Movies like The American 1998
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The American (1998)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After the horror of the Civil War, 'ignorant' Christopher Newman made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get past the Paris nightlife. After an affair with a haughty painter, he falls in love with the daughter of the late marquis de Bellegarde. She was married off and traumatized by her abusive late husband for the family's sake. Her elder brother supports their ruthless mother, but junior Valentin is besotted with the artist and strikes a partnership with Christopher.
Style:
sad
Plot:
brother brother relationship, sex, abuse, post civil war, dog, rich man, boat, duel, rich woman, nobility, housekeeper, dysfunctional family, ritual, funeral, brother sister relationship, passionate kiss, family secret, loyalty, poker player, abusive husband, arranged marriage, death of father, picnic, convent school, romantic rivalry ...
Place:
paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and romantic films with plots about couples, family relations, love and romance, love, death, couple relations and male female relationship mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The American: A Hazard of Hearts (1987), The Accidental Tourist (1988), Passion's Way (1999), Blue Rodeo (1996), Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he realises that he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced ...
Style:
gothic, sweet, captivating, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
age difference, gambling, couples, estate, superhero, dishonesty, ambition, love and romance, duel, sword duel, damsel in distress, cave ...
Time:
19th century, regency period
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up, Macon meets a ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
travel, dog, depression, dysfunctional marriage, loss of son, dysfunctional family, loneliness, eccentricity, writers, death of son, grief, opposites attract ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, paris france, maryland, california, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in early 1900's France, a widow renews a former romantic interest until it is discovered that he has had a past fling with one of her new employees, a nanny. This sets the two women into many well-mannered accusations and conversations, but ...
Plot:
train travel, romantic reunion, sex in a hotel, train station, engagement, love affair, jealous woman, horse riding, grandmother grandson relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, romantic rivalry, passionate kiss ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, london, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Maggie Yearwood moves to a new town to be near her son, Peter, who has gone deaf as the result of an accident and is now attending a special school. She moves into a small house next door to Owen Whister and soon falls in love with the cowboy, who ...
Plot:
father figure, deaf, sign language, embarrassment, adultery, abuse, thanksgiving, fight, ritual, diving, infidelity, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
Style:
touching, uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, gambling, marriage, love, jealousy, small town, interracial relations, human spirit, family problems, injustice, dysfunctional family, love affair ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Me Before You similar movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the world, along the way ...
Style:
psychological, intellectual, talky, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
manipulation, friendship, depression, multiple storylines, couple relations, infidelity, fall in love, relationships, art, women, male female relationship, impossible love ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 18th century
Place:
europe, england, california, london, florence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
Style:
romantic, stylized, sexy, sweet, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
spinster, women, love, betrayal, father daughter relationship, couple relations, love and romance, marriage, feminist, suspense, catastrophe, secrets ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 18th century, 1850s
Place:
new york, geneva switzerland, alps, manhattan new york city, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style:
atmospheric, sexy, serious, romantic, stylized ...
Plot:
love, love triangle, relationships, nude, greed, death, betrayal, fall in love, power relations, rich and poor, couple relations, melancholy ...
Time:
1910s, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era, 1920s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Based on Henry James's novel of the same name. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and ...
Style:
serious, stylized, talky, realistic, political ...
Plot:
lesbian, post civil war, lawyer, feminist, couples, fall in love, love affair, love triangle, couple relations, infidelity, gender, battle of the sexes ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The father of a family has a an affair. This affects every member of the family.
Style:
talky, realistic, serious, clever, touching ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, infidelity, affair, family relations, family secret, pregnancy, extramarital affair, adultery, female nudity, nude girl, voyeurism, voyeur ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida, virginia, los angeles, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the ...
Style:
melancholic, sweet, light, realistic, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prison, murder, prison escape, adultery, escape, life is a bitch, confined, love and romance, couple relations, prison warden, couples, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era
Place:
pittsburgh, australia, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who ...
Style:
erotic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, erotica, haunted house, wedding, attic, mother, imprisonment, female nudity, sex scene, plantation, fire, swimming ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1830s, georgian era
Place:
jamaica, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
tragic love, self discovery, ambition, life is a bitch, love affair, couples, car racing, auto racing, hospital, motor sport, terminal illness, formula 1 ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, florence, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Clay Kincaid hates the nickname 'Saint', he got for being too kind to stray animals and desperate people. Especially when it comes to women. With a rough and damaged past that has left him jaded, he doesn't do committed relationships. ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, emotional, sexy, erotic
Plot:
erotic fantasy, attempted seduction, relationships, seduction, sexual relations, male female relationship, sex, couples, romantic relationship, couple relations, sexual attraction, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
557
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, ...
Plot:
courtesan, roulette, cottage, casino, runaway, class differences, loss of virginity, prostitute, artist, gambling, brothel, river ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Films like One Day
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Stephen Whittaker adapts author D.H. Lawrence's simmering tale of sex, love, and family. In the years leading up to World War I, the problems faced by many families were uncannily similar to the issues that mankind would still be ...
Style:
realistic, serious, romantic, sincere
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, family problems, couples, family in crisis, parents and children, dysfunctional family, crumbling marriage, love and romance, writer's life, female nudity, death in the family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Alexandra McKay (Elizabeth Montgomery) is a woman who's been blind for twenty years and is afraid that people will just try to get close to her because of her condition, so she ultimately stays to herself and her trusty guide dog, Emma. When ...
Plot:
burglar, art dealer, human animal relationship, brother sister relationship, blindness, blind woman, female protagonist, love, dog, art museum
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
669
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional
Plot:
ballet, revolution, girl, love, fall in love, rich and poor, couples, society, soldier, orphan, immigrants, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
paris france, new york, france, russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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253
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The close relationship between two fun-loving brothers comes under threat when a beautiful, sensitive girl arrives on the scene. As the younger brother comes of age, the inevitable jealousy, confusion, rivalry and lust place their brotherly love in ...
Style:
sexy, uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
love triangle, sex with sister in law, coming of age, young love, family relations, betrayal, priest, jealousy, brother brother relationship, rivalry, sibling rivalry, absent mother ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, germany, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
125K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
incest, sexuality, youth, french, rebellion, sex, love triangle, protest, couples, brother sister incest, friends, lust ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rich Hawaiian pineapple grower and US Senatorial candidate Richard Howland tries to control everything and everyone around him, including his headstrong sister, Slone.
Style:
serious, realistic, surprise ending, retro
Plot:
racism, family relations, redemption, interracial relations, landowner, sibling relationship, power relations, social relations, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, introspection ...
Time:
50s
Place:
hawaii, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Arkansas furniture maker Grins Jenkins is a cheerful man and loving father to his five kids, as well as the life of every party in their small town. When his wife Sharon, who used to be the 'bad cop', slowly dies of TBC, so does ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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, romantic, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot:
love triangle, sex, love, women, relationships, abuse, loss of virginity, masturbation, infidelity, sister sister relationship, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, turn of the century, pre world war one
Place:
france, paris france, normandy, europe, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Henry James' novel with the same title. It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, biting, stylized
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
culture clash, couple relations, marriage, american history, baroness, family relations, dysfunctional family, love triangle, autumn, puritan, social climber, immigration ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
massachusetts, europe, usa, boston, vienna ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England struggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, light, sincere ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, betrayal, fall in love, friendship, couples, love affair, society, adultery, father daughter relationship, secret, extramarital affair, revenge ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 90s
Place:
england, europe, ireland, cornwall, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, romantic, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
50s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Antoine Rey looks for a special gift for his sister Melanie on her 40th birthday. He decides to surprise her with a trip to the French Island of Noirmoutier, where they spent many summers as children until their mother's death. On the drive ...
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, psychological, realistic
Plot:
brother sister relationship, dysfunctional family, secret, christmas present, family secret, past, father daughter relationship, childhood memory, family relations, confronting the past, car accident, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot:
single parent, family relations, farm, family life, human nature, hopes, parents and children, social differences, teaching the ways of the world, father in law daughter in law relationship, religions or cults, family in crisis ...
Time:
1930s, post world war one
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
native american, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, last wish, parents and children, indigenous people, coming of age, starting over, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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