Movies like Tosca
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Tosca (2001)
476
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: Italy, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Benoit Jacquot's acclaimed 2002 film of Puccini's opera stars Angela Gheorghiu in the title role, with Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under Antonio Pappano.
Style:
emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, sexy, sexual
Plot:
opera, love and romance, couples, tragic love, tragic hero, manipulation, unfulfilled love, concert, dishonesty, unfulfillment, dancing, ballet, basement, napoleonic era, curses spells and rituals, game theory, manipulations
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
italy, europe
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Most similar movies to Tosca
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and stylized films with plots about love and romance, couples, unfulfillment, opera, tragic love, infidelity and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Tosca: La Bohème (2008), Othello (1986), Don Giovanni (1979), Carmen (1984), Carmen in 3D (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
414
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera, in a high budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm, stars opera's 'Golden Couple', Rolando Villazon and Anna Netrebko as the protagonists, Rodolfo and Mimi. ...
Style:
serious, stylized, captivating, romantic, realistic
Plot:
love affair, opposites attract, lifestyle, tragic love, fall in love, couple relations, unfulfilled love, love and romance, social differences, couples, male female relationship, opera ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The award-winning show is re-imagined as a live concert event, featuring an all-star cast of recording artists, set during the last week of Jesus' life as he deals with betrayal, love and jealousy, and told from the perspective of Judas.
Style:
captivating, serious, sincere
Plot:
live performance, singing, christianity, betrayal, concert, dancing, jesus, rock opera, spectacle, stage musical, theater, crucifix ...
Place:
jerusalem
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100%
653
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands, USA, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Having previously staged Verdi's 1887 opera Otello at the Met and La Scala, filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli committed his production to film in 1986. Starring as the fatally jealous Moor of Venice is Placido Domingo, who had also headlined ...
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
opera, shakespeare, medieval, betrayal, obsession, dancing, forbidden love, tragedy, love and romance, dishonesty, rivalry, losing-it hero ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
italy, europe, venice, paris france
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 176 min.
Story:
Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, stylized, emotional
Plot:
opera, classical music, dancing, valet, musician, stage play, deal with the devil, couples, one last chance, vengeance, love and romance, downfall ...
Time:
18th century, year 1979, 17th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his feelings.
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
opera, passionate love, classical music, music, unrequited love, dancing, stage play, european, girl, concert, soldier, tragic love ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 1920s
Place:
spain, europe, paris france
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Passion, jealousy and betrayal take center stage at Londons Royal Opera House in a spectacular production of the worlds most popular opera. Bizets Carmen is packed with some of the best-loved and memorable music in all of opera. In this ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, dramatic ...
Plot:
opera, betrayal, rebelliousness, dishonesty, destructive relationship, couples, wooing, infidelity, murder, live performance, jealousy, passion ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha, seeks to fulfill her dreams through marriage to an American naval officer. Her faith in their future is shattered by his empty vows and the loss she endures touches something deep within us all.
Style:
emotional, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide, betrayal, interracial romance, marriage, u.s. sailor, geisha, interracial relations, opera, couples, innocence lost, society, destructive relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, paris france, canada ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Classic ballet by Kenneth MacMillan to the music of Prokofiev.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, stylized, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
shakespeare, couples, forbidden love, true love, tragic love, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, dancer's life, love and romance, music, tragedy, ballet ...
Time:
year 1966
Place:
england
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set 10 years later, the Phantom has escaped from Paris to New York where he lives amongst the joyrides and freak shows of Coney Island. He has finally found a place for his music to soar, all that is missing is his love Christine Daaé. In a bid to ...
Style:
gothic, sentimental, stylized, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
longing, tragic hero, couples, destructive relationship, haunted by the past, love triangle, disfigurement, unfulfillment, phantom of the opera, live performance, theater, broadway ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, paris france, new york, france, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Music, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela ...
Style:
sexual, art house, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
flamenco, music and dance, forbidden love, gypsy, dance, love, magic spell, dancer's life, betrayal, social misfits, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
49%
18
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
David McVicar's spectacular production of Charles Gounod’s Faust, featuring a divine cast of opera’s superstars: Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside and Sophie Koch – recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent ...
Style:
thrilling, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
opera, classical music, deal with the devil, faust, live performance, theater, problem, ghost, music, deal, intrigue, orchestra ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
47%
775
Genre: Musical, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, suspense
Plot:
opera, murder, tragic love, vengeance, dangerous attraction, love triangle, love affair, crimes of passion, couples, obsession, destructive relationship, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, captivating, realistic, serious
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
age-gap relationship, dancing, single parent, infidelity, unfulfillment, music, gays and lesbians, artists and showbiz, gender, music band, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
paris france, europe, new york, france, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This modernization of Shakespear's tragic love story Romeo and Juliette is set in Los Angeles against a backdrop of inter-racial romance.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, emotional
Plot:
interracial relations, opposites attract, forbidden love, rebelliousness, love affair, drug dealing, lifestyle, love and romance, parents and children, society, couples, tragic love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rome italy, los angeles
Similarity:
36%
516
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, serious, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
shakespeare, shakespeare's othello, opera, tragedy, jealousy, betrayal, racism, downfall, love and romance, couple relations, vengeance, intrigue ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
venice, italy, turkey
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on Verdi's (Bizet's not Verdi's) classic opera and its all African American musical counterpart Carmen Jones, Carmen a Hiphopera is a modern retelling of the story of the tragic gypsy Carmen. The setting has been taken from the ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, stylized, dramatic ...
Plot:
hip hop, femme fatale, tragic love, performer's life, fall in love, destructive relationship, betrayal, obsession, destiny, black, rapper, passion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
34%
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, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, impossible love, lovers reunited, couples, fall in love, tragic love, relationships, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, betrayal, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
renaissance, renewed love, envy, marriage crisis, musician, travel, opportunism, politics, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, musician's life, unlikely couple ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has offended and thrilled audiences for more than a century. Critics, for their part, have often had problems with Tosca’s rather grungy subject matter, ...
Style:
emotional
Audience:
adult
Plot:
opera, italian opera, diva, classical music, tragedy, betrayal, heroine, passion, heartbreak, jealousy, political oppression, fatalism ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier ...
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, captivating, compassionate, philosophical ...
Plot:
notre dame cathedral, love and romance, impossible love, unfulfilled love, theater, hunchback, tragedy, unfaithful, life is a bitch, musical performance, obsessive love, dancing ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Andreas, an Art History Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts, is involved both with a sexy intellectual French-Greek woman and a young student of his despite being in love with his beautiful wife. When he finds out he has leukemia and only a ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, stylized, sexy ...
Plot:
couple relations, womanizer, infidelity, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, terminal illness, doctors and patients, urban, sexual relations, power relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After meeting during their vacation, two young people with solitary lives suddenly come into a relationship that could benefit both of them.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, love and romance, fall in love, unfulfilled love, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment, mountain, holiday, snow, brother brother conflict, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, passionate love, high society, nun, valet, kidnapping, love and romance, couple relations, social differences, unfulfilled love, love affair, tragic love ...
Time:
19th century, year 2007, victorian era, 1810s, 1820s
Place:
paris france, africa, france, europe, spain
Similarity:
30%
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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, sexual ...
Plot:
betrayal, life is a bitch, tragic hero, infidelity, love triangle, love and romance, terminal illness, nude girl, couples, unfulfillment, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, menage a trois ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Musical, Romance, Drama
Country: Senegal, France, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations.
Style:
captivating, serious, psychological, stylized, erotic ...
Plot:
escape, femme fatale, women's prison, murder, lesbian, dangerous attraction, couples, destructive relationship, dishonesty, love and romance, obsession, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, senegal
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, moral dilemma, unfulfillment, couples, fall in love, unfulfilled love, love triangle, singer, concert, car accident, nun ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
portugal, france, paris france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, against the rules, couples, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, society, infidelity, bittersweet, indian woman, wedding, best friend ...
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: France, Austria, Portugal, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two stories about the greatest seducer of all time, Giacomo Casanova.
Style:
stylized, realistic, serious, psychological
Plot:
womanizer, cross dressing, love and romance, obsession, couples, estate, death of protagonist, older man younger woman relationship, dancing, twists and turns, perversion, old age ...
Time:
18th century, 1800s, 19th century, georgian era
Place:
europe, portugal, venice, italy
Similarity:
29%
244
Genre: Drama, Romance, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A story bout a relationship that's ended. Khwahish traces the sexy, funny and intense relationship of Amar Ranawat(Himanshu Malik) and Lekha Khorzuvekar (Mallika Sherawat) from the time they meet in the last semester of college, their quirky ...
Style:
sexy, touching, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
true love, young lovers, class differences, youth, love and romance, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, hopes, tragic love, college, rich and poor ...
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A musical version of the classic story set in the modern day.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, stylized
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
young lovers, love triangle, teenage life, social differences, love affair, opposites attract, couples, infidelity, tragic love, youth, fall in love, vengeance ...
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
28%
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