Movies like Riviera 2005
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Riviera (2005)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Beautiful and young, Stella is a popular go-go dancer living alone with her mother by the French Riviera. Their lives unravel when a middle-age man becomes obsessed with Stella.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, moody
Plot:
obsession, young woman, stalker, mediterranean, go go dancer, manipulation, danger, nightlife, female protagonist, dangerous attraction, coastal town, jealousy, mother daughter relationship, conflict, cat and mouse, performer, seaside, voyeurism, sexual tension, european, female nudity, summer, seduction, luxury, isolation ...
Time:
2000s, contemporary
Place:
french riviera
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Most similar movies to Riviera
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological thriller, dark and suspense films with plots about obsession, manipulation, psychological drama, isolation, female nudity, female protagonist and moral ambiguity mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Riviera: The World of Ludovic (1993), Lovestruck: The Housemate (1993), A Woman (2010), The Bitches (1973), Without Me (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ludovic, a young boy neglected by his artsy parents, falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a piano teacher. They meet in secret places in the city. Not long after Sophie's father finds them naked together in her room, Ludovic is sent away ...
Plot:
coming of age, first love, beach, boy, youth, young lovers, female nudity, girl, nudity, hospital, mirror, broken mirror ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Story:
Juliette and Paul move into their dreamhouse but they soon realize that the rent is too high for the two of them alone so that they decide to rent out their spare room to a young woman named Nathalie. She becomes Paul’s mistress but cannot get him ...
Style:
tense, erotic drama, psychological thriller, erotic, moody
Plot:
revenge, jealousy, infidelity, ex lover, betrayal, romantic triangle, manipulation, domestic drama, obsession, seduction, sexual tension, sexual jealousy ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
55%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, erotic drama, intense, art house
Plot:
sexual tension, lust, castle, gigolo, jealousy, erotica, lesbian sex, intimate, manipulation, luxury, sexploitation, obsession ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, single mother, lesbian, existential loneliness, intimacy, secrets, caretaker, young woman, moral ambiguity, trauma, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bruno is a cynical but attractive business man, owner of a strip-club. He has to replace his best dancer, Katy, after her suicide. Applicants would do anything to get this job, but only Damy, gorgeous and mysterious girl, catches his attention. What ...
Style:
dark, suspense, intense, sensual, erotic ...
Plot:
suicide, revenge, femme fatale, nightlife, mystery woman, seduction, deception, sexuality, cat and mouse, manipulation, female protagonist, obsession ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
36%
132
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jeong-min, a scenario writer, was recently dumped by his girlfriend who left for another man. No matter how much he begs she never seems to return to him. To forget everything and concentrate on his scenario, Jeong-min stays in a small inn in a ...
Style:
philosophical, erotic, realistic, suspense, dorama ...
Plot:
seduction, loneliness, lust, sexual fantasy, countryside, husband wife relationship, teenage girl, temptation, restaurant owner, travel, trip, restaurant ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hannah is a young woman who lives on her own. She starts to get this feeling that she is being watched. The phone starts ringing at night and when she answers, no one is there. Is she imagining everything or is it for real?
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, atmospheric, teen
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, stalker, coming of age, young adult, hidden identity, paranoia, obsession, surveillance, obsessive love, isolation, cat and mouse, investigation ...
Place:
copenhagen, eastern europe
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, psychological, dark, tension ...
Plot:
suburban life, insecurity, shyness, virginity, loneliness, female protagonist, character study, love story, manipulation, seduction, cohabitation, intimate ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Gośka meets Grzesiek online, she's sure he's her Mr. Right. Grzesiek is crazy about her, showers her with flowers, and proposes in Venice, but soon enough, the picture perfect romance starts to crumble, revealing a darker side.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, romantic drama
Plot:
online dating, toxic relationship, emotional abuse, domestic abuse, control, manipulation, fear, claustrophobia, obsession, trauma, character study, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
35%
236
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
rape, self destructing, female protagonist, rape victim, trauma, secret, life is a bitch, problem, social problems, violence, survival, isolation ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sophia is the perfect 17-year-old girl. She studies hard, stays out of trouble, and is a promising pianist. The only problem is that she’s always been quiet and keeps to herself, so when she strikes up a friendship with Grace, the new girl in ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological thriller, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female protagonist, stalker, school, female friendship, girlfriend, problem, relationship problems, teenage life, schoolgirl, secret, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, manipulation ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Darren Prager is an aspiring writer who finds himself completely unable to comprehend the intricacies of human behavior. Obsessed with finding the key to understanding the nature of character, he turns a co-worker's family into the unwitting ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, independent film, tense, experimental ...
Plot:
obsession, voyeurism, ethical dilemma, character study, moral ambiguity, social experiment, manipulation, isolation, male protagonist, identity crisis, experimental narrative, alienation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Makoto Toda was an earnest man who had lived an ordinary life, working as an ordinary company employee. He had built himself an average, but happy home along with his wife and his daughter. Things change however, when a new female recruit named Saya ...
Style:
tense, realistic, melancholic, dark, psychological thriller
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, jealousy, seduction, sexual obsession, office romance, sexual tension, domestic drama, secret relationship, loss of control ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The formerly revered journalist Frank Molina finds himself in hiding, with his career shattered. However, he continues to write anonymously hidden in the shadows. Frank’s sense of calm is abruptly interrupted when a pair of severed eyes and a ...
Style:
crime thriller, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, trauma, serial killer, journalism, investigation, hidden identity, obsession, paranoia, blood, violent, moral ambiguity, isolation ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Raina's child goes missing, she gets help from Holly, a local Detective. However, when they're confronted with Raina's abusive ex, Maurice, she is thrown back into danger as her child becomes a pawn in his latest game of ...
Style:
psychological thriller, detective, suspense, crime drama, emotional ...
Plot:
missing child, manipulation, female protagonist, kidnapping, domestic abuse, cat and mouse, small town, investigation, danger, revenge, moral ambiguity, stalker ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He ...
Style:
serious, tense, period piece, grim, grotesque
Plot:
bullying, military, military life, conscription, discipline, conformity, machismo, realism, accomplice, hierarchy, sergeant, character study ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
30%
124
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
A young woman returns home one year after losing her hands in a savage attack. She cannot remember who her assailant was, but a trip to the local post office leads her towards the truth.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
post office, trauma, female protagonist, physical disability, memory loss, survival, revenge, investigation, secret past, identity, amnesia, confrontation ...
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.
Style:
romantic drama, sensual, intercultural
Plot:
seduction, island, seaside, sexual tension, love triangle, deception, escape, loneliness, isolation, manipulation, mother son relationship, getting home ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls ...
Style:
dark, intense, tense, gothic, surreal ...
Plot:
overprotective mother, mother son relationship, sexual repression, obsession, jealousy, sexual awakening, taboo, power struggle, manipulation, sexual abuse, confrontation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Following a traumatic experience, Gaile, a speech therapist, is incapable of feeling any emotion. However, while preparing a video presentation for a scientific conference, she sees herself on screen and is surprised to find suppressed sensations ...
Style:
art house, tense, psychological thriller, dark, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, obsession, female protagonist, alienation, manipulation, experimental narrative, identity crisis, self discovery, moral ambiguity, voyeurism, performance art, urban ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
29%
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:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, dramatic, sensual, moody
Plot:
writers, midlife crisis, melancholy, seduction, love triangle, obsession, infidelity, retreat, adaptation, exile, passion, ambition ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A female detective investigates the case of a young mother whose infant left behind has died.
Style:
melancholic, grim, tense, suspense, noir ...
Plot:
female detective, lesbian, abandoned baby, lgbt, lesbian relationship, crime investigation, child neglect, female protagonist, family drama, loneliness, ethical dilemma, negligence ...
Place:
south of france, france
Similarity:
27%
107
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the service quarters of a grand hotel, a young maid and a man meet in a situation which breaks all certainties and identities.
Style:
ambiguous ending, psychological thriller, melancholic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
hotel, identity, switching roles, identity crisis, character study, female protagonist, manipulation, claustrophobia, class conflict, symbolism, isolation, male protagonist ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
27%
387
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Laura is spending a few days at her beach house to supervise the construction of a barbecue shed. One afternoon, she seduces the chief builder, who never returns. Over the following days, the builders continually invade her home – until Laura ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
tragic romance, horny woman, employer employee relationship, slow burn, class conflict, relationships, relationship problems, lifestyle change, family problems, male female relationship, tragic love, marital problem ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, ambiguous ending, moody ...
Plot:
seduction, older woman younger man, dysfunctional family, character study, moral ambiguity, isolation, class conflict, repression, obsession, slow burn, tragic romance, claustrophobia ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the ...
Plot:
prostitution, exploitation, masochism, violence, pimp, brothel, girl, sex, women, relationships, streetwise, seduction ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
26%
95
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A wife leaves her husband to work abroad. But when her husband meets an enigmatic woman who seduces her every time their marriage is put to the test.
Style:
sexy
Plot:
extramarital affair, infidelity, betrayal, seduction, domestic drama, temptation, sexual tension, jealousy, guilt, female protagonist, manipulation, intimacy ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Chandra, a devoted husband, is left in a coma after a brutal attack. Upon waking, he discovers an imposter, Vinay, has taken his place and is dangerously obsessed with his wife, Nakshatra.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, sinister, dark ...
Plot:
impostor, obsession, obsessive love, psychological manipulation, deception, stalking, manipulative person, dual identity, amnesia, cat and mouse, female protagonist, home invasion ...
Similarity:
25%
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