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July Rhapsody (2002)
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July Rhapsody (2002)
Original name: 男人四十
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 dinners. After many years, Lam is still living in a modest apartment with his wife, Man Ching and two teenage sons. However financial stagnancy is not his only problem. An old flame of Man Ching (who was the couple's former schoolteacher) returns to Hong Kong and uncovers old wounds. Man Ching feels obliged to help her ex-lover. Meanwhile, Yiu Kwok faces another dilemma: Choy Lam, a precocious student, has a crush on him and the 'forbidden fruit' looks more and more tempting in the light of his wife's 'infidelity'. Will he succumb to young charms and let history repeat itself?
Style: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, gloomy, masterpiece
Plot: love triangle, love affair, moral dilemma, youth, teachers and students, love and romance, midlife crisis, fall in love, couples, tragic love, infidelity, family problems, breakup, dishonesty, high school, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, age difference, professor, weirdo, high school life, contests and competitions, terminal illness, supernatural romance, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: hong kong

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, infidelity, crumbling marriage, family relations and family problems mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like July Rhapsody: A Week's Holiday (1980), Boys Love (2006), Eden (1996), Plans for Tomorrow (2010), Istanbul (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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Boys Love (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Magazine editor Taishin Mamiya interviews high school model Noeru Kisaragi. Despite Noeru's bad attitude, his painting of an ocean intrigues Mamiya and leads to a dinner, during which Noeru solicits Mamiya sexually. Soon Mamiya sees Noeru with ...
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Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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100%
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Eden (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: year 1996, 60s, 20th century
Place: new england
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30%
Plans for Tomorrow (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: pregnancy, friendship, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, introspection, singleness, woman in danger, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Istanbul (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: self discovery, love affair, life turned upside down, family problems, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
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29%
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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 ...
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28%
The Other Woman (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Matching Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
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Time: 21st century
Place: australia, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Lost in Time (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, coping, couples, hopes, workplace, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 86 min.
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Style: sincere, tense, realistic, serious, emotional ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france, germany, greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere
Plot: love affair, impossible love, immigrant, couples, introspection, fall in love, hopes, society, couple relations, love and romance, bittersweet, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america
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25%
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Duration: 110 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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22%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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21%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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