Movies like Days of Darkness
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Days of Darkness (2007)
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Original name: L'âge des ténèbres
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Style:
psychological, humorous, light, melancholic, erotic, sad, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
daydreamer, escape from reality, family relations, obsession, social relations, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, love and romance, impossible love, imaginary character, losing-it hero, sexual fantasy, relationships, loneliness, sex scene, isolation, making love, knight, routine, fictional reality, dull life, rape, female nudity, group sex, dream ...
Place:
canada, france, montreal, montreal quebec canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and touching films with plots about love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, family relations, female nudity, couple relations and nude mostly in Comedy, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Days of Darkness: Mariages! (2004), Stardom (2000), On Air (2012), Marine Life (2000), Juliet of the Spirits (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ils ont 25 ans et se marient aujourd'hui.Ils ont 35 ans, se sont unis il y a dix ans et se déchirent aujourd'hui.Ils ont 45 ans, se sont déchirés il y a dix ans et tentent aujourd'hui de se réconcilier...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
obsession, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, lifestyle, couples, impossible love, wooing, family gatherings, lovers reunited, love affair, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs ...
Style:
talky, intellectual, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
infidelity, sex, depression, love and romance, battle of the sexes, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, human nature, radical, relationships, friendship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, quebec, california, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Style:
clever, stylized, realistic, captivating, cynical ...
Plot:
fashion, obsession, rise and fall, rags to riches, lifestyle, rising to stardom, ambition, desire for fame, rise to the top, showbiz, celebrity culture, model ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, new jersey, argentina, paris france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.
Style:
humorous, touching, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, disorder, media, midlife crisis, self discovery, introspection, strong female presence, love and romance, hidden identity, hopes, dishonesty, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family life, love affair, couples, family relations, family problems, youth, single parent, love and romance, parents and children, child as adult, midlife crisis ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and ...
Style:
surreal, cerebral, psychedelic, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
hermaphrodite, surrealism, infidelity, spiritualism, insanity, memory, psychology, marriage, hallucination, divorce, art, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed criminals, Quinn Dawson ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sincere, light, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lifestyle, family relations, eccentric family, teenage life, parents and children, cheerleader, social relations, teenage love, marijuana, brother sister relationship, coming of age, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, art house, humorous, sexy ...
Plot:
coming of age, masturbation, insanity, bestiality, crazy, surrealism, dysfunctional family, dark humor, magic realism, imagination, youth, children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, quebec, montreal, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After 20 years of marriage and almost perfect love, Sophie leaves her husband Gilles for another guy. Many misadventures await Gilles in his nervous breakdown, while trying to get a way to reclaim his love back to Sophie.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, love affair, breakup, life turned upside down, disorder, couples, love and romance, couple relations, love, marriage, husband wife relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
quebec, canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
Style:
sexy, captivating, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
extramarital affair, infidelity, life turned upside down, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, dishonesty, sexual relations, love triangle, adultery, architect, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec, montreal, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
unfulfillment, midlife crisis, actor's life, family relations, theatre director, lifestyle, parents and children, theater, rivalry, friendship, gynecological exam, childlessness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
Style:
semi serious, witty, touching, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
introspection, love triangle, love affair, couples, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, couple relations, infidelity, fall in love, midlife crisis, husband wife relationship, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lifestyle, dishonesty, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, social relations, couples, family relations, unfulfillment, love affair, family problems, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
30 ans, l'âge des responsabilités... Martin s'apprête à partir en vacances avec sa femme Ariane et sa fille Cerise, 4 mois... C'est alors qu'il croise Constance, son ex, son amour de jeunesse, elle-même flanquée de deux ...
Style:
humorous, sexy, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot:
love affair, crumbling marriage, family relations, couple relations, human nature, love and romance, family problems, couples, thirtysomething life, relationship vs career, lovers reunited, singleness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A story of two sisters, one from the country with simpler attitudes who comes to stay for a short while with her sophisticated sister who lives in the big city.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
sibling relationship, breaking point, dull life, family relations, parents and children, sibling rivalry, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, living together, family problems, humour, sister ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, ...
Style:
surreal, feel good, humorous, light, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
imaginary friend, mental illness, emotional manipulation, childhood memory, friendship, vengeance, unlikely friendships, psychology, loneliness, personal growth, family relations, guilty pleasure ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be ...
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
aging, couple relations, couples, family relations, family life, parents and children, midlife crisis, love and romance, elderly, leaving home, college, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, humorous, light, psychological, feel good
Plot:
real estate agent, midlife crisis, friendship, australian, family relations, father son relationship, mother son relationship, reincarnation, death of mother, misfit, escapades, society ...
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE is a romantic-comedy-drama about a girl with an unrequited crush on a boy who thinks she's bad in bed, so she goes out to get more 'experience'. SAMMY SMALLS is a 21-year-old tomboy who works as a store detective ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, entertaining, light, sexy ...
Plot:
sex, virgin, love and romance, sexual relations, lifestyle, twentysomething life, looking for sex, female orgasm, threesome, misfit, relationships, irony ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An ex soixante- huitard is forced to look back at his past .His kids look at him like an old soldier from a very distant war.His banker called him urgently.His last script idea is refused.He remembers meeting his wife in Sarajevo during the war.Most ...
Style:
clever, realistic, talky, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, aging, dealing with death, filmmaking, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, postmodernism, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dreary urban landscape of an anonymous Canadian city. Dark comedy about a group of twentysomethings looking for love and meaning in the '90s. The film focuses on roommates David, a gay waiter who has has given up on his acting career, and ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, clever, sexual, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
gay, lesbian, serial killer, bdsm, lgbt, homosexual, lesbianism, sex, lgbtq, dark humor, male nudity, love story ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his ...
Style:
touching, tricky, enigmatic, psychological, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
superhero, friendship, self discovery, midlife crisis, coming of age, imaginary friend, writers, small town, loneliness, depression, character study, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, long island, atlantic ocean, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good, light ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dishonesty, family relations, disorder, life turned upside down, best friends, lie, society, bittersweet, strong female presence, friends, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A paleontologist is diagnosed with a fatal brain disease and, rather than falling into a depression, explodes into life.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, touching, humorous, sad ...
Plot:
terminal illness, destiny, self discovery, tragic hero, best friends, couple relations, couples, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, singleness, unfulfillment, disease ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two brothers spend the day driving around Los Angeles county looking for the meaning of their lives, or cheap street drugs, depending on who you happen to believe.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
family relations, looking for love, sexual content, on the road, siblings relations, road trip, brother brother relationship, self discovery, dysfunctional family, writers, nude, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying she wants a divorce and during the course of the party, she has three separate fantasies with three ...
Style:
touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
Plot:
family problems, couples, friends, disorder, road not taken, friendship, singleness, mistaken identity, love and romance, dishonesty, unfulfillment, best friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crazy father old before his time, a tyrannical, sick mother, a sister who disappeared four years ago and me, Erell, who films everything, all the time... A fine family portrait. I live in the same town I've always lived in. You're born ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, humorous ...
Plot:
youth, parents and children, teenage life, family life, coming of age, bittersweet, unfulfillment, illness, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, friendship, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Marina wins a paradise vacation for two, but when she realizes that she has no one to bring along, she decides to invite a stranger named Victor. The pair soon discovers that true love depends more on compatibility rather than idyllic scenery.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, sad ...
Plot:
unfulfillment, looking for love, couples, human nature, vacation, loneliness, stranger, love story, bittersweet, love and romance, dull life, insurance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An ordinary guy delves deep into counterculture, conspiracy theories and the like as he tries to discern the structure of society.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, surreal, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
stoners, obsession, losing-it hero, disorder, conspiracy theory, friendship, wedding preparations and rituals, drugs, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, end of the world, profanity
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
As their mother lies in a coma, two brothers discuss the advantages and disadvantages of adultery, under the nose of their virtuous elder, who tries in vain to discourage them.
Style:
humorous, witty, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience:
preschoolers
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, couples, sex addict, couple relations, sibling relationship, family relations, dishonesty, unfulfillment, obsession, hospital, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec, france, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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