Movies like Days of Being Wild
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Days of Being Wild (1990)
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Original name: 阿飛正傳
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The movie is set in Hong Kong and the Philippines in 1960. Yuddy, or 'York' in English, is a playboy in Hong Kong and is well-known for stealing girls' hearts and breaking them. His first victim is Li Zhen who suffered emotional and mental depression as a result of Yuddy's wayward attitude. Li Zhen eventually seeks much-needed solace from a sympathetic policeman named Tide.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, sexy, affectionate, erotic, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking, psychedelic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
obsession, love, melancholy, love triangle, adoption, violence, friendship, hotel, catastrophe, fight, artist, relationships, dark humor, loneliness, sailor, depression, death, male nudity, brutality, runaway, radio, childhood, rain, cult, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
hong kong, china, india, tokyo, the philippines, asia, macau
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Most similar movies to Days of Being Wild
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, enigmatic, weird and talky films with plots about storytelling, existentialism, dialogue, culture clash, relationships, melancholy and loneliness mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Days of Being Wild: Fallen Angels (1995), Chungking Express (1994), 3-Iron (2004), As Tears Go By (1988), In the Mood for Love (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, atmospheric, art house, meditative, mysterious ...
Plot:
killer, couples, hitman, love, criminal heroes, love affair, couple relations, partners in crime, existentialism, melancholy, murderer, mute or deaf ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
hong kong, india, china, tokyo, asia
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100%
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:
atmospheric, art house, surreal, stylized, non-linear ...
Plot:
loneliness, multiple storylines, love, femme fatale, food, breakup, relationships, life philosophy, love story, fall in love, drug dealer, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
hong kong, california, india, canada, china ...
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100%
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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:
surreal, romantic, touching, philosophical, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
golf, loneliness, melancholy, relationships, motorcycle, jealousy, love triangle, love story, art, existentialism, love, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, india, south korea, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two parallel stories of Wah caught in the mist of a love affair with his beloved cousin, Ngor and his relationship with his triad brother, Fly, who seems to never fall out of trouble.
Style:
neo noir, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, captivating ...
Plot:
gang, friendship, mob hit, criminal underworld, brother brother relationship, love, gang leader, bloody violence, gangsters, heroic bloodshed, animal abuse, multiple storylines ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, art house, visually appealing, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, marriage, love affair, newspaper, love, human nature, food, art, betrayal ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1966, year 1962
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, india, shanghai ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Movies like Fallen Angels
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film is set in five parts, five seasons that are part of the Chinese almanac. The story takes place in the jianghu, the world of the martial arts. Ouyang Feng has lived in the western desert for some years. He left his home in White Camel ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, epic, stylized, sexy ...
Plot:
martial arts, sword fight, kung fu, desert, redemption, vengeance, love triangle, medieval, loneliness, destiny, culture clash, art ...
Place:
china, hong kong, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her ...
Style:
stylized, sexy, intense, affectionate, allegory ...
Plot:
addiction, marriage, revenge, love, revolution, murder, violence, obsession, violent, culture clash, vengeance, adultery ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
china, shanghai, spain, japan, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany
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:
touching, surreal, emotional, art house, atmospheric ...
Plot:
writers, writer's life, love, haunted by the past, old friend, coincidence, memory, destiny, melancholy, road not taken, introspection, understanding ...
Time:
future, 60s, 2040s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time.
Style:
atmospheric, art house, disturbing, stylized, breathtaking ...
Plot:
isolation, obsession, french, death in the family, estrangement, lifestyle, unfulfillment, loneliness, father son relationship, death, hotel, environment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, taiwan, paris france, tokyo, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style:
talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, human nature, love and romance, couple relations, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, france, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Chungking Express related movies
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed by the man's materialistic nature.
Style:
art house, philosophical, surreal, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Plot:
loneliness, art, love, love story, existentialism, alienation, relationships, greed, obsession, complex characters, creativity, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
italy, rome italy, tokyo, europe, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, atmospheric, lyrical, gloomy ...
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, betrayal, parenthood, custody, love affair, fall in love, family problems, crumbling marriage, destructive relationship, rivalry, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
tokyo, paris france, sweden, denmark, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, USA, Hong Kong
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:
touching, psychological, road movie, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
waitress, road trip, self discovery, love, loneliness, love and romance, couple relations, love story, hopes, travel, melancholy, food ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee, new york, memphis, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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, sexy, non-linear, thought provoking, visually appealing ...
Plot:
love, death, culture clash, couples, politics, writers, nude, sexualized violence, obsession, life philosophy, secrets, mentor ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia, beijing china, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy Mathieu is 18-years-old and on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning ...
Style:
emotional, touching, meditative, lyrical, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, depression, suicide attempt, male nudity, beach, teenage life, gay teenager, first gay sexual experience, youth, dysfunctional family, love affair, gay romance ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, south of france, europe, italy, frankfurt germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when ...
Style:
touching, sexual, enigmatic, melancholic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
voyeurism, love, unfulfilled love, milf, loneliness, stalking, destructive relationship, passionate interest, relationships, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, voyeur ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, poland, warsaw poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's ...
Style:
melancholic, meditative, depressing, heartbreaking, lyrical ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
depression, dysfunctional family, small town, teenage love, small town life, life philosophy, loneliness, family problems, first love, parents and children, abusive husband, young love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, meditative, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
sex, love triangle, character study, multiple storylines, friendship, dysfunctional family, russian, drugs, art, love and romance, couples, jealousy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
taiwan, tokyo, taipei, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Late one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
Style:
surreal, psychological, mind bending, romantic, philosophical ...
Plot:
love story, love affair, cheating wife, adultery, loneliness, existentialism, art, imagination, depression, couples, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, denmark, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son. Through flashbacks, the film discloses the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings ...
Style:
erotic, neo noir, sexy, serious, visually appealing ...
Plot:
lesbian, obsession, lesbian sex, women, gangsters, love triangle, murder, male nudity, murder mystery, nude, glbt, car ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, alps, lyon, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Movies similar to Before Sunset
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In a small North Carolina town, Paul, a womanizer, meets Noel, a confused intellectual returning home for the first time in years since she left for boarding school. The film depicts the typical romance of a good girl and a bad boy, in an ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, melancholic, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
small town, womanizer, coming of age, regret, depression, existentialism, love, crumbling relationship, introspection, human nature, relationships, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, california, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif -- specifically, the kind practiced in Bunraku doll theater performances -- opening each section of his film with a story provided by the puppets and their masters, which relates thematically to the ...
Style:
surreal, emotional, bleak, melancholic, lyrical ...
Plot:
obsession, regret, love, culture clash, philosophy, suicide attempt, disfigurement, love and romance, renewed love, blind character, mental illness, melancholy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A married couple attend a bourgeois party and wade through the stifling strain that long-term marriage has imposed upon them.
Style:
reflective, cerebral, art house, erotic, sexy ...
Plot:
writers, infidelity, hospital, love, relationships, marriage, family relations, crumbling marriage, alienation, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, crazy love ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, milan italy, tokyo, mediterranean sea, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.
Style:
touching, art house, philosophical, depressing, harsh ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, first love, existentialism, wedding, children, dysfunctional family, coma, lovers reunited, love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, marital crisis, infidelity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, taipei, tokyo, china, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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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:
realistic, touching, feel good, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
small town, food, loneliness, restaurant, workplace, self discovery, bittersweet, hospital, nude, waitress, seduction, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
Style:
sincere, emotional, harsh, gloomy, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
homeless, dysfunctional family, youth, poverty, baby, black market, social decay, going straight, regret, petty criminal, family problems, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, france, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Quick-witted, well-read cultured types revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romanticism and theft.
Style:
disturbing, lyrical, non-linear, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
female nudity, love triangle, lovers reunited, infidelity, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis, love affair, couple relations, actor's life, unfulfillment, obsessive quest, lifestyle ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
france, paris france, italy, europe, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Koistenin is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, enigmatic, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
loneliness, heist, existentialism, betrayal, down on your luck, femme fatale, night watchman, cons and scams, misfit, gem, regret, loser ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, europe, finland, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style:
road movie, surreal, atmospheric, art house, stylized ...
Plot:
on the run, lovers on the run, smuggling, betrayal, on the road, infidelity, surrealism, gangsters, road trip, couple relations, couples, vietnam war ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france, paris france, mediterranean sea, europe, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A woman inherits her father's fireworks factory, as he had no son. The business does well and everything works in an orderly fashion until one day, an itinerant painter is hired to decorate the doors and vases at the factory. The woman, ...
Style:
thought provoking, visually appealing, sexy, allegory, romantic ...
Plot:
destiny, painter, chinese, catastrophe, business, idealism, adaptation, dysfunctional family, adultery, beautiful scenery, betrayal, existentialism ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
china, tokyo, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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