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The Scent of Mandarin (2015)
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The Scent of Mandarin (2015)
Original name: L'Odeur de la mandarine
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionate love affair.
Style: romantic, rough, sexy, controversial, stylized, complex
Plot: world war one, loveless marriage, horny wife, horse, lechery, animal sex, love, prostitute, church, single mother, little girl, nightmare, husband wife relationship, nurse, marriage, isolated place, infidelity, marriage proposal, dysfunctional couple, older man younger woman marriage, war, military, lust, wartime life, one legged man ...
Time: year 1918, 20th century, year 2015
Place: france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and erotic films with plots about female nudity, sex scene, nudity, love and romance, infidelity, couples and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like The Scent of Mandarin: From the Land of the Moon (2016), Lady J (2018), The Painted Veil (2006), Young & Beautiful (2013), Obsession (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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From the Land of the Moon (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An adaptation of Milena Agus' eponymous novel set after WWII, "Mal de Pierres" ("Mal di Pietre") spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another ...
Style: psychological, suspense, sexy, tense, retro ...
Plot: unrequited love, love, female nudity, twists and turns, female protagonist, war veteran, delusional woman, baby, soldier, marriage, doctor, cigarette smoking ...
Time: post world war two, 50s, future, 1950s
Place: provence, south of france, somalia, france, alps
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100%
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Lady J (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.
Style: costume drama, melancholic, disturbing, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: aristocracy, widow, revenge, betrayal, love, marriage, broken heart, forgiveness, male female friendship, brothel, tenderness, spinster ...
Time: 18th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Painted Veil (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story, couples, marriage, extramarital affair, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place: china, shanghai, africa, london, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Young & Beautiful (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
Style: erotic, sexual, sexy, atmospheric, sensual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: prostitute, lust, sex scene, teenage girl, older man younger woman relationship, double life, prostitution, strong sexual content, youth, sex with a minor, coming of age, female nudity ...
Time: year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, cote d'azur, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 2K
Obsession (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Simone inherits a dilapidated farmhouse in France and makes her way there with her husband Eric and their two children. Her dream is to turn the house into a bed and breakfast but as the hectic pace of the rebuilding gets underway, she gets caught ...
Style: suspense, melancholic, touching, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: unfaithful wife, sex scene, adultery, cheating wife, cheating on husband, female nudity, blackmail, unwanted pregnancy, horny wife, cuckold, extramarital affair, older woman younger man sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Serious Game (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.
Style: romantic, psychological, captivating, sincere, costume drama
Plot: love, adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, loveless marriage, opera, unhappy marriage, love and romance, romantic triangle, ex couple relations, love affair, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 1910s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Red Thread (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.
Style: sexy, romantic, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Plot: flight attendant, passion, love triangle, marriage, unfaithful wife, relationships, sex scene, true love, couples, love and romance, love interest, love story ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of ...
Style: sexy, erotic, controversial, sexual, manga ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, impotent husband, sex, world war one, erotica, nudity, love triangle, master and servant, infidelity, dysfunctional marriage, war injury, love ...
Time: year 1981, 1910s
Place: england, britain, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Grand Central (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Austria
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fiancée of one of his senior workmates.
Style: atmospheric, tense, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: love affair, male nudity, danger, radioactivity, infidelity, fall in love, workplace situations, workplace, nuclear power plant, bare chested male, contamination, nude women ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Pendular (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, Argentina, France, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The trajectory of a romantic couple of contemporary artists reveals how the limits, contradictions and obsessions of a romantic relationship are reflected in each of their artistic endeavors.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: sculptor, horny wife, horny, relationships, dancer, couple relations, marital problem, family problems, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, troubled marriage, social problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.0
 3K
Come Undone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up ...
Style: erotic, sensual, touching, sincere, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, adultery, cheating on husband, extramarital affair, sexually dissatisfied wife, cheating wife, infidelity, horny wife, forbidden love, couples, unfaithful husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year ...
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cheating wife, sexual relations, unfaithful wife, bored housewife, interracial sex, cuckold, sexual obsession, marital crisis, extramarital affair, erotica, rough sex, black man white woman relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Lady Chatterley (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story: French adaption of DH Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Winner of the 2007 Cesar Award for Best Film.
Style: sexy, romantic, sexual, touching, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, sex, lady, sensuality, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, passion, erection, female nudity, female pubic hair, dysfunctional marriage, class differences ...
Time: year 2006, 1920s, 20th century
Place: riviera, mediterranean sea, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.6
 10K
Five Times Two (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles ...
Style: sexy, enigmatic, psychological, sensual, stylized ...
Plot: divorce, sex, infidelity, rape, adultery, wedding, wedding night, unfaithful wife, relationships, husband wife relationship, up and down relationship, family life ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, sardinia, europe, senegal, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.3
 5K
Leaving (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, forbidden love, cuckolded husband, extramarital affair, cheating wife, fatal attraction, sexless marriage, emotional blackmail, love triangle, passion, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, south of france, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Wild Seas (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm.
Style: romantic
Plot: married woman, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, horny wife, woman on top, extramarital affair, outdoor sex, unfaithfulness, sex scene, husband, couples, fall in love ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
My Golden Days (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
Style: captivating, sentimental, sincere, suspense, stylized ...
Plot: female exhibitionist, love, coming of age, student, teenage boy, teenage love, breakup, death of mother, teenage girl, passport, teenager, changing lives ...
Time: year 2015, 2000s, 80s
Place: paris france, france, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.0
 13K
Intimacy (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the ...
Style: sexy, sexual, sensual, erotic, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, explicit sex, erotica, strong sexual content, cheating wife, couple relations, obsession, sex scene, sexual relations, infidelity, oral sex, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Woman Who Dreamed of a Man (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A famous Danish artist and fashion photographer who leads an eventful life and is always travelling, meets a man who immediately awakens strong feelings in her. This unexpected encounter sparks a decisive turning point in her life and they begin a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, stylized, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: cheating wife, unfaithful wife, photographer, obsession, dangerous attraction, couples, destructive relationship, love affair, unfulfillment, photograph, betrayal, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, eastern europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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To Our Loves (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style: erotic, art house, anthology, retro, sensual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female nudity, infidelity, dysfunctional family, coming of age, bare breasts, extramarital affair, promiscuous daughter, nudity, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, looking for sex, loveless marriage ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.6
 9K
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%
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: World War I seems far away from Ireland's Dingle peninsula when Rosy Ryan Shaughnessy goes horseback riding on the beach with the young English officer. There was a magnetic attraction between them the day he was the only customer in her ...
Style: sentimental, epic, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot: world war one, village, political unrest, soldier, fall in love, forbidden love, catholic, village idiot, orgasm, love triangle, couples, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1970
Place: ireland, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.7
 5K
Pola X (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
Style: sexy, disturbing, meditative, psychological, serious ...
Plot: incest, intimate, penetration, sex, erotica, existentialism, mysterious character, femme fatale, human nature, chaos, introspection, female nudity ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.0
 1K
Ricordi? (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over ...
Style: emotional, sexy, romantic, touching, psychological
Plot: young lovers, male nudity, love, dancing, beach, female nudity, memories, sex scene, flashback, couple relations, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.0
 14K
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 ⇓
31%
 7.7
 44K
Jules and Jim (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the ...
Style: art house, black and white, philosophical, lyrical, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: marriage, friendship, love triangle, unrequited love, love, relationships, menage a trois, love story, storytelling, melancholy, manic pixie dream girl, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, year 1962, 1930s, post world war one ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.0
 2K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.7
 20K
Damage (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Style: sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: forbidden love, sexuality, adultery, femme fatale, love affair, infidelity, obsession, dangerous attraction, sex, love triangle, passion, fondling ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, palm springs california, paris france, london, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Belle du Seigneur (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: English-language adaptation of Albert Cohen's epic Swiss tale of a tortured love affair between a high-ranking Jewish official and the protestant wife of one of his employees.
Style: emotional, inspirational, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot: tragic love, love affair, sexual content, forbidden love, cheating wife, nudity, love and romance, election, nazi germany, lust, world war one, affair ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.3
 23K
Betty Blue (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Betty Blue, a mentally unbalanced and sexually aggressive free spirit who becomes involved with Zorg, a repairman moonlighting as a writer. The two engage in a variety of sexual encounters, and grow more passionate toward each other. Betty finds ...
Style: erotic, sexy, atmospheric, sexual, breathtaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, nudity, borderline personality disorder, sexuality, obsessive love, mental illness, sex scene, love story, insanity, sex, public nudity, sensuality ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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