Movies like A Secret Affair 2012

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A Secret Affair (2012)
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A Secret Affair (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Rafi (Anne Curtis) is happily committed to her lovely partner in life, Mark (Derek Ramsay). She's a bachelorette from a rich family, who belongs to the "Friday Club", the regular get-together of her college friends. Rafi is an attention-getter because of her in and out beauty and impressive credentials. But one day, a major life decision shifts everyone's impression of her. Sam (Andi Eigenmann), a rebellious, carefree and happy-go-lucky woman, who thinks that she can get away with her every dilemma. However, her perspectives turn 180 degrees when she meets the man who unexpectedly changes her life.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot: marriage proposal, living together, runaway, breakup, one night stand, bittersweet, unfulfillment, love triangle, fall in love, chance meeting, fiance fiancee relationship, life turned upside down, fraud, cheating, prostitute, chef, restaurant, massage, black ops, affair, confrontation, spa, hair salon, illicit affair, facebook ...
Place: the philippines
Keyword: filipino

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, captivating, serious and touching films with plots about love and romance, unfulfillment, bittersweet, fall in love, couples, love triangle and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like A Secret Affair: The Mistress (2012), My Neighbor’s Wife (2011), Liberated (2003), Mirrors (1985), When the Love Is Gone (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Mistress (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A young woman is torn between the affections of her two lovers. One is a young bachelor who brings passion into her life. The other is a married man who has kept her as his mistress for years. Architect JD has a chip on his shoulder about his father ...
Style: tagalog, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, captivating
Plot: mistress, rivalry, large family, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, inheritance, love interest, love triangle, romantic triangle, love story, love affair, romantic relationship ...
Place: the philippines, manila philippines
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My Neighbor’s Wife (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Aaron and Giselle are an ambitious couple, but their hard work isn’t enough to provide for the comfortable life they desire. The marriage of their well-to-do bosom buddies, Bullet and Jasmine, also goes from bliss to bleak. Their situation heads ...
Style: psychological, light, tense, captivating
Plot: unhappy marriage, unfaithful husband, marriage, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, adultery, school, marital infidelity, friend turned foe, infidelity, male female relationship, troubled marriage ...
Place: the philippines
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80%
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Liberated (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Liberated tells the story of a group of friends with focus on the two lead stars Zubiri and Prieto. Zubiri plays a sexually liberated (hence the title) young woman who falls in love with the beau of her morally-inclined best friend (played by ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, erotic, sexy ...
Plot: erotica, friendship, best friend, love affair, love triangle, relationships, love and romance, fall in love, sexually liberated, male female relationship, love story, romantic relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mirrors (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
Plot: ballerina, ballet, career, marriage proposal, dancer, love, reporter, female protagonist, love triangle, dancing, muscleman, bare chested male ...
Place: new york
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100%
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When the Love Is Gone (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When the Love Is Gone is a 2013 Filipino romantic drama film directed by Andoy Ranay, starring Cristine Reyes, Gabby Concepcion, Alice Dixson, Andi Eigenmann, and Jake Cuenca. The film is distributed by Viva Films with co-production of Multivision ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: chance meeting, resort, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, relationships, love affair, love triangle, male female relationship, sports man, love story, romantic relationship, love and romance ...
Place: the philippines
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You (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, gloomy
Plot: love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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22%
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The Night (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young man stands in front of a mirror. The night belongs to him. Every evening, he appraises his appearance, attired in a new shirt, leaves his apartment and waits in a poorly lit alleyway for his johns. One night he meets a female prostitute of ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, suspense, queer cinema
Plot: gays and lesbians, society, social misfits, unlikely couple, fall in love, prostitute, love and romance, gender, love triangle, sexual relations, one night stand, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, china
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21%
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Doubt (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris (Andoy Ranay) is a documentary filmmaker with a well-regarded body of work and a large community of ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, breakup, couples, gender, fall in love, sexual relations, bittersweet, trust, love, gays and lesbians, friendship, deception ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, the philippines
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21%
Triumph in the Skies (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Young pilot Branson (Louis Koo) recently takes over Skylette, his father's aviation empire, only to realise his old flames Cassie (Charmaine Sheh) is a flight attendant there. Several years ago, he was forced to break up with her and move to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unfulfilled love, fall in love, lovers reunited, workplace romance, workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, unfulfillment, bittersweet, pilot, adaptation, opposites attract
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
One More Chance (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Popoy and Basha had been together forever. Their love story began when they first met as students at university. They had been inseparable and did everything together—eating, studying and attending parties. However, Popoy's incessant planning ...
Style: tagalog, realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: cheerleader, love, new life, chance, longing, regret, breakup, couples, breaking up with girlfriend, society, life lesson, suv ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
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20%
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In His Chart (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: There is a degree of realism when a professional in the field writes about his vocation and such is the case here. Adopted from a novel written by a doctor and set in Nagano, doctor Kuriharai is overwhelmed by the number and variety of patients he ...
Style: emotional, semi serious, touching, realistic
Plot: life & death, physician, terminal illness, doctor patient relationship, strong female character, free spirited, dealing with death, unfulfillment, fall in love, co worker co worker relationship, bittersweet, cancer patient ...
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19%
July Rhapsody (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love affair, love triangle, moral dilemma, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, midlife crisis, family problems, breakup, youth, fall in love, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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19%
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Links (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Dexter's controlled life gets thrown into confusion when a girl appears on his work that looks exactly like his girlfriend Stella. At home his beloved Stella doesn't understand what's going on and she starts questioning their ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, touching, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: disability, life turned upside down, fall in love, emotionless, mental illness, nursing, life is a bitch, love and romance, disorder, brain, bittersweet, pets ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland, rotterdam netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Hill of Freedom (2014)
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, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, bittersweet, restaurant, asian, cafe, dog, dinner ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, seoul
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18%
About Her Brother (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Ginko’s younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, human nature, family problems, bittersweet, unfulfillment, redemption, family feud, brother sister relationship, relationships, relationship problems, problem solving, living together ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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18%
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Brahmin Bulls (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: realistic, sincere, semi serious, captivating, tense
Plot: family relations, haunted by the past, under the surface, parents and children, estrangement, unfulfillment, bittersweet, thirtysomething life, woman
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Following Rosa (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Following his mother's death, Hector arrives in Manila to live with his grandmother. Unable to speak Tagalog, Hector falls in with a street gang before a photographer takes him under his wing. Haunted by memories of his mother, Hector ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: orphan, gang, haunted by the past, family problems, youth, teaching the ways of the world, life turned upside down, bittersweet, death in the family, power relations, kids in trouble, train station ...
Place: asia, the philippines, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two sisters, their families, and sometimes complicated lives.
Style: realistic, compassionate, sincere, cynical, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: family relations, direction and purpose, rising to stardom, disorder, aspiring writer, life turned upside down, sister sister relationship, parent child relationship, price of fame, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, working mom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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18%
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Balancing Act (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, tense ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, parents and children, breakup, life is a bitch, couples, unfulfillment, downfall, job seeking, down on your luck, adultery, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
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18%
Starting Over Again (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Ten years ago, Ginny (Toni Gonzaga), an Architecture student, and Marco (Piolo Pascual), a History professor, began a one-of-a-kind and unpredictable love story. In the five years that they were together, they brought out the best in each other, ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
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18%
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Live-In Maid (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Buenos Aires is in a deep recession. As the money runs out, the relationship between an employer and her live-in maid changes dramatically.
Style: semi serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, touching
Plot: life is a bitch, power relations, friendship, social differences, lifestyle, boss and employee, unfulfillment, friends, down on your luck, economics, employer employee relationship, economist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
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17%
A Picture of You (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Kyle and Jen, estranged siblings, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there, they make a discovery that turns their world upside-down. A Picture of You is a serious movie ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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17%
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Ploy (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
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Style: realistic, captivating, sexy, psychological, independent film ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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17%
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Istanbul (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: self discovery, love affair, life turned upside down, family problems, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
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17%
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Voice Over (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A married woman — seeking to purify herself through a "disconnection vow" — leaves her husband and returns to her parents’ home, but finds a situation far from the peace and quiet she had imagined.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, clever, realistic
Plot: family relations, couples, breakup, dull life, nothing goes right, introspection, disorder, strong female presence, unfulfillment, parents and children, siblings relations, homecoming
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.0
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Fairfield Road (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Noah McManus is leaving his job with the Boston mayor's office for a dream gig in Washington, D.C. But in a single day, he finds out his new boss in Washington can no longer employ him and that his girlfriend has been cheating on him. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, fall in love, couples, couple relations, love triangle, politics, social relations, ambition, career change, infidelity, love and romance, workplace situations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts
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17%
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Melting Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Shlomo who discovers in his son's Assaf room, women's clothing and accessories, decides to 'teach the boy a lesson'. When Assaf returns to his parents' home on a rainy night from a party, his attempts to enter home fail. His ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: transsexual, gender, parents and children, terminal illness, family relations, bittersweet, father son relationship, gay, transgender, hospital, israeli, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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17%
The Most Distant Course (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tang (Muo) goes on a trip to Taitung to record the sounds of nature, hoping the tape may save his relationship with his girlfriend who is leaving him. What he does not know, is that she has already moved away and another girl, Yun (Kwai), has moved ...
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Audience: teen drama
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Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, taipei, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.0
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No Other Woman (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Furniture supplier Ram is happily married to Charmaine. One day, Ram lands a big client, a new luxury resort. But he needs the help of Kara, the daughter of the owner of the resort, to finalize the deal. Kara's help, however, comes with a ...
Style: contemplative, tense, psychological, sexy
Plot: womanizer, jealousy, infidelity, nouveau riche, adultery, seduction, mogul, unfaithful husband, twists and turns, woman seduces a man, car accident, accident ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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