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In the Beginning (2009)
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In the Beginning (2009)
Original name: À l'origine
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?
Style: touching, serious, realistic, clever, contemplative
Plot: mayor, pretense, fall in love, self discovery, power of love, love and romance, disorder, dishonesty, small time, cons and scams, bribery, working class, money, con men, business, imposture, beetle, highway, scam, con man, petty criminal, con artists, criminal, theft, rain ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe, flanders

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and touching films with plots about dishonesty, love and romance, family relations, cons and scams, criminal heroes, female nudity and couples mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like In the Beginning: The Adversary (2002), Those Who Remain (2007), Elisa (1995), One Day You'll Understand (2008), The Family Friend (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Adversary (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, mysterious character, hidden identity, police investigation, hidden truth, dishonesty, cons and scams, deception, impostor, husband wife relationship, true crime ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, france, europe, paris france, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Those Who Remain (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, love, self discovery, couples, friendship, fall in love, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Elisa (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she ...
Style: anthology, contemplative, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: girl, older man younger woman relationship, children, family affairs, thief, search for father, intimacy, father daughter relationship, bare breasts, sexual initiation, urban setting, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, brittany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
One Day You'll Understand (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, war crime, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, death in the family, parents and children, against humanity, love and romance, society, trial ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, germany, middle east, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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The Family Friend (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other ...
Style: serious, touching, rough, philosophical, neo noir ...
Plot: dishonesty, self destructing, unrequited love, destructive relationship, cons and scams, loneliness, money, down on your luck, obsession, circus, conversation, fall in love ...
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Who Is Clark Rockefeller? (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" had brilliantly impersonated numerous people, ranging from a talk show host to a Pentagon Advisor ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, inspirational
Plot: family relations, criminal heroes, dishonesty, hidden identity, cons and scams, disorder, love and romance, parents and children, serial killer, impersonation, conspiracy, entrepreneur ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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The Singer (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, couples, change of heart, love affair, love and romance, fall in love, performer's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, unlikely couple, singer, single mother ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Swindled (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In a flashback, Ernesto, a young con man, tells us how he got to the edge of a big score: childhood in an orphanage, youthful smash-and-grab burglaries until his partner is caught, then tutelage from Lefty, an aging swindler. After some years of ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, anamorphic ...
Plot: cons and scams, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, femme fatale, con trick, power relations, love and romance, forgery, betrayal, dishonesty, manipulation, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Identity Theft (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This movie is rated 14+ because it includes: -Sexual content and Nudity, by this it only shows kisses between the two main characters and ways of showing affection like hugging, ect. It also shows women in no such lingere, nor men. All characters ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, captivating
Plot: identity theft, false accusation, woman in danger, cons and scams, dishonesty, impersonation, female stalker, love, criminal heroes, doppelganger, credit card fraud, true crime ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
In the Name of My Daughter (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In 1976 in Nice, Agnes, the daughter of the owner of the Palais de la Méditerranée, falls in love with an older lawyer.
Style: serious, captivating, tense, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: unrequited love, lawyer, intrigue, rivalry, fall in love, love affair, mother daughter conflict, suicide attempt, obsession, betrayal, love and romance, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 2014, 70s, 2000s
Place: nice france, geneva switzerland, south of france, france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.3
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Gorbachev (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: gambler, obsession, gambling, downfall, fall in love, love and romance, society, rivalry, couples, politician, life is a bitch, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, naples italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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419 (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When a New York City actor loses everything to an internet scam based in South Africa, his two best friends take him to Cape Town to track down the scammer. With the help of a charismatic local, their search begins promisingly, leading them into ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: found footage, cons and scams, dishonesty, criminal, danger, hostage, friend, money, scam, girlfriend
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.3
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Read My Lips (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Style: tense, suspenseful, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mute or deaf, workplace, disability, relationships, opposites attract, character study, parole officer, criminal heroes, mentally unstable, unlikely partners, looking for love, partner ...
Time: year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Shadows & Lies (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of William Vincent as he recounts the eccentric and curious path that has brought him, at mortal risk, to New York City, after four years in exile, to rescue a woman he scarcely knows, Ann, from the vague crime syndicate that first brought ...
Style: tense, rough, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, danger, love and romance, dishonesty, criminal heroes, rescue, lovers on the run, woman in danger, criminal, gangster, rivalry, girl ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Time Out (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story: An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, depressing, compassionate, stylized ...
Plot: unemployment, self discovery, greed, character study, life is a bitch, couple relations, society, dishonesty, down on your luck, family problems, husband wife relationship, swindle ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: france, switzerland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Swindle (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, clever, witty ...
Plot: gambling, casino, scam, hidden identity, crime gone awry, intrigue, dishonesty, disorder, gangster, betrayal, criminal heroes, mafia ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: swiss alps, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.1
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Charlie Says (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: lifestyle, love affair, cons and scams, teachers and students, couples, infidelity, celebrity culture, betrayal, social relations, dishonesty, love and romance, small town ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Guilty Hearts (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, church, love affair, investigation, couples, family problems, infidelity, fall in love, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, love and romance, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Wedding in Blood (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is ...
Style: neo noir, slasher, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: affair, european, manipulation, wedding, dull life, disorder, couples, obsession, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Choice of Arms (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and ...
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, gangster, on the run, basement, chase, escape, heist gone wrong, prison escape, violent behavior, prison break, murder, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france, ireland
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50%
Place Vendome (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, psychological, serious, stylized ...
Plot: women, flashback, drunkenness, betrayal, dishonesty, haunted by the past, alcohol abuse, cons and scams, diamond, female protagonist, widow, suicide ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Hell (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, slasher, psychological thriller ...
Plot: obsession, adultery, jealousy, marriage, hotel, murder, madness, unfaithfulness, husband rapes wife, husband wife relationship, hearing voices, parallel universe ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: france, europe, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Bonnie & Clyde: The Real Story (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bonnie Parker is estranged from her husband while still only just barely eighteen. Clyde Barrow, a handsome charmer who is in love with Bonnie, is a small-time thief, 'borrowing' cars to teach Bonnie to drive. He falls in with WD Jones, ...
Style: rough, serious, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: criminal heroes, partner, on the run, chase, love and romance, heist, violence spree, murderous pair, outlaw, bank robber, criminal, serial killer ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Moon Child (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: David, a professor of dermatology, has been treating 13-year-old Romain since he was a baby. Afflicted with a rare skin condition, Romain must avoid sunlight and is condemned to live in the shade. David and Romain have become the closest of friends ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Deadfall (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wish by recovering valuables that Mike's twin brother Lou stole from him years earlier. But Uncle Lou is also a confidence artist, and Joe is ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, realistic, serious, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, gangster, criminal heroes, cons and scams, crime gone awry, uncle nephew relationship, greed, danger, fight scenes, tribe, buddies, drug ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary) (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: "Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty, after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean. The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, rough, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, heist, robbery, dishonesty, murder, photojournalism, betrayal, criminal, prostitute, criminal heroes, jewel robbery, jewel thief ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france, cannes
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.8
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Night Run (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dennis is a taxi driver trying to start out his own company. One day, he gets the opportunity to buy a scarce and expensive but lucrative license.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough
Plot: taxi, family relations, rivalry, cons and scams, dishonesty, once in a lifetime opportunity, siblings relations, taxi driver
Time: 21st century
Place: amsterdam, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A fashion designer marries a lawyer only to discover that his father is an imfamous mafia don.
Style: crime drama, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, gangster, special agent, violent content, rescue, dishonesty, drug dealing, legal action, fall in love, love and romance, love affair, defamation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Insecure (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: couples, society, fall in love, working class, immigrant, life is a bitch, misfit, security guard, gang, pursuit, youth, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.2
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Rivals (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favourite.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, emotional, rough ...
Plot: starting over, family relations, prison, family problems, hopes, law enforcement, siblings relations, haunted by the past, family in crisis, criminal heroes, going straight, violent content ...
Time: 80s, year 2008, 70s, 20th century
Place: lyon, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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