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Love Unto Death (1984)
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Love Unto Death (1984)
Original name: L'Amour à mort
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Elisabeth and Simon have been deeply in love for two months when Simon momentarily dies, but comes back to life. Simon does not want any further medical tests, but the couple are forced to grapple with the possibility of his death. They eventually tell their close friends Jérôme and Judith Martignac about the event. The Martignacs are both clerics, and Judith has just been giving a funeral service for a villager who committed suicide, though Jérôme would have nothing to do with suicide..
Style: sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, emotional, surreal, contemplative, eros, avant garde
Plot: love and romance, tragic love, dealing with death, introspection, unfulfillment, death of loved one, life after death, death, near death experience, archaeologist, destiny, couples, love affair, society, sexual content, clergy, death wish, hopes, religions or cults, love, religion, snow, doctor, faith, suicide ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
Keyword: avant-garde, sky, red

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, unfulfillment, love, love affair, couple relations and fall in love mostly in Drama, Romance and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Love Unto Death: Before the Revolution (1964), The Woman Next Door (1981), Wild Grass (2009), White Nights on the Pier (2014), Private Fears in Public Places (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Before the Revolution (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The study of a youth on the edge of adulthood and his aunt, ten years older. Fabrizio is passionate, idealistic, influenced by Cesare, a teacher and Marxist, engaged to the lovely but bourgeois Clelia, and stung by the drowning of his mercurial ...
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Plot: incest, communism, bourgeoisie, suicide, revolution, aunt, philosophy, fascism, modernism, existentialism, mental illness, death of friend ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
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The Woman Next Door (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion ...
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Time: year 1981, 20th century, 80s
Place: france
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Wild Grass (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Marguerite, he finds he's fascinated with her and her life, and soon his curiosity about ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
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Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
White Nights on the Pier (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her.
Style: contemplative, realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In Paris, six people all look for love, despite typically having their romantic aspirations dashed at every turn.
Style: realistic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, clever ...
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Time: year 2006
Place: france, paris france, europe, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Soft Skin (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
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Plot: starting over, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, coping, couples, hopes, workplace, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
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Living 'til the End (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year, as a hopeless agoraphobic, until he meets a young woman who slowly coaxes him out of his self imposed bondage.
Style: touching, psychological, serious, emotional, realistic ...
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Womb (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Hungary, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, serious, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
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Time: year 2010, future, distant future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Muriel, or The Time of Return (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A chamber drama about a widow and her son who live in an antique shop in Boulogne. The widow invites a man whom she loved twenty-two years earlier to visit. Her son is haunted by Muriel, a young woman whose death he may have caused while serving as ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, anthology, thought provoking ...
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Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, algeria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Tangled 8 (2015)
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Irene (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 110 min.
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27%
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Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
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24%
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Country: France
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Country: France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
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