie, sex scene ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Sinbad (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád.
Style: touching, emotional, gloomy, atmospheric, sexual ...
Plot: magic realism, womanizer, haunted by the past, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, aging, couple relations, church, memory, food, snow ...
Time: year 1971, 1920s
Place: hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Treacherous Beauties (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A female photographer hears that her brother has been shot dead at a horse rearing farm. She decides to go there herself and uncovers a murky conspiracy.
Style: serious, realistic, mind bending, suspenseful
Plot: murder, conspiracy, couples, farm, photojournalist, uncover truth, law enforcement, journalism, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, mind game ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 210
Minotaur (1997)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alex Abramov is Mossad secret agent looking after some bad guys. He falls in love with young music student Thea, but can not reveal himself and sends her gifts secretly. Thea first thinks that it must be another student, G.R., who sends gifts, and ...
Style: independent film, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: mossad, spy, hitman, piano, mozart, agent, classical music, secret agent, undercover, state affairs, love and romance, government agency ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: middle east, israel, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 979
Gentlemen (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Beaten up, bruised, and scared, a young writer hides in a Stockholm apartment, writing the story of its disappeared inhabitants: the flamboyant and charismatic Morgan brothers.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense
Plot: espionage, state affairs, undercover, political conspiracy, dishonesty, love and romance, friendship, danger, brothers, aspiring writer, conspiracy, writer's life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Yvonne's Perfume (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion ...
Style: romantic drama, sexy, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: love, public nudity, gay subtext, lifestyle, love and romance, gays and lesbians, couple relations, hotel, love affair, love triangle, couples, nudity ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: switzerland, europe, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Bird of the Air (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A man in search of his past, and a woman who lives in the moment, are brought together when they pursue the origins of a stray parrot in this comedic and romantic drama.
Style: realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: basset hound, bird, orphan, love and romance, love affair, hopes, self discovery, couples, unlikely couple, library, waitress, highway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Summer Heat (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia?
Style: suspenseful, serious, sexy, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: beach, dangerous attraction, danger, masturbation, love affair, couple relations, illegal drugs, criminal heroes, love and romance, male female relationship, hot and sexy, sex ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Last Sign (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman who is tormented by the ghost of her abusive, alcoholic husband. She must come to terms with the past if she is to find peace and love...
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, supernatural ability, ghost, family relations, mysterious character, starting over, death in the family, dealing with death, haunted by the past, loss of husband, couples ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
At the Midnight Hour (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Wealthy widower Richard Keaton engages young widow Elizabeth 'Liz' Guinness as the 4th consecutive nanny for his pre-teen, equally science-devoted son Andrew, with instructions to disturb neither. She learns of mother Alycia's fatal ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, atmospheric
Plot: nanny, youth, widow, widower, parents and children, love affair, dealing with death, boss and employee, unlikely couple, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
20%
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Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A betrayed wife, whose husband leaves her after 25 years, returns to the lake where she first fell in love and begins an affair with the son of her first love.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot: love affair, teenage life, couples, couple relations, infidelity, lovers reunited, fall in love, bittersweet, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, young love, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
What You Don't See (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two strangers have a strong impact on a young man who's spending some time with his family in this drama from Germany. Seventeen-year-old Anton has been struggling to make sense of his life since his father committed suicide when Anton was ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, atmospheric, twisted ...
Plot: family relations, teenage life, dangerous attraction, mysterious character, estrangement, destructive relationship, danger, youth, fight, mother son relationship, twists and turns, manipulation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Fourth Story (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard to find him. Soon he discovers that David had a second identity and obviously doesn't want to be found. But since Shepard is strongly ...
Style: detective, thrilling, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: fatal attraction, erotica, obsession, investigation, private detective, missing person, police detective, couples, hidden identity, love and romance, uncover truth, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
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The Dawning (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. Nancy (Rebecca Pidgeon) befriends the pistol packing stranger she dubs Cassius (Anthony Hopkins) ...
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: ira, political unrest, coming of age, society, independence, state affairs, youth, dangerous attraction, mysterious character, teenage boy, friendship, conflict ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.9
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Spy(ies) (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Vincent is a bright young man but has introverted personality. He is working as a baggage handler at an airport and refuses to follow a career path accordingly to his education. With his colleague, Gerard, Vincent used to steal objects from the ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
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Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: europe, syria, london, paris france, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Winter Sleepers (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, ...
Style: psychological, sexual, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: winter, mountain, amnesia, hospital, memory loss, male nudity, snow, coma, photography, death, infidelity, drinking ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, bavaria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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David and Lisa (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It was adapted as a stage play in 1967, and was remade as a television movie in 1998 starring Lukas Haas, Sidney Poitier and Brittany Murphy.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: split personality, love hurts, social relations, power relations, family relations, love and romance, hopes, unfulfillment, misfit, unlikely couple, youth, young lovers ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
For a Handful of Kisses (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A girl. A boy. A love story. But also about dreams, fears, life, true love, friendship and how we deal with it. And a secret between them...
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: true love, love affair, love and romance, looking for love, young lovers, fall in love, hopes, dishonesty, hiv positive, tragic love, hiv, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Blood and Sand (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career.
Style: erotic, serious, realistic, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot: adultery, making love, romantic relationship, sex scene, love, seduction, infidelity, female nudity, bare breasts, male nudity, love and romance, womanizer ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: When French beauty Noelle Page falls in love with American pilot Larry Douglas, she believes he'll marry her. Instead, he returns to the U.S and marries the sweet but naive Catherine. Even though Noelle has found a new lover, an affluent Greek ...
Style: sexy, erotic, touching, surprise ending, serious ...
Plot: femme fatale, women's prison, pilot, world war two, love triangle, rise to the top, forbidden love, love affair, manipulation, trippy, lust, revenge ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1939, year 1945, year 1947
Place: greece, france, washington d.c., paris france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Prague Duet (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar.
Style: independent film, disturbing, sincere, sexual, psychological ...
Plot: fall in love, secret, doctor, couples, dishonesty, life is a bitch, womanizer, betrayal, love and romance, politics, state affairs, writer's life ...
Place: prague, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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