Movies like The Spectator

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The Spectator (2004)
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The Spectator (2004)
Original name: La spettatrice
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Valeria is a passive onlooker to her own life in Turin, and she grows so obsessed with the activities of her neighbor Massimo that when he moves to Rome she decides to follow him. There she meets and unexpectedly befriends Massimo's companion Flavia, and becomes enmeshed in both of their lives.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, erotic, contemplative
Plot: voyeurism, obsession, love triangle, fall in love, destructive relationship, friendship, forbidden love, stalking, couples, redemption, estrangement, dishonesty, mentally unstable, unfulfillment, unrequited love, neighbor, passion, jealousy, coming of age, age-gap relationship, translator, love and romance, midlife crisis, family problems, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, turin italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and gloomy films with plots about couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, dishonesty, infidelity, family problems and couple relations mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Spectator: The Family Friend (2006), The Miracle (1991), He Loves Me (2011), Summer Clouds (2004), Orphans and Angels (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Family Friend (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other ...
Style: serious, touching, rough, philosophical, neo noir ...
Plot: dishonesty, self destructing, unrequited love, destructive relationship, cons and scams, loneliness, money, down on your luck, obsession, circus, conversation, fall in love ...
Place: europe, italy
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The Miracle (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The two teenagers Jimmy and Rose spend their vacation at the small Irish sea-resort Bray. Out of boredom they observe other people and imagine wild stories about them. One day they observe the blonde Renee, and Jimmy is immediately fascinated by her ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mother son incest, friendship, abandoned by mother, unrequited love, obsession, couples, love and romance, youth, destructive relationship, coming of age, human nature, betrayal ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: ireland, europe
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He Loves Me (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Laura begins to suspect her husband is cheating on her, she is devastated by his infidelity, despite having a torrid affair of her own. While she desperately tries to save her marriage, Laura's mysterious past begins to emerge, making her ...
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, sex scene, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, stalking, dishonesty, memory loss, suburban life, midlife crisis, manipulation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., seattle
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54%
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Summer Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Daniel (Roberto Enríquez), Ana (Natalia Millán), and their little boy, Manuel (Kevin Almodóvar), travel from Madrid to a resort on the Costa Brava for the summer. Ana runs into Marta (Irene Montalà of L'Auberge Espagnole), a local shopgirl ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sexy, sincere, erotic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: seduction, obsession, love triangle, mentally unstable, dishonesty, destructive relationship, family problems, crumbling marriage, friendship, resort, husband wife relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madrid, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Orphans and Angels (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The needy and traumatized Theresa, who was raped when she was fourteen year-old, meets the handsome John on the street after an accident during a performance on the stage of her friend Kim asking for a low-budget hotel. She offers a ride to a nearby ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, sexual
Plot: drug abuse, obsession, haunted by the past, friendship, love affair, couples, mentally unstable, drug dealing, life is a bitch, youth, fall in love, addiction ...
Place: new zealand
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53%
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Adrift (2009)
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 ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, sexual relations, infidelity, forbidden love, self discovery, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, tour guide, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vietnam, asia
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53%
A Perfect Day (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: crumbling marriage, dysfunctional family, obsession, ex husband, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, mentally unstable, losing-it hero, danger, breaking point, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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52%
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Balancing Act (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, tense ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, breakup, life is a bitch, couples, unfulfillment, downfall, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
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52%
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And They Call It Summer (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old ...
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: real sex, prostitute, couple relations, destructive relationship, sexual relations, infidelity, couples, sex aid, dishonesty, swinger couple, female nudity, looking for sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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52%
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Amnesty (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Albania, Greece, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Amnesty is a 2011 Albanian movie directed by Buyar Alimani. It’s a story about two people who meet up in jail when they come for monthly visits of their spouses. They fall in love after becoming witnesses to a wedding in jail but relationship has ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching, erotic ...
Plot: prison, forbidden love, infidelity, love affair, couples, love and romance, couple relations, life is a bitch, fall in love, dishonesty, pardon, legislation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: albania, europe
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52%
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Jealousy (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta ...
Style: sexual, manga, eros, serious, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, male nudity, female nudity, female pubic hair, obsession, factory, truck driver, jealous husband, voyeurism, nudity, wedding, family problems ...
Time: 90s
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52%
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Cherry. (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When Brian Cherry, a sweet, sensitive young Los Angeleno, falls for the beautiful, electric, and damaged Jules, she turns his ideas about women and sex upside-down. Slowly, he is drawn into a twisted love-triangle that includes Jules and his best ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sexy, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, couples, fall in love, best friend, love, friendship, youth, escapades, revenge, love and romance, female pubic hair, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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51%
Signs & Wonders (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Style: serious, realistic, clever, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: infidelity, introspection, love affair, life turned upside down, love triangle, couple relations, crumbling marriage, betrayal, journalism, obsession, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, germany, greece, athens greece
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The Touch (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home.
Style: art house, independent film, realistic, serious, psychological
Plot: infidelity, love affair, crazy love, art, love story, nudity, affair, female nudity, church, wedding ring, hospital, extramarital affair ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, london
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Ploy (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: eroticism, jealousy, love triangle, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, melancholy, dream, depression, hotel room, existential crisis, women ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand
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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: friendship, age difference, senior citizen, couples, friends, human nature, introspection, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, unfulfillment, writer's life ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Morlang (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, a chilling psychological drama. A couple's secret pact takes an unexpected, sinister turn.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: betrayal, art, couple relations, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, vengeance, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, family problems, infidelity, unfulfillment ...
Place: ireland, europe, netherlands, spain
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51%
Those Who Remain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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51%
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Prague (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Christoffer and Maja's trip to Prague to bring back Chistoffer's deceased father, evolves into the story of a brake-up. With the dead father lurking in the background, secrets gradually emerge threatening to destroy their marriage.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love, marriage, family relations, infidelity, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, dishonesty, couples, resentment, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic, denmark, europe, central europe, prague
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The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexy, contemplative, talky ...
Plot: redemption, couples, terminal illness, human spirit, destructive relationship, vengeance, art history, painter, artist, underground, inventions and discoveries, supernatural romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, italy, england, venice
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Pretend I'm Not Here (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Student Eric kills time by spying on his neighbors. Compulsively taking notes on everything within binocular range from his bedroom window, he harasses his neighbors by sending unsigned notes and making their private affairs public. When they ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot: voyeurism, destructive relationship, dangerous attraction, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, mysterious character, teenage life, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, loneliness, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france
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Eva (1962)
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, neo noir, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: writers, lust, girl, music and dance, sex, novelist, nudity, femme fatale, power relations, couples, midlife crisis, infidelity ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: venice, rome italy, europe, italy
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50%
A Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, abusive husband, family problems, family relations, rape, redemption, unfulfillment, love and romance, obsession, infidelity, couples, human nature ...
Time: 50s
Place: new orleans, mississippi, usa
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50%
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Burning Secret (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Burning Secret is a 1988 drama film, based on the short story Brennendes Geheimnis by Stefan Zweig, about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s. The film was written and ...
Style: contemplative, tense, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, sex crime, youth, bonding, boy, jealousy, infatuation, spa, couples, family relations, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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You (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, gloomy
Plot: love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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All Good Children (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After experiencing a tragedy, Irish brothers Dara and Eoin move to rural France, where they become friends with young Bella, whose beauty and charm bewitches the emotionally unstable Dara.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, obsession, teenage love, family relations, youth, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, society, friendship, cat, childhood trauma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, ireland
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50%
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The Nanny (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: nanny, dysfunctional family, single parent, adoption, power relations, master and servant, society, family life, family in crisis, youth, parents and children, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
Place: europe, rome italy
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50%
An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: At the dilapidated country estate of Anna Petrovna Voinitseva, a group of feckless Russian aristocrats whiles away a summer afternoon. Unbeknownst to their respective spouses, local schoolteacher Platonov and the wife of Anna's stepson, Sophia, ...
Style: atmospheric, spiritual, contemplative, talky, thought provoking ...
Plot: midlife crisis, anton chekhov, true love, summer, spirituality, russian empire, dishonesty, unfulfillment, rescue, society, idealism, fall in love ...
Time: year 1977, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia
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50%
Along the Ridge (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot: coming of age, boy, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, single parent, youth, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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50%
July Rhapsody (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love affair, love triangle, moral dilemma, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, midlife crisis, family problems, breakup, youth, fall in love, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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50%
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