Movies like The Immortal Story
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The Immortal Story (1968)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized, gloomy
Plot:
sailor, legend, true love, power, prophecy, obsession, betrayal, rich and poor, love and romance, sexual relations, couples, sexual dysfunction, social relations, dishonesty, unfulfillment, master and servant, power relations, money, death, old man, memory, melancholy, impotence, mortality, breasts ...
Time:
60s, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and gloomy films with plots about love and romance, couples, dishonesty, unfulfillment, infidelity, couple relations and society mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Immortal Story: Cet amour-l? (2001), Eva (1962), Torrents of Spring (1989), White Nights on the Pier (2014), Eager Bodies (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
wartime life, destiny, fall in love, soldier, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle, hopes, couples, family relations, culture clash, destructive relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's ...
Style:
noir, psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
novelist, writers, girl, lust, sex, cult, nude, femme fatale, couples, power relations, tragic love, sexual relations ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
venice, italy, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
true love, love, erotica, estate, betrayal, love triangle, power relations, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, master and servant, society ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia, germany, europe, venice
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85%
Genre: Drama
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:
stylized, serious, talky, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love and romance, introspection, fall in love, seaport, unfulfillment, love, women
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous ...
Style:
serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, sexy ...
Plot:
dishonesty, life is a bitch, betrayal, tragic hero, infidelity, love triangle, love and romance, terminal illness, sex between cousins, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbianism, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on the Henry James short story "The Altar of the Dead", in which a man becomes obsessed with the many dead people in his life and builds a memorial to honor them. This film is also based on other short story by Henry James, "The ...
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, gloomy, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
death, tragic love, love story, reporter, world war one, couples, betrayal, obsession, investigation, journalism, unfulfillment, introspection ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
783
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
Style:
stylized, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, controversial ...
Plot:
physical appearance, family relations, mysterious character, isolation, couple relations, losing-it hero, human nature, obsession, love and romance, family problems, wilderness, forest ...
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Here is the story of a beautiful, proud and tough loner, a sailor named Querelle, whose commanding officer Seblon worships and desires him from afar. Querelle turns on his drugs-smuggling partner and murders him. He then goes to a notorious brothel ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, controversial, art house, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gays and lesbians, sex, lgbt, murder, psychology, lgbtq, serial killer, betrayal, homosexuality, surrealism, gender ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 196 min.
Story:
Adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel.
At a country fair, young hay-trusser Michael Henchard quarrels with his wife Susan, and in a drunken fit decides to auction off his wife and baby to a sailor for five guineas. The next day, realising his ...
Style:
serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
Plot:
redemption, tragic hero, haunted by the past, hidden truth, society, social relations, rise and fall, family problems, betrayal, dishonesty, victorian england
Time:
19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, emotional
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
servant, friendship, social differences, family relations, hopes, family life, unfulfilled love, friends, power relations, introspection, master and servant, lesbian ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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172
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The four days following the death of a small town doctor, seen through the eyes of Nelly, his wife, a nurse.
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
village, couples, social relations, love and romance, sexual relations, village life, family relations, death
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
535
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate ...
Style:
serious, tense, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
island, undercover, hidden identity, family problems, incestuous relationship, life is a bitch, dishonesty, haunted by the past, loneliness, orphan, redemption, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man returns to a city to try to track down a lovely woman he met six years earlier.
Style:
realistic, captivating, art house, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
obsession, city life, chase, looking for love, couples, society, crazy love, melancholy, performer's life, love and romance, obsessive quest, following someone ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family.
Style:
cynical, realistic, talky, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
starting over, hopes, estate, destiny, rich and poor, infidelity, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, couples, social differences, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 201 min.
Story:
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town's siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
Style:
art house, sexy, semi serious, realistic, sexual
Plot:
couples, crumbling marriage, love and romance, gays and lesbians, betrayal, couple relations, dishonesty, unfulfillment, sexual relations, destructive relationship, infidelity, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Araf is the story of Zehra and Olgun whose lives are caught in a vacuum. The world in which they live and work is a place of throwaway culture and constant change. They too are waiting for a chance to change and escape from their empty, monotonous ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
against the rules, forbidden love, rebelliousness, love and romance, teenage life, dull life, adolescence vs adulthood, deadend life, pregnancy, miscarriage, women's issues, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Estonia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. ...
Style:
touching, witty, serious, realistic
Plot:
elderly, friendship, love and romance, boss and employee, power relations, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, obnoxious boss, loneliness, emigration, bittersweet, immigrants ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in a seaside resort in the Caucasus, the story centers on n'er do well, Laevsky (Andrew Scott) and his illicit relationship with his mistress Nadya (Fiona Glascott). Laevsky has convinced Nadya to leave her husband for him, but now wants to ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, tragic hero, uninhibited rivalry, human nature, couple relations, rivalry, couples, unfulfillment, downfall, dishonesty, infidelity, countryside ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia, black sea, caucasus
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis's father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra. When Alexis meets his stepmother, sparks fly and the two begin an affair. What will the ...
Style:
emotional, sexy, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
affair, girl, love, summer, forbidden love, tragedy, power relations, destiny, love triangle, greek, island, legends and myths ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ancient greece, europe, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
Style:
reflective, cerebral, art house, erotic, sexy ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, hospital, love, relationships, marriage, family relations, crumbling marriage, alienation, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, crazy love ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, milan italy, tokyo, mediterranean sea, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A chamber drama about a widow and her son who live in an antique shop in Boulogne. The widow invites a man whom she loved twenty-two years earlier to visit. Her son is haunted by Muriel, a young woman whose death he may have caused while serving as ...
Style:
surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
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serious, realistic, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, death in the family, against humanity, love and romance, society, jewish ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, europe, germany, france, middle east
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55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, talky, touching ...
Plot:
psychoanalysis, psychology, prodigy, doctors and patients, downfall, introspection, losing-it hero, obsession, intern, writers, philosopher, philosophy ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, talky, tense, serious ...
Plot:
erotica, confined, nude, sexual content, strong sexual content, love and romance, dishonesty, cons and scams, twists and turns, love affair, sexual relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older stranger arrives, recognized by Hester but unknown to others ...
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psychological, realistic, serious, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
colonial america, infidelity, society, love and romance, life is a bitch, couple relations, clergy, dishonesty, betrayal, immigrants, couples, wartime life ...
Time:
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Place:
massachusetts, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Daniel Craig stars as the notorious chancer in this interpretation of the affair between James Lynchehaun (who inspired Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World) and the ‘yellow woman’.
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, biting
Plot:
obsession, disguise, couples, society, dishonesty, mysterious character, politics, love and romance, dangerous attraction, destructive relationship, infidelity, love affair ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Adrift begins with the wedding of Duyen and Hai. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide and translator who marries Hai, a taxi driver who is two years her junior. Duyen thinks the marriage will make her happy but it turns out more difficult, especially ...
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Time:
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vietnam, asia
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However Noelí also has a steady ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric
Plot:
moral dilemma, love and romance, dishonesty, gays and lesbians, rich and poor, cons and scams, society, lgbt, island, lesbian, woman, homosexual ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style:
talky, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, hopes, unfulfillment, introspection, crumbling marriage, couple relations, society, love and romance, dishonesty, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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