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The Maids (1975)
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The Maids (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.
Style: psychosexual thriller, independent film, realistic, semi serious, detective, gay cinema
Plot: cleaning, worker, murder, obsession, love triangle, betrayal, conspiracy, family relations, destiny, love and romance, couples, social differences, society, siblings relations, dishonesty, master and servant, couple relations, power relations, prison, incest, police officer, police, investigation, female nudity, map ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and period drama films with plots about love and romance, couples, couple relations, infidelity, love, family relations and love triangle mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Maids: Speaking Parts (1989), Women in Love (1969), Falling in Love Again (1980), The Governess (1998), AKA (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Speaking Parts (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, stylized, tech noir ...
Plot: obsession, love triangle, wedding, love affair, couple relations, siblings relations, looking for love, couples, love and romance, power relations, family relations, master and servant ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: canada
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100%
Women in Love (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Close friends Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich begin romances with siblings Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen. After the couples wed, they take a joint honeymoon to Switzerland, where things begin happily -- but they become increasingly complicated as the ...
Style: visual, sexy, erotic, sexual, scenic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, bisexual man, male pubic hair, sex, erotica, love, lgbt, marriage, female nudity, friendship, literary, gay ...
Time: 1920s, year 1969
Place: england, alps, europe, swiss alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Falling in Love Again (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style: sweet, romantic, melancholic, intense, light ...
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, self discovery, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place: usa, bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Governess (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, society, love affair, loss of virginity, nanny, older man younger woman relationship, jewess, couple relations, master and servant, male nudity, love triangle ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1998, 1800s
Place: scotland, england, london, britain, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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AKA (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A story of a disaffected youth's search for love, status, and identity in late 1970s Britain. 18-year old Dean is handsome and bright, but feels hampered by his working-class background and by his family. In order to make something of himself, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: working class, hidden identity, gay, love and romance, couple relations, society, couples, frame up, social differences, lgbt, friendship, gay teenager ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, year 1978
Place: paris france, london, england, oxford university, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
A Summer Story (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A bittersweet tale of lost love, based on a short story ("The Apple Tree") by John Galsworthy.
Style: period piece, independent film, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: age difference, past, fall in love, english countryside, premarital sex, farm, nudity, couples, parents and children, youth, love and romance, family relations ...
Time: 1900s
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Alexander the Last (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: An ensemble drama about a married actress, her sister and their myriad sexual and creative temptations.
Style: mumblecore, serious, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, human nature, family problems, love triangle, artists and showbiz, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, couple relations, actor's life, family relations, couples, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, love triangle, betrayal, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, female protagonist, masturbation, aunt, stealing ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Great Gatsby (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style: captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, social differences, dishonesty, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, yale university, oxford university, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Sun Kissed (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teddy, a young writer, ventures to an isolated desert house to complete his first novel, where he meets and seduces the mysterious caretaker, Leo. Layers of memory and hallucination unfold that intertwine the two men.
Style: surreal, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot: gay, destructive relationship, couple relations, love and romance, master and servant, tragic love, love affair, couples, obsession, dangerous attraction, gays and lesbians, mental illness ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Gabrielle (2005)
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: serious, psychological, emotional, clever, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, letter, adultery, couples, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, suffering, husband wife relationship, betrayal ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Europeans (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Henry James' novel with the same title. It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half ...
Style: historical drama, romantic drama, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: culture clash, couple relations, siblings, american history, marriage, baroness, family relations, love triangle, dysfunctional family, rural setting, unrequited love, autumn ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1979
Place: massachusetts, usa, europe, vienna, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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In Paris (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother, Jonathan. While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his ...
Style: humorous, realistic, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot: wooing, siblings relations, love triangle, lifestyle, infidelity, twentysomething life, unsupportive spouse, love and romance, twins, couples, brother brother relationship, gay ...
Time: year 2006
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Close My Eyes (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.
Style: realistic, serious, sensual, stylized, bleak ...
Plot: incest, forbidden love, brother sister incest, taboo, brother sister relationship, incestuous sex, unfaithful wife, brother sister sex, marriage, couple relations, infidelity, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Seducing Maarya (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Vijay Chatterjee is a lonely widower and a successful restaurateur in Montreal. His thoroughly Westernized son Ashish works at his father's eatery but is more interested in the rock band that he started with his friend Michael. One day, Vijay ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, erotic
Plot: love triangle, interracial relations, social differences, opposites attract, society, couples, family relations, haunted by the past, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Proof (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.
Style: witty, melancholic, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: blind character, blind man, friendship, obsession, disability, photographer, photograph, photography, blindness, loneliness, character study, couples ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: australia, cannes
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Washington Square (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set in 1870's New York, a spinster heiress is courted by a much younger, penniless man, much to the chagrin of her over-protective father, and must decide whether to spend the rest of her life alone, or marry a man who is interested in her only ...
Style: costume drama, romantic, stylized, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love, betrayal, father daughter relationship, american history, gilded age, couple relations, love and romance, feminist, marriage, gay, amor, asexual ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1850s
Place: america, new york, geneva switzerland, alps, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Ethan Frome (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, it is about a husband and wife (Ethan and Zeena), who need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who joins them is a beautiful, ...
Style: emotional, intense, costume drama, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, forbidden love, family relations, dull life, fall in love, love triangle, infidelity, destiny, family drama, true love, love, adultery ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1993, 1800s
Place: usa, massachusetts, america, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to ...
Style: southern gothic, romantic drama, technicolor, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, railroad, dysfunctional family, boarding house, deep south, sad ending, mental disorder, mother and daughter, jazz, swing, revenge, railway ...
Time: 1920s, year 1966, 1930s
Place: mississippi, tennessee, australia, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is ...
Style: historical romance, independent film, erotic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: gypsy, virgin, sensuality, family relations, looking for love, tragic love, small town, adolescence vs adulthood, village, unfulfilled love, social differences, village life ...
Time: 1920s
Place: england, europe, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Damage (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Style: sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: forbidden love, sexuality, adultery, femme fatale, love affair, infidelity, obsession, dangerous attraction, sex, love triangle, passion, fondling ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, palm springs california, paris france, london, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Mansfield Park (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Mansfield Park, poverty-stricken Fanny Price is sent away to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt at Mansfield Park. As she struggles to adapt to her new lifestyle she begins to attract the attentions of suitors, learning about the sexual ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, stylized, witty, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, couples, love and romance, couple relations, class differences, society, fall in love, social differences, unrequited love, unfulfilled love, estate, hypocrisy ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, regency period
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Style: serious, realistic, erotic, costume drama, disturbing ...
Plot: social differences, infidelity, cheating on husband, master and servant, love affair, obsession, society, couples, love and romance, couple relations, power relations, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 1920s, edwardian era
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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XX/XY (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of ...
Style: melancholic, intense, psychological, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, infidelity, threesome, friendship, love triangle, betrayal, loneliness, complex characters, college, haunted by the past, buddies, couple relations ...
Time: year 2002, year 1993, 90s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Anna Karenina (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Style: serious, emotional, psychological, realistic, epic ...
Plot: infidelity, betrayal, tragic love, love triangle, family relations, tragic hero, tragedy, destructive relationship, fall in love, unsupportive spouse, forbidden love, love affair ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Heart of Me (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfaithful husband, forbidden love ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Déjà Vu (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: L.A. shop owner Dana and Englishman Sean meet and fall in love at first sight, but Sean is married and Dana is to marry her business partner Alex.
Style: romantic, romantic drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: destiny, love, true love, storytelling, death, memory, adultery, stranger, ruby, infidelity, couples, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 1997
Place: paris france, middle east, london, israel, montmartre paris ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Red Thread (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.
Style: sexy, romantic, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Plot: flight attendant, passion, love triangle, marriage, unfaithful wife, relationships, sex scene, true love, couples, love and romance, love interest, love story ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, looking for love, couples, disorder, human nature, nothing goes right, siblings relations, parents and children, male female relationship ...
Time: year 2006
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The End of the Affair (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his ...
Style: romantic, erotic, intellectual, heartbreaking, enigmatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, obsessive love, obsession, infidelity, jealousy, love affair, private detective, passion, betrayal, sex scene, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1940s, year 1999, 1930s, 20th century, year 1946
Place: london, england, brighton, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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