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Elective Affinities (1996)
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Elective Affinities (1996)
Original name: Le affinità elettive
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's attraction to someone.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, infidelity, age difference, young love, unfaithful wife, pregnancy, sex, cheating wife, female nudity, divorce, adultery, husband wife relationship, death of husband, comedy of manners, nudity, unfaithfulness, love triangle, family relations, love and romance, couples, love affair, family problems, crumbling marriage, lovers reunited ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s
Place: europe, africa, italy, venice, tuscany, florence, florence italy
Keyword: rose

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and crying films with plots about couples, infidelity, love and romance, adultery, unfulfillment, husband wife relationship and extramarital affair mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Elective Affinities: Love After Love (1992), Remember Me, My Love (2003), Madame Bovary (1991), The Last Mistress (2007), Five Times Two (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love After Love (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.
Style: contemplative, thought provoking, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, infidelity, adultery, couples, dark humor, family problems, breakup, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, love and romance, dishonesty, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france
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95%
Remember Me, My Love (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of a normal Italian family in which come out the dreams of those who have lost their possibilities and of those who want to realize them. Carlo and Giulia are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an ...
Style: sentimental, captivating, sincere, touching, romantic ...
Plot: love affair, midlife crisis, family problems, family in crisis, infidelity, parents and children, couples, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, youth, unfaithful wife, audition ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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90%
Madame Bovary (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, sexy, costume drama, intense ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, literature, family life, tragic hero, village life, life is a bitch, village, love affair, hopes, destructive relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1991, 1850s
Place: normandy, france, europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Last Mistress (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Style: erotic, serious, stylized, realistic, sensual ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, infidelity, opposites attract, courtesan, forbidden love, manipulation, destructive relationship, dishonesty, couples, tragic love, love affair, looking for love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 2000s, 1830s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Five Times Two (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles ...
Style: sexy, enigmatic, psychological, sensual, stylized ...
Plot: divorce, sex, infidelity, rape, adultery, wedding, wedding night, unfaithful wife, relationships, husband wife relationship, up and down relationship, family life ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, sardinia, europe, senegal, sicily ...
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Gabrielle (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, clever, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, marriage, letter, adultery, couples, family problems, power relations, dishonesty, love and romance, suffering, husband wife relationship, betrayal ...
Time: 1910s, year 2005
Place: france, paris france, europe
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75%
La séparation (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Paris, Pierre and Anne have been living together for a couple of years and they have the eighteen months son Loulou, who stays with the nanny Laurence during the day while they work. Their best friends are the couple Victor and Claire, who also ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: betrayal, adultery, dysfunctional family, infidelity, unfaithful wife, cuckold, family life, lovers reunited, crumbling marriage, breakup, estrangement, couples ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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74%
Where Am I Going? (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
Style: romantic, erotic, neorealism, spiritual, contemplative ...
Plot: female nudity, eroticism, love triangle, italian neorealism, affair, sensuality, american civil war, spirit, suicide, aristocrat, pregnancy, nudity ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, turn of the century, 1890s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Cactus (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: blind character, blindness, infidelity, nudity, blind man, husband wife relationship, premarital sex, sexual attraction, adultery, extramarital affair, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, paris france
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68%
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Cousin Bette (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style: light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, slut, adultery, manipulation, dysfunctional family, family relations, love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, love triangle, love affair ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards ...
Style: erotic, touching, emotional, colorful, atmospheric ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love triangle, love, tragedy, love story, nude girl, love and romance, dishonesty, unfulfilled love, love affair, fall in love ...
Place: italy, europe, france, new york, paris france ...
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61%
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Bye Bye Baby (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Love triangles often provoke the most unpredictable behavior and "Bye Bye Baby" proves no exception to the rule. Will anybody end up happily in love at the end of this amorous debacle? One otrageous scene after another leads to a series of ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, sexual, humorous
Plot: love triangle, island, billiards, couples, erotica, nudity, breakup, dangerous animal, womanizer, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, love and romance ...
Time: 80s
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58%
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. ...
Style: emotional, stylized, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, extramarital affair, marriage, friendship, adultery, love affair, betrayal, lust, cheating on husband, cheating, forbidden love ...
Time: year 2004
Place: europe, england, portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Come Undone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up ...
Style: erotic, sensual, touching, sincere, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, sex scene, adultery, cheating on husband, extramarital affair, sexually dissatisfied wife, cheating wife, infidelity, horny wife, forbidden love, couples, unfaithful husband ...
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52%
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Anna Karenina (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Style: serious, emotional, psychological, realistic, epic ...
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52%
Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Style: talky, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: divorce, holocaust, world war two, infidelity, love and romance, twists and turns, pregnancy, bigamy, peasant, self discovery, human nature, dark humor ...
Time: post world war two, 20th century, 1940s, year 1989
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50%
Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Style: emotional, serious, psychological, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, family relations, couples, family problems, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, cheating wife, parents and children, love triangle, polyamory ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: marseille, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 178 min.
Story: Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gynecological exam, cancer, infidelity, friendship, unfaithfulness, female pubic hair, unhappiness, seduction, female nudity, extramarital affair, adultery, sex ...
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Place: france, europe, paris france
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49%
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The Oh in Ohio (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Priscilla and Jack appear to be the perfect couple, but they have a secret: She is sexually frustrated. They separate in the hope of resolving the situation. While Jack moves into a bachelor pad and begins an affair with a student, Priscilla ...
Style: light, stylized, sex comedy, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: orgasm, infidelity, depression, sexual dysfunction, adultery, high school, fall in love, love triangle, female masturbation, age difference, lesbian cunnilingus, love ...
Time: year 2006
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
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48%
Swann in Love (1984)
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: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: duchess, love and romance, erotica, sensuality, lovers, fantomas, star crossed lovers, jealousy, obsession, prostitute, french president, couple relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
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46%
The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Paul and Paula have had bad experiences with love: Paul is financially well off but has lost all affection for his wife, and Paula leads a troublesome life raising two children on her own. They meet and discover a strong passion for each other. Life ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: nude bathing, children, female nudity, love, love story, sensuality, death, marriage, family relations, self fulfillment, fate, love of one's life ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, german democratic republic
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45%
The Woodlanders (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, independent film, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, infidelity, love triangle, social differences, tragic love, looking for love, love affair, unfulfilled love, school, rich and poor, society, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Anna Karenina (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
Style: costume drama, romantic, psychological, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: imperial russia, relationships, infidelity, betrayal, cheating wife, age difference, death, love, true love, american civil war, russian woman, women ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1997, 1880s
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 116 min.
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Style: psychological, humorous, light, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: novelist, poet, drug smuggling, manipulation, dishonesty, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love triangle, family problems, writers, infidelity, writer's block ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: england, europe, london
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41%
It's Easier for a Camel... (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming ...
Style: captivating, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family relations, social differences, couples, midlife crisis, parents and children, love and romance, father daughter relationship, ex lover, wealth, dying, death of father, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sri lanka, africa, india, atlantic ocean, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Comedy-drama about a middle-aged Italian businessman Vittorio Gassman who is married to Eleanor Parker and is innocently introduced one day to a schoolgirl with pigtails named Carolina. Years later, that young schoolgirl has become a vivacious ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, woman with a gun, redheaded woman, mistress, older man younger woman relationship, elderly, love and romance, self discovery, crumbling marriage, couple relations, unfulfillment, human nature ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: italy
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39%
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Love, etc. (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the world's oldest 32-year-old. The shy, well-employed Benoît's life changes when he ...
Style: romantic, talky, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, infidelity, love triangle, friendship, couples, friends, unemployment, urban, unfulfilled love, looking for love, city life, twentysomething life ...
Time: 90s
Place: english channel
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38%
Blume in Love (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) ...
Style: romantic comedy, funny, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: divorce, marriage, lawyer, satire, law, infidelity, love triangle, female nudity, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, couples, obsession ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, los angeles, europe, usa ...
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37%
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Adam & Eva (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Adam and Eva have been married for four years. But the romance has disappeared from their relationship and has been replaced by boredom and old routine. When Adam meets his brother's baby-sitter, Jackie, he is immediately attracted to her. They ...
Style: sentimental, witty, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, love affair, infidelity, rescue, family problems, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, love triangle, breakup, bittersweet ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Heartbeat (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The beautiful and talented Adrian is a writer for one of America's most popular TV soap operas. She is also pregnant, and when she refuses to abort her baby, Adrian's selfish husband deserts her. It falls to one of the soap opera's ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, pregnancy, family relations, relationship vs career, crumbling marriage, forbidden love, unfulfillment, producer, passion, love, dilemma, parents ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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