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Lost Illusions (2021)
8K
Original name: Illusions perdues
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Taking place between the years 1837 and 1843, Balzac’s classic novel focuses on the young poet Lucien de Rubempré, who leaves Angouleme for Paris in the pursuit of becoming an author.
Style:
costume drama, atmospheric, touching, realistic, talky, art house
Plot:
theater, sex scene, female nudity, ambition, hashish, media manipulation, poet, male nudity, death, infidelity, nudity, voice over narration, dandy, journalist, power of love, prostitute, literature, writers, friendship, fall in love, tragic love, french history, lake, orphan, poverty ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, georgian era
Place:
paris france, france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sexy, serious and erotic films with plots about female nudity, nudity, sex scene, infidelity, female full frontal nudity, nude and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Lost Illusions: Lady J (2018), Bel Ami (2012), Lady of the Camelias (1981), Swann in Love (1984), Only the Night (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.
Style:
period piece, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, disturbing ...
Plot:
aristocracy, widow, revenge, betrayal, love, marriage, male female friendship, forgiveness, broken heart, prostitute, suicide attempt, libertine ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Georges Duroy travels through 1890s Paris, from cockroach ridden garrets to opulent salons, using his wits and powers of seduction to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to passionate trysts with wealthy beauties, in a world ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, older woman younger man relationship, poverty, manipulation, ambition, coitus, extramarital affair, marriage, rise to the top, journalist, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, victorian era, turn of the century
Place:
europe, paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Paris, 1830: Octave, betrayed by his mistress, sinks into despair and debauchery. His father's death leads him to the country where he meets Brigitte, a widow who is ten years his elder. Octave falls in love passionately, but will he have the ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
debauchery, infidelity, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, dishonesty, countryside, betrayal, loss of father, duel, biopic, voice over narration ...
Time:
19th century, 1830s, georgian era
Place:
france
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32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.
Style:
erotic, period drama, beautiful
Plot:
sex, prostitute, tuberculosis, filmmaking, eroticism, teenage prostitute, death of protagonist, teenage prostitution, girl, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, menarche ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Swann (Jeremy Irons), an eligible bachelor in the best circles of fin-de-siècle Paris, has also some more vulgar but rich friends, the Verdurins. Through them he meets Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan, with whom he falls hopelessly in love. She ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
duchess, prostitute, love and romance, erotica, french president, lesbian lover, high society, nobility, valet, promiscuity, female nudity, brothel ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A video library clerk becomes obsessed with a sleepwalking woman and takes it upon himself to save her from catastrophe.
Plot:
sleepwalking, family relations, night, murder, female nudity, hospital, jealousy, doctor, videotaping, video surveillance, medical examination, medication ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When French painter Pierre Bonnard met Marthe de Méligny, he didn’t know this self-proclaimed aristocrat would become the cornerstone of his life and work. From this moment, she became more than just a muse for the “painter of happiness”, ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, female pubic hair, female nudity, nudity, painter, death of wife, suicide, death, photograph, drawing, loss of wife, painting ...
Time:
year 1942, year 1918, year 1914
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
Style:
sexy, erotic, captivating, sincere, suspense ...
Plot:
female exhibitionist, love, coming of age, teenage boy, student, teenage love, breakup, passport, death of mother, teenage girl, teenager, female pubic hair ...
Time:
year 2015, 80s, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean ...
Style:
romantic drama, costume drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
couples, male pubic hair, hotel, dancing, prison, theft, performer's life, dishonesty, lifestyle, couple relations, womanizer, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, year 1981
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
28%
256
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket that just welcomed it, the head of the dead man tells his story: everything was going so well! Admired priest, great lover - his earthly paradise seemed to have no end. ...
Style:
psychological, touching, suspenseful, rough, unusual plot structure
Plot:
little girl, sex with a priest, rape, male pubic hair, guillotine, execution, decapitation, snow, confession, death sentence, unwanted pregnancy, murder ...
Time:
year 1959, 50s, 1950s
Place:
france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1971, Carole and Delphine meet and fall in love in Paris. When Carole follows Delphine back to her family farm in Limousin, the two find lesbianism and feminism are not as easy in the countryside.
Style:
sexy, erotic, eros, sincere, sweet ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, mother daughter relationship, lesbian sex, woman woman relationship, lesbian love, female nudity, farmer, sisterhood, family farm, cow ...
Time:
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Place:
indiana, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
27%
534
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A couple of fisher-folk are joined by a young new apprentice in the middle of a raging storm.
Style:
romantic
Plot:
sexually dissatisfied wife, outdoor sex, married woman, unfaithful wife, sex scene, desire, unfaithfulness, woman on top, female nudity, female pubic hair, horny wife, cheating wife ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
What do you dream of when you're 16 years old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sexy, captivating, aesthetic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, lgbt, teenage protagonist, lgbt teen, teenager, gay relationship, teenage boy, gay interest, death, accidental death, gay teenager, beach resort ...
Time:
year 1985, 2000s, 80s
Place:
normandy, france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
nudity, making love, infidelity, sexual attraction, seductive, sex scene, adultery, biopic, couples, gays and lesbians, journalism, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
rome italy, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An old dog has a hard time learning new tricks in this drama set in Turku. Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
sex, love triangle, male nudity, female pubic hair, sexual relations, friendship, infidelity, redemption, cuckolded husband, change of heart, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, finland
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, romantic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
unfulfilled love, forbidden love, marriage, poetry, unfulfillment, love and romance, obsession, unrequited love, inheritance, fall in love, victorian england, poet ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, year 1999, 1800s ...
Place:
st. petersburg russia, russia, london, tokyo
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Charlie, a young aristocrat in turn of the century England, meets a boy named Frank on the road to Portsmouth. What Charlie doesn't realize is that Frank is actually Frances, who's donned a disguise to escape working at a brothel. Charlie ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, serious, realistic, art house ...
Plot:
erotica, female pubic hair, gender disguise, sex scene, sex, female nudity, fetish, couples, society, love and romance, hidden identity, unlikely couple ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
france, london, england, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, crying, retro, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
female nudity, infidelity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, looking for sex, extramarital affair, coming of age, promiscuous daughter, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, nudity, domestic abuse ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, multicultural ...
Plot:
actor's life, desire for fame, rise to the top, ambition, theater, youth, teachers and students, celebrity culture, showbiz, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, backstage ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
london, england, europe, palestine
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexy, sensual, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1830s, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, psychological, touching, romantic
Plot:
male nudity, young lovers, sex scene, beach, love, female nudity, dancing, flashback, love and romance, couple relations, love interest, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
sensual, sexual, erotic, art house, mysterious ...
Plot:
erotica, memory loss, existentialism, brain tumor, skinny dipping, public nudity, lust, voyeur, dysfunctional family, sex scene, making love, nude ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Following her parents' wishes, spirited seventeen-year-old Effi Briest marries Baron von Innstetten – a former admirer of her mother – who is twenty years Effi's senior. This marriage of prudence heralds the beginning of a humdrum ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cheating wife, marriage proposal, society, couple relations, family relations, love affair, fall in love, couples, introspection, village, village life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
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Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Plot:
love, nobility, love triangle, literary, death, greed, betrayal, relationships, nudity, forbidden love, fall in love, power relations ...
Time:
1910s, year 1997, victorian era, 20th century, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, london, venice, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
female nudity, love affair, male female relationship, vacation, love story, relationships, romantic relationship, ex boyfriend, adultery, bare chested male, nudity, drug ...
Place:
paris france, geneva switzerland
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25%
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:
costume drama, sexy, sexual, psychological, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
impossible love, love, new love, love triangle, letter, magic realism, power of love, epidemic, betrayal, multiple storylines, visceral, justice ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, year 2007, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
colombia, latin america, caribbean, paris france
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25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Paul, depressed from his recent break-up with Anna, returns home to Paris and moves back in with his divorced father and amorous younger brother, Jonathan. While his carefree sibling and doting father try in vain to cheer him up, a visit from his ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male, lifestyle, siblings relations, love triangle, wooing, couples, unsupportive spouse, twins, love and romance, infidelity ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Style:
art house, contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
sex scene, female nudity, teacher, high school, teachers and students, forbidden love, poetry, older man younger woman relationship, bare chested male, seaside, unhappiness, boat ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
Style:
sexy, tricky, twisted, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
multiple storylines, love, incest, female nudity, trauma, hotel room, guilt, unfaithful husband, estrangement, couples, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, rome italy, europe, italy, new york ...
Similarity:
24%
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