Movies like Happiness 1965
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Happiness (1965)
11K
Original name: Le Bonheur
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Style:
art house, anthology, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy, fairy tale, erotic ...
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, love triangle, male male relationship, summer, adultery, love, crazy love, bittersweet, inadvertently, family relations, mistress, widower, temptation, business trip, breast feeding, wedding dress, carpenter, drowning, making love, dressmaker, tragic romance, nudity, time travel, women ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
france, europe, japan, tokyo
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Most similar movies to Happiness
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and psychological films with plots about couples, love and romance, couple relations, infidelity, adultery, unfulfillment and love affair mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Happiness: Trust (2021), A Married Woman (1964), Love in the Afternoon (1972), Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), In the Mood for Love (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
3K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in the glamour of the New York and Paris art scenes, gallery owner Brooke Gatwick and her newscaster husband Owen Shore, face temptation, jealousy, twists and mystery when two seductive newcomers enter their lives.
Style:
sexy, captivating, psychological, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
infidelity, husband wife relationship, passion, adultery, unfaithful wife, temptation, forbidden love, adulterous husband, cheating wife, unfaithfulness, extramarital affair, relationship problems ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style:
sensual, black and white, art house, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
married woman, love triangle, nudity, unwanted pregnancy, birth control, magazine, in love, unfaithful wife, society, couples, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
1940s, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but ...
Style:
clever, anthology, art house, contemplative, talky ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
female nudity, passion, love and romance, infidelity, crazy love, glamour, affair, illicit affair, marriage, love, love affair, desire ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of ...
Style:
art house, black and white, contemplative, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
cancer, superstition, soldier, anxiety, feminism, feminist, hospital, women, storytelling, art, character study, fear of death ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, czechoslovakia, europe ...
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, sexy, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, lovers, love affair, marriage, unrequited love, newspaper, true love, love story, relationships ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cheating wife, unfaithful wife, interracial sex, sexual obsession, sexual relations, bored housewife, cuckold, marital crisis, rough sex, extramarital affair, black man white woman relationship, pillow talk ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.
Style:
sentimental, touching, romantic, erotic, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
love, fall in love, relationships, auto racing, passion, widow, couples, love and romance, couple relations, love affair, tragic romance, male female relationship ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
50%
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, aesthetic, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
age difference, forbidden love, coming of age, male female relationship, older woman teenage boy relationship, mother, woman peeing, amor, new love, women, erotic art, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, london
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
cheating wife, fall in love, skinny dipping, family relations, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, polyamory ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
marseille, europe, france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, erotic ...
Plot:
love affair, adultery, female nudity, skinny dipping, love triangle, infidelity, starting over, fall in love, life turned upside down, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
42%
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:
erotic drama, art house, romantic, postmodern, realistic ...
Plot:
sex, love triangle, nudity, crazy love, abuse, bandage over eyes, loss of virginity, sculpture, unrequited love, masturbation, infidelity, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 70s, 20th century, pre world war one, turn of the century ...
Place:
france, normandy, paris france, europe, wales
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops ...
Style:
serious, psychological, sexual, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
teacher, family relations, love triangle, love affair, fall in love, obsession, infidelity, unfulfillment, family problems, social differences, small town, student ...
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, emotional, anthology ...
Plot:
neighbor, crimes of passion, obsession, love story, adultery, mad love, love triangle, extramarital affair, tragic love, couples, dishonesty, destructive relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981, 1920s, 19th century
Place:
france, rio de janeiro, middle east, tokyo, paris france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy, semi autobiographical
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, infidelity, crumbling marriage, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, opposites attract, couples, dull life, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, normandy
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to ...
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
wedding, adultery, extramarital affair, cheating wife, military, infidelity, betrayal, circus, sex scene, french soldier, love, beach ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1940, year 1939, 1930s ...
Place:
paris france, berlin germany, indochina, algeria, syria ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Style:
sexy, melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental, family comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, temptation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love story, lovers, love and romance, unfaithful wife, sex, old love, marital infidelity, ex couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, france, philadelphia, new york, paris france
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
couples, infidelity, crumbling marriage, marriage, adultery, family relations, pregnancy, family life, sister sister relationship, love and romance, siblings relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
vietnam, east asia, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
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, emotional, colorful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
infidelity, love, adultery, love triangle, love story, lovers reunited, coitus, passionate kiss, female pubic hair, tragedy, nude girl, couples ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe, france, paris france, new york ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
Style:
psychological, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, couples, letter, adultery, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, high society, suffering, betrayal ...
Time:
1910s, year 2005
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the ...
Style:
sexy, art house, black and white, philosophical, lyrical ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
marriage, menage a trois, friendship, unrequited love, love triangle, love, relationships, storytelling, love story, melancholy, manic pixie dream girl, crazy love ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, year 1962, post world war one, 1930s ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, germany
Similarity:
37%
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, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love triangle, unfulfilled love, wedding ceremony, brother in law sister in law relationship, couple relations, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, bittersweet, sister sister relationship, infidelity ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Style:
art house, contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war one, sex, prostitute, soldier, infidelity, bittersweet, dishonesty, love and romance, unfulfillment, assassination, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, touching, sexual, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, cheating on husband, sex scene, forbidden love, couples, love affair, extramarital affair, adultery, horny wife, sexually dissatisfied wife, husband wife relationship, sexual intercourse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 109 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, sensual, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, infidelity, wedding, love triangle, forbidden love, courtesan, sex, loss of daughter, ice cream, husband wife relationship, opposites attract, female nudity ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1830s, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
adultery, love affair, deception, greed, couples, family problems, fall in love, dishonesty, society, crumbling marriage, parents and children, affair ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
italy, england, britain, europe, london ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, sex comedy, controversial ...
Plot:
sex addict, sensuality, making love, sex scene, dating, forbidden love, nudity, bachelor, female nudity, writers, relationships, nude girl ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, crying, retro, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
female nudity, infidelity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, looking for sex, extramarital affair, coming of age, promiscuous daughter, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, nudity, domestic abuse ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
36%
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:
spiritual, art house, anthology, powerful, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
suicide, female nudity, minimalism, jealousy, spirituality, spirit, nude girl, social outcast, existentialism, alienation, post war, hamlet ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two unhappy people's lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who's trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love story, true love, middle age romance, couples, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, death, summer, inn, family drama, summer vacation ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, latin america
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, relaxing, sensitive, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
summer, teenage girl, older man young girl relationship, french girl, glamour, age difference, male female relationship, forbidden love, lolita, older man younger woman relationship, countryside, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
35%
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