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Therese (2012)
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Original name: Thérèse Desqueyroux
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
Style:
serious, realistic, period piece, costume drama, sad, melancholic, gloomy
Plot:
girlfriend girlfriend relationship, marriage of convenience, suburban life, unfulfillment, dull life, female protagonist, bourgeoisie, women in society, depression, deception, envy, forbidden love, world war one, women, catholic, self discovery, dysfunctional marriage, interwar period, historical figure, lifestyle, couples, deadend life, society, suburbs, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, 20s
Place:
france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and captivating films with plots about couples, unfulfillment, couple relations, family relations, family problems, society and crumbling marriage mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Therese: Sentimental Destinies (2000), Little Jerusalem (2005), Domestic Life (2013), A Butterfly Kiss (2011), Fanny (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
family business, divorce, love affair, social differences, society, crumbling marriage, fall in love, couples, clergy, world war one, priest, businessman ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, year 1929 ...
Place:
switzerland, paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and property. They live in an isolated country mansion surrounded by servants. Early in her marriage her ...
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neo noir, serious, realistic, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
saint, lesbian subtext, forest fire, drought, acquittal, postpartum depression, hunting, depression, pregnancy, fear of death, forest, wedding ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
self discovery, culture clash, lifestyle, love and romance, society, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, social differences, infidelity, youth, male female relationship ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
suburbs, murder, relationship vs career, family life, couples, family relations, friends, social relations, couple relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, introspection, society, couples, suburban life, suburbs, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
"Fanny" is the second part of the "Marseille trilogy", made by Marcel Pagnol with the generic name of "Marius, Fanny and César". Fanny falls in love and is abandoned by Marius. Now she discovers she is pregnant. Her ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
wedding, broken heart, parents and children, pregnancy, love and romance, society, social differences, couple relations, unfulfillment, couples, rich man, sailor ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
france, marseille, south of france
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
pregnancy, couples, couple relations, pregnant woman, addiction, supportive spouse, husband wife relationship, relationships, male female relationship, physician, relationship vs career, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
latin america, france, paris france
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
high society, alcoholism, girl, alcohol abuse, performer's life, strong female presence, unfulfillment, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, society, betrayal, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, versailles
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lucy Honeychurch (Elaine Cassidy, Ghost Squad) and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in ...
Style:
period piece, realistic, serious, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, lovers apart, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, couples, wooing, fall in love, world war one, male pubic hair, skinny dipping, holiday ...
Time:
victorian era, edwardian era, 1910s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
britain, europe, florence
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
suburbs, society, estrangement, unfulfillment, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, dull life, human nature, multiple storylines, one day, sexual content ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Courbevoie (France), 1971. Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
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39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
social differences, friendship, family relations, hopes, family life, unfulfilled love, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women, lesbian ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, france, normandy
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Place:
france, europe
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36%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
road trip, family problems, introspection, human nature, dysfunctional family, elderly, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, hopes, on the road, married couple, comedian ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as ...
Style:
saga, realistic, costume drama, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family business, fall in love, workplace, society, parents and children, unfulfillment, relationship vs career, victorian england, rivalry, impossible love, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, europe, northern germany
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, tense ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, couples, family life, family in crisis, midlife crisis, family problems, parents and children, society, crumbling marriage, suburban life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
36%
419
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, touching
Plot:
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Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of ...
Style:
sexual, cerebral, political, art house, philosophical ...
Plot:
marriage of convenience, wedding night, stroke, tumor, death of husband, orphan, deaf mute, nightmare, maid, passion, amputation, disability ...
Time:
1920s, year 1970, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
spain, france, europe
Similarity:
36%
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:
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Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, death of mother, love letter, family relations, mother son relationship, death, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, elderly, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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europe, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Actor Gerard Depardieu co-directed this drama about a married woman who falls in love with another man. Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy, semi autobiographical
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, infidelity, crumbling marriage, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, opposites attract, couples, dull life, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, normandy
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
farm, estrangement, countryside, workplace situations, workplace, society, nothing goes right, down on your luck, life is a bitch, tradition, chore, solitude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age. Each reacts in a different way: Hurt’s distinguished architect chases after his glory days, while Rossellini’s housewife installs ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
aging, self discovery, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, couple relations, unfulfillment, elderly, marriage, retirement, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, hopes, siblings relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Jean has been married to Francoise for years, but his relationship with his wife has been all but over for a long time. She's hardly ever around, always traveling to Russia for work, and she drifts in and out of the film as well, reflecting the ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, talky, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional marriage, submissive woman, psychological abuse, male female relationship, adulterous husband, husband wife estrangement, complicated relationship, machismo, husband wife relationship, love story, summer, marital problem ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, paris france, normandy, france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
Style:
enigmatic, meditative, compassionate, depressing, stylized ...
Plot:
unemployment, greed, self discovery, character study, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, couple relations, down on your luck, family problems, husband wife relationship, thief ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, france, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
seaport, lovers apart, marriage proposal, obsession, couples, follow your dream, hopes, unfulfillment, couple relations, unfulfilled love, working class, sailor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
france, marseille, south of france
Similarity:
34%
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