Movies like Before Sunset

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Before Sunset (2004)
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Before Sunset (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style: philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy, sincere, touching, feel good, cerebral, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny, great ending, conversation, bittersweet, introspection, lifestyle, in love, crazy love, unfulfilled love, encounter, road not taken, travel, hipster, regret ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: paris france, france, europe, new york, india, texas, budapest ...

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Most similar movies to Before Sunset

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out interesting, realistic, melancholic and heartbreaking films with plots about storytelling, dialogue, love, couples, loneliness, relationships and bittersweet mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Before Sunset: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Midnight (2013), One Day (2011), Chocolat (2000), The Virgin Suicides (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Before Sunrise (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. ...
Style: philosophical, sentimental, sexy, intellectual, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love, chance meeting, destiny, lovers, tourist, young lovers, fall in love, relationships, coincidence, love story, teenage girl, stranger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: vienna, austria, europe, france, los angeles ...
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Before Midnight (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Style: philosophical, cerebral, sexy, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: marriage, summer vacation, writers, hotel room, hotel, midlife crisis, relationships, love story, couple relations, existentialism, hopes, divorce ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 90s, 21st century
Place: greece, mediterranean sea, europe, chicago, paris france ...
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 7.0
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One Day (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style: romantic, sentimental, emotional, sad, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: love, love and romance, best friends in love, love story, male female friendship, couples, friends in love, friendship, relationships, life philosophy, opposites attract, best friend ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: iran, scotland, london, paris france, england
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100%
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Chocolat (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style: romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time: 50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place: france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
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The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style: sexy, gothic, teen, sad, depressing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult, teen drama
Plot: suburbs, suicide, depression, suicide attempt, coming of age, overbearing parent, dysfunctional family, teenage life, suicidal, friendship, suburban life, sisters ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: detroit, michigan, yale university
Similarity:
100%
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Once (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers, approaches him with the news that she is also an aspiring singer-songwriter. The pair decide to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sexy, independent film, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, musician's life, love, street musician, pianist, love and romance, musician, friendship, singer, young lovers, love story, recording studio ...
Time: year 2007, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, london, czech republic
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100%
 7.3
 224K
Blue Valentine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style: sexy, romantic, emotional, psychological, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: marriage, depression, dysfunctional family, couple relations, lust, husband wife relationship, passion, crumbling marriage, sexual content, lovers, love story, sex ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa, brooklyn new york city, florida
Similarity:
83%
Great Expectations (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the ...
Style: romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: inheritance, art, artist, destiny, love story, childhood, passion, literary, amor, fall in love, understanding, stranger ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 80s, 90s, 70s ...
Place: new york, florida, usa, london
Similarity:
100%
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The Notebook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: love story, love, love and romance, fall in love, true love, rich woman poor man, youth, forbidden love, power of love, love of one's life, young lovers, love triangle ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, post world war two, year 1941, 50s ...
Place: north carolina, charleston south carolina, southern usa, iran, usa ...
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100%
2 Days in Paris (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Adam Goldberg delivers "an uproarious study in transatlantic culture panic" as Jack, an anxious, hypochondriac-prone New Yorker vacationing throughout Europe with his breezy, free-spirited Parisian girlfriend, Marion. But when they make a ...
Style: sexy, humorous, romantic, witty, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: male nudity, profanity, parenthood, fish out of water, society, lifestyle, relationship problems, relationships, hipster, taxi driver, lovers, vacation ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, venice, new york ...
Similarity:
67%
 7.0
 46K
Two Lovers (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
Style: depressing, psychological, emotional, romantic, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: melancholy, couples, suicide attempt, young lovers, fall in love, lust, desire, character study, neighbor, love triangle, passion, life turned upside down ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of ...
Style: atmospheric, road movie, sentimental, psychological, romantic ...
Plot: road trip, love and romance, love story, passion, melancholy, travel, loneliness, longing, waitress, cross country, poker, casino ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, china, tennessee, new york, memphis ...
Similarity:
100%
500 Days of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom ...
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: breakup, love, relationships, couples, love story, unrequited love, love and romance, couple relations, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, life philosophy, heartache ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa
Similarity:
75%
Conversations with Other Women (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to ...
Style: sexy, heartbreaking, melancholic, emotional, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: wedding, couples, love story, infidelity, destiny, bittersweet, sex, ex husband ex wife relationship, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, london
Similarity:
100%
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During their travels from Chicago to New York, Harry and Sally Will debate whether or not sex ruins a perfect relationship between a man and a woman. Eleven years later, and they're still no closer to finding the answer.
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: male female friendship, friendship, fall in love, autumn, love and romance, love, love story, unlikely couple, initially antagonists, best friends in love, friends, life philosophy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, 70s, year 1987 ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, chicago, seattle, usa
Similarity:
67%
 6.8
 68K
Before We Go (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
Style: romantic, touching, sweet, rom com, emotional ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: love and romance, love, chance meeting, hopes, stranger, passion, husband wife relationship, jazz musician, life philosophy, love story, honest, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 2014, y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, boston
Similarity:
67%
 8.0
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Her (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. ...
Style: melancholic, philosophical, futuristic, crying, clever ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: loneliness, artificial intelligence, existentialism, philosophy, love, melancholy, computer, cyberspace, impossible love, solitude, love story, relationship problems ...
Time: near future, future, year 2013, distant future, 2030s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
67%
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, sexy, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens
Plot: loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, lovers, love affair, marriage, unrequited love, newspaper, true love, love story, relationships ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
Similarity:
100%
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Revolutionary Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style: bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, sad, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: marriage, abortion, adultery, depression, passion, death of wife, destiny, under the surface, dysfunctional family, deadend life, mental illness, existentialism ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france, connecticut, california
Similarity:
100%
 7.6
 47K
Jules and Jim (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the ...
Style: sexy, art house, black and white, philosophical, lyrical ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: marriage, menage a trois, friendship, unrequited love, love triangle, love, relationships, storytelling, love story, melancholy, manic pixie dream girl, crazy love ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, year 1962, post world war one, 1930s ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, germany
Similarity:
100%
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Style: depressing, sexual, disturbing, melancholic, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: addiction, loneliness, casino, alcoholism, prostitute, alcohol abuse, prostitution, depression, self destructing, tragedy, alcoholic, medical ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa, nevada
Similarity:
100%
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Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot: life philosophy, philosophy, life, mentally challenged, destiny, storytelling, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, vietnam war, life & death ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place: china, alabama, vietnam, america, savannah georgia ...
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50%
Three Colors: White (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists ...
Style: emotional, dark comedy, witty, cerebral, art house ...
Plot: divorce, marriage, obsession, revenge, hairdresser, vengeance, humiliation, ex husband ex wife relationship, rags to riches, relationships, love story, sexual frustration ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: poland, paris france, france, warsaw poland, eastern europe ...
Similarity:
100%
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Heights (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 'Heights' follows five characters over 24 hours on a fall day in New York City. Isabel, a photographer, is having second thoughts about her upcoming marriage to Jonathan, a lawyer. On the same day, Isabel's mother Diana learns that ...
Style: realistic, stylized, serious, talky, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: gay, adultery, infidelity, existentialism, forbidden love, secret relationship, character study, introspection, lifestyle, city life, actor's life, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, london, czech republic, manhattan new york city ...
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100%
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.
Style: lyrical, melancholic, meditative, captivating, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: writers, investigator, abusive parent, pain, publisher, disappearance, transformation, depression, classmate, coming of age, best friend, choice ...
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 7.9
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3-Iron (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. ...
Style: philosophical, lyrical, contemplative, surreal, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: golf, motorcycle, relationships, melancholy, drifter, mission, abusive husband, love triangle, jealousy, existentialism, love story, love ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia, asia, seoul ...
Similarity:
100%
Jack Goes Boating (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples.
Style: sexy, emotional, romantic, melancholic, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, love story, loneliness, multiple storylines, character study, complex characters, couple relations, lifestyle, looking for love, dishonesty, singleness, love ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, seattle, harlem, manhattan new york city ...
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100%
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
Style: emotional, independent film, serious, talky, intellectual ...
Plot: wedding, dysfunctional family, drug addiction, favoritism among siblings, addiction, wedding preparations and rituals, marriage, sisters, junkie, anorexia, character study, sister sister relationship ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: connecticut, usa, hawaii, canada, california
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Closer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style: sexy, psychological, erotic, cynical, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, lovers, passion, marriage, sex, stripper, couples, photographer, desire ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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Like Crazy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Style: romantic, sexy, poignant, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: long distance relationship, fall in love, love story, lovers, happy ending, forceful separation, couple relations, lovers apart, bittersweet, relationships, love and romance, immigration ...
Time: year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place: united kingdom, usa, los angeles, london, england ...
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