Movies like After the Rain 1999
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After the Rain (1999)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Steph, an Afrikaner, struggles with his past and heritage in the new South Africa. When his girlfriend befriends a black South African man called Vusisizwe trouble brews.
Style:
serious, realistic, crying, tragic
Plot:
tragic romance, passion, apartheid, black man white woman relationship, naked woman, love triangle, soldier, friendship, friends, love and romance, couples, society, sex, dog, dancing, airplane, thief, children, train, military, violence, civil war, writers, truck, party ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 70s, year 1994, 1990s
Place:
south africa, africa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and melancholic films with plots about drinking alcohol, drinking, death, sex, drink, nude and kiss mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like After the Rain: In My Country (2004), The Heart of Me (2002), Chinese Box (1997), Heavy (1995), The Man from Elysian Fields (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland, South Africa
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, emotional, sincere, political thriller ...
Plot:
apartheid, politics, journalism, hopes, interracial relations, african american, social decay, injustice, life is a bitch, idealism, society, racism ...
Time:
year 2004, 90s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1995
Place:
south africa, africa, chile, florida
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions throughout all their lives.
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, infidelity, betrayal, unfaithful husband, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, fall in love, society, parents and children, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1934 ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
unrequited love, abuse, love, death, colonialism, culture clash, photography, politics, couples, husband wife relationship, fear, british empire ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia, beijing china, north korea
Similarity:
59%
6K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, touching, slang, contemplative ...
Plot:
small town, food, loneliness, restaurant, workplace, self discovery, bittersweet, hospital, drinking, unfaithfulness, rain, hallucination ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york state, new jersey
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, erotic drama ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sex, infidelity, passion, adultery, waitress, photography, voyeurism, lesbianism, voyeur, erotic scene, photograph, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, year 1968, 60s
Place:
central europe, california, switzerland, soviet union, europe ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style:
sexy, witty, melancholic, independent film, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
writers, sex, infidelity, seduction, open marriage, pimp, love affair, family problems, adultery, age-gap relationship, money problems, death ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
pasadena california, santa monica california, los angeles, california
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
As he copes with the death of his fiancee along with her parents, a young man must figure out what he wants out of life.
Style:
clever, sentimental, emotional, realistic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
fall in love, murder, guilt, friendship, family relations, starting over, haunted by the past, death in the family, family problems, grief, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married first cousin Daisy Buchanen and her former love, successful bootlegger and forger Jay Gatsby.
Style:
captivating, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
tragic love, obsession, infidelity, lifestyle, love triangle, love affair, society, social differences, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, dishonesty, love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, oxford university, yale university, chicago
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The father of a family has a an affair. This affects every member of the family.
Style:
contemplative, talky, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
voyeur, dysfunctional family, illicit affair, infidelity, pregnancy, adultery, extramarital affair, bare breasts, family secret, nudity, unfaithfulness, voyeurism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
virginia, florida, los angeles, pittsburgh
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, a love affair develops between a half brother and half-sister. When pregnancy results and word gets out the public is outraged.
Style:
ambiguous ending, crying
Plot:
incest, incestuous sex, forbidden love, accidental incest, pregnant by incest, taboo, family affairs, love affair, family relations, fishing, living together, death of husband ...
Place:
hungary, budapest
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
courtroom drama, divorce, sex, children, women, love, friendship, lawyer, father daughter relationship, passion, mother daughter relationship, piano ...
Time:
80s
Place:
connecticut, maine, boston
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style:
talky, intense, stylized, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
starting over, abusive husband, hand job, adolescence, couples, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, india, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
Style:
melancholic, talky, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
politics, fighting the system, conspiracy, depression, justice, biopic, mental illness, revolution, injustice, conspiracy theory, on the run, drug abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, chicago, woodstock, pentagon ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, historical drama, costume drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
love triangle, colonialism, nobleman, post colonialism, flashback, prince, orgasm, scandal, british empire, jazz, interracial love relationship, indian woman ...
Time:
1920s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
india, asia, kashmir
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A single day. To challenge the past. To accept the present. To decide the future. Sam arrives in his home town after 18 months away, hopeful that Meg, the girlfriend he abandoned, will go back with him to the city. His return brings the outside ...
Style:
serious, realistic, independent film, crying, f word
Plot:
car accident, love triangle, small town, tragedy, love, self sacrifice, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic rivalry, car race, homecoming, young love ...
Time:
year 1965, 80s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
42%
24K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style:
sexy, sincere, suspenseful, enigmatic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, obsession, teacher student sex, male teacher female student affair, couples, infidelity, love and romance, male female relationship, hospital, love story, hedonism ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
true love, cancer, infidelity, family relations, hopes, betrayal, couples, danger, dishonesty, human nature, survival, terminal illness ...
Place:
poland, nova scotia, europe, holland, canada
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Style:
sexy, erotic, melancholic, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
bare butt, nudity, skinny dipping, interracial relations, immigrant, regret, writers, opposites attract, love affair, writer's life, fall in love, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 1930s, 19th century
Place:
los angeles, italy, california, usa, mexico ...
Similarity:
40%
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, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, bittersweet, marriage, sexuality, adultery, novelist, desire, passion, pleasure, infidelity, love triangle, couples ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle travels to New York City to visit his friend Charlie, who has been diagnosed with AIDS, he has repeat ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, melancholic, light, intense ...
Plot:
one night stand, male female relationship, female orgasm, love triangle, infidelity, friendship, interracial romance, couples, adultery, justice, adaptation, dialogue ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, new york, california, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Style:
romantic, touching, inspirational, erotic, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love, lesbian, sex scene, adultery, female nudity, female pubic hair, woman on top, sex on first date, divorce, american football, bare butt ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
oregon, portland oregon, usa, california, san francisco
Similarity:
38%
1K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When their abusive parents are killed in a car crash, twin sisters Rosie and Violet vow to run away to Kentucky in search of a better life. While on the road, the girls meet up with Pete, a drifter working as a grounds keeper on a derelict army ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, independent film, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, sister sister relationship, sex toy, teenage girl, male nudity, orphan, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, adultery, sex with a minor, statutory rape ...
Time:
90s
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, young lovers, parents and children, troubled teen, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, loner, amor ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo. He besieges her with flowers, ...
Style:
erotic, emotional, melancholic, meditative, serious ...
Plot:
white male black female relationship, interracial relations, unrequited love, politics, jail, sensuality, pianist, fall in love, social differences, opposites attract, society, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
africa, italy, rome italy, europe, tokyo ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a young Marine, fresh from Camp Pendleton, who is forced to confront the complexities of adulthood and a volatile home life during a four-day Thanksgiving leave.
Style:
sincere, contemplative, serious, realistic, hispanic ...
Plot:
fall in love, family relations, thanksgiving, family gatherings, marine, love and romance, soldier, society, self discovery, homecoming, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, usa, california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style:
independent film, terrifying, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, gay slur, sex, lgbt, sexual attraction, horniness, gay bar, nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male, masturbation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, melbourne, oceania, tokyo
Similarity:
35%
483
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a drag-racing, hard-luck parolee moves in with his brother in hopes of that ever-elusive fresh start in life, he's sure to be warm for the form of his brother's bored young wife. Things only get worse when he tries to turn a quick ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic
Plot:
drag racing, brother in law sister in law sex, romantic triangle, insurance, hitchhiking, family relations, nightshift, cheating on husband, couples, starting over, society, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession ...
Style:
period piece, stylized, captivating, visual, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love and romance, society, longing, love triangle, lost love, fall in love, love affair, literary, fashion, american history, power of love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, post world war one, 70s
Place:
rhode island, long island, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Dominican Republic, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A patriot (René Lavan) with a rebellious brother falls in love with a dissident's daughter (Mayte Vilán) in Castro's Cuba.
Style:
black and white, serious, realistic, tense, crying ...
Plot:
revolution, hotel, politics, aids, drinking, cuban revolution, assassin, death, prostitute, dystopia, kids in trouble, political unrest ...
Place:
cuba, latin america, miami, florida, usa ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War II, in its twilight. Pete and Big Boy are masters of the prairie, but ultimately face trickier ...
Style:
sexy, stylized, serious, suspenseful, romantic ...
Plot:
infidelity, cattle ranch, friendship, pickup truck, gunfight, love triangle, introspection, human nature, homecoming, coming of age, violence, drinking ...
Time:
year 1998, post world war two
Place:
new mexico, pearl harbor, california, usa, amarillo texas ...
Similarity:
33%
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