Movies like Without Love
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Without Love (1980)
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Original name: Bez miłości
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
reporter, ambition, ethical dilemma, journalism, female protagonist, ambitious woman, character study, obsession, manipulation, moral ambiguity, downfall, social climbing, realism, professional rivalry, social commentary, interview, urban, bittersweet, cold war era, celebrity culture, success, journalist, career, single mother, media ...
Time:
80s
Place:
warsaw poland, eastern europe, poland, rome italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period piece, intense, tense and psychological films with plots about character study, urban, moral ambiguity, psychological drama, ethical dilemma, social commentary and obsession mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Without Love: When the Heavens Fell (1972), The Death of John L. (1988), Scandal Sheet (1985), Women's Day (2012), Time of Desires (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
tabloid journalism, scandal, privacy invasion, politician, female protagonist, betrayal, media manipulation, moral ambiguity, shame, ethical dilemma, societal hypocrisy, love triangle ...
Time:
70s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Zbigniew Gasior, a thirty year old singer, is a youth idol. Despite fame, money and success with the ladys, he can't neglect the emptiness in his life. The shattered dreams of his friends are not really a help, to ease his existential pains.
Style:
period piece, bleak
Plot:
loneliness, singer, character study, fame, celebrity, introspection, showbiz, alienation, identity, male protagonist, melancholy, existential crisis ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
Style:
suspense, period piece, art house
Plot:
revenge, grudge, character study, female empowerment, confrontation, female rivalry, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, social realism, oppression, polish history, justice ...
Time:
80s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoholism.
Style:
intense, eighties
Plot:
scandal, alcoholism, defamation, celebrity culture, manipulation, ambition, revenge, betrayal, moral ambiguity, urban, media satire, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Helina, a modest checkout assistant at the Butterfly retail chain, dreams about getting a better life for herself and her daughter. An opportunity presents itself when Helina becomes a store manager. However, she soon discovers that the price for ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supermarket, single mother, injustice, fraud, working class, social commentary, female protagonist, exploitation, character study, social realism, moral dilemma, coworker ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A woman focused on career and achievement alienates her husband.
Style:
tense, melancholic, period piece, atmospheric
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ambition, marriage of convenience, female protagonist, social climbing, materialism, frustration, character study, domestic drama, cautionary tale, manipulation, tragedy, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Chandraprakash, a well-known TV news anchor, comes under undue pressure from his higher-ups to bring competitive exclusives, which urges him to leave the job. When a rival media group offers him a new job, he rebrands himself into a loud, tyrannical ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, intense
Plot:
media, news anchor, ethical dilemma, journalism, social commentary, social problems, problem, tv host, anchorman, workplace, job, workplace situations ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Frank (Miller) is a gay journalist who goes undercover at the urging of his therapist boyfriend Jonathan (Provenza) to write an exposé of Dr. Apsey (Butler). Apsey performs conversion therapy on gay male clients, a practice which Jonathan finds ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, independent film, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, lgbt, conversion therapy, gay lead character, therapy, sexuality, therapist, psychological manipulation, deception, gay couple, manipulation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
51%
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394
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the ...
Style:
psychological, political, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalinism, torture, catholic, character study, biopic, faith, physical torture, problem, male female relationship, abuse of power, interrogation, totalitarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
51%
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:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the "emotional quotient" or the ability to bounce back from adverse, tragic circumstances. Witold has been ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, bleak, intellectual, tragic
Plot:
corruption, grief, character study, moral dilemma, family drama, existential crisis, bureaucracy, frustration, social realism, betrayal, class struggle, anti hero ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
eastern europe, poland, himalaya
Similarity:
47%
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:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator. He is weak and a bit cowardly, ...
Style:
reflective, bleak, melancholic, dramatic, road movie ...
Plot:
world war two, identity, theater, flashback, actress, nazi occupation, suicide, guilt, female protagonist, survival, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
warsaw poland, paris france, poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Silvia, a single mother and a lawyer, is implicated in a corruption scandal. But in addition to trouble at work, she is also facing a more crippling problem: her mother’s cancer has returned. While she is forced to face up to her mother’s ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
single mother, cancer, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, corruption, lawyer, family drama, fighting illness, family relations, illness, life is a bitch, problem ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.
Style:
tense, suspense, period drama
Plot:
suicide attempt, suicide, mental health, police inspector, psychotherapy, rescue attempt, character study, empathy, intervention, desperation, mistaken identity, confession ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
While doing a story on the intrusion of surreptitious surveillance in peoples' private lives, a television reporter rents some surveillance equipment to get a feel for what it's like to spy.
Style:
suspense, creepy, period piece, independent film, deviant
Plot:
surveillance, voyeurism, obsession, privacy invasion, paranoia, ethical dilemma, social commentary, peeping tom, investigative journalism, guilty conscience, urban, loneliness ...
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Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, atmospheric
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
39%
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Country: Romania
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The destiny of the man who led the gendarme team after a LGBT film screening in Bucharest, revealed through an investigation by Liliana Calomfir, a young journalist known for her daring reporting.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
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Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Nick (Mike Pantozzi) gets his girls the same way he gets his music: online. On a first date, Eva (Jessi Kneeland) invites him to an exclusive filesharing community called ‘The Lionshare’. From there, Nick’s own creative frustration fuels his ...
Style:
mumblecore, independent film, realistic, rom com, black comedy
Plot:
piracy, dating, online dating, internet culture, social network, inspiration, creative process, music industry, ambition, obsession, social commentary, character study ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Belle Epoque Paris, Georges Duroy, a handsome, ambitious but penniless young man, reunites with his friend Forestier, editor-in-chief of a major financial newspaper. Forestier manages to find him a position at the newspaper. With his ...
Style:
costume drama, satirical, sensual
Audience:
adult
Plot:
manipulation, literary, social climbing, social commentary, ambition, seduction, character study, journalism, corruption, ambitious, hypocrisy, scandal ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Kieślowski’s study of a political strike, controversially told from the viewpoint of a Communist functionary trying to keep order.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, intense, educational ...
Plot:
working class, violence, civil unrest, character study, cold war era, social realism, ethical dilemma, bureaucracy, renaissance, political party, government, clerk ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A reporter who's about to lose his job, and who's daughter is very ill, starts a relationship with a married woman. Tragedy ensues.
Style:
emotional, poignant, tense, psychological, realistic
Plot:
tragedy, tragic romance, loss, family drama, extramarital affair, betrayal, guilt, infidelity, domestic drama, bittersweet, moral dilemma, regret ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, tense, grim, poignant, satirical
Plot:
race, manipulation, propaganda, oppression, power struggle, marathon, betrayal, corruption, irony, moral ambiguity, cold war era, sabotage ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
amputee, painting, desire, jealousy, love triangle, romantic triangle, obsession, seduction, danger, character study, moral ambiguity, adultery ...
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A hopeful young actress is lured to Hollywood by the seduction of fame and fortune. A friend she lives with while in Hollywood becomes her lover, and they both soon come to realize that the seedy Hollywood lifestyle is not for them.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, period piece, erotic, independent film
Plot:
hollywood, female protagonist, young woman, showbiz, frustration, aspiring actress, ambition, coming of age, young adult, backstage, bittersweet, character study ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An American journalist works for a French newspaper. He is writing an article about the reaction against people with AIDS, without knowing he is infected too. Once he finds out, he decides to cut off himself leaving his wife and daughter.
Style:
emotional, art house, medical drama, intercultural
Plot:
aids, journalist, social commentary, hiv, discrimination, branding iron, media, mortality, investigative reporter, family drama, prejudice, disease ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Armand, a 6-year-old boy, is accused of crossing boundaries against his best friend at elementary school. While no one knows what actually happened between the two boys, the incident triggers a series of events, forcing parents and school staff into ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Plot:
elementary school, accusation, obsession, redemption, child protagonist, teenager, social problems, life is a bitch, adolescence, teenage life, small town, misunderstanding ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
On August 12, 1985, a jumbo jet crashes, causing 520 fatalities, making the accident the biggest single-plane accident in the world. The local press reporters are tossed about by the waves of facts and rumors. While overwhelmed by the magnitude of ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
investigative journalism, tragedy, newspaper, journalism, disaster, airplane crash, airplane accident, news reporter, accident, reporter, investigative reporter, job ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When young Daria enters rehab to kick the drug habit her first love left her with, her perceived innocence saves her from the sexual advances of the mostly male junkies inside and gains her their protection. Suddenly thrown into the spotlight and ...
Style:
intense, emotional, dark, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
drug rehab, addiction, trauma, female protagonist, recovery, manipulation, survival, abuse of power, sexual content, sexual manipulation, character study, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After being the sole unfortunate witness to a domestic quarrel that ends up in murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer. The other is his very own conscience.
Style:
art house, suspenseful
Plot:
conscience, domestic drama, moral dilemma, guilt, moral ambiguity, character study, intimate, realism, witness, murder mystery, apartment building, unsettling ...
Place:
romania, bucharest
Similarity:
32%
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