Movies like The House of Smiles

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The House of Smiles (1991)
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The House of Smiles (1991)
Original name: La casa del sorriso
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.
Style: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot: retirement home life, couples, aging, misfit, human spirit, love and romance, society, elderly lovers, elderly, social relations, power relations, vampire, jealousy, astrology, sexuality, senior citizen, horoscope, dentist, widow, grandmother, bureaucracy, daughter in law, public health, picnic, voyeurism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, society, family relations, love, love affair and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like The House of Smiles: The Last Good Time (1994), Milan (2004), A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982), Picnic (2000), Shelter Me (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Last Good Time (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly.
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, older man younger woman sex, age-gap relationship, starting over, friends, couples, family relations, solace, aging, human nature, hopes, elderly lovers ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: persia, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Milan (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Loving husband Lino is on a mission: His wife, who works as a domestic in Milan, is missing and he's determined to find her. To do so, he enters Italy illegally and takes cover as one of the hundreds of Filipino migrant workers wh make their ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, tagalog ...
Plot: missing person, fall in love, couples, infidelity, society, dangerous attraction, couple relations, love and romance, travel, love, woman, wife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, the philippines, europe, milan italy
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A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Esther Cimino, a music teacher who has reached retirement age, finds that her mental faculties are slipping somewhat. The film is a trenchant, realistic study of the ravages and displacements, socially, physically, and mentally, that are visited ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional
Plot: aging, bondage, courtroom, pianist, family problems, social relations, family relations, legal action, human nature, society, elderly lovers, legal ...
Time: 80s
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61%
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Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: love triangle, love affair, social differences, social relations, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, rivalry, society, friendship, small town, stranger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Shelter Me (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them.
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, lesbian, lgbt, love and romance, immigrant, family relations, couples, society, family life, social differences, eccentric family, factory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, france
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51%
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Intruder (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In childhood and youth, the three were "the inseparables." Luisa married Ángel, then two years later, she left him to marry Ramiro. After ten years, Ángel reappears, back from South America, broke and ill. Luisa is overcome with ...
Style: captivating, psychological, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: love triangle, terminal illness, life is a bitch, tragic hero, unfulfillment, love and romance, friends, couples, unfulfilled love, friendship, best friend, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain
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Cloud 9 (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Style: sincere, atmospheric, realistic, serious, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: elderly lovers, couples, elderly, crumbling marriage, breakup, aging, divorce, funeral, old couple, sexual relations, bittersweet, infidelity ...
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
An Italian Romance (2004)
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, touching, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, love affair, couples, lovers reunited, impossible love, fall in love, relationships, tragic love, betrayal, love interest, male female relationship, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
47%
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Costas (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Drama directed by Paul Cox.
Style: independent film, contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: couples, taxi, love affair, journalism, misfit, love and romance, politics, society, forbidden love, immigrant, political prisoner, immigration ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: australia, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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The Voyage (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's mourning for Antonio ends when Cesar steps in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, tragic love, last wish, love story, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, couples, family relations, unfulfilled love, terminal illness ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1900s
Place: sicily, italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Partition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: interracial relations, sikh, love and romance, forbidden love, fall in love, couples, soldier, society, political unrest, social relations, village, muslim ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: pakistan, india, africa, middle east, south africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Intergirl (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Style: realistic, cynical, serious, touching, art house ...
Plot: prostitute, loveless marriage, couples, society, materialism, marriage for money, family relations, foreigner, culture clash, money, love and romance, starting over ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Hannah Free (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.
Style: sincere, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lgbtq, forbidden love, parents and children, family relations, elderly lovers, nurse patient relationship, lgbt, love and romance, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Reply with Photo (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Latvia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The shy scientist Lars decides to publish a small ad in order to find a girlfriend. From the 218 replies, he selects Brigita, an attractive Latvian woman and invites her to Stockholm. But what actually happens after Brigita's arrival is far ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching
Plot: family relations, disorder, love and romance, couple relations, society, misfit, culture clash, siblings relations, fish out of water, looking for love, brother sister relationship
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: latvia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust Ballroom, a dance hall which recreates the music and atmosphere of the 1940s. There she encounters a most unlikely Prince Charming, ...
Style: contemplative, talky, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: love story, couples, dealing with death, love and romance, aging, elderly, infidelity, bittersweet, makeover, senior citizen, postman, singing ...
Time: future
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41%
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Style: sad, uplifting, inspirational, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: childhood, coming of age, friendship, first love, filmmaking, cinema, nostalgia, haunted by the past, adolescence, breast feeding, village, funeral ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, year 1954 ...
Place: italy, sicily, europe, rome italy, corsica
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Circle of Love (1964)
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, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: world war one, sex, prostitute, soldier, infidelity, bittersweet, dishonesty, lifestyle, assassination, love and romance, unfulfillment, love affair ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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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
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34%
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Coronation (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, contemplative
Plot: obsession, love triangle, love affair, social decay, self discovery, rich and poor, family relations, power relations, elderly, aging, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chile, santiago chile
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34%
The Girl and Death (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Russia, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The Girl and Death tells us the impossible love story of Nicolai and the courtesan Elise. A love obstructed by materialism, wealth and death threat.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, tragic love, unfulfillment, couples, freedom, death threat, past, doctor, impossible love, materialism, love and romance, parallel story ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, 20th century
Place: europe, germany, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Kiss Me Again (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, love affair, infidelity, couple relations, hopes, dishonesty, family life, breakup, parents separation, love and romance, crumbling marriage, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, period piece, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot: railway, mother in law, sister in law, brother in law, class differences, unrequited love, marital infidelity, marriage for money, catholicism, family disapproval, widow, marriage ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, year 1991, victorian era, 20th century ...
Place: italy, england, britain, europe, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Night Catches Us (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: injustice, social relations, homecoming, social differences, haunted by the past, political unrest, society, working class, teenage life, corrupt law enforcer, black, black history ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off ...
Style: sexual, serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: gigolo, older woman younger man relationship, aging, elderly, destructive relationship, age difference, age-gap relationship, trippy, sad ending, vacation, widow, nobility ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: italy, rome italy, america, tennessee, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Bridge to Silence (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman with a hearing problem tries to get het life back together after a car accident that killed her husband.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: deaf, sexual abuse, sign language, family relations, life is a bitch, society, mute or deaf, opposites attract, single parent, misfit, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Playboys (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: love, circus, sin, society, fall in love, small town life, small town, social relations, human nature, pregnancy, beauty, theatrical troupe ...
Time: year 1992, 50s
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Flowers of Evil (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paris-Tehran. A rootless love story between Gecko, young and free, and Anahita, an Iranian woman in exile - tangled up in History and steeped in Internet, unique and spontaneous
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: internet, political unrest, love affair, society, opposites attract, immigrant, unlikely couple, computers and web, love, love and romance, misfit, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, france, paris france, iran, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Green Chariot (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental
Plot: fall in love, moral dilemma, love and romance, society, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, immigrant, misfit, emigration, engagement, identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Little Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patty, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Audience: toddlers
Plot: family relations, couples, couple relations, disorder, youth, misfit, social misfits, society, child abandonment, poverty, adolescence, friendship ...
Place: europe, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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