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Valley of Love (2015)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Death Valley, which will make the son reappear.
Style:
captivating
Plot:
death valley, separated parents, death of son, death, swimming pool, vegetarian, suicide attempt, ex husband ex wife relationship, desert, loss of son, mysticism, parents and children, divorced parents, hotel, restaurant, suicide, dream, motel, hotel room, bare chested male, life & death, dog, cancer, fear, heat wave ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014
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Most similar movies to Valley of Love
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, captivating and atmospheric films with plots about death, family relations, kiss, parents and children, murder, husband wife relationship and death of son mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Romance genres. Some movies like Valley of Love: About Joan (2022), Under the Sun of Satan (1987), Tears Were Falling (1983), A Blind River (2009), Moka (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Overwhelmed when a figure from her past reemerges, Joan Verra retreats to the countryside with her son Nathan. There she experiences fragmented recollections of her past romantic encounters.
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
death of son, swimming pool, wife leaves husband, octopus, gas station, grave, sea, pregnant woman, blood, husband wife relationship, loss of son, cemetery ...
Place:
paris france, dublin ireland
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
Style:
sad, controversial, spiritual, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
religion, priest, forbidden love, catholic, religious, spirituality, god, ghost, miraculous event, redemption, supernatural, suicide ...
Time:
year 1987, 1920s
Place:
france
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Once an evil inventor created a mirror, "in which everything that was kind and good disappeared, and everything that was bad and obscene was reflected and seemed even worse". The students of the evil professor did a lot of evil with the ...
Style:
allegory, folk tale, bleak, tragicomedy, grim ...
Plot:
family relations, symbolism, redemption, magic realism, transformation, melancholy, curse, family drama, male protagonist, satire, social commentary, paranoia ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Seong-chan, aka Lucas Fedora, rejects his girlfriend's proposal to get married and start a family of their own and leaves her to return to Korea and find his biological mother. He checks into a run down motel owned by two widows who have demons ...
Style:
emotional, tense, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
adoption, introspection, self discovery, disorder, haunted by the past, misfit, obsessive quest, parents and children, fish out of water, hotel, family relations, birth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
79%
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1K
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
private detective, psychology, death, stepfather, revenge seeker, swimming pool, hotel, dancing, female protagonist, vengeance, grief, nightclub ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Portugal, Spain, France, Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A magical tale about a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have, except in his dreams. Late one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last photograph of a young bride, Angelica, who mysteriously ...
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, emotional, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
photograph, photographer, hotel, loss of daughter, death in the family, family relations, mental disorder, ghost, fall in love, photography, couples, death ...
Time:
20th century, year 2010, 50s
Place:
portugal, europe
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An extremely mannered and increasingly preposterous tale of a fortysomething woman who has to deal with an abusive, double-dealing husband and a handsome, soap-actor lover who seems to be too good to be true.
Style:
captivating, black and white
Plot:
little girl, mother daughter relationship, parent child relationship, single mother, mother and son, family relations, relationships, mother and daughter, parents and children, bare chested male, female nudity, catacomb ...
Place:
naples italy
Similarity:
62%
434
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands, Greece
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young couple employed by a pet crematorium finds fulfilment in respectfully removing cadavers. Their love blossoms in an environment where the boundaries between human and animal are fading. When they hit a stray dog, their relationship starts to ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
existentialism, dead animal, mortality, couples, death of pet, animal death, loss of pet, animal human communication, life & death, social problems, animal lover, pets ...
Similarity:
62%
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336
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a ...
Style:
contemplative, psychological, existential, art house, meditative ...
Plot:
dog, forest, hunting, hunter, lost, wilderness, nature, loneliness, isolation, disorientation, character study, wanderer ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother-Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert... the big town!
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, psychotronic, art house ...
Plot:
surrealism, desert, oedipus complex, torture, coming of age, unsettling, magic realism, peeping, overprotective mother, human relationship, incest, epilepsy ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style:
philosophical, artsy, surreal, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
childhood, philosophy, spirituality, existentialism, coming of age, death, father son relationship, hopes, parenthood, religion, grief, family relations ...
Time:
1950s, year 2011, prehistory, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
texas, southern usa, america, usa, china
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
At the brink of going to hell, Yee-jae must cycle through twelve separate lives and twelve separate deaths in this reincarnation drama.
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful
Plot:
death, reincarnation, punishment, suicide, afterlife, survival, grim reaper, life & death, life, graphic violence, cancer, children ...
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, ...
Style:
surreal, art house, cerebral, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
surrealism, life & death, existentialism, creativity, obsession, multiple storylines, trippy, hidden identity, unfulfillment, power relations, lifestyle change, male nudity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, seattle, tokyo
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When David Wilson's young wife falls victim to cancer, he is left a single working dad with the sole responsibility of caring for his sixth grade son with autism. Patrick, who prefers to be called 'Po,' is a gifted but challenged ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, captivating, touching
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
autism, wife, middle school, cancer, parent child relationship, boy, mental disorder, family relations, parents and children, life philosophy, disorder, friendship ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Style:
lyrical, road movie, depressing, sad, suspenseful ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
death of son, sex scene, investigation, depression, grieving mother, death of child, death, grieving, murderer, mother and son, murder mystery, justice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, mississippi, new orleans, louisiana, birmingham alabama ...
Similarity:
49%
508
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Joseph learns that his son and his companion have just perished in an accident. They were expecting a child via a surrogate mother in Belgium. What will become of their future baby? Is Joseph the legitimate grandfather? Carried by the promise of ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, gay subtext, lgbt, excavation, lawyer, newborn baby, looking for someone, funeral, childbirth, car, death of son, cycling ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, family relations, supernatural ability, supernatural, obsession, siblings relations, death in the family, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, crumbling marriage, nanny ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, offbeat
Plot:
supernatural, afterlife, family relations, writer's life, parents and children, dealing with death, unfulfillment, death in the family, alternate reality, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, novelist ...
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
After an affair with a queen leads to his demise, an eager traveler encounters a mystical bird with the power to give him another life.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, folk tale, emotional ...
Plot:
death, supernatural, african, rebirth, supernatural being, adventure hero, problem, mysticism, mythical creature, betrayal, spirituality, tragedy ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It all starts at daybreak, three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence is little more than an illusion. ...
Style:
suspense, touching, suspenseful, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
hospital, surfing, heart, surfer, multiple storylines, death, doctor, death of son, surgeon, surgery, lgbt, danger ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d'Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.
Style:
biting, gothic horror, ambiguous ending
Plot:
vampire, blood, forest, male nudity, musket, white horse, dog, fire, loss of son, death of son, horse, death of family ...
Time:
18th century
Similarity:
43%
20K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
Style:
psychological, captivating
Plot:
mental health, self harm, depression, suicide, father son relationship, son, divorced parents, teen angst, father, family conflict, marital problem, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
washington d.c., new york
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A Japanese man arrives in Korea to find his old lover. While he stays at a guest house, he encounters various people.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, serious, non-linear, cerebral
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, obsession, unfulfillment, haunted by the past, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, restaurant, dog, cafe, dinner, letter ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
As an express train hurtles towards its destination, John (Alan Bates) a man whose sanity hangs by a thread, attempts to uncover his possible role in a brutal murder and the identity of the victim. The balance of his mind is strained to the limits ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
hooker, escort, oppression, religion, sexual fantasy, dream, bible, call girl, businessman, amnesia, prostitute, male female relationship ...
Time:
year 1991
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Romania
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
Andrei, a 13 year old teenager, living on Bucharest outskirts, decides one day to steal a trolleybus in order to impress Marilena, a prostitute he fell in love with.
Style:
melancholic, brutal, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, male nudity, bare chested male, boy, court, sex, architecture, father son relationship, street walker, prostitute, 13 year old, masturbation ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Style:
philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential ...
Plot:
afterlife, eternity, death, memory, videotaping, life & death, heaven, destiny, hospital, childhood, filmmaking, memories ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century
Place:
the philippines, tokyo, japan
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
lesbian, religion, convent, power relations, clergy, strong female presence, society, celibacy, women's rights, humiliation, abuse of power, confession ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on the reservation list. However, ...
Style:
touching, feel good, light, sentimental, romantic
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, saving a life, rescue, love affair, love and romance, happy ending, unlikely partners, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, kindness, angel ...
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A girl is approached by a strange boy outside her high school. He asks her to follow him to hear stories where gods fall in love with human beings.
Style:
serious, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, stylized ...
Plot:
bestiality, hairy bush, surrealism, animal, river, skinny dipping, hermaphrodite, female nudity, reincarnation, sexual desire, blindness, love ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, anthology, contemplative ...
Plot:
doctor, paralysis, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family relations, parents and children, suffering, father daughter estrangement, loss of daughter, father daughter relationship, murder, death ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Similarity:
34%
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