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The Child Woman (1980)
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Original name: La Femme enfant
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years, their bond grows stronger, as Marcel seems to be the only person she can connect to.
Style:
emotional, controversial, psychological, art house, period piece, aesthetic, nostalgic
Plot:
teenage girl, gardener, organ, children, coming of age, taboo, female protagonist, loneliness, female sexuality, melancholy, small town, sexual awakening, moral ambiguity, mute character, intimate, obsession, escape, isolation, loss, abandonment, caretaker, provincial life, village, female nudity, church ...
Place:
france
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Most similar movies to The Child Woman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, psychological, melancholic and emotional films with plots about intimate, coming of age, isolation, female protagonist, loneliness, female nudity and character study mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Child Woman: Circle of Two (1980), The Sacred Mound (1993), My Rabbit is the Best (1982), Just Like at Home (1978), Unruly (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the impossible love between a schoolgirl and a 60-year old painter
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, older man younger woman romance, female nudity, coming of age, age-gap relationship, male female relationship, teenage girl, painter, topless woman, attempted rape, nudity, may december romance ...
Time:
year 1981
Place:
new york, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness ...
Style:
tension, psychological, atmospheric, melancholic, art house
Plot:
coming of age, island, wedding, fire, lighthouse, sexual awakening, obsession, jealousy, loneliness, character study, sexual tension, isolation ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire ...
Style:
erotic, controversial, erotic drama, intense, dark ...
Plot:
bdsm, male nudity, erotica, lesbian, sexploitation, sexual abuse, taboo, female protagonist, manipulation, teenage sexuality, emotional abuse, underage ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man and a kid are discovering beauty in life.
Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic, existential, period piece
Plot:
father daughter relationship, children, loneliness, loss, getting home, relationships, bonding, alienation, intimate, nostalgia, humanism, mourning ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The year is 1933, and society has certain expectations of how young women should behave. 17-year-old Maren is wild and unruly and is in turn sent to the women's institution at Sprogø to become more compliant. The stay at Sprogø has the ...
Style:
psychological, historical drama, thrilling, captivating, period piece ...
Plot:
female protagonist, teenager, relationships, teenage life, social issues, social problems, sorority, teenage girl, coming of age, friendship, confined, isolation ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After Yoon, a professor of philosophy, fell from a heart attack, his wife brings in Sookhee, a care attendant. She treats her patient like her child as well as giving him sexual excitement.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, erotic, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual arousal, male female relationship, relationships, sexual relations, sexual desire, care, relationship problems, nursing, sexual attraction, co worker co worker relationship, employer employee relationship, sick ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Liane, 19 years old, daring and fiery, lives with her mother and little sister under the dusty sun of Fréjus in the South of France. Obsessed with beauty and the need to become “someone”, she sees reality TV as her opportunity to be loved... ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional
Plot:
female protagonist, ambition, audition, acting audition, ambitious woman, self discovery, coming of age, youth, celebrity culture, identity, transformation, escape ...
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A lonely young Japanese student, Ai Narushima (Kana Ito) goes on a field trip with her school. At night she decides to take a taxi into the city. The Chinese taxi driver, Bo Tony Ho, is also a lonely soul and on a whim, decides to kidnap the young ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, controversial, erotic drama ...
Plot:
kidnapping, loneliness, taxi driver, relationship problems, child kidnapping, child abduction, abduction, lonely, mature, forbidden romance, sadness, isolation ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he impersonates another man as a gardener at a Portuguese country house, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric, existential ...
Plot:
grief, loss, character study, loneliness, identity, intimate, country house, memory, minimalism, friendship, impostor, gardener ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
Similarity:
32%
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:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Min Jung's husband has been traveling for 300 days and she feels lonely. When her friend Chung Hee moves in next door, Min Jung often visits her house, during which she keeps meeting Jae Ho, Jung Hee's son. After having an impulsive affair ...
Style:
sensual, erotic drama, emotional, intense
Plot:
taboo, sexual tension, infidelity, adultery, married woman, affair, moral dilemma, temptation, infatuation, forbidden romance, black ops, intimate ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A high-school girl who lives in a rural town in Japan struggles to define her own way in life. To help her impoverished family she works as a video fetish performer which leads to problems for her and her family with a criminal underworld.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, desperation, high school, poverty, problem, teenage life, life is a bitch, social problems, teenager, money problems, japanese girl, female protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
Style:
erotic drama, controversial, sensual, art house, period piece
Plot:
incest, brother sister sex, sibling relationship, forbidden romance, taboo, sexual tension, moral ambiguity, shame, guilt, european, intimate, alienation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
barcelona, ibiza
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A mentally handicapped young man decides to leave the security of his family in order to search the purpose of his existence; whether it is freedom, sexual experience or death.
Style:
realistic, emotional, independent film, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
mentally challenged, character study, empathy, journey, coming of age, identity crisis, family conflict, intimate, sexual awakening, social isolation, sexual exploration, sexual content ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Yaki just wanted to make a porn film. As a child growing up in an ultra-orthodox family (very religious), he never even heard about this "dubious" genre. Actually, he never even encountered the world of television and film. After shooting ...
Style:
experimental, independent film, avant garde, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
religion, sexuality, taboo, religious conflict, filmmaking, creative process, identity, gay, intimate, identity crisis, mature, transgression ...
Similarity:
28%
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:
28%
173
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Israel, Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Chara’s family is everything to her, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. When she strikes up a hesitant friendship with a young girl, she is inexorably forced to confront a painful past and to answer a burning question: Is ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
motherhood, domestic drama, character study, identity, female protagonist, gender roles, intimate, realism, family secret, trauma, friendship, intimacy ...
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Paralysed by fear of the future, a middle aged French bureaucrat escapes to Brazil where a destructive affair with a boy forces her to learn to live in the present.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, art house, existential ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, female protagonist, self destructing, midlife crisis, obsession, woman, relationships, couple relations, couples, life, love affair, love interest ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Abraham, an old man, has a fruit garden in Jerusalem that is threatened by a number of people who want to buy him out or chase him off. One day, the old man finds a mute young woman (Melanie Griffith), confused after being attacked by thugs, ...
Style:
emotional, art house, contemplative, surreal, period piece
Plot:
mute girl, garden, religion, old man, melancholy, sexual assault, loneliness, urbanization, faith, trauma, social commentary, invasion ...
Time:
70s
Place:
jerusalem, israel
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
26%
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:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The people of this remote village in the Black Forest don't talk much, but when they do, it's in the Alemannic dialect. Hanna, 21 has traveled far to work here. She shovels manure, milks cows and tries to cope with the farmer, Uwe Kiefer, ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, independent film, bleak ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, character study, intimate, isolation, social realism, alienation, male protagonist, moral dilemma, secrets, financial ruin, mistrust ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
secret, art student, grief, coming of age, loss, summer, female protagonist, relationships, life is a bitch, self discovery, beauty, intimate ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A disturbed young woman runs away from her New Zealand home and hides away in an Australian boarding house, named Terra Nova. There she finds that every one else in the boarding house is just as zany as she is, and on some levels make her seem sane ...
Style:
psychological, independent film, melancholic, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
boarding house, mental health, female protagonist, mental illness, character study, a vision, outsider, delusion, isolation, domestic drama, identity, trauma ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand, australia
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"I am" tells the story of Kundel, a boy searching for his place in life, his identity. After running away from an orphanage where he is treated as an outcast among outcasts by both his peers and the adults in charge, and being rejected a ...
Style:
realistic, poignant, emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, children, childhood, child protagonist, youth, friendship, self discovery, orphanage, adolescence, boy, survival, intimate ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those four walls to a timeless magic land where the sea speaks ...
Style:
slow cinema, touching, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
loneliness, dog, old age, loss, dream, isolation, death of husband, imagination, female protagonist, intimate, introspection, reflection ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house ...
Style:
poignant, psychological, art house, black and white
Plot:
loneliness, widower, female protagonist, melancholy, doomed romance, small town, provincial life, failed marriage, character study, isolation, marriage, unrequited love ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
210
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Faced with the trials and obstacles of life, the tight-knit community of Ste-Adeline has always remained united. But this time it's in shock and will have to face a situation that will confront the inhabitants with their contradictions. At the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, social, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, teenager, social commentary, small town, hypocrisy, community, secrets, family drama, life, adolescence, social issues ...
Similarity:
23%
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