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A Rational Solution (2009)
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Original name: Det enda rationella
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Four of Sweden's top actors anchor Jörgen Bergmark's tragi-comedy about a couple, both marriage counsellors, who find themselves in deep water when the husband falls for his best friend's wife. A smart, funny film made for adults. Nominated for Best Film at the 2009 Ghent International Film Festival.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, clever, offbeat, witty
Plot:
love triangle, couples, infidelity, middle aged woman, love and romance, fall in love, society, working class, crumbling marriage, buddies, against the rules, couple relations, midlife crisis, marriage crisis, skinny dipping, relationships, blaster, sex with friend's wife, friends, unfulfillment, female nudity, sex scene, adulterous husband, factory, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and touching films with plots about couples, infidelity, love and romance, unfulfillment, couple relations, crumbling marriage and family problems mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Rational Solution: Family Secrets (2001), Summer '04 (2006), Daybreak (2003), One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005), Heaven's Heart (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Autumn 1978 in suburban Sweden. Everything seems to be fine with the middle class Bendrick family with their two teenage children and a younger son, until the mother starts seeing her first love again after 20 years. Just like their badly built ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, suspense, sentimental
Plot:
life turned upside down, love affair, family life, couple relations, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, under the surface, family problems, teenage life, family in crisis, parents and children, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, erotic, sensual ...
Plot:
grownups, gender, battle of the sexes, infidelity, innocence lost, adultery, sex scene, social decay, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, love affair, destructive relationship ...
Place:
germany
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style:
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Plot:
infidelity, vengeance, crumbling marriage, family problems, parents and children, love affair, dishonesty, redemption, introspection, couple relations, couples, family relations ...
Place:
europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style:
semi serious, witty, touching, humorous, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, fall in love, couple relations, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, infidelity, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.
Style:
psychological, contemplative, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot:
infidelity, love affair, estrangement, best friend, anniversary, family problems, society, introspection, couple relations, unfulfillment, marriage, dinner ...
Place:
denmark, eastern europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Love Chronicles, a romantic “dramedy”, is set at Los Angeles radio station KLUV, where callers air their dirty laundry over the airwaves for all to hear. Over the course of one crazy day, show host and "relationship expert" Darren ...
Style:
semi serious, talky, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love affair, family problems, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, media, love and romance, society, marriage crisis, radio station, infidelity, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A comedy centered on Beth and Mark, a couple struggling to conceive, and Mark's unexpectedly helpful affair with Louise.
Style:
realistic, sincere, captivating, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
couple relations, love affair, infidelity, moral dilemma, crumbling marriage, dull life, love and romance, dishonesty, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rita is about to marry a wealthy physician, Dr. Augusto Vilela. One night, Vilela's best friend, Camilo, is brought to the hospital, dying from an overdose. Vilela saves his life and introduces him to his fiancée. Rita and Camilo fall in love ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, fall in love, love triangle, couples, friends, sexual relations, twists and turns, couple relations, sex scene, psychiatrist, doctor, hot and sexy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Obsession and doubt control four friends' relationship.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, semi serious
Plot:
looking for love, love affair, dysfunctional family, infidelity, family problems, couples, young lovers, couple relations, love and romance, destructive relationship, crumbling marriage, youth ...
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Eva is beautiful, irresponsible, self-absorbed and emotionally disconnected. Her life is all about the right clothes, the right people and the right places. Her life is turned upside down when she loses her job and alienates her friends by cheating ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
opposites attract, friendship, alienation, love and romance, destiny, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cheating girlfriend, nordic, store, dark humor, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, age difference, senior citizen, friends, couples, unfulfillment, love and romance, writer's life, couple relations, human nature, fall in love, introspection ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 1920s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, california, tokyo
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, ...
Style:
sexy, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
unemployment, couples, lifestyle, relationship vs career, self discovery, downfall, infidelity, crumbling marriage, family problems, love and romance, life turned upside down, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, venice
Similarity:
30%
925
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
23-year-old "Dino" (Bianca Kronlöf) dreams of a different life. Like an abundance of Swedes her age, she has fled the mass unemployment of her home country in search of a more worthwhile existence in a nouveau-riche Oslo. But her new life ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
working class, love triangle, society, power relations, dishonesty, infidelity, life is a bitch, unemployment, intrigue, racist, marriage crisis, love ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Daniel (Roberto Enríquez), Ana (Natalia Millán), and their little boy, Manuel (Kevin Almodóvar), travel from Madrid to a resort on the Costa Brava for the summer. Ana runs into Marta (Irene Montalà of L'Auberge Espagnole), a local shopgirl ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sexy, sincere, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
seduction, obsession, love triangle, mentally unstable, dishonesty, destructive relationship, family problems, crumbling marriage, friendship, resort, husband wife relationship, cuckolded husband ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, madrid
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, friendship, infidelity, friends, couple relations, haunted by the past, love triangle, mental disorder, filmmaking, art, movie business, lecture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jeju island, korea, asia
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29%
260
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
arranged marriage, girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, nudity, religions or cults, family problems, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, love triangle, friendship, youth, human nature, society, family relations, working class, fall in love, teenager, betrayal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, sensual, sexual, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
swinger, mate swapping, swingers, swinger couple, wife swapping, husband wife relationship, marriage, couple relations, couples, self discovery, male female relationship, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love affair with his colleague.
Style:
serious, realistic, clever, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
infidelity, introspection, life turned upside down, love affair, love triangle, dishonesty, journalism, crumbling marriage, couple relations, destructive relationship, obsession, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, france, greece, athens greece
Similarity:
29%
184
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
29%
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
love affair, love triangle, moral dilemma, infidelity, couples, breakup, tragic love, love and romance, family problems, teachers and students, midlife crisis, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, melancholic, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
29%
712
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, realistic, contemplative
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, breakup, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, sister, death in the family, sister sister relationship, female nudity, alienation, suicide ...
Time:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, serious
Plot:
love triangle, politics, love affair, dishonesty, head of state, couples, infidelity, rivalry, state affairs, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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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:
middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
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240
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Self Made tells the story of two women - one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a checkpoint, they find themselves living the life of the other on the opposite side of the border.
Style:
realistic, surreal, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
couples, self discovery, mistaken identity, love and romance, memory loss, introspection, disorder, society, impossible love, performer's life, unfulfillment, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestinian authority, middle east
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, romantic ...
Plot:
couples, lovers, infidelity, fall in love, family problems, rise to the top, crumbling marriage, politics, ambition, state affairs, love and romance, revolution ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home.
Style:
art house, independent film, psychological, realistic, serious
Plot:
infidelity, love affair, nudity, affair, female nudity, extramarital affair, wedding ring, archaeologist, church, physician, hospital, art ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, london
Similarity:
28%
419
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, touching
Plot:
love affair, family relations, family problems, society, family in crisis, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, couples, betrayal, love and romance, working class, crumbling marriage ...
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
28%
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