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A Perfect Man (2015)
5K
Original name: Un Homme idéal
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A struggling writer finds a shortcut to fame, but a blackmailer threatens to ruin his perfect life.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, art house, detective, tense
Plot:
fall in love, writers, writer's life, desire for fame, hidden identity, love and romance, plagiarism, young man, artists and showbiz, cons and scams, blackmail, police, girlfriend, hallucination, disposing of a dead body, car accident, imposture, ambition, dishonesty, rising to stardom, female nudity, liar, in laws, manuscript, car crash ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, algeria
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Most similar movies to A Perfect Man
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, love and romance, writers, female nudity, writer's life, couples and artists and showbiz mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like A Perfect Man: The Words (2012), Traceless (2010), Love Walked In (1997), President (2006), Möbius (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
84K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his ...
Style:
suspense, romantic, intellectual, contemplative, serious ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, lovers, passion, relationships, love story, literature, guilt, white male black female relationship, survival, life philosophy, life ...
Time:
year 2012, post world war two, 21st century
Place:
usa, paris france, france
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48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, haunted by the past, moral dilemma, promotion, under the surface, life turned upside down, breaking point, dishonesty, harassment, nudity, suffering, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
sex scene, femme fatale, showbiz, cons and scams, private detective, obsession, down on your luck, love and romance, infidelity, violent content, couples, battles ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
58%
632
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
head of state, ambition, intern, fall in love, idealism, parents and children, state affairs, family relations, hopes, politics, society, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An FSB officer fall in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot:
espionage, fall in love, secret mission, love and romance, dishonesty, financial crisis, one night stand, cia, 007, secret agent, cia agent, covert operation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
cote d'azur, europe, monaco, moscow russia
Similarity:
50%
2K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, life turned upside down, uncover truth, dishonesty, confined, danger, captivity, abduction, ransom, double life, liberation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
belgium, europe, paris france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, clever ...
Plot:
serial killer, meet the parents, hidden identity, mysterious character, writers, intrigue, lifestyle, dishonesty, twists and turns, missing person, rivalry, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
paris france, europe, france, alps
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
sex scene, murder, artists and showbiz, writer's life, uncover truth, danger, missing person, writers, disappearance, wife, female nudity, police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, working class, social decay, society, workplace, injustice, factory worker, factory, danger, rivalry, friendship, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
48%
193
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Reclusive writer takes aspiring actress under his wing.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
hollywood, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, love and romance, unfulfillment, hopes, writers, aspiring actress, rivalry, society, down on your luck, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
48%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Henry Harper is a successful novelist who has it all. But after surviving a recent trauma he finds himself haunted by a dream that terrifies him. Convinced that the only way to understand what the dream means is to write his way through it, Henry ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
nightmare comes true, haunted by the past, mysterious character, disorder, life turned upside down, writer's life, road trip, brother brother relationship, danger, recurring nightmare, terminal illness, nightmare ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young writer has his book stolen by his mentor.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
uncover truth, injustice, writer's life, betrayal, dishonesty, life is a bitch, murder, plagiarism, creative process, deception, character study, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An impossible love story between Yossi, a former IDF soldier, and Dora, a mysterious French photographer visiting Israel, as they both struggle in vain to leave their pasts behind.
Style:
non-linear, captivating, tense, realistic, serious
Plot:
impossible love, haunted by the past, obsession, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, obsessive quest, love and romance, unfulfillment, male pubic hair, male nudity, beach ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Estevão , Ivan e Gilberto são companheiros desde os tempos de faculdade e sócios de uma construtora de sucesso há mais de 15 anos. O relacionamento entre eles sempre foi muito bom, até que um desentendimento na condução dos negócios faz com ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
hitman, partner, murder, crime gone awry, social differences, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, betrayal, blackmail, friends, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
ex husband ex wife relationship, waitress, divorce, widow, estrangement, power relations, artists and showbiz, twists and turns, writers, father daughter relationship, poetry, translator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, poland, seattle
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Anam Wagner, a bisexual Belgium-based writer, comes back to his hometown where he has a hard time coping with his family's checkered past.
Style:
intercultural, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
love, death, brother brother relationship, bisexuality, mysterious past, sex addict, alcoholic, gay interest, relationships, getting home, family relations, female nudity ...
Place:
berlin germany, brussels, brussels belgium
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
One of the greatest conspiracies of all time, and one lone man is trying to uncover it.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
dishonesty, assassination, trap, dictator, mafia, cia, cuban revolution, law enforcement, conspiracy, female nudity, fidel castro, president ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, russia, france
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Vincent, a former air rifle champion lives a quiet life with his wife and his daughter. Despite his happy family life he ends up with economic problems. One day at the shooting range he meets the mysterious Renaud who promises him a solution to his ...
Style:
psychological, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
contract killing, parents and children, moral dilemma, conspiracy, couples, danger, family problems, family in crisis, contract killer, pig, money, train ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Paul Exben is a success story – partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, sincere, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
infidelity, accidental killing, downfall, redemption, law firm, couples, starting over, haunted by the past, disposing of a dead body, fleeing the country, motivation, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
europe, montenegro, paris france, france, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set against the glamorous backdrop of Britain's roaring '20s, The Laureate tells the story of young British War Poet Robert Graves, who is married with four children when he meets and becomes romantically involved with Laura Riding, a ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, romantic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
romantic triangle, murder suspect, writer's life, love and romance, problem, family problems, writers, romantic relationship, polyamory, open relationship, female sexual predator, striptease ...
Time:
1920s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Plot:
woman in danger, dangerous attraction, obsession, parents and children, family relations, couples, sociopath, murder, store, danger, woman, art exhibition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
John is the owner of a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara and falls in love with her. A movie about jealousy and death.
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
publisher, death, jealousy, infidelity, breakup, fall in love, life turned upside down, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, adultery, poison ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A stranger in the increasingly strange city of San Francisco, Japanese crime novelist Aki is unsure of precisely what role she has to play in a real-life murder mystery involving ambiguous MacGuffins and amorphous identities. Unfolding in lonely ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, law enforcement, extramarital affair, small town, writer's life, love affair, missing person, book, writers, bookstore, secret service ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, california
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the casino there is only one queen, the small ball that spins on the roulette table. None of the players pays the slightest attention to the female dealers. But Takis, a «perennial» med student, doesn't go to the casino to win millions but ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
casino, gambling, lovers on the run, femme fatale, fall in love, unlikely criminals, betrayal, love and romance, dishonesty, heist, cons and scams, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece, europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, life turned upside down, addiction, home invasion, car accident, faked death, husband wife relationship, abduction, kidnapping, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Portugal, Brazil
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A powerful entrepreneur wants to build an exclusive resort hotel in Villanova, but he discovers the location he has in mind is protected by local land-use regulations. He hires Maria, a beautiful and elegant prostitute, to seduce the mayor, leaving ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, love and romance, dangerous attraction, blackmail, law enforcement, rivalry, lifestyle, ambition, political corruption, dishonesty, bribery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
45%
19K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Matthieu is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, crime thriller, suspense
Plot:
airport, plane crash, airplane, investigation, air disaster, missing person, problem, forensics, uncover truth, crash, die, airplane crash ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Times have changed a lot for Franck who is a night watchman. About a decade ago he was a specialized worker. Today he feels bored but would jump at any chance to prove his bravery and courage.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
life turned upside down, dull life, starting over, disorder, hopes, unfulfillment, police, security guard, car accident, loneliness, monster, robbery ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, chemistry, kidnapping, on the run, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, drug abuse, violent content, farm, confined, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
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