Movies like Lost Paradise
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Lost Paradise (1997)
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Original name: 失楽園
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The tragic tale of two lovers whose passion burns so intensely it destroys them.
Style:
sexy, art house, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual
Plot:
extramarital affair, love, affair, illicit affair, midlife crisis, love and romance, couples, tragic love, love affair, infidelity, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, dishonesty, unfulfillment, snow, female nudity, subway, cancer, divorce, male nudity, adultery, bare breasts, mannequin, private detective, funeral ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia
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Most similar movies to Lost Paradise
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, couples, love affair, unfulfillment, infidelity, adultery and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Lost Paradise: The Affair (1973), Love Letter (1995), The Phantom Lover (1995), The Prince of Tides (1991), Love Never to End (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer, who becomes her first love.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental
Audience:
date night
Plot:
polio, disability, terminal illness, songwriter, love, lawyer, family relations, couples, couple relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, young lovers ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When exchanging letters two women discover new things about a deceased man they used to know.
Style:
romantic drama, anamorphic, art house, retro, independent film ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
true love, time travel, mountain, postman, illness, hospital, funeral, cold, lost love, unrequited love, library, strong female character ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, hokkaido
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1936 China, a nearly bankrupt drama troupe starts performing in a burned-out theater where the great actor Song Danping was killed. One of the actors, Wei Qing, starts seeing strange apparitions that could revive his troupe and deliver him to the ...
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, sentimental, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love and romance, tragic love, love affair, phantom of the opera, vengeance, unfulfillment, performer's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, actor's life, ghost, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
1930s, 90s
Place:
asia, china
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
Style:
psychological, romantic drama, touching, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
psychiatrist, sexualized violence, love, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, suicide attempt, sexual abuse, women, dysfunctional family, trauma, memory, book ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, southern usa, south carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
He is Kikuji Murao (Etsushi Toyokawa), a former best-selling novelist who has had a decade-long dry spell that has reduced him to university teaching and magazine hackery. After divorcing his wife (Reiko Takashima) and leaving behind his teenage ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom drama, love affair, couples, tragic love, legal, rivalry, destructive relationship, courtroom, death wish, sex, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
31%
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:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, sincere, talky ...
Plot:
love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, destiny, political unrest, state affairs, love and romance, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
26%
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:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
making love, male nudity, outdoor sex, bare breasts, bullfighting, female nudity, romantic relationship, seduction, love, sex scene, infidelity, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, forbidden love, love, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, farm, male female relationship, post war, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe, italy
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, unemployment, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance, couples, friends, love affair, sexual content ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who is dying.
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, sexy
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, infidelity, passion, feeling, bittersweet, love and romance, opposites attract, fall in love, crumbling marriage, aging, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
568
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, romantic drama, sexual ...
Plot:
adultery, fall in love, love triangle, love affair, family relations, couples, parents and children, infidelity, last wish, funeral, love and romance, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, boston, usa, oceania
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In this anthology film centered around the theme of "Eros," five seperate stories are presented by five top Korean directors. The main characters from each segment are connected with each other in one way or another.
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, touching, stylized ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, young lovers, sexual relations, looking for love, love affair, lovers reunited, couple relations, youth, fall in love, teenage love, lifestyle, eroticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
360
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
Style:
stylized, sentimental, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
nazism, love triangle, dangerous attraction, love affair, state affairs, dishonesty, political unrest, society, love and romance, couples, infidelity, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
europe, spain, madrid
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
fall in love, coping, hopes, starting over, love affair, workplace, couples, love and romance, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
Similarity:
21%
819
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, unfulfilled love, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, social differences, tragic love, infidelity, showbiz, love affair, society, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, long island, usa
Similarity:
20%
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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:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the woman he left to instead follow an easier path in life.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, love affair, couples, love, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, children, father in law daughter in law relationship, older man younger woman relationship, breakup ...
Time:
year 2009, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, hong kong, montreal
Similarity:
19%
12K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Italy, UK, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, this visually stunning film tells the story of a French trader who finds unexpected love far away from home.
Style:
romantic, period piece, visually stunning, stylized, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
love story, interracial love relationship, betrayal, passion, travel, unrequited love, life philosophy, smuggling, couple relations, love and romance, adultery, obsession ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era, ancient times, edwardian era ...
Place:
japan, france, europe, asia, africa ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Germany, Hungary
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, sincere, harsh, emotional ...
Plot:
sex, holocaust, sexual harassment, suicide, love triangle, affair, jealousy, nazi, wartime, fascism, unrequited love, manipulation ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
germany, eastern europe, budapest, europe, hungary ...
Similarity:
19%
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734
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This film concerns two mysterious characters who meet on a Sunday in Queens. Madeleine the most unsettling creature of that name since "Vertigo" is a middle-aged, moderately successful actress. Oliver/Matthew is either a homeless man or a ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
diner, homeless, self discovery, hobo, tramp, society, couple relations, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Style:
sexual, intellectual, black and white, depressing, neo noir ...
Plot:
neglected wife, love triangle, flight attendant, adultery, doomed romance, airport, infidelity, love, marriage, mistress, transformation, swing ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, lisbon portugal, europe
Similarity:
19%
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, hopes, love affair, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, breakup, family life, parents separation, couples, family problems, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
hotel room, extramarital affair, impossible love, hotel, adultery, coitus, infidelity, cheating wife, female nudity, nude girl, female pubic hair, secret relationship ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Kohayakawa family is thrown into distress when childlike father Manbei takes up with his old mistress, in one of Ozu’s most deftly modulated blendings of comedy and tragedy.
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, infidelity, family business, dishonesty, parents and children, couples, human nature, love and romance, small business, love, sister sister relationship, extramarital affair ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Rameshchandra Chaudhry, a lawyer by profession, is in love with Hemnalini, and is displeased when he finds that his father wants him to marry Sushilla, the daughter of a widow. He initially refuses despite of his father disowning him, but changes ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious, touching
Plot:
true love, fall in love, unfulfilled love, mistaken identity, family relations, dishonesty, moral dilemma, love and romance, unfulfillment, disorder, parents and children, husband ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
kolkata, india, asia
Similarity:
18%
312
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Tōko Muranushi is married and they have a lovely daughter. She doesn't have any major problems in her life. One day, Tōko meets her former lover, Akihiko Kurata, at a friend's wedding. They haven't seen each other in ten years. ...
Style:
psychological, sexy, tense, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
mature, infidelity, adultery, extramarital affair, couple relations, couples, love, love and romance, lust, gay, gay interest, love triangle ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
18%
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