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Villon's Wife (2009)
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Original name: ヴィヨンの妻 〜桜桃とタンポポ〜
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the womanizing, heavy-drinking, suicidal hero than on the wife who loves him. Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, thrilling, emotional, melancholic, reflective, atmospheric, art house, period drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, male female relationship, writers, man-woman relation, female protagonist, family problems, marital strife, character study, alcoholism, family life, dysfunctional family, social problems, relationship problems, unrequited love, tragedy, self destructing, infidelity, adaptation, gender roles, intimate, literary, jealousy, humanism, slow burn, outcast ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, melancholic and thrilling films with plots about relationships, relationship problems, family relations, male female relationship, family problems, intimate and character study mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Villon's Wife: Resisting Life (2006), Wandering Home (2010), A Distant Cry from Spring (2018), Between Men and the Gods (2017), Desire (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mexico City, 1960. Aurelia lives happily with her family. Just before the birth of her third daughter, her husband dies in an accident. Years later, Leonor, the oldest daughter, has quit her studies to help her mother support the household. Beatriz, ...
Style:
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Plot:
alienation, surrealism, family drama, grief, family problems, family relations, estrangement, family life, kids and family, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Distant Cry from Spring (TV Movies)
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A sequel to one of Romanian cinema’s most lauded adaptations, The Moromete Family, film tells the tale of Ilie Moromete and his family and focuses on his youngest son, Niculae. The entire order of the world of the village, where the most important ...
Style:
family saga, psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Hozumi is a doctor and he is friends with manga artist Soeda. They both like Asako who works at a tropical fish shop. Hozumi eventually gives up Asako for his friend Soeda. Soeda and Asako decide to get married, but, after they get married, Soeda ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
love triangle, problem, love and romance, male female relationship, love affair, rich and poor, relationships, love story, relationship problems, love, love interest, jealousy ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, erotic drama, romantic drama ...
Plot:
desire, social problems, couple relations, male female relationship, love affair, relationships, relationship problems, sexual exploration, character study, loneliness, bittersweet, literary ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
25%
465
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The story revolves around a hotel named "Shah Jahan Regency" and lives of people associated with that hotel. The hotel is one of a kind and very different from others as it strongly believes in the rich culture of India and tries to imply ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, emotional, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
hotel, relationship problems, lifestyle, relationships, adaptation, luxury hotel, class differences, city life, literary, slice of life, legacy, intimate ...
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
23%
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297
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, poetic, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, japanese woman, relationship vs career, family relations, lifestyle change, problem, changing lives, career, relationship problems, thirty something, life is a bitch, homecoming ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
This darkly grotesque drama unfolds on multiple paths. The tangible one, now cruel, now crazy, along which the nomadic actor "Dad Mour", his wife "Mum" and two sons try to return home, but also the imaginary one, even more, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
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22%
908
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a woman on the outskirts of the city who lives with her husband and child, but the story of their lives changes.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, affair, husband wife relationship, lifestyle change, problem, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, changing lives, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
It’s 1681, Oshichi is the daughter of Kihee and Ofusa who own a vegetables store. Unfortunately the store burns down in a fire, while it’s being rebuilt Oshichi is sent to a temple. There she meets and falls deeply in love with Kichisaburo. ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, historical romance, romantic ...
Plot:
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Time:
17th century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Milena travels to a remote opal mining community to see her estranged, ill father. Lost and alone, she falls into his bewildering world, where men escape society and share ideals of freedom. Soon, he doesn’t want her to leave. Stuck in time, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, estranged father, father and daughter, relationship problems, father, family problems, parent child relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, relationships ...
Similarity:
21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Strangers in a waiting room become the characters in Claire's recounting of her troubled life and the secrets of a turbulant marriage.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, tense, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, meta, reflective, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional
Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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20%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic drama, emotional ...
Plot:
marriage, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, love affair, love interest, love and romance, husband wife relationship, family problems, couple relations, family life, marital problem ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s, 1950s
Similarity:
20%
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, romantic drama, melancholic, teen ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
20%
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
20%
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Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
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20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
japan
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Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
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Place:
japan
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Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, bleak, poignant ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
cancer, husband wife relationship, infidelity, terminal illness, married couple, family relations, fighting illness, marriage, coping, life is a bitch, couple relations, illness ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A Female DJ finds love in a new city, and shares her music in honor of her late mother.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dj, female protagonist, love story, relationships, musician's life, love affair, family problems, social problems, music, musician, family relations, changing lives ...
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