Movies like Before the Winter Chill

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Before the Winter Chill (2013)
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Before the Winter Chill (2013)
Original name: Avant l'hiver
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story: They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his life, Paul can’t resist the lure of an ambiguous and dangerous relationship with a mysterious young woman. Might there be something sinister behind the roses delivered to his office and the “chance” meetings?
Style: realistic, tense, serious, psychological, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: therapist, dangerous attraction, intrigue, couples, femme fatale, hospital, danger, sister sister relationship, illness, rivalry, infidelity, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, who to trust, power relations, prostitute, stalker, doctor, suicide, surgeon, psychiatrist, surgery, target, middle aged, truth ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: france
Keyword: operation

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about couples, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, power relations, couple relations and society mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Before the Winter Chill: Bodybuilder (2014), In Your Hands (2010), In His Hands (2005), My Wife's Romance (2011), Wild Camp (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bodybuilder (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Twenty year old Antoine has made enemies of a gang of young thugs, to whom he owes money. Fed up with his scams and petty crimes, his mother and older brother decide to send Antoine to his father's place in Saint-Etienne. The two men ...
Style: captivating, realistic, tense, psychological
Plot: bodybuilding, gym, father son relationship, hiding place, sport competition, weightlifting, training, theft, estranged father, rivalry, fitness, female bodybuilder ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014
Place: france, lyon
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In Your Hands (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Stockholm Syndrome. Feelings arise between a young kidnapper and his victim, a woman surgeon. He seeks revenge for a medical accident that prevents him from living peacefully and decides to kidnapp the woman he holds responsible. When the latter ...
Style: serious, tense, emotional, realistic, neo noir
Plot: vengeance, dangerous attraction, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, stockholm syndrome, danger, grudge, couples, fall in love, imprisonment, police, kidnapper kidnapped relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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In His Hands (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: serial killer, dangerous attraction, couples, danger, dishonesty, murder, suspicion, psychology, infidelity, scalpel, female nudity, veterinarian ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
My Wife's Romance (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Paul dies, he leaves his wife Eve with a mountain of debt. As the police begin their investigation into Paul’s death, Eve is supported by a lawyer named Chollet, a friend of her husband who generously helps her to clear the debts she has ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: dishonesty, missing person, twists and turns, couples, friends, law enforcement, femme fatale, infidelity, friendship, manipulation, police, lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Wild Camp (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Un camping au bord d'un lac pendant les vacances d'été. Camille, 17 ans, y traîne son ennui coincée entre ses parents et son petit ami. Elle rencontre Blaise, la quarantaine, tout juste embauché comme moniteur de voile. Camille et ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: summer camp, opposites attract, couple relations, rebelliousness, dangerous attraction, unlikely couple, love affair, teenage life, family problems, couples, estrangement, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Bas-fonds (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min.
Story: On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a ...
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, tense, surreal ...
Plot: murder, manipulation, destructive relationship, femme fatale, life is a bitch, lifestyle, couples, family relations, female psychopath, strong female presence, gender, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Trapped (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The suicide was easy, getting away with everything else could be murder.
Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: protagonist as suspect, legal investigation, mind game, manhunt, femme fatale, dishonesty, betrayal, crumbling marriage, rivalry, danger, dangerous attraction, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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I've Loved You So Long (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Style: touching, realistic, psychological, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: family drama, prison, physician, character study, ex convict, job seeking, complex characters, honest, parenthood, loss of son, sibling relationship, estrangement ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Language of the Enemy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An American Jewish man visiting Jerusalem for the funeral of his father gets sucked into a world of violent intrigue after meeting a mysterious, beautiful Palestinian woman.
Style: realistic, tense, emotional, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: terrorism, political unrest, danger, politics, couples, israeli palestinian conflict, society, unfulfillment, undercover, femme fatale, intrigue, life turned upside down ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestinian authority, middle east, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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7 Years (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a ...
Style: sincere, tense, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: sex scene, moral dilemma, confined, cheating wife, prison life, love triangle, couples, sexual content, love and romance, crumbling marriage, infidelity, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Freeway (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alex, 25 years old, lives a life divided between his custom car that he pampers to the point of insanity, his friends, his girlfriend, whose baby girl he had under duress, and his job as a forklift operator. An exclusive passion, with its rituals ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Trust Me (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mari is a talented but insecure chef who dreams of running her own restaurant. She goes through a challenging professional time, taking orders from an authoritarian boss who inhibits her talent. One day she meets Caio, a charming young man who ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, realistic
Plot: dangerous attraction, couples, cons and scams, betrayal, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, restaurant, twists and turns, love, revenge plot, food ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Small World (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: mental illness, investigation, memory loss, haunted by the past, society, family relations, family life, flashback, power relations, amateur detective, social differences, dishonesty ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Silver Tongues (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two lovers travel from town to town playing a dark game of deceit that soon spirals out of control, threatening their very relationship.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: hidden identity, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, juggling, love and romance, society, crumbling relationship, mental disorder, sexual content, infidelity, manipulation
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 5.4
 750
An Open Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mila and Javier, both renowned surgeons and both passionate about their work, have been madly in love for the past 10 years. They have always taken great care to preserve their extraordinary love for each other and refuse to succumb to the routine ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy
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Crossed Tracks (2007)
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Duration: 103 min.
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Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological, clever ...
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Anna M. (2007)
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Duration: 106 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hip Moves (2012)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair ...
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An accident overthrows Ernst and Cecilia's well-ordered life. Chance rules in Ernst's rational world while Cecilia is searching for a deeper meaning in what has happened. As they drift further and further apart a mysterious stranger with ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
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Three Worlds (2012)
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Duration: 101 min.
Story: Al, a young man from a modest background is about to marry his boss’ daughter, along with succeeding him as the head of a car dealership. One night, while coming back from his bachelor party, he is guilty of a hit-and-run accident, urged by his ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
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32%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, tense ...
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Blood from a Stone (2011)
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Style: thought provoking, realistic, cynical, serious, captivating ...
Plot: bankruptcy, save the day, workplace, rivalry, factory, labor union, working class, society, boss and employee, workplace situations, employer, strike ...
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Stretch (2011)
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Now or Never (2014)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, gloomy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Insecure (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
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Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Laws of Deception (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
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Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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