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Tear This Heart Out (2008)
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Tear This Heart Out (2008)
Original name: Arráncame la Vida
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 account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, stylized, romantic, political, novela, epic
Plot: couples, infidelity, fall in love, rise to the top, family problems, crumbling marriage, politics, love and romance, revolution, ambition, crumbling relationship, state affairs, social climbing, society, unfulfillment, lovers, dysfunctional marriage, mexican revolution, world war one, totalitarian regime, political intrigue, phd, bare chested male, contests and competitions, military ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 30s, 40s
Place: latin america, mexico
Keyword: mexican

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, infidelity, family problems and dishonesty mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Tear This Heart Out: Existence (2000), My Brother's Wife (2005), Crystal River (2008), Adrift (2009), Belonging (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Existence (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Astitva is a bold film with adultery. An ambitious male chauvinist and his loving wife are happily married but the guy is not able to give time to the family as he want to make it big in life. His work is of paramount importance to him. His work ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, social ...
Plot: seduction, independence, husband wife relationship, family relations, dysfunctional marriage, family problems, crumbling marriage, love and romance, dishonesty, breakup, infidelity, unsupportive spouse ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, asia
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100%
My Brother's Wife (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After almost 10 years of marriage, attractive Zoe discovers that her marriage lacks passion and surprise, and is seduced by the possibility of finding those sensations already forgotten in her husband's brother. From this premise a series of ...
Style: romantic, captivating, erotic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, infidelity, sexual desire, unhappy marriage, passion, cheating wife, love triangle, neglectful husband, family relations, love and romance, male female relationship, profanity ...
Place: usa, mexico, los angeles, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Crystal River (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The story is of a married woman who, grieving her inability to have children, finds comfort and healing in her friendship with another man. It's about discovering grace in darkness and the unexpected places we find healing.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: infidelity, friendship, human nature, couples, family problems, mysterious character, love and romance, crumbling marriage, friends, bare chested male, married, woman ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Adrift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Adrift begins with the wedding of Duyen and Hai. Duyen is a beautiful tourist guide and translator who marries Hai, a taxi driver who is two years her junior. Duyen thinks the marriage will make her happy but it turns out more difficult, especially ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, sexual relations, infidelity, forbidden love, self discovery, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, tour guide, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Belonging (2004)
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: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Truce (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Martín Santomé has been woking in an office for the last 50 years, but his life will change when he starts falling in love with a woman named Laura Avellaneda.
Style: stylized, emotional, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, elderly, love affair, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, gender, couples, hopes, fall in love, midlife crisis, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
July Rhapsody (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love affair, love triangle, moral dilemma, couples, love and romance, dishonesty, midlife crisis, family problems, breakup, youth, fall in love, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Married/Unmarried (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Obsession and doubt control four friends' relationship.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, semi serious
Plot: love affair, looking for love, dysfunctional family, infidelity, family problems, couples, young lovers, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couple relations, youth, destructive relationship ...
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their ...
Style: erotic, sexy, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: sexual abuse, obsession, couple relations, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional marriage, nudity, infidelity, erotica, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: beverly hills, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Rational Solution (2009)
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. ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, clever, offbeat ...
Plot: open marriage, love triangle, love and romance, working class, society, crumbling marriage, fall in love, couples, family problems, infidelity, buddies, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Days and Clouds (2007)
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: touching, serious, realistic, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: unemployment, couples, ambition, downfall, lifestyle, self discovery, relationship vs career, infidelity, life turned upside down, society, crumbling marriage, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Jealousy (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A month before he's to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman's friend Cinta, and his friend Luis who introduced him to Carmen. Cinta ...
Style: sexual, manga, eros, serious, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, male nudity, female nudity, female pubic hair, obsession, factory, truck driver, jealous husband, voyeurism, nudity, wedding, family problems ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Little Jerusalem (2005)
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, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, culture clash, society, lifestyle, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, infidelity, social differences, youth, male female relationship ...
Place: middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 475
Morlang (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, a chilling psychological drama. A couple's secret pact takes an unexpected, sinister turn.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: betrayal, art, couple relations, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, vengeance, love and romance, dishonesty, couples, family problems, infidelity, unfulfillment ...
Place: ireland, europe, netherlands, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Love Chronicles: Secrets Revealed (2010)
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, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love affair, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, media, family problems, love and romance, society, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, ambition, radio show
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Automatic (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style: contemplative, captivating, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: family problems, couples, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, destiny, sexual relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Mentor (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, university, friendship, college, unfulfillment, ambition, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
 753
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
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Pilgrimage (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, India, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Kunhikuttan, a famous Kathakali dancer, meets Subhadra, a woman from an upper caste family, who falls in love with his character rather than himself.
Style: epic, emotional, gloomy, stylized, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love affair, dancer, rejection, family relations, single mother, family life, legends and myths, parents and children, couples, love and romance, ambition, fall in love ...
Time: 1930s
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 315
Desire (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
Style: stylized, captivating, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: love affair, love triangle, dangerous attraction, nazism, infidelity, political unrest, state affairs, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, betrayal, society ...
Time: 1930s
Place: spain, madrid, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.7
 180
You (2007)
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, captivating, psychological, gloomy
Plot: love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 1K
Knifer (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus, Greece
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After his father death, Nikos moves from Ptolemaida to Athens. His uncle offers him food and shelter while he starts taking care of his dogs. Alone in an isolated suburb, he's wearing down into his misery routine, till the moment his ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: starting over, love triangle, family problems, couples, dull life, unfulfillment, infidelity, murder, sex scene, uncle nephew relationship, aunt, hot and sexy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Loveholic (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Film examines the matters of labor and love. After losing her job, a single professional woman moves into her friend's flat -- where she develops an attraction to her friend's husband. Meanwhile, the friend finds herself falling for one of ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, captivating
Plot: love affair, destructive relationship, fall in love, relationship vs career, dishonesty, ambition, couple relations, love and romance, under the surface, couples, thirtysomething life, cheating wife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 1K
Drama/Mex (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two interlaced stories unfold over the course of the same long, hot day in the once lush and now decadent resort town of Acapulco. The first involves the beautiful and cool Fernanda, who is forced to deal with the sudden emergence of her ex-lover, ...
Style: serious, captivating, sexy, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, resort, love and romance, slice of life, suicide attempt, teenager, beach, rivalry, multiple storylines, sexual deviant, hot and sexy, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, acapulco mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.0
 435
He Loves Me (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Laura begins to suspect her husband is cheating on her, she is devastated by his infidelity, despite having a torrid affair of her own. While she desperately tries to save her marriage, Laura's mysterious past begins to emerge, making her ...
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, sex scene, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, stalking, dishonesty, memory loss, suburban life, midlife crisis, manipulation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 241
Sofie (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story: From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, religions or cults, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, fall in love, society, love and romance, introspection ...
Time: year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.0
 508
Limbo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Sonia arrives in Trinidad with her two children to join her husband Jo who is working as an oil engineer. On the surface she lives a life of luxury in a large houses with servants. The days are uneventful and blend together into an everlasting ...
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: infidelity, couples, family problems, introspection, social relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, unfulfillment, children, love affair, monastery, strong female presence ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.2
 988
Purpose (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A software developer becomes a billionaire and is distracted by fame, greed and power, then must save his invention and company from a hostile takeover.
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: relationship vs career, rivalry, redemption, rise to the top, infidelity, materialism, ambition, lifestyle, business, financier, company, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
 367
Majesty (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: One hour before the State Opening of Parliament, something very unusual happens. The Prime Minister appears and demands an adjustment to the Queen's speech. The speech concerns aid to Africa. Even with all the pressure around the State Opening, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating
Plot: royal family, politics, couples, private vs public, family relations, love and romance, head of state, forbidden love, society, disagreement, royal court, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland, africa, south africa, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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