Movies like Nelly 2004

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Nelly (2004)
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Nelly (2004)
Original name: À ce soir
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The four days following the death of a small town doctor, seen through the eyes of Nelly, his wife, a nurse.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: village, love and romance, village life, sexual relations, couples, social relations, death, family relations, town
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and atmospheric films with plots about couples, family relations, love and romance, village, unfulfillment, social relations and village life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Nelly: Wandering Streams (2010), The Letter (1999), Weighed But Found Wanting (1974), The Outlander (2005), Fidelity (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wandering Streams (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe and uneventful to a fault, somewhat juiced by friendship with raucous fishing ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: looking for love, couples, aging, love and romance, friendship, village, nudism, introspection, family relations, superhero, nudity, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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95%
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The Letter (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, moral dilemma, couples, love triangle, unfulfilled love, singer, car accident, concert, nun ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: portugal, france, paris france
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93%
Weighed But Found Wanting (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The son of a wealthy man, Junior has everything he could possibly want. But the emptiness of his extravagant lifestyle and the hypocrisy of the town's so-called leading citizens weigh heavily on him, and he reaches out to the village outcasts.
Style: existential, serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: social commentary, teenager, social relations, couples, family relations, village, village life, friendship, small town life, small town, couple relations, single parent ...
Time: 70s
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90%
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The Outlander (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story: It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: friendship, friends, love affair, social relations, village life, village, fall in love, family relations, stranger, rivalry, love and romance, alcoholism ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Fidelity (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Clélia is a very attractive photographer starting a new job for a sensationalist newspaper. She soon becomes involved with three very different men: Cléve, a middle aged books editor, Nemo, a mysterious photographer and Rupert McRoi, the owner of ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, emotional, sensual ...
Plot: love and romance, strong sexual content, photograph, destructive relationship, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples, love triangle, photographer, husband wife relationship, one night stand, photography ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
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Egg (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the ...
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Plot: village life, poet, love and romance, homecoming, parents and children, family relations, dealing with death, village, curses spells and rituals, small town life, small town, loss of mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
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Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, boss and employee, love and romance, pregnant woman, family crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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August Winds (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Shirley has left the big city to live in a small seaside town and look after her elderly grandmother. She drives a tractor on a local coconut plantation, loves rock music and wants to be a tattoo artist. She feels trapped in the tiny coastal ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, social relations, realism, village, village life, care, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, minimalism, dealing with death, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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68%
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Restless (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance. By chance, he shares a house with his teenager granddaughter. Claire, at 17, is eager to experience all sorts of things and the sooner the better, and rebels against ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
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A Week's Holiday (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
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Plot: love and romance, contests and competitions, youth, couples, family relations, family gatherings, high school, sex talk, teacher student relationship, fear of commitment, school teacher, commitment ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: france, lyon
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58%
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Last Winter (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young farmer in Central France tries to sustain his spiritual connection to the land amid the crushing pressures of modern agriculture in this brooding drama.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, gloomy
Plot: farm, estrangement, countryside, workplace situations, society, workplace, nothing goes right, down on your luck, life is a bitch, social relations, village life, village ...
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The Green Room (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the Henry James short story "The Altar of the Dead", in which a man becomes obsessed with the many dead people in his life and builds a memorial to honor them. This film is also based on other short story by Henry James, "The ...
Style: spiritual, emotional, atmospheric, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: death, tragic love, memory, spirituality, love story, reporter, amor, trauma, dying and death, world war one, love and romance, investigation ...
Time: year 1978, 1920s
Place: france
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55%
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Lotus Eaters (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Story follows a group of young Londoners as they struggle to find meaning in their lives while masking their discontent with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll.
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
Plot: love and romance, best friend, thirtysomething life, sexual relations, friends, unfulfillment, city life, couples, twentysomething life, artists and showbiz, group, drugs/alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, british columbia, london
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54%
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The Kite (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young 15 year old girl, Lamia, lives in a southern Lebanese village on the border with Israel. She is given in marriage to her cousin on the other side of the border. As Lamia crosses the barbed wire she also passes from childhood into adulthood, ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious
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Blame It on Mum (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mady Celliers, an attractive housewife of 60, he spends his life speaking ill of her two daughters and her husband, a man who shows a strange behavior since has retired. Antoine, the eldest son, company director, is unable to make a success of a ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
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Place: france
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Waiting for the Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ayse/Eleni who is a member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her early ages. However, the events that happen cause her to face her own past.
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Love Battles (2013)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 99 min.
Story: A couple’s verbal sparring intensifies with shoving, punching and wrestling, escalating to the point where their frequent fighting sessions become real love battles…
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The New World (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
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Story: A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in Orleans, where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Immortal Story (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 58 min.
Story: An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.
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Plot: legend, sailor, true love, power, prophecy, master and servant, love and romance, dishonesty, betrayal, unfulfillment, obsession, sexual dysfunction ...
Time: victorian era, year 1968, 60s, 1800s
Place: europe
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The White Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Beyaz Melek’ filmi; bir aşkın öyküsüdür.Bu aşk öyküsü, iki insanın birbirine duyduğu aşk değil, bir grup insanın hayata ve birbirlerine duyduğu aşkın ve sevginin hikayesidir.Filmde, doğudan batıya, mekteplisinden köylüsüne, ...
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Forgive Me (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Violette, an expectant wife, who opens a nasty barrel of worms by filming a documentary about her dysfunctional family, to be shown to her (as yet) unborn son.Through her ever-present lens, Violette begins to unearth one nasty family secret after ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: france
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Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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48%
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The Nephew (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Twenty years ago, Tony Egan's sister went to America. Nobody ever heard of her again. But now, the message of her death arrives in her town of birth. Only days later, her only son Chad arrives, too. Obviously, his mother took a black husband. ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, sincere, gloomy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Those Who Remain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Charlie Says (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: lifestyle, love affair, cons and scams, teachers and students, couples, infidelity, celebrity culture, betrayal, social relations, dishonesty, love and romance, small town ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 312
Two (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Isabelle Huppert stars as a pair of twin sisters in Werner Schroeter's gorgeously composed and utterly berserk opus stuffed to overflowing with sailors, drag queens, suicides, cemeteries, doppelgängers, fickle foxes and operatic arias.
Style: non-linear, psychological, realistic, serious, controversial ...
Plot: family relations, strong female presence, opera, human nature, hopes, twins, destiny, cabaret, male nudity, town, mother, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, portugal, marseille, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
This Is My Body (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot: love affair, couple relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, family relations, family business, gay, suicide, lgbt, sociology, dancer, jealousy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Atlantic. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Morocco, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric
Plot: starting over, human spirit, hopes, family life, danger, escapades, ocean, survival, sea, nature, climbing, rock climbing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Broken Windows (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Four Women, Four Dreams, Four Realities
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychological
Plot: interracial relations, love triangle, sibling relationship, couples, actor's life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, brother sister relationship, party
Time: 21st century
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40%
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