Movies like Sentimental Education 1998
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Sentimental Education (1998)
29
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, France, UK
Story:
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice. The film examines the hollowness of his glamorous lifestyle, leading to self discovery and ultimately a personal catharsis (and his own death). The film is based on (really, inspired by) the French Book, L'Education Sentimentale, by Gustave Flaubert.
Style:
psychological, art house, poetic, neo noir, moody
Plot:
fashion industry, death, self discovery, fashion, tragedy, glamour, alienation, shallowness, character study, literary, unrequited love, luxury, existential crisis, existentialism, melancholy, decadence, introspection, identity, vanity, heartbreak, obsession, nightlife, nostalgia, coming of age, european ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, psychological, melancholic and independent film films with plots about identity, character study, friendship, loneliness, alienation, introspection and obsession mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Sentimental Education: My Breast (1994), The Magic Mountain (1982), Couture (2025), A Blue Automobile (2004), Marseille (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
154
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's ...
Style:
reflective, medical drama
Plot:
breast cancer, courage, journalist, female protagonist, inspiration, hopes, illness, introspection, self discovery, relationships, redemption, female empowerment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
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Style:
philosophical, art house, surreal, period drama, pre war
Plot:
sanitarium, tuberculosis, mountain, literary, isolation, melancholy, existential crisis, symbolism, mortality, existentialism, world war one, totalitarianism ...
Time:
1910s, pre world war one
Place:
swiss alps, alps
Similarity:
47%
192
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese ...
Style:
emotional, intercultural, art house, melancholic, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
women, fashion, mortality, identity, self discovery, cancer, makeup artist, modeling, immigration, ambition, resilience, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Richio, a young DJ, is as emotionally non-existent as no other man on the planet. He uses his tough exterior to avoid attachments to people and society.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
love triangle, trauma, character study, relationships, romantic relationship, love affair, love story, physical appearance, male female relationship, relationship problems, social problems, love interest ...
Similarity:
37%
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747
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marseille describes an interlude in the life of young Berlin photographer Sophie. Wanting a change, Sophie does an apartment swap, so she can go photograph the city of Marseille, and most of all get away from Berlin.
Style:
contemplative, reflective, art house, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
photography, city life, introspection, self discovery, realism, slice of life, character study, intimate, solitude, identity, loneliness, seaside ...
Place:
marseille, berlin germany
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A radical, western re-imagining of Henry David Thoreau's classic, interlacing three stories about the trappings of 21st century life and those who dream dangerously of escape.
Style:
philosophical, captivating, psychological, art house, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dream, escapism, loneliness, haunted by the past, friendship, loner, social relations, life, surrealism, alone, dealing with the past, confronting the past ...
Place:
america
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.
Style:
atmospheric, art house, independent film, period drama, moody
Plot:
magician, jewish culture, stage magic, european, theater, character study, ambition, obsession, moral ambiguity, midlife crisis, existential crisis, melancholy ...
Time:
year 1979, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, melancholic, art house, stylized ...
Plot:
cellist, introspection, greek mythology, vanity, self discovery, lifestyle, social problems, relationship vs career, obsession, self destructing, myth, character study ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
29%
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118
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
24 year old Johan spends his days in Nice on the French Riviera, supported by an aging ex-actress. Days go by between her house, the beaches and the apartment of his friend Kurt. A life in leisure and luxury. But memories of his teenage years are ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, thought provoking, dramatic, art house ...
Plot:
older woman younger man sex, couple relations, lifestyle, beach, friend, actress, couples, male female relationship, relationships, friends, alienation, shallowness ...
Place:
french riviera
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
On a business trip to the Cannes Film Festival, Manhee is accused of being dishonest, and fired. A teacher named Claire goes around taking photos with a Polaroid camera. She gets to know Manhee and sympathizes with her. Claire is like a person who ...
Style:
art house, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
female friendship, beach, female photographer, love triangle, male female relationship, fired from the job, frenchwoman, photography, chance meeting, friendship, intimate, identity ...
Time:
90s, year 2017
Place:
france, cannes
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, UK, USA, Greece
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Tommaso is an American expat film director living in Rome with his young wife and their daughter. Disoriented by his past misgivings and subsequent unexpected blows to his self-esteem, Tommaso wades through this late chapter of his life with an ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot:
family relations, character study, parents and children, creative block, life philosophy, existential crisis, midlife crisis, society, disorder, couples, lifestyle, friendship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
Style:
melancholic, philosophical, reflective, existential, art house ...
Plot:
memory, nostalgia, aging, ambiguity, life & death, intimate, existential crisis, loneliness, death, dream, slow burn, minimalism ...
Place:
chile
Similarity:
28%
163
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman is on the verge of killing herself, in reverse.
Style:
dark, emotional, bleak, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot:
character study, existential crisis, self destructing, suicide, depression, desperation, mental health, actress, existentialism, mature, female protagonist, flashback ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ben (Françoise Lebrun) is a woman who never gets to do what she really wants to do and is the victim of everybody and everything. Benedict is her imaginary creation: the girl who would respond with strength and mastery to situations she can only ...
Style:
art house, psychological, period piece
Plot:
pregnancy, female protagonist, marriage, gender roles, identity, female empowerment, feminist, character study, unrequited love, imaginary friend, split personality, domestic drama ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Happy and accomplished, Ellias becomes the new artistic director of a famous French Haute Couture house. When he learns that his father, whom he has not seen for many years, has just died of a heart attack, Ellias goes to Quebec to settle the ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, tense, suspense
Plot:
haute couture, fashion, fashion industry, legacy, inheritance, family secret, character study, family drama, estrangement, male protagonist, heart condition, death ...
Place:
paris france, quebec
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A well-to-do socialite and her husband must wrestle with the impact of Mexico's 1982 economic crisis.
Style:
social, thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
economic crisis, husband wife relationship, husband, social satire, social commentary, socialite, glamour, high society, lifestyle change, family in crisis, marital argument, drastic change of life ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
mexico, mexico city
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
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Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, psychological, romantic, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, powerful, neo noir, avant garde ...
Plot:
redemption, mind game, friendship, melancholy, family relations, intimacy, revenge, sexual abuse, poverty, underground, european, sex crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hungary, europe, budapest
Similarity:
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299
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Marion faces Paris at night with a feeling of vulnerability linked to the loss of her sister. She crosses paths with Alex. Their encounter will evolve at the rhythm of their wanderings through the city, like a journey through the night.
Style:
realistic, psychological, social, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
teenager, night, journey, mourning, grief, loss, male female relationship, sister sister relationship, family relations, wandering, death of sister, death ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Miguel travels to Pontevedra, his hometown, with the request of serching for some locations for a movie. His trip takes him back to the place where he grew up, meeting up with some old friends, but also leads him to the possibility of a new ...
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, love and romance, fall in love, introspection, workplace, self discovery, workplace situations, hopes, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, poignant, dark ...
Plot:
manipulation, couple relations, society, redemption, tragedy, character study, alienation, isolation, melancholy, therapy, slow burn, modern life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, surreal, emotional ...
Plot:
hypnotist, female protagonist, illusionist, ambition, actress, illusion, mental illness, disturbed individual, mentally unstable, social problems, psychological manipulation, life is a bitch ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After being heralded by Jean-Luc Godard as the great hope of the New American Cinema, Peter Emanuel Goldman relocated to Paris just in time for 1968. Social dissolution permeates WHEEL OF ASHES, a stripped-down account of a young man's ...
Style:
existential, avant garde, art film, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
existential crisis, alienation, introspection, religion, hallucination, surrealism, symbolism, isolation, a vision, psychological torment, male protagonist, urban ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In this French tour-de-force a young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around ...
Style:
experimental, art house, artsy, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
nihilism, existentialism, depression, loneliness, minimalism, introspection, existential loneliness, boredom, loser, time travel, lsd, trauma ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A cinephile meets on a beach in Ramatuelle his favorite filmmaker. He proposes to film the painful adventure that is just live. The two men will knit the scenes, each in its own way. The filmmaker keeps pushing the project, arguing that the chuting ...
Style:
art house, independent film, experimental, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
ambiguity, behind the scenes, introspection, character study, beach, collaboration, intimate, identity, obsession, regret, memory, nostalgia ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
13 year old Coco loves fashion and has her own unique style. She dreams of becoming a famous fashion icon. But on her first day of school she is made fun of and everyone calls her 'Coco the Clown'. Devastated, she decides to leave her ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, feel good, lighthearted ...
Plot:
fashion, high school life, identity, self discovery, personal growth, lifestyle, teenager, teenage life, schoolgirl, teenage girl, blogger, school ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, touching, romantic drama, captivating ...
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, self discovery, opposites attract, bittersweet, fall in love, photography, couples, photographer, friendship, pianist, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
brussels, belgium
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The story of two girls from a French suburb and their road trip adventures along the way.
Style:
realistic, road movie
Plot:
friendship, youth, female friendship, coming of age, adolescence, self discovery, identity, slice of life, photography, summer vacation, curiosity, road trip ...
Time:
2000s, turn of the century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Alain Leroy is a recovering alcoholic who decides to end his life, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time, in an attempt at finding a reason to continue living.
Style:
philosophical, art house, depressing, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
depression, addiction, existentialism, melancholy, suicide, drinking, character study, solitude, european, loneliness, rehabilitation, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 1920s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, versailles
Similarity:
22%
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