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Late August, Early September (1998)
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Late August, Early September (1998)
Original name: Fin août, début septembre
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a lover that no longer loves you: a film about grown-ups growing up.
Style: emotional, talky, melancholic, ironic, meditative, lyrical, psychological, serious, depressing, tense ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, couples, depression, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, older man younger woman relationship, brother brother relationship, infidelity, multiple storylines, drinking alcohol, death, hospital, guilt, erotica, coming of age, damsel in distress, friends ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 1990s
Place: france, paris france, tokyo
Keyword: french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and contemplative films with plots about couples, love and romance, friendship, friend, drinking, couple relations and kiss mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Late August, Early September: The Mother and the Whore (1973), Alice and Martin (1998), Starting Out in the Evening (2007), L'ennui (1998), Julie Walking Home (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 217 min.
Story: In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous ...
Style: sexual, thought provoking, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot: sex scene, cafe, prostitute, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, tragic love, love affair, lifestyle, against the rules ...
Time: 20th century, year 1973, 60s, 70s
Place: france, paris france, new york, europe, vienna ...
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Alice and Martin (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 124 min.
Story: At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains ...
Style: melancholic, enigmatic, emotional, psychological, romantic ...
Plot: secrets, betrayal, loneliness, love and romance, haunted by the past, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship, male model, older woman younger man relationship, lgbt, gay, sex scene ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style: realistic, touching, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation, masseuse, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
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My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 178 min.
Story: Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gynecological exam, cancer, infidelity, friendship, unfaithfulness, female pubic hair, unhappiness, seduction, female nudity, extramarital affair, adultery, sex ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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L'ennui (1998)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to ...
Style: erotic, psychological, sexy, psycho sexual, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, obsession, older man younger woman relationship, sex scene, older man younger woman sex, female nudity, teacher, erotica, midlife crisis, rough sex, depression, sexuality ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, france
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Julie Walking Home (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: cheating wife, true love, cancer, infidelity, hopes, betrayal, family relations, human nature, danger, survival, dishonesty, couples ...
Place: poland, nova scotia, holland, europe, canada
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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
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Full Speed (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling ...
Style: erotic, contemplative, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, glbt, best friend, betrayal, youth, friendship, love triangle, racism, homosexuality ...
Time: 90s
Place: lyon, france, europe, new york, algeria ...
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The Idol (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: No Overview
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, touching, sexual
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, love affair, friendship, couples, elderly, couple relations, love and romance, intrigue, dishonesty, terminal illness, suicidal thoughts, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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His Brother (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thomas has been estranged from his brother Luc for several years, due in part to his difficulties in dealing with Luc's homosexuality. But when Thomas is diagnosed with a rare blood disease, which is difficult to treat and impossible to cure, ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, homosexual, life is a bitch, family problems, lgbt, male pubic hair, male nudity, reconciliation, parents and children, human nature, brother brother relationship, suffering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
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Come Undone (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy Mathieu is 18-years-old and on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning ...
Style: emotional, touching, meditative, lyrical, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, depression, suicide attempt, male nudity, teenage life, gay teenager, first gay sexual experience, youth, gay romance, dysfunctional family, love affair, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: south of france, europe, frankfurt germany, brittany
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Clean (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After losing her husband to a heroin overdose, Emily Wang fights to overcome her own addictions and to be reconciled with her estranged son.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, drug overdose, prison, redemption, road trip, loneliness, life is a bitch, going straight, rock star, musician's life, custody, estranged son ...
Time: year 2004
Place: paris france, ontario canada, vancouver, canada, france ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, family relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, rebelliousness, parents and children, unfulfillment, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time: 70s, year 1994, year 1972
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Friends of painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The dozen travelers include art historian François and his lover Louis, who develops an interest in ...
Style: erotic, sexy, talky, realistic, psychological ...
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Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe, egypt, cambodia ...
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A Brief Vacation (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan contracts ...
Style: neorealism, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mountain, female nudity, quarantine, social injustice, medical, tuberculosis, friendship, factory, family problems, family relations, couples, friends ...
Time: 70s
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His Secret Life (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: gay, friendship, aids, gay relationship, infidelity, adultery, transsexual, marriage, depression, self discovery, relationships, gays and lesbians ...
Place: london, amsterdam, milan italy, rome italy, istanbul turkey
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Kings and Queen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: terminal illness, adoption, family relations, parents and children, destiny, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, musician's life, life is a bitch, couples, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: france, paris france
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The Witnesses (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Manu arrives in Paris, in the early days of AIDS, at the beginning of the 1980s. He strikes up a friendship with Adrien, a wealthy doctor in his early fifties, who introduces him to Sarah and Mehdi, a young couple.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, sentimental, erotic ...
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Place: paris france, munich germany, lyon, marseille, france ...
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Somersault (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sexy, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, teenager, mother daughter relationship, self discovery, teenage life, unfaithfulness, runaway, love and romance, youth, dysfunctional family, visceral, solitude ...
Time: year 2004
Place: australia, new south wales
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The River (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, love and romance, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, hopes, introspection, gays and lesbians ...
Place: finland
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The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to ...
Style: realistic, touching, depressing, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, working class, coma, love and romance, depression, loneliness, society, youth, life is a bitch, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, flanders
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Beloved/Friend (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on a work of Josep Maria Benet i Jornet entitled "Testament", the film tells the story of an aging professor of medieval literature with the dilemma of deciding who will inherit his essay on "The Book of friend and loved" ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, crying
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, pregnancy, midlife crisis, friendship, terminal illness, best friend, friends, couples, infidelity, sexual relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, barcelona
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Saturn in Opposition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, ...
Style: sincere, talky, realistic, serious, clever ...
Plot: gay, friendship, gays and lesbians, couple relations, lgbt, infidelity, family problems, introspection, terminal illness, dealing with death, dinner party, bereavement ...
Place: rome italy, italy
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Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's ...
Style: psychological, stylized, tense, harsh, realistic ...
Plot: kidnapping, friendship, parents and children, unlikely criminals, human nature, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, hopes, complex characters, betrayal, family drama ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa, france, new york, andalusia, paris france ...
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Clara and Me (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot: couples, introspection, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, parents and children, midlife crisis, lovers reunited, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, paris france
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Little Lili (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, touching, erotic ...
Plot: filmmaking, older man younger woman relationship, actor's life, love triangle, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, obsession, unfulfilled love, infidelity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: france, brittany
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Springtime in a Small Town (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong, France, Netherlands
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband.
Style: thought provoking, serious, sentimental, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, small town, human nature, love and romance, couples, couple relations, introspection, crumbling marriage, lovers reunited, small town life, unfulfilled love, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s
Place: china, asia, shanghai
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Rendez-vous (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous ...
Style: erotic, sexy, art house, anthology, noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: oral sex, sex scene, forbidden love, love triangle, public nudity, promiscuous woman, porn actor, sexual promiscuity, male nudity, female masturbation, erotica, making love ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: paris france, france, europe
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To Have (Or Not) (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic ...
Plot: hotel, depression, loneliness, fired from the job, seduction, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, drug overdose, interracial relations, male female relationship, factory, job seeking ...
Place: lyon
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