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The Spectator (2004)
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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, older woman younger man relationship, female pubic hair, passion, jealousy, coming of age, age-gap relationship, translator, love and romance, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
italy, europe, turin italy, rome italy
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Most similar movies to The Spectator
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and gloomy films with plots about couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, infidelity, dishonesty, family problems and crumbling marriage mostly in Drama and War genres. Some movies like The Spectator: The Family Friend (2006), He Loves Me (2011), Orphans and Angels (2003), A Perfect Day (2008), Amnesty (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, cynical, rough, philosophical ...
Plot:
dishonesty, self destructing, unrequited love, destructive relationship, cons and scams, marital infidelity, loneliness, down on your luck, obsession, money, money lender, married woman ...
Place:
europe, italy
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100%
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:
sex scene, midlife crisis, love affair, family relations, couples, family problems, unfulfillment, stalking, dishonesty, suburban life, memory loss, manipulation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., seattle
Similarity:
53%
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:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspense, sexual ...
Plot:
drug abuse, obsession, friendship, love affair, haunted by the past, youth, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, drug dealing, fall in love, addiction, couples ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
52%
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:
serious, realistic, suspense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
crumbling marriage, dysfunctional family, losing-it hero, obsession, ex husband, life is a bitch, breaking point, parents and children, mentally unstable, danger, family problems, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
52%
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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:
realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
prison, forbidden love, love affair, fall in love, dishonesty, love and romance, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, pardon, legislation, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
albania, europe
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a rural family's inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape.
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
estrangement, human nature, extramarital affair, adultery, family life, coming of age, farm, love and romance, unfulfillment, cheating wife, deaf, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
51%
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, psychological, realistic, serious
Plot:
infidelity, love affair, nudity, affair, female nudity, extramarital affair, wedding ring, archaeologist, church, physician, hospital, art ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, london
Similarity:
51%
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:
couple relations, looking for sex, prostitute, swinger couple, destructive relationship, infidelity, sexual relations, couples, dishonesty, nudity, double life, sex with prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
51%
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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:
couple relations, closeted lesbian, lgbt, couples, infidelity, sexual relations, self discovery, forbidden love, unfulfillment, family problems, estrangement, tour guide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
50%
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, psychological, sexy, independent film ...
Plot:
love triangle, couples, fall in love, best friend, love, friendship, escapades, revenge, youth, love and romance, male female relationship, generation y ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A suburban housewife uses a hidden camera to compulsively record everyone around her.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
self discovery, voyeurism, love affair, dysfunctional family, dishonesty, estrangement, dull life, love and romance, single parent, crumbling marriage, obsessive quest, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
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:
sexual, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, age difference, senior citizen, friends, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, writer's life, couple relations, human nature, fall in love, introspection ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 1920s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, california, tokyo
Similarity:
50%
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, life turned upside down, love affair, love triangle, dishonesty, journalism, crumbling marriage, couple relations, destructive relationship, obsession, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, france, greece, athens greece
Similarity:
50%
482
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:
serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot:
betrayal, couple relations, art, haunted by the past, family problems, couples, dishonesty, vengeance, love and romance, crumbling marriage, infidelity, unfulfillment ...
Place:
ireland, europe, netherlands, spain
Similarity:
50%
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:
realistic, serious, sexy, contemplative, talky ...
Plot:
redemption, couples, terminal illness, human spirit, destructive relationship, vengeance, art history, artist, painter, underground, inventions and discoveries, wish come true ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, london, england, venice
Similarity:
49%
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, sexual ...
Plot:
voyeurism, destructive relationship, dangerous attraction, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, mysterious character, teenage life, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, menage a trois, loneliness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
49%
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:
marriage, love, infidelity, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, resentment, couples, parents and children, dishonesty, unfulfillment, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
czech republic, denmark, europe, central europe, prague
Similarity:
49%
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, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A successful author, Liz, searches for her daughter, Rachel, in the Sinai Desert. There she meets a Bedouin storyteller who relays the unusual love story of a Western tourist and the son of a Bedouin Sheik named Najim. Their relationship is torn ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love affair, culture clash, haunted by the past, forbidden love, estrangement, couples, family problems, missing child, parents and children, on the run, danger, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
49%
184
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, psychological, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a twenty-two year old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life. Gregorio has been in and out of mental hospitals for ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, sexual, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
betrayal, love triangle, haunted by the past, couples, destructive relationship, human nature, rivalry, youth, dishonesty, life is a bitch, friendship, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
49%
603
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, realistic, sincere, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, adoption, politics, power relations, babies and infants, society, master and servant, single parent, love and romance, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, rome italy
Similarity:
49%
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 relations, family problems, love and romance, obsession, unfulfillment, redemption, infidelity, couples, rape, human nature ...
Time:
50s
Place:
new orleans, mississippi, usa
Similarity:
49%
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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:
serious, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
love affair, love triangle, moral dilemma, infidelity, couples, breakup, tragic love, love and romance, family problems, teachers and students, midlife crisis, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
49%
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:
true love, midlife crisis, anton chekhov, lost love, spirituality, summer, russian history, destructive relationship, rescue, fall in love, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1977, victorian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Bologna 1938 - Michele Casali (Silvio Orlando) is living a desperate situation: Giovanna (Alba Rohrwacher), his only child, a teenager, has killed out of jealousy his classmate and best friend. Within the middle-class environment in which the crime ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
mental institution, estrangement, parents and children, confined, family problems, family relations, couples, isolation, unfulfillment, father daughter relationship, murder, love ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
49%
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, couples, life is a bitch, downfall, unfulfillment, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
betrayal, jealousy, infidelity, dysfunctional family, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, couples, family problems, clergy, countryside ...
Time:
year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
Similarity:
48%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
high society, alcoholism, girl, alcohol abuse, performer's life, strong female presence, unfulfillment, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, society, betrayal, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, versailles
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Robert is an art photographer who is totally controlled by his wife Hallie. When they go on vacation in New York, they leave their house to their friends, Zack and Sophie. When they return, they find their house a total mess, but Zack and Sophie ask ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
tragic love, sex crime, profanity, sexual content, destructive relationship, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love and romance, master and servant, vengeance, dull life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york, california, los angeles
Similarity:
48%
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