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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, stylized, gloomy, contemplative
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, 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, love affair, unfulfillment and love triangle mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Gabrielle: Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002), Valmont (1989), Parade's End (2012), Love After Love (1992), La séparation (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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: extramarital affair, fall in love, family problems, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, couple relations, infidelity, cheating wife, parents and children, love triangle ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: marseille, france, europe
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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, sexy, realistic, clever, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: betrayal, virginity, seduction, manipulation, infidelity, virgin, tragedy, hypocrisy, couple relations, wager, love triangle, obsession ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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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, stylized, retro
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war one, crumbling marriage, love triangle, adultery, high society, lovers, couple relations, estate, marriage, couples, love and romance, countryside ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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100%
Love After Love (1992)
Genre: 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: serious, psychological, realistic, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: adultery, family problems, couples, dark humor, love triangle, breakup, midlife crisis, infidelity, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
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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: sexy, erotic, psychological, realistic, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, art, lgbt, painter, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, transvestism, transsexual, marriage, male nudity, writers, death ...
Time: 70s, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe, egypt, cambodia ...
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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, sexy, allegory, poignant, affectionate ...
Plot: betrayal, adultery, infidelity, dysfunctional family, writers, fantasy world, catastrophe, life & death, loneliness, humanity, crime gone awry, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, paris france, argentina, europe
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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: melancholic, sexy, realistic, intense, romantic ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, village, husband wife relationship, family relations, literature, family life, village life, tragic hero, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, love affair ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 1850s, 70s ...
Place: normandy, france, london, europe, switzerland
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53%
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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, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: sexual relations, affair, sensuality, cult, advertising agency, infidelity, drunk, class differences, disco, couple relations, love and romance, opposites attract ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, sexy, realistic, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot: married woman, husband murders wife, lgbt, female nudity, menage a trois, husband wife relationship, couples, dishonesty, domestic disturbance, rise to the top, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 80s
Place: japan, france, europe, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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: art house, serious, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: love triangle, society, birth control, magazine, sandstorm, married, dull life, family problems, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, lifestyle ...
Time: 1940s, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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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, touching, captivating, gloomy
Plot: family business, factory, love affair, forbidden love, social differences, divorce, society, couples, crumbling marriage, infidelity, fall in love, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929
Place: switzerland, france, paris france, europe
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49%
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, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, dishonesty, couple relations, hopes, infidelity, love affair, love and romance, human nature, crumbling marriage, family life, breakup, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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: realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy, touching ...
Plot: friendship, infidelity, unemployment, society, love and romance, dishonesty, life is a bitch, friends, couples, fall in love, love affair, sexual content ...
Time: 90s
Place: france
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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: sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, love, erotica, estate, betrayal, love triangle, power relations, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, master and servant, society ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia, germany, europe, venice
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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, clever ...
Plot: love affair, love triangle, family relations, infidelity, couples, betrayal, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
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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: serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional, semi autobiographical
Plot: fall in love, infidelity, parents and children, forbidden love, love affair, looking for love, midlife crisis, love triangle, couple relations, opposites attract, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, normandy
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47%
Chloe in the Afternoon (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The last of Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but ...
Style: clever, art house, talky, serious, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: female nudity, marriage, love, love affair, infidelity, love and romance, relationships, crazy love, psychology, affair, divorce, nude ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Heartbeat (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The mistress (Catherine Deneuve) of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
Style: realistic, serious, stylized
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, seduction, older man young girl relationship, mistress, wealth, love affair, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, social differences, tragic love, crumbling marriage, couple relations ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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, sexy, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: infidelity, opposites attract, femme fatale, courtesan, forbidden love, manipulation, dishonesty, couples, looking for love, destructive relationship, love affair, tragic love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1830s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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: serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, infidelity, age difference, pregnancy, female nudity, extramarital affair, sex, adultery, husband wife relationship, divorce, cheating wife, death of husband ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, africa, italy, tuscany, venice ...
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47%
A Gentle Woman (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
Style: art house, captivating, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: suicide, female nudity, jealousy, loan shark, alienation, social outcast, existentialism, post war, memories, male female relationship, memory, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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47%
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: serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: bored housewife, adultery, couples, infidelity, love affair, village, tragic hero, crumbling marriage, society, dull life, social relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: france, europe
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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: emotional, psychological, realistic, sexy, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: murder, infidelity, suspense, depression, twists and turns, family problems, investigation, society, crumbling marriage, introspection, love and romance, betrayal ...
Place: london, england, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Beyond the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy
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, colourful, atmospheric ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love triangle, love, tragedy, love story, nude girl, love affair, unfulfilled love, love and romance, dishonesty, filmmaking ...
Place: europe, italy, berlin germany, france, paris france ...
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46%
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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: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: blind character, infidelity, blindness, blind man, nude, husband wife relationship, premarital sex, sexual attraction, adultery, female nudity, extramarital affair, disability ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Lacemaker (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The internationally produced The Lacemaker (La Dentelliere) stars Isabelle Huppert as Pomme, a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. Here Huppert becomes the lover of middle-class ...
Style: sad, art house, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: first love, female nudity, mental disorder, character study, young lovers, mental institution, social differences, young woman, society, love and romance, youth, unfulfillment ...
Time: 70s
Place: normandy, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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: emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, romantic ...
Plot: gay, life is a bitch, family problems, lgbt, reconciliation, parents and children, human nature, brother brother relationship, homosexual, suffering, terminal illness, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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: erotic, romantic, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot: female nudity, eroticism, love triangle, suicide, affair, sensuality, aristocrat, pregnancy, infidelity, adultery, extramarital affair, mistress ...
Time: 19th century, turn of the century, 1890s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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, serious, psychological, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, murder, betrayal, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, dishonesty, female protagonist, masturbation, aunt, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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: sexy, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: duchess, love and romance, erotica, isolation, sensuality, jealousy, obsession, prostitute, couples, power relations, gender, femme fatale ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%