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Love Matters (1993)
174
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Married couple Tom and Julie begin to question the stability of their relationship when an old friend comes to visit... with his latest mistress in tow.
Style:
melancholic, sexploitation film
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, adultery, mature, affair, betrayal, midlife crisis, bittersweet, sexual jealousy, social realism, mistress, sex scene, male nudity, male full rear nudity, coitus, unfaithful husband, woman on top, sexploitation, marriage crisis, bare chested male, married couple, cheating wife, female nudity, sex therapist, thin ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, realistic, psychological and captivating films with plots about infidelity, adultery, betrayal, midlife crisis, marriage, husband wife relationship and affair mostly in Drama, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like Love Matters: Bora Bora (1968), Swinger Club (2006), The House of Pleasure (1994), Fools (1970), Duet for Four (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
242
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Musical
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Frenchman finds his runaway wife on an island in the Pacific.
Style:
sexy, hot, sexploitation film
Plot:
cheating wife, female nudity, sex scene, mistress, marital infidelity, erotica, infidelity, tropical island, wife, bare breasts, unfaithful husband, open marriage ...
Place:
polynesia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Joan Bixler and Amanda Nelson have known each other for several years and lead successful and seemingly functional families. However, their friendship is ripped to shreds and their families shattered when the husband of one of the women has an ...
Style:
realistic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
betrayal, infidelity, affair, family drama, mother daughter conflict, trust, small town, female rivalry, family secret, moral dilemma, suburban life, marriage crisis ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An ihrem 5. Hochzeitstag haben Albert und Birgit ihre drei engsten Freunde zu einem Festessen in ihr Haus auf dem Land eingeladen. Die Idylle entpuppt sich als schwer vermintes Gelände. Ungeahnte amouröse Verwicklungen kommen nach und nach auf den ...
Style:
captivating, tense, dramatic, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
cuckold, adultery, swingers, failed marriage, unfaithful husband, infidelity, extramarital affair, party, marital problem, marriage crisis, family problems, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Lord Gregory Hutton takes his beautiful young wife Eleanore on a business trip to the Far East for their honeymoon. They stay at the house of Lin, a young local owner of a silk farm and fashion factory whose father only recently died. Lady Eleanor ...
Style:
erotic, sexploitation film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
impotent husband, hidden camera, infidelity, communism, exploitation, female pubic hair, marital problem, affair, adultery, sex, lesbian sex, coitus ...
Similarity:
42%
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175
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, detective, independent film
Plot:
love triangle, character study, midlife crisis, forbidden romance, jealousy, infidelity, adultery, unrequited love, bittersweet, loneliness, mature, obsession ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A middle aged man, Ray Martin, faces a series of problems – his wife is cheating on him, his mistress wants to get married and Americans want to take over his toy business.
Style:
melancholic, independent film
Plot:
midlife crisis, family drama, character study, family crisis, infidelity, substance abuse, betrayal of trust, betrayal, adultery, extramarital affair, moral ambiguity, introspection ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
australia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
To watch a rare bird and at the same time be alone with Lotta, Anders goes to Gotland.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic
Plot:
ornithologist, infidelity, affair, love triangle, introspection, moral dilemma, character study, betrayal, adultery, bittersweet, island, jealousy ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
39%
314
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bored within her marriage, an unhappy wife falls to temptation which quickly spirals toward a fatal encounter.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, intense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
infidelity, betrayal, marriage, adultery, relationships, male female relationship, adulteress, love affair, seduction, marital problem, family relations, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Doug and Amber were madly in love and married during their college years. Driven by the "dream" of a prosperous life together - Amber worked two jobs to put Doug through school. Soon after they shared in his business success and celebrated ...
Style:
christian film, captivating, dramatic, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
love, marriage, infidelity, gospel, affair, husband wife conflict, domestic drama, family relations, couples, married couple, couple relations, relationships ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jane Seymour makes a six-course meal of her starring role as a magazine editor in Obsessed With a Married Woman--indeed, her performance is the only tangible reason for sitting through this artistically bankrupt TV movie. The story contrives to have ...
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, intense
Plot:
adultery, obsession, mistress, infidelity, affair, magazine editor, writers, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, marriage, love triangle, divorce ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A lonely housewife finds new life in a liaison with a free-spirited man in this romantic drama. Isolated in a remote home, Jean (Kelsey Oldershaw) feels suffocated in her marriage to uptight architect Paul (Horatio Ledon). An affair with her ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
marital infidelity, marriage, adultery, affair, marital crisis, family problems, male female relationship, marital problem, dysfunctional marriage, love triangle, married couple, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
35%
226
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, Dave foolishly attempted to rob a bank with a water pistol, and ended up in jail for eight years. ...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, intense, neo noir, independent film
Plot:
adultery, boarding school, love triangle, infidelity, family drama, ex convict, temptation, betrayal, moral dilemma, family conflict, second chance, jealous husband ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ami, who lives a peaceful married life, meets Jun, a young painter, due to an incident at work one day. She takes on the role of a painting model lightheartedly, but the two gradually become strongly attracted to each other.
Style:
melancholic, sensual, erotic, moody
Plot:
forbidden love, infidelity, affair, painting, male female relationship, attraction, adultery, longing, temptation, character study, marriage, artist ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An erotic film that depicts the dangerous relationship between a man and a co-worker's wife.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, captivating, steamy, sensual ...
Plot:
seduction, attempted seduction, sex scene, sexual tension, sexual desire, sexual relations, eroticism, male female relationship, sexploitation, relationship problems, seductress, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, ...
Style:
realistic, poignant, tragicomedy, period drama
Plot:
marriage, divorce, mature, character study, relationships, anger, heartbreak, everyday life, middle class, slice of life, suburban life, passion ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 1950s, 50s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, reflective
Plot:
male nudity, masturbation, female nudity, funeral, infidelity, illegitimate child, family drama, architecture, midlife crisis, estranged father, family reunited, character study ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
alps
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
An offbeat yet serious family drama about coming home, arrested development and infidelity.
Style:
reflective, serious, realistic, melancholic, offbeat
Plot:
infidelity, getting home, family drama, arrested development, betrayal, house, homecoming, midlife crisis, mature, personal growth, intimate, loss ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After his wife leaves him, Júlio starts an affair with his secretary.
Style:
erotic drama, sensual, tense, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
infidelity, divorce, adultery, seduction, marriage crisis, lesbian sex, lust, betrayal, sexually liberated, middle aged man, promiscuity, midlife crisis ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story:
A year has passed since Mitsuo filed divorce papers to end his marriage with Yuka, but they still live together. Mitsuo is now thinking about remarrying Yuka. On December 30, Mitsuo and Yuka go camping. Mitsuo works hard to prepare everything, while ...
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, melancholic, rom com
Plot:
marriage, divorce, couples, reconciliation, holiday, mature, second chance, slice of life, cohabitation, bittersweet, friendship, camping ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic drama, emotional ...
Plot:
marriage, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, love affair, love interest, love and romance, husband wife relationship, family problems, couple relations, family life, marital problem ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s, 1950s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two friends discuss their love adventures, and the emptiness ensuing each new conquest.
Style:
erotic drama, period piece
Plot:
sexual deviant, sex, infidelity, adultery, erotica, betrayal, seduction, lust, sexuality, marriage, call girl, desire ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka fashions a stunning film about love and excess. Robert (Norman Reedus) is a writer who hasn't done much writing lately; instead, he's busy pushing the envelope with his toxic mix of boredom, drugs and a dalliance ...
Style:
psychological, existential, erotic, independent film, moody
Plot:
writers, obsession, making love, infidelity, affair, toxic relationship, character study, cheating, boredom, self destructing, marriage, sexual tension ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Piano teacher Roya (Mahnaz Afshar) realizes that her marriage to Ali is in a deadlock when she discovers some of her husband's secrets. In the meantime she meets a young musician (Saber Abar) and has to make a painful choice.
Style:
emotional, psychological, realistic, tense
Plot:
piano teacher, female protagonist, marriage, women, relationships, choice, betrayal, love triangle, infidelity, heartbreak, moral dilemma, musician ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
persia, iran
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mrs. Wong knows her husband is carrying on an affair, but for the sake of their marriage and autistic son, she has chosen to silently endure. However, the mistress comes to disturb them, and in the end, Mr. Wong leaves home after a fight. Feeling at ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
marital infidelity, unfaithful husband, husband wife relationship, autism, domestic drama, family conflict, life is a bitch, male female relationship, problem, family relations, couple relations, relationships ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
27%
137
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Married for 20 years since the age of 15, Nina's husband suddenly decides to leave her.
Style:
melancholic, realistic, sensual, intense
Plot:
marital separation, midlife crisis, female protagonist, infidelity, adultery, abandonment, female sexuality, loneliness, self discovery, depression, middle aged woman, character study ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When her teenagers head off to camp and her husband abruptly leaves her to begin a new family, Lila is left to her own curious and chaotic devices for a summer in her rural home in the Catskill mountains.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, sentimental, light, disturbing ...
Plot:
friendship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, adultery, father daughter relationship, marital separation, domestic drama, character study, infidelity, loss, grief, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An old man lives out the final years of his half-century marriage by living and remembering.
Style:
romantic drama, reflective, heartfelt, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
memory, marriage, long term relationship, reminiscence, love story, mature, domestic drama, bittersweet, intimate, regret, family history, beach ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Maria and Herbert Schubert have been married for 35 years. They want to celebrate their anniversary with their children at their weekend home. The harmony within the family turns out to be an illusion. Maria isn't the only one planning to leave ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
dysfunctional family, relationships, marriage crisis, midlife crisis, family drama, family secret, family reunited, separation, infidelity, regret, intimate, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Television hostess Susanne has an affair with Rikard, who is a doctor at a hospital. But after meeting the man who Rikard works for, Professor Erland Roos, she leaves Rikard and eventually marries the professor. Susanne's sister comes to ...
Style:
melancholic, retro, period piece
Plot:
doctor, marriage, infidelity, love triangle, betrayal, wealth, character study, family drama, social class, seduction, professor, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
60s
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
This and The Hot Month of August, both made in Greece, were acquired by DORIS WISHMAN for release in the United States. However, she somehow or other lost the dialogue sheets needed for dubbing the films into English. With the original dialogue a ...
Style:
sensual, erotic, independent film
Plot:
seduction, exploitation, love triangle, sexploitation, infidelity, adultery, sexual jealousy, sexual exploration, obsession, sexual awakening, moral ambiguity, unrequited love ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
26%
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