Movies like 2046
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2046 (2004)
65K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Style:
sexy, emotional, atmospheric, philosophical, visually stunning, touching, surreal, art house, erotic, cerebral ...
Plot:
writers, love, writer's life, destiny, road not taken, androids, sensuality, haunted by the past, coincidence, old friend, memory, introspection, choice, looking for love, changing the past or future, lifestyle, understanding, identity crisis, imaginary, human nature, loneliness, relationships, obsession, asian, love story ...
Time:
future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 2040s, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
hong kong, china, singapore, east asia, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out visually appealing, weird, melancholic and thought provoking films with plots about loneliness, love, storytelling, life philosophy, love story, existentialism and beautiful scenery mostly in Drama, Romance and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like 2046: Chungking Express (1994), In the Mood for Love (2000), Fallen Angels (1995), Eros (2004), Perfect Sense (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, cult classic, visual, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
hong kong, china, california, asia, taiwan ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, sexy, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, lovers, love affair, marriage, unrequited love, newspaper, true love, love story, relationships ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this bifurcated crime narrative, a disillusioned hitman attempts to escape from his violent lifestyle against the wishes of his partner, who is infatuated with him, and an eccentric mute repeatedly encounters, then subsequently falls for, a ...
Style:
surreal, perverse, sexy, neo noir, visual ...
Plot:
couple relations, killer, couples, hitman, existentialism, melancholy, videotaping, obsessive love, criminal heroes, love affair, partners in crime, triad ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia, tokyo, india
Similarity:
100%
8K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, anthology, sexual, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, sexuality, love affair, erotic scene, social differences, society, lovers reunited, psychiatrist, erotica, lifestyle, obsession, infidelity ...
Time:
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Place:
china, asia, hong kong, italy
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, philosophical, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love, love story, love affair, pandemic, female nudity, one night stand, male full rear nudity, epidemic, chaos, food, human existence, blindness ...
Time:
distant future, year 2011, future
Place:
glasgow scotland, scotland, iran, canada
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of ...
Style:
atmospheric, road movie, sentimental, psychological, romantic ...
Plot:
road trip, love and romance, love story, passion, melancholy, travel, loneliness, longing, waitress, cross country, poker, casino ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, china, tennessee, new york, memphis ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. ...
Style:
philosophical, lyrical, contemplative, surreal, romantic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
golf, motorcycle, relationships, melancholy, drifter, mission, abusive husband, love triangle, jealousy, existentialism, love story, love ...
Time:
year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, east asia, asia, seoul ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip ...
Style:
visually stunning, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu master, wing chun, kung fu, medieval, tai chi, heir, wuxia, vengeance, heroes, fight, opponent ...
Time:
1930s, 2010s, year 2013, 1940s, 50s ...
Place:
china, japan, hong kong, east asia, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.
Style:
art house, emotional, visually appealing, independent film, visual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay asian, love, gay relationship, heartache, loneliness, tango, glbt, amor, lgbtqi, melancholy ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, year 1996
Place:
buenos aires argentina, hong kong, china, latin america, asia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'.
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, futuristic, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
philosophy, destiny, love story, parallel universe, fighting the system, culture clash, manipulation, science, imagination, life philosophy, existentialism, life & death ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
722K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. ...
Style:
melancholic, philosophical, futuristic, crying, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
loneliness, artificial intelligence, existentialism, philosophy, love, melancholy, computer, cyberspace, impossible love, solitude, love story, relationship problems ...
Time:
near future, future, year 2013, distant future, 2030s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
50%
330K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, Belgium, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style:
surreal, art house, clever, absurd, ironic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
absurdism, dystopia, distopia, solitude, blindness, love, manhunt, society, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, secret relationship ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, future, near future
Place:
ireland, greece, hellas, canada
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Style:
suspense, psychological, sexy, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot:
disfigurement, dream, surrealism, love triangle, paranoia, nightmare, love, car accident, psychiatrist, erotic scene, memory loss, twists and turns ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, south america, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
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100%
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Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, romantic, biting, fairy tale, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
sign language, interspecies romance, creature, love story, female protagonist, rescue, supernatural, interspecies sex, laboratory, cold war, scientist, friendship ...
Time:
year 1962, year 2017, 60s, future, 2010s
Place:
maryland, baltimore, los angeles, america, pittsburgh ...
Similarity:
100%
312K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
22%
250K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, cynical, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, lovers, passion, marriage, sex, stripper, couples, photographer, desire ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
Style:
philosophical, melancholic, emotional, visually stunning, art house ...
Plot:
love, love story, love affair, crumbling marriage, marriage, love triangle, passion, horse ranch, extramarital affair, amor, starting over, introspection ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 90s, 21st century
Place:
europe, paris france, oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa ...
Similarity:
20%
104K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
clever, surreal, philosophical, independent film, touching ...
Plot:
guilt, parallel universe, tragedy, parallel world, grief, redemption, venus the planet, destiny, loneliness, janitor, earth, solar system ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston, mojave desert, new haven connecticut, connecticut ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, psychological, surreal, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
depression, wedding, end of the world, apocalypse, sister sister relationship, nihilism, collision, mental health, disaster, female nudity, mental disorder, human nature ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, sexy, experimental, psychological ...
Plot:
hotel, surrealism, memory, obsession, uncertainty, stream of consciousness, alternate reality, amnesia, haunted by the past, dishonesty, hopes, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style:
captivating, sentimental, dramatic, serious, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, orphan, love and romance, mentor, femininity ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Wings of Desire is Wim Wender’s artistically beautiful film about the lonely and immortal life of angels during a post-war Berlin. It’s a poetic journey from the perspective of the angels of which one falls in love with a living woman and wants ...
Style:
atmospheric, lyrical, meditative, surreal, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
philosophy, love, angel, circus, dream, immortality, mortality, surrealism, existentialism, suicide, actor, love story ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1987
Place:
berlin germany, germany, west germany, east germany, europe
Similarity:
20%
155K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
stalker, post apocalypse, dystopian future, surrealism, psychokinesis, dog, wish come true, trippy, human nature, distopia, escapades, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1979, near future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, sexy, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
marriage, summer vacation, writers, hotel room, hotel, midlife crisis, relationships, love story, couple relations, existentialism, hopes, divorce ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place:
greece, mediterranean sea, europe, chicago, paris france ...
Similarity:
20%
179K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, emotional, sad, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, best friends in love, love story, male female friendship, couples, friends in love, friendship, relationships, life philosophy, opposites attract, best friend ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
iran, scotland, london, paris france, england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
China in the 1920s. After her father's death, 19 year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three wives already, each living in a separate house within the great castle, there is fierce competition for ...
Style:
visually stunning, cerebral, stylized, depressing, intense ...
Plot:
intrigue, teenage girl, feminism, passion, power struggle, tradition, jealousy, wealth, mistress, massage, polygamy, unrequited love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
china, east asia, tibet, asia, india
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, psychological, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, depression, dysfunctional family, couple relations, lust, husband wife relationship, passion, crumbling marriage, sexual content, lovers, love story, sex ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, brooklyn new york city, florida
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, naughty, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sex, sex scene, nudity, lust, sexual relations, erotica, porn, female masturbation, hopes, waitress, strong sexual content, hot and sexy ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
mediterranean sea, spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, valencia spain ...
Similarity:
19%
89K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
Style:
philosophical, futuristic, cerebral, confusing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
space, space and aliens, space station, space travel, mysterious planet, planet, afterlife, trapped in space, outer space, existentialism, alien contact, space exploration ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, future
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This South Korean film takes place on an isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, melancholic, meditative, spiritual ...
Plot:
buddhism, life & death, coming of age, isolation, meditation, buddhist monk, monk, guilt, existentialism, buddhist, nature, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, tibet, korea, east asia, asia ...
Similarity:
19%
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