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Gabrielle (2005)
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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: psychological, serious, clever, emotional, realistic, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, crying, beautiful ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, adultery, letter, couples, family problems, love and romance, dishonesty, power relations, betrayal, husband wife relationship, suffering, love triangle, forgiveness, psychopath, high society, girl, existentialism, cuckold, society, crumbling marriage, master and servant, couple relations, bourgeoisie, love ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005, contemporary
Place: france, paris france, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and psychological films with plots about couples, infidelity, love and romance, couple relations, husband wife relationship, love affair and adultery mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Gabrielle: Late August, Early September (1998), Separate Lies (2005), Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002), Valmont (1989), La séparation (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Late August, Early September (1998)
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 ...
Style: talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france
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100%
Separate Lies (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A cyclist is killed, swiped by a Range Rover in a village lane. James and Anne Manning become involved because the victim is the husband of their cleaner, Maggie. James, a solicitor in the city, soon comes to suspect William Bule, a millionaire ...
Style: suspense, emotional, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: murder, infidelity, depression, twists and turns, family problems, investigation, crumbling marriage, society, introspection, love and romance, betrayal, drinking alcohol ...
Time: year 2005
Place: london, england, europe, paris france
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100%
Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Style: emotional, serious, psychological, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, cheating wife, parents and children, love triangle, polyamory ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: marseille, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Valmont (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style: stylized, period piece, sensual, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: betrayal, virginity, seduction, manipulation, infidelity, virgin, tragedy, hypocrisy, couple relations, wager, love triangle, love ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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La séparation (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: betrayal, adultery, dysfunctional family, infidelity, unfaithful wife, cuckold, family life, lovers reunited, crumbling marriage, breakup, estrangement, couples ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Adapted from a story by William Irish, it's a noirish tale of a man who orders a mail-order bride but receives instead a con woman.
Style: neo noir, suspense, anthology, serious, realistic ...
Plot: femme fatale, nudity, mail order bride, murder, plantation, marriage, love story, bdsm, female villain, time travel, dangerous women, american south ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, mississippi, nice france, lyon, europe ...
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100%
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Parade's End (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 287 min.
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Story: In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second son of the lord of the manor of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate, Tory statistician in ...
Style: serious, realistic, clever, period piece, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war one, high society, crumbling marriage, love triangle, adultery, unfaithful wife, couple relations, lovers, estate, couples, love and romance, marriage ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
Plot: gay, art, lgbt, painting, painter, lgbtq, transvestism, gays and lesbians, transgender, drinking, death, marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe, egypt, cambodia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Madame Bovary (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, sexy, costume drama, intense ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, literature, family life, tragic hero, village life, life is a bitch, village, love affair, hopes, destructive relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1991, 1850s
Place: normandy, france, europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Love After Love (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.
Style: contemplative, thought provoking, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, adultery, couples, dark humor, family problems, breakup, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, love and romance, dishonesty, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards ...
Style: erotic, touching, emotional, colorful, atmospheric ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love triangle, love, tragedy, love story, nude girl, love and romance, dishonesty, unfulfilled love, love affair, fall in love ...
Place: italy, europe, france, new york, paris france ...
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37%
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Loulou (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This 1980 French film features Isabelle Huppert as a restless young woman who ditches her boring, tempramental boyfriend for a wild, leather-clad bad boy (played by an incandescent, youthful Gerard Depardieu).
Style: erotic, romantic, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: sexual relations, sensuality, affair, amor, advertising agency, infidelity, abusive husband, drunk, class differences, disco, couples, society ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Trout (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two wealthy suitors.
Style: neo noir, realistic, psychological, semi serious, cynical ...
Plot: married woman, menage a trois, husband murders wife, lgbt, nudity, female pubic hair, female nudity, husband wife relationship, rise to the top, domestic disturbance, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: japan, france, europe, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An intricately plotted tale of thwarted love and betrayal, "The Golden Bowl" tells the story of an extravagantly rich American widower and his sheltered daughter, both of whom marry only to discover that their respective mates, a beautiful ...
Style: period piece, serious, stylized, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, greed, deception, marriage for money, family problems, couples, society, fall in love, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, parents and children ...
Time: edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 20th century
Place: england, italy, britain, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Married Woman (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A superficial woman has conflict between choosing her abusive husband and her vain lover.
Style: black and white, sensual, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, society, in love, birth control, nudity, magazine, sexual pleasure, sandstorm, married, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, betrayal ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Sentimental Destinies (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 180 min.
Story: In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: family business, factory, love affair, social differences, divorce, society, fall in love, crumbling marriage, couples, tragic love, clergy, world war one ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929
Place: switzerland, france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Torrents of Spring (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexual, clever, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, love, erotica, renaissance, estate, betrayal, love triangle, power relations, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, femme fatale ...
Time: 19th century, year 1989
Place: eastern europe, europe, germany, russia, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Empty Days (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot: infidelity, unemployment, friendship, society, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, life is a bitch, friends, couples, love affair, sexual content ...
Time: 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Cactus (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: blind character, blindness, infidelity, nudity, blind man, husband wife relationship, premarital sex, sexual attraction, adultery, extramarital affair, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Elective Affinities (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's attraction to someone.
Style: emotional, gloomy, serious, realistic
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, infidelity, age difference, young love, unfaithful wife, pregnancy, death of husband, cheating wife, comedy of manners, husband wife relationship, divorce ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: europe, africa, italy, tuscany, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
Swann in Love (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: duchess, love and romance, erotica, sensuality, lovers, fantomas, star crossed lovers, jealousy, obsession, prostitute, french president, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Kiss Me Again (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, love affair, infidelity, couple relations, hopes, dishonesty, family life, breakup, parents separation, love and romance, crumbling marriage, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Last Mistress (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Style: erotic, serious, stylized, realistic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, infidelity, opposites attract, courtesan, forbidden love, manipulation, destructive relationship, dishonesty, couples, tragic love, love affair, looking for love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 2000s, 1830s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Bridge (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, emotional, semi autobiographical
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love triangle, midlife crisis, looking for love, parents and children, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Where Am I Going? (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
Style: romantic, erotic, neorealism, spiritual, contemplative ...
Plot: female nudity, eroticism, love triangle, italian neorealism, affair, sensuality, american civil war, spirit, suicide, aristocrat, pregnancy, nudity ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, turn of the century, 1890s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Too Beautiful for You (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before ...
Style: talky, cynical, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, bittersweet, sexuality, adultery, marriage, love triangle, infidelity, pleasure, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Happiness (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
Style: art house, anthology, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, french countryside, love, summer, adultery, bittersweet, love triangle, cheating, family relations, daily life, new love ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Madame Bovary (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Belgium, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The classic story of Emma Bovary, the beautiful wife of a small-town doctor in 19th century France, who engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status.
Style: period piece, costume drama, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: adultery, bored housewife, couples, infidelity, love affair, tragic hero, social relations, dull life, crumbling marriage, society, dishonesty, village life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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