Movies like Miss Julie 2011
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Miss Julie (2011)
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Original name: Julie
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Julie is a young tennis star who falls in love with his trainer - because she yearns for love and because she wants to liberate themselves from the ambitions which the father has on her behalf. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen has a conflict and fragile Juliet, and Rolf Hansen is the coach who tries to keep Julie from life. Other actors, Jesper Christensen as ambitious and indebted father, Trine Appel as the coach's disdain fiance and Niels Skousen as a nightclub owner. "Julie" is a modern update of August Strindberg's "Miss Julie".
Style:
tense, dramatic, dark, tragic ending, melancholic, art house
Plot:
power struggle, manipulation, female protagonist, sexual tension, father daughter conflict, class conflict, character study, forbidden romance, betrayal, seduction, social status, adaptation, moral ambiguity, emotional breakdown, tragic romance, intimate, obsession, social realism, sex scene, tennis, male nudity, tennis player, psychological drama, kiss, panties ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
scandinavia, denmark
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Most similar movies to Miss Julie
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, art house, melancholic and dark films with plots about obsession, moral ambiguity, betrayal, psychological drama, character study, manipulation and female protagonist mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Miss Julie: S&M (2010), Traps (1994), Without Me (2007), Two Types of People (2020), The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Miss Julie has power over Jean because she's an aristocrat but he has power over her because he's a man. On Midsummer Eve this power battle turns to love which is consummated. But as each one battles for power, Jean convinces Miss Julie ...
Style:
tense, tragic ending, art house, period drama
Plot:
class conflict, sexual tension, forbidden romance, gender roles, tragedy, manipulation, character study, suicide, claustrophobia, literary, moral ambiguity, obsession ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Makoto Toda was an earnest man who had lived an ordinary life, working as an ordinary company employee. He had built himself an average, but happy home along with his wife and his daughter. Things change however, when a new female recruit named Saya ...
Style:
tense, realistic, melancholic, dark, psychological thriller
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, jealousy, seduction, sexual obsession, office romance, sexual tension, domestic drama, secret relationship, loss of control ...
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61%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An erotic thriller set in 1950 French Occupied Indo-China.
Style:
period piece, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, erotic drama ...
Plot:
marital strife, sexual tension, loneliness, forbidden romance, class conflict, moral ambiguity, political unrest, alienation, family conflict, betrayal, identity crisis, nationalism ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna, a divorced single mother, employs a mysterious young woman called Lise to care for her children.
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, single mother, lesbian, existential loneliness, intimacy, secrets, caretaker, young woman, moral ambiguity, trauma, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Duygu and Bahadır work for a company that acquires banks’ receivables and their job is to corner the debtor using psychological pressure and maximizing the money collection. Ceren, a young woman deep in debt, is their new target.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
revenge, manipulation, moral ambiguity, human nature, emotional manipulation, mind game, blackmail, money problems, money, intrigue, blackmailer, greed ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and an interesting job: she has no motive to be troubled, but she decides to join him and to become his lover. She ...
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, tense, suspenseful, art house ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, years of lead, female protagonist, infidelity, adultery, marriage crisis, secret lover, betrayal, obsession, tragic romance, moral ambiguity, fate ...
Place:
naples italy, sicily
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, ambiguous ending, moody ...
Plot:
seduction, older woman younger man, dysfunctional family, character study, moral ambiguity, isolation, class conflict, repression, obsession, slow burn, tragic romance, claustrophobia ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Following a traumatic experience, Gaile, a speech therapist, is incapable of feeling any emotion. However, while preparing a video presentation for a scientific conference, she sees herself on screen and is surprised to find suppressed sensations ...
Style:
art house, tense, psychological thriller, dark, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, obsession, female protagonist, alienation, manipulation, experimental narrative, identity crisis, self discovery, moral ambiguity, voyeurism, performance art, urban ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, art house, sentimental, atmospheric
Plot:
tragedy, downfall, tragic romance, female protagonist, family drama, poverty, character study, abandonment, single mother, betrayal, intimate, urban ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A wealthy couple seeks to secretly adopt the unborn child of an impoverished and troubled rural teenager, in this slow-burning and ultimately shocking drama from writer-director Albert Shin.
Style:
tension, art house, atmospheric, melancholic, grim ...
Plot:
adoption, pregnancy, motherhood, moral ambiguity, poverty, class conflict, intimate, character study, secrets, ethical dilemma, social inequality, domestic drama ...
Place:
south korea, korea, asia, canada
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military ...
Style:
dark, grim, intense, art house, period piece ...
Plot:
mental illness, manipulation, power struggle, character study, psychological torment, betrayal, revenge, claustrophobia, military, love triangle, intimate, symbolism ...
Time:
turn of the century, 60s
Similarity:
42%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
41%
164
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
On a small island somewhere near Japan, three cult members have devoted themselves to the "Deserted Island Program". Calling each other by rank, these people-two men and one women-have been chosen by their superiors to throw off the ...
Style:
psychological, dramatic, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
isolation, woman, male female relationship, social problems, human nature, japanese woman, life is a bitch, lifestyle, social issues, corruption, japanese man, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In an effort to break away from her mundane life, Stephanie sets her sights on seducing her handsome teacher, and finds that he has some stimulating secrets. Submission was the name of the game and Mr. Carling demands total control. But, soon their ...
Style:
intense, suspense, dark, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
coming of age, trauma, discipline, moral ambiguity, manipulation, seduction, boarding school, forbidden romance, control, sexual relations, teen angst, deception ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a car accident. Eliane is both shocked and curiously drawn to the traumatized boy. As ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, art house, independent film
Plot:
hospital, trauma, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, obsession, female protagonist, custody battle, intimate, mature, psychologist, car accident, little boy ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Narcissus (from Greek Narkissos) shares the root nark-, with narcosis and narcotic. All these words have the same origin in the verb narkaō – to intoxicate through a strong smell. I was particularly interested to find out why a handsome and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, melancholic, art house, stylized ...
Plot:
cellist, introspection, greek mythology, vanity, self discovery, lifestyle, social problems, relationship vs career, obsession, self destructing, myth, character study ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A former European actor Don Martin has retired with his disjointed "family" to his own private island, "The Paradise." After a few years, the entire group has disintegrated into shameless, selfish & dishonest ...
Style:
erotic, dark, tense, bleak, dark comedy ...
Plot:
island, isolation, sex scene, selfishness, character study, deception, betrayal, moral ambiguity, intimate, greed, isolated community, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the ...
Style:
existential, bleak, art house, psychological, spiritual ...
Plot:
suffering, morality, haunting, apartment building, betrayal, isolation, student, obsession, social commentary, manipulation, visionary, salvation ...
Place:
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Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Roque starts University in Buenos Aires but he is not particularly interested in attending classes or working towards a degree. Instead, he dedicates his time to one of the many groups vying for control of the university, motivated less by grand ...
Style:
realistic, independent film, art house, melancholic, political drama
Plot:
teacher student romance, university, betrayal, manipulation, male female relationship, student, student life, campus, sex, character study, social commentary, power struggle ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the ...
Style:
tragic ending, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, jealousy, manipulation, gender roles, betrayal, love triangle, literary, power struggle, obsession, social satire, moral ambiguity, small town ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A wife leaves her husband to work abroad. But when her husband meets an enigmatic woman who seduces her every time their marriage is put to the test.
Style:
sexy
Plot:
extramarital affair, infidelity, betrayal, seduction, domestic drama, temptation, sexual tension, jealousy, guilt, female protagonist, manipulation, intimacy ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, intense, dark, art house ...
Plot:
kidnapping, sexual tension, manipulation, obsession, moral ambiguity, psychological abuse, abuse, mind game, claustrophobia, violent, confrontation, coercion ...
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Chelo Zamora, middling singer, agreed to spend the summer working in restaurants in the Valencian beach Cullera, could not imagine being reunited with Toni, a guy who shares a dark past. Moved by his desire for revenge, Chelo attempt to ruin ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
revenge, singer, relationships, in love, couple relations, love interest, love story, star crossed lovers, love affair, love and romance, female singer, obsessive love ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder the money and give it to the kindergarten. He refuses. ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, melancholic, art house, political drama
Plot:
bank robbery, female protagonist, social realism, moral dilemma, class conflict, moral ambiguity, social activism, friendship, anti establishment, redemption, police chase, lgbt ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Monaco
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ...
Style:
erotic, ambiguous ending, tense, noir
Plot:
voyeurism, hotel, suicide, female protagonist, loneliness, alienation, melancholy, sex, obsession, tragic romance, political unrest, sexual tension ...
Place:
west berlin west germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Eva is a popular teacher who is married to the local mayor. Although he has betrayed her trust, she still plans to support his election campaign, and so she starts to volunteer at a local refugee center. Here, she grows close to eighteen-year-old ...
Style:
tragic ending, controversial, psychological thriller, complex
Plot:
mayor, female protagonist, adultery, moral ambiguity, scandal, taboo, domestic drama, illicit affair, tragic romance, betrayal, class conflict, reputation ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa ...
Style:
art house, suspense, existential, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
terrorism, stalking, character study, obsession, guilt, secrets, moral ambiguity, identity, regret, deception, realism, cat and mouse ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, turin italy
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from Peyami Safa’s novel Selma and Her Shadow, the movie tells the story of Selma. Selma (Görkem Yeltan) is the ultimate femme fatale whose alluring and seductive nature and irresistible charms exude an aura of death for men.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, sinister, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
femme fatale, seduction, suicide, obsession, character study, fatal attraction, tragedy, love triangle, betrayal, jealousy, femininity, sexual tension ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When young Daria enters rehab to kick the drug habit her first love left her with, her perceived innocence saves her from the sexual advances of the mostly male junkies inside and gains her their protection. Suddenly thrown into the spotlight and ...
Style:
intense, emotional, dark, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
drug rehab, addiction, trauma, female protagonist, recovery, manipulation, survival, abuse of power, sexual content, sexual manipulation, character study, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
The Intestine is the story of Maya, an unhappy young womn, fed up with her monotonous job, filthy apartment, and the responsibilities of caring for her drug-addicted mother. One night she comes across Philip, a man of wealth, and the next morning ...
Style:
suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, one night stand, drug, blackmail, brother sister relationship, death, strange behavior, class conflict, domestic drama, moral ambiguity, character study ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
27%
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