Movies like Golden Braid
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Golden Braid (1990)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a man discovers a golden braid hidden inside an antique he has purchased, he becomes obsessed with the fantasy of a love affair from time past and the woman he imagines the braid belonged to.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
obsession, love and romance, estrangement, erotica, masturbation, fetish
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
australia
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Most similar movies to Golden Braid
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and contemplative films with plots about love and romance, couples, love affair, unfulfillment, couple relations, female nudity and fall in love mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Golden Braid: Costas (1979), Man of Flowers (1983), Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013), ...Almost (1990), The Well (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Drama directed by Paul Cox.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
couples, taxi, love affair, forbidden love, journalism, immigrants, society, politics, love and romance, misfit, immigration, greek ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
australia, greece
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An eccentric elderly man tries to enjoy the three things in life that he considers real beauty: collecting art, collecting flowers, and watching pretty women undress.
Style:
art film, sexy, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
art, nude, rich man, performer's life, dull life, couples, longing, love and romance, gender, artists and showbiz, gays and lesbians, introspection ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love and romance, student life, youth, professor, college, society, friendship, age difference, daughter, college life, love
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Romantic comedy that mixes magical realism with traditional Australian urban-outback contrasts. The plot centers on a bored woman (the eponymous Wendy) who conjures up the perfect lover, Jake, while her husband is out on the road suffering comical ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
dreaming, desire, seduction, dull life, couples, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, losing-it hero, dancing ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Young Katherine and her older friend Hester live at the isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to leave that place because there's too much work. Hester, however, gets attracted to Katherine and ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
australian aboriginal, gay, couples, couple relations, heist, countryside, woman in danger, friendship, murder, small town, small town life, strong female presence ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.
Style:
captivating, serious, psychological, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
space travel, military, crumbling marriage, moral dilemma, infidelity, power relations, soldier, space and aliens, love affair, couple relations, cosmonaut, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1961
Place:
russia, kazakhstan, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád.
Style:
gloomy, atmospheric, emotional, sexual, touching ...
Plot:
womanizer, couple relations, haunted by the past, aging, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, flowers, snow, waiter, beer, food ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
India, 1937. Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government officials, young men who find her an ...
Style:
art house, experimental, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
feminist, dancing, women, sensuality, diplomacy, aristocracy, movie actress, male female relationship, sunset, loneliness, piano, female nudity ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
india, france, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
love and romance, obsession, buddies, teenage love, teenage life, best friends, coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, fascism, friends, youth, society ...
Time:
70s
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
contests and competitions, love and romance, youth, couples, family relations, family gatherings, school, self confidence, sex talk, high school, teacher student relationship, fear of commitment ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, lyon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Julia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Julia inexplicably finds herself sliding in time between two different worlds ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, sexy, serious, tense ...
Plot:
time travel, family problems, death in the family, couple relations, dealing with death, infidelity, sexual relations, love affair, love and romance, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, women ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
From the ringing success of Brown Sugar movie, comes Brown Sugar 2 – featuring 3 new erotic short stories from 6 different directors. Each tale focuses on different aspects of love, be it jealousy, betrayal, or plain lust.
Style:
sexy, realistic, surreal, erotic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love affair, love and romance, couples, dishonesty, sexual relations, strong sexual content, nude, blind man, erotica, blindness, omnibus
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane and kills herself.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, sentimental, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, couples, haunted by the past, tragic love, obsession, love affair, fall in love, unfulfillment, longing, cemetery, death, jealousy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.
Style:
stylized, serious, talky, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
love and romance, introspection, fall in love, seaport, unfulfillment, love, women
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sentimental ...
Plot:
countryside, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, haunted by the past, farm, happy ending, flashback, prostitute, society, pimp ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Films like The Virgin of Lust
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A summer vacation in the 70s. Lalo and Bruno are teenagers doing nothing on days full of nothing. But on a hot and humid afternoon, and without asking for permission, Lisa arrives smashing more than the letargy of the town. Thirty years later Lisa ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, friendship, friends, teenage love, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, sex scene, jealousy, youth, love and romance, midlife crisis ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Story:
A musician and a fireman work against certain expectations in order to pursue their respective dreams.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, touching
Plot:
moral dilemma, self discovery, love affair, forbidden love, hopes, musician's life, human nature, love and romance, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, folk ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Antoine Méliot is around 40 years old and has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, two adorable children, friends he can count on, a pretty house in the Yvelines and money. But one day he decides to ruin everything in one weekend.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
disorder, midlife crisis, leaving home, introspection, crumbling marriage, family problems, estrangement, family relations, family life, change of heart, career change, birthday ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, ireland, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
Style:
psychological, neurotic, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
mental illness, insanity, mental disorder, psychosis, therapy, schizophrenia, psychopath, love story, pregnancy, therapist, baby, social misfits ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, Switzerland, Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Based on Ivan Turgenev's novella, Erste Liebe is about two young lovers in czarist Russia. One is a 21-year-old woman, the other a young man of sixteen. Things take a tragic turn as the girl (Dominique Sanda as Sanaida) falls in love with the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
age-gap relationship, love triangle, older man younger woman relationship, family relations, unfulfillment, coming of age, dishonesty, obsession, innocence lost, love and romance, youth, fall in love ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, 19th century
Place:
russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Movies like Suzhou River
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
memory loss, life is a bitch, polish, surgeon, prodigy, daughter, love and romance, healer, losing-it hero, witch doctor, amnesia, village life ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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:
realistic, psychological, serious, stylized, erotic ...
Plot:
obsession, love triangle, wedding, love affair, couple relations, looking for love, siblings relations, couples, love and romance, destructive relationship, power relations, family relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, slasher, sexy ...
Plot:
obsession, prison, losing-it hero, unlikely couple, hidden identity, aging, femme fatale, love and romance, dishonesty, mentally unstable, couples, psychopath ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, africa, france, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
terminal illness, love triangle, friends, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, tragic hero, best friends, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, friendship, jealousy ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her ...
Style:
sexy, tense, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
magic realism, surrealism, girl, prostitute, family relations, estrangement, family problems, power relations, injustice, life is a bitch, youth, confined ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
prostitute, wartime life, fall in love, couples, prostitution, erotica, teenage sex, black market, love and romance, world war two, poker, brothel ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A romantic and funny coming-of-age story. Victor, a 13-year-old boy, is desperately looking for his First Kiss. When that First Kiss comes too close, Victor seeks refuge in his imagination, becoming the Man of Steel who has no emotions, because ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, boy, young lovers, love and romance, superhero, youth, teenage love, fall in love, teenage life, family relations, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot:
forbidden love, rich and poor, fall in love, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, islam
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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:
disorder, family relations, love and romance, misfit, society, fish out of water, culture clash, siblings relations, couple relations, looking for love, brother sister relationship, personal ad
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
latvia, sweden, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
People from diverse social backgrounds, races and ages manage grief through its different phases.
Style:
realistic, talky, serious, experimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
couples, unfulfilled love, love and romance, couple relations, sexual content, unfulfillment, dealing with death
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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