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On Chesil Beach (2017)
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On Chesil Beach (2017)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1962 England, a young couple finds their idyllic romance colliding with issues of sexual freedom and societal pressure, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night.
Style: serious, period piece, costume drama, novela, sensitive, crying, weird, hot
Plot: newlyweds, wedding night, frigidity, sexual revolution, sexual abuse, beach, awkwardness, honeymoon, virgin, male virgin, marriage, brain damage, asexual, newlywed, loss of virginity, marital problem, husband wife conflict, first sexual experience, first time, first sex, virginity, musician, relationships, women, sex scene ...
Time: year 1962, year 2007, 60s, year 1975, 1960s
Keyword: cricket the game, movie theatre, watching a movie, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and independent film films with plots about food, kiss, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, drinking, singing and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like On Chesil Beach: The Hottest State (2006), A Heart of Stone (1992), Song to Song (2017), Too Beautiful for You (1989), Brooklyn (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hottest State (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: musician, sexuality, love affair, youth, couple relations, fall in love, young lovers, actor's life, musician's life, lifestyle, actor, living together ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city ...
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A Heart of Stone (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband's who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, thought provoking, sincere, anthology ...
Plot: love, classical music, music, obsession, violin, passion, unrequited love, love story, glamour, asexual, violinist, solitude ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: france, paris france, europe, hungary, geneva switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
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Song to Song (2017)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples ā€” struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares ā€” chase success through a rock ā€˜nā€™ roll landscape of ...
Style: stylized, serious, atmospheric, art house, independent film ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: love triangle, music, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, love, nightclub, restaurant, party, concert, infidelity, musician ...
Time: year 2017, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place: austin texas, texas, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Too Beautiful for You (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before ...
Style: talky, cynical, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, bittersweet, sexuality, adultery, marriage, love triangle, infidelity, pleasure, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, couple relations ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Brooklyn (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style: sentimental, touching, romantic, sweet, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: starting over, love and romance, immigrant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, female protagonist, immigration, true love, working class, homesickness, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2015, 1900s ...
Place: ireland, brooklyn new york city, new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, america ...
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By the Sea (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Malta, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of ...
Style: scenic, artsy, melancholic, depressing, psychological ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hotel, voyeurism, cigarette smoking, voyeur, depression, self pity, manuscript, travel, borderline personality disorder, husband wife relationship, female nudity, male nudity ...
Time: 70s, year 2015
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, atmospheric, emotional, period piece ...
Plot: friendship, violinist, polish, sisters, sister sister relationship, human nature, village life, aging, foreigner, bittersweet, rivalry, painter ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, cornwall, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Song for Martin (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, infidelity, couple relations, couples, love affair, violin, lifestyle, love and romance, musician's life, crumbling marriage, fall in love, family problems ...
Time: year 2001
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a ...
Style: psychological, sexy, romantic, costume drama, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: impossible love, new love, love, letter, magic realism, unlikely friendships, betrayal, multiple storylines, justice, visceral, epidemic, diary ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century, 1890s ...
Place: colombia, latin america, paris france, caribbean
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47%
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The Souvenir (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
Style: romantic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: love, sex scene, student, mother daughter relationship, women, filmmaker, love affair, destiny, hopes, fall in love, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 80s, year 2019, 2010s, year 1980, year 1960 ...
Place: italy, london, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: hotel, boarding house, spinster, female nudity, desperation, loneliness, piano, mental disorder, psychopath, aging, betrayal, bittersweet ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, america, texas ...
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Gloria Bell (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs.
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, melancholic, touching
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: middle age romance, dating, dancing, dysfunctional relationship, middle aged man, ex husband ex wife relationship, drinking, friendship, lie, friend, breakup, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2019, year 1986
Place: las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.0
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Valmont (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style: stylized, period piece, sensual, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: betrayal, virginity, seduction, manipulation, infidelity, virgin, tragedy, hypocrisy, couple relations, wager, love triangle, love ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1989, 80s, 20th century
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The Captive (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
Style: sexy, psychological, serious, erotic, slow cinema ...
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Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france, normandy
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her fatherā€™s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.
Style: romantic, captivating, emotional, period drama
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Time: 2020s, year 1957, 1950s, 60s, year 1967 ...
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46%
 7.1
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Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.
Style: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, humorous ...
Audience: adult
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Time: year 2019, 2010s, year 1943
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Mothering Sunday (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set over a day in 1924, the story follows Jane Fairchild, a maid in the Niven household, who has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven attend a lunch to celebrate the engagement of their neighbourā€™s only remaining son, ...
Style: romantic, captivating, non-linear
Plot: chambermaid, female nudity, female pubic hair, sex scene, nudity, love, horse, secret relationship, car crash, unrequited love, relationships, love affair ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
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Audience: adult
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Story: Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.
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Little Women (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Style: romantic, sentimental, inspirational, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, date night, family outing ...
Plot: love, sisters, writers, coming of age, generosity, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, friendship, intrigue, publisher, sister, jealousy ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Poland, UK, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Cold War-era love story follows the passionate love affair between a mismatched couple.
Style: black and white, romantic, sad, thought provoking, art film ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: cold war, musician, communism, audition, female singer, loveless marriage, love story, suicide, tragic love, jazz, folklore, defector ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 60s, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: poland, paris france, east berlin, former yugoslavia, eastern europe ...
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45%
God Help the Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Eve is a catastropheā€”low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick
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Time: year 1969, year 1981, 20th century, 21st century
Place: glasgow scotland, scotland, edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Lady Macbeth (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The passionate affair of a young woman trapped in a marriage of convenience unleashes a maelstrom of murder and mayhem on a country estate.
Style: psychological, cynical, costume drama, depressing, historical drama ...
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Time: 19th century, 1860s, victorian era, year 1865
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Babyteeth (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life, as Henry and Anna realise their seriously ill teenage daughter Milla has fallen madly in love with a drug dealer, Moses. This ...
Style: sad, touching, romantic, sweet, experimental ...
Audience: date night
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Place: australia, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Chopin: Desire for Love (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: composer, biopic, prodigy, musician's life, lifestyle, love affair, couples, destructive relationship, fall in love, society, chess, friendship ...
Time: 19th century, ancient times, 1830s
Place: poland, vienna, mallorca, warsaw poland, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Accompanist (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Nazi-occupied Paris, a young accompanist named Sophie Vasseur gets a job with famed singer Irene Brice. As Irene's husband Charles, a businessman collaborating with the Nazis, wrestles with his conscience, Sophie becomes obsessed with Irene, ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, sincere, crying
Plot: world war two, betrayal, railway, singer, maid, pianist, obsession, politics, infidelity, love, manipulation, strong female presence ...
Time: year 1992, 1940s
Place: vichy, paris france, france, london, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Rainbow (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Ken Russell's rather loose adaptation of the last part of D.H. Lawrence's "The Rainbow" sees impulsive young Ursula coming of age in pastoral England around the time of the Boer War. At school, she is introduced to lovemaking by ...
Style: erotic, historical drama, erotic drama, sensual, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, foot fetish, love, making love, sexual awakening, lesbian, sex, sex scene, bisexual, lgbt, erotica, british empire ...
Time: year 1989, 19th century, 1900s, victorian era
Place: england, europe, warsaw poland, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, emotional, retro ...
Plot: hollywood, coming of age, showbiz, rise and fall, family relations, lifestyle, human nature, ambition, rising to stardom, rags to riches, secret relationship, tomboy ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1936
Place: california, los angeles, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Governess (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.
Style: enigmatic, emotional, colorful, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, society, love affair, loss of virginity, nanny, older man younger woman relationship, jewess, couple relations, master and servant, male nudity, love triangle ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1998, 1800s
Place: scotland, england, london, britain, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.8
 6K
Carrington (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The story of the relationship between painter Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey in a World War One England of cottages and countryside. Although platonic due to Strachey's homosexuality, the relationship was nevertheless a deep and ...
Style: costume drama, talky, touching, sexual, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: artist, painter, writers, art, polyamory, lgbt, biopic, art history, glbt, world war one, painting, gay ...
Time: 1930s, 1910s, 1920s, victorian era, year 1915 ...
Place: england, europe, italy, wales, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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