Movies like The Gang of Four

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The Gang of Four (1989)
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The Gang of Four (1989)
Original name: La Bande des quatre
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Four inseparable high-school seniors gain from each other the courage to face the harsh realities of their rapidly approaching adulthood.
Style: stylized, psychological, serious, realistic, witty, suspense
Plot: female nudity, gang, friends, teachers and students, love and romance, intrigue, best friend, strong female presence, actor's life, gender, artists and showbiz, mysterious character, power relations, lesbian, artist, women, police officer, student, friendship, death, murder, seduction, theater, actor, bare breasts ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
Keyword: portuguese, keys

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and contemplative films with plots about love and romance, couples, friendship, female nudity, artists and showbiz, couple relations and french new wave mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Gang of Four: Paris Belongs to Us (1961), Poison Friends (2006), Cracks in the Shell (2011), Belleville-Tokyo (2010), A Very Private Affair (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Paris Belongs to Us (1961)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
Style: metafiction, psychological, serious, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot: fantomas, urbanization, conspiracy, theater, mental illness, paranoia, cold war era, femme fatale, expatriate, theatrical troupe, investigation, intrigue ...
Time: year 1961, 50s, 20th century, year 1957
Place: paris france, france
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Poison Friends (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Style: talky, psychological, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: college, friendship, youth, friends, power relations, college life, betrayal, teachers and students, student life, student, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mishap ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Cracks in the Shell (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Fine suffers from not being seen but she also does her best at not being noticed, even though she is an acting student. At night, when her mentally handicapped sister Jule cannot get to sleep and stereotypically bangs her head against the wall, Fine ...
Style: serious, psychological, tense, realistic, gloomy
Plot: actor's life, losing-it hero, power relations, artists and showbiz, actress, mentor protege relationship, self destructing, audition, theater, disability, casting, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, boss and employee, love and romance, pregnant woman, family crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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A Very Private Affair (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A gorgeous teen, Jill, resides in Switzerland with her mother and harbors feelings for the handsome Fabio, an older man who is married to one of her friends. Growing restless, Jill moves to Paris to pursue ballet, but instead finds success and fame ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, contemplative, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot: price of fame, paparazzi, fame, photographer, actor's life, showbiz, desire for fame, best friend, couple relations, artists and showbiz, unfulfillment, celebrity culture ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Vanishing Point (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Lucie Audibert, a student of Art History, does research work on Watteau and is certain that a hidden sense that nobody has ever deciphered can be found in a few of his paintings. The further she explores this the more Professor Jean Dussart - for ...
Style: psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: power relations, obsessive quest, couples, teachers and students, painter, biopic, deaf, art, performer's life, riddles and clues, celebrity culture, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Under the Sand (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Style: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: love, disappearance, obsession, relationships, delusion, tourist, love and romance, coping, haunted by the past, couple relations, mentally unstable, female masturbation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 193 min.
Story: A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.
Style: surreal, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, friendship, female nudity, feminist, female friendship, summer, mind game, underground, time travel, magic realism, christmas, modernism ...
Time: year 1974
Place: france, paris france, africa, hong kong, borneo
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Out 1 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 776 min.
Story: While two dueling theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash and unravel a conspiracy.
Style: avant garde, art house, sexy, inspirational, experimental ...
Plot: stage play, art, theatrical troupe, conspiracy, theatre group, secret, artist, paranoia, rehearsal, professor, beach, lawyer ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, ancient greece, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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L'Immortelle (1963)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A sad man meets a beautiful, secretive woman who may or may not be involved in some conspiracy ring dealing in kidnapped women used as prostitutes. After several days of their sadly passionate relationship she disappears. The sad man is unable to ...
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, experimental, avant garde ...
Plot: obsession, fetish, parallel universe, mystery woman, alternate reality, surrealism, power relations, love and romance, mysterious character, femme fatale, dealing with death, love affair ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
Story: The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: painter, painting, art, artist, eroticism, husband wife relationship, couples, creative process, taxidermy, model, drawing, human nature ...
Time: year 1991
Place: provence, usa, france, los angeles, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
I Love Your Work (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds Gray of his own life before becoming famous. A dark psychological ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, mindfuck, gloomy ...
Plot: obsession, self defense, actor's life, showbiz, couples, desire for fame, lifestyle, losing-it hero, rise and fall, ambition, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Wandering Streams (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe and uneventful to a fault, somewhat juiced by friendship with raucous fishing ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: looking for love, couples, aging, love and romance, friendship, village, nudism, introspection, family relations, superhero, nudity, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Wuthering Heights (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Rivette's unique take on Bronte's famous novel "Wuthering Heights".
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric
Audience: girls' night
Plot: wuthering heights, haunted house, obsession, mental illness, couples, vengeance, orphan, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations, forbidden love, impossible love ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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UV (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During the absence of Philipp, in his house appears the stranger, who calls himself Boris. He says that he was the school comrade of Philipp and it arrived to visit old friend. Boris charms all households and remains to await Philipp. Only one ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: murder, family relations, hidden identity, danger, dishonesty, estate, stranger, paranoia, mysterious past, disorder, cons and scams, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, saint tropez, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Three-Way Wedding (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: love triangle, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, playwright, society, rivalry, friendship, nude women, nudity, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Replay (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise ...
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, obsessive love, lesbian, obsession, friendship, haunted by the past, love triangle, couples, destructive relationship, dangerous attraction, female nudity, lgbt ...
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Stratosphere Girl (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, Switzerland, UK, Italy, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In this imaginative independent drama, Angela (Chloé Winkel) is a French art student living in Germany who loves to draw comics and creates elaborate tales drawn in a soft and romantic style. One night, Angela meets Yamamoto (Jon Yang), a club DJ ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: nightclub, immigrant, love affair, danger, murder, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, coming of age, first love, foreigner, performer's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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42%
A Lady in Paris (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Estonia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrated to France long ago. Anne soon realizes that she is not wanted. All Frida wants from life is the attention of Stéphane, her younger former lover. ...
Style: witty, touching, serious, realistic
Plot: elderly, love and romance, friendship, boss and employee, power relations, unfulfilled love, obnoxious boss, unfulfillment, emigration, loneliness, immigrant, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, estonia
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40%
A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, breakup, fall in love, human nature, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, husband wife relationship, adultery, jealousy, friendship between men, affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy, france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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L'Amour Fou (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 252 min.
Story: L'Amour Fou follows the dissolution of the marriage between Claire, an actress (played by Bulle Ogier), and Sebastien, her director (Jean-Pierre Kalfon).
Style: experimental, avant garde
Plot: love, underground, filmmaking, dialogue, lgbt, theatre group, unfaithfulness, television crew, infidelity, dog, husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking ...
Time: year 1969
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Long Absence (1961)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Long Absence (French: Une aussi longue absence) is a 1961 French film directed by Henri Colpi. It tells the story of Therese (Alida Valli), a café owner mourning the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: homelessness, cafe, memory loss, couples, human nature, couple relations, life is a bitch, hopes, physical appearance, haunted by the past, husband, tramp ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Atomic Age (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, melancholic, exciting ...
Plot: gay, friendship, teenage life, friends, buddies, lifestyle, on the road, city life, lgbt, teenager, coming of age, feminist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Two (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Portugal
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Isabelle Huppert stars as a pair of twin sisters in Werner Schroeter's gorgeously composed and utterly berserk opus stuffed to overflowing with sailors, drag queens, suicides, cemeteries, doppelgängers, fickle foxes and operatic arias.
Style: non-linear, psychological, realistic, serious, controversial ...
Plot: family relations, strong female presence, opera, human nature, hopes, twins, destiny, cabaret, male nudity, town, mother, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, portugal, marseille, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
I Can't Sleep (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified elderly neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arrived to Paris, comes to live at the hotel and becomes fascinated with the life of a mysteriously ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, gloomy, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: gay, serial killer, lgbt, murder, immigrant, male nudity, killer, brother brother relationship, fetish, minimalism, big city, true crime ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: waitress, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorce, widow, estrangement, power relations, artists and showbiz, twists and turns, writers, father daughter relationship, letter, translator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Humanity (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, erotic, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: small town, masturbation, female nudity, female pubic hair, lust, voyeur, sex, orgasm, murder, dead body, strike, rape ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, flanders, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Crossed Tracks (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological, clever ...
Plot: serial killer, meet the parents, hidden identity, mysterious character, writers, intrigue, dishonesty, lifestyle, twists and turns, missing person, rivalry, writer's life ...
Time: year 2007
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Caroline and Jackie (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A woman turns her sister's belated birthday celebration into an intervention, but as events unfold, it becomes unclear which sibling needs the most help.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: addiction, introspection, haunted by the past, friendship, drug abuse, life is a bitch, coming of age, self discovery, sister sister conflict, eating disorder, friends, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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