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Secret Name (2021)
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Original name: La Place d'une autre
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to become the reader of this wealthy woman.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
world war one, medical, prostitute, body swapping, escape, sex scene, death, priest, book, church, bible, singing, german soldier, lie, chambermaid, impersonation, letter, loss of job, female protagonist, pastor, locket, witness, disfigured face, false identity, fired from the job ...
Time:
year 1914
Place:
paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, period drama, touching and melancholic films with plots about female protagonist, death, female nudity, psychological drama, sex scene, male nudity and female full frontal nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Secret Name: Thomas the Impostor (1965), Farewell, Mr. Haffmann (2021), The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981), The Cool Lakes of Death (1982), In His Own Image (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The ...
Plot:
world war one, first aid, hierarchy, nurse, soldier, mother daughter relationship, liar, war zone, bishop, trench warfare, love letter, aristocrat ...
Time:
year 1914
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Plot:
world war two, nazi, jew persecution, body swapping, family relations, marital rape, painting, nazi occupied france, husband wife relationship, impersonation, police arrest, butcher ...
Time:
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Place:
germany, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
paris france
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62%
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Country: Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
historical drama, bleak, art house, period drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
photographer, female protagonist, photograph, prison, photography, photojournalism, heroin, murder, hotel, newspaper, voice over narration, war photographer ...
Time:
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Place:
corsica
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, brothel, coitus, debauchery, sexual abuse, sexploitation, prostitution, disfigurement, violence against women, female nudity, fondling, physical appearance ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological
Plot:
female nudity, psychiatric hospital, mental illness, womanizer, female pubic hair, mental disorder, cheating wife, bare breasts, mental institution, male female relationship, sex, adultery ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
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Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Elizabeth Leroy devotes her life to serving God but her faith is tested over the years as she has to overcome many hardships and sorrows.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
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Time:
1950s, 90s, 50s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, art house, ambiguous ending, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
catholic church, prison, priest, sex scene, grief, funeral, juvenile prison, fake identity, mayor, confession, cemetery, mourning ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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341
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.
Style:
medical drama
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sasha, a French woman of thirty, dies suddenly in Berlin. Her Fiancé, Lawrence, and her sister Zoé, must come to terms as the consequences of this shock set in.
Style:
psychological, touching, disturbing, sad, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, new york, berlin germany
Similarity:
41%
161
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In Almaty, a sheltered and chaste woman named Din sees her life intertwined with the experiences of a prostitute who looks like her.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
switching roles, lifestyle change, escapades, changing lives, women, clone, fish out of water, relationship problems, lifestyle, fake identity, new identity, female protagonist ...
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the ...
Plot:
prostitution, exploitation, masochism, violence, pimp, brothel, girl, sex, women, relationships, streetwise, seduction ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, mad
Plot:
sex, emmanuelle, nudity, oral sex, male nudity, erotica, call girl, foot fetish, bare chested male, male pubic hair, sensuality, prostitute ...
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Place:
paris france, france
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
france, paris france
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france
Similarity:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
A 1966 French-Italian film version made in Italy, titled L'uomo che ride, directed by Sergio Corbucci. This version features elaborate colour photography but a very low production budget. The main action is shifted to Italy and moved ...
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Story:
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Style:
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