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The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
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The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
Original name: La Belle Noiseuse
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 long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model. The now starting creative process changes life for everyone. It is a struggle for truth, life and sense, and the question where the limits of arts are or whether art is limitless.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, psychological, atmospheric, erotic, serious, sexy, contemplative, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: painter, painting, art, artist, eroticism, husband wife relationship, couples, creative process, taxidermy, model, drawing, human nature, infidelity, unfulfillment, couple relations, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, lifestyle, man-woman relation, starting over, crumbling marriage, french countryside, brother sister relationship, sex, erotica ...
Time: year 1991
Place: provence, usa, france, los angeles, south of france, southern france
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexual and contemplative films with plots about female nudity, couples, female full frontal nudity, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment and infidelity mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like The Beautiful Troublemaker: The Prodigal Daughter (1981), Full Body Massage (1995), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995), The Story of Marie and Julien (2003), The Artist and the Model (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Prodigal Daughter (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction.
Plot: father daughter incest, incest, depression, incestuous desire, jealousy, parent child relationship, romantic rivalry, infidelity, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, female nudity, sex ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, france
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Full Body Massage (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Nina, an art dealer, has her weekly massage appointment and is surprised to find out her usual masseur, Douglas, has sent a replacement named Fitch. The pair develop an easy rapport during the session, with talk about past relationships. As Nina ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, talky, sincere ...
Plot: massage, erotica, masseur, female nudity, love and romance, lifestyle, starting over, femme fatale, dishonesty, love affair, infidelity, couple relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, california
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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: friendship, age difference, senior citizen, couples, friends, human nature, introspection, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, unfulfillment, writer's life ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly ...
Style: psychological, emotional, touching, sincere, slasher ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, sex scene, love affair, love triangle, couples, lovers reunited, fall in love, couple relations, dull life, dishonesty, secret, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france
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100%
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The Artist and the Model (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a famous old sculptor, weary of life and the folly of men, who finds, thanks to the arrival of a Spanish girl escaped from a refugee camp, the desire to return to work and sculpt your final work in occupied France in 1943. Model and ...
Style: atmospheric, light, touching, melancholic, visually appealing ...
Plot: art, female nudity, artist, painter, model, muse, world war two, sculptor, inspiration, sculpture, young girl, painting ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place: france
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100%
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid ...
Style: enigmatic, period piece, costume drama, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: artist, painter, art, painting, maid, master and servant, sexual tension, society, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, portrait, age difference ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times, year 2003, 19th century, victorian era
Place: holland, netherlands, europe, america
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100%
Five Senses of Eros (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In this anthology film centered around the theme of "Eros," five seperate stories are presented by five top Korean directors. The main characters from each segment are connected with each other in one way or another.
Style: touching, serious, stylized, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, teenage love, lovers reunited, lifestyle, youth, young lovers, forbidden love, eroticism, wooing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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100%
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Nathalie... (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she ...
Style: sexy, serious, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, sexual relations, lesbian, striptease, dangerous attraction, sex, husband wife relationship, one night stand, unfaithful husband, adultery, voyeur, destructive relationship ...
Time: year 2003
Place: paris france, europe, france
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Zorn (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Dramatised biography of Swedish painter Anders Zorn.
Plot: painter, nudity, artist, art, biopic, adultery, female pubic hair, unfaithful husband, womanizer, female nudity, single mother, female full frontal nudity
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Madrid, 1987 (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two characters: old and young; teacher and pupil; man and woman. Four walls within which they conjure intellectualism, relive the profession (journalism), explore politics and discover each other.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, witty, contemplative ...
Audience: adult
Plot: relationships, journalism, introspection, locked in, elderly, confined, society, aging, isolation, male pubic hair, male star appears nude, male nudity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: spain, europe
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100%
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Emilienne (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Emilienne is an elegant and seductive study of a ménage-a-trois based on the novel by Claude Des Olbes. Nouky, a young artist, shows up at Emilienne's art gallery with her portfolio of erotic sketches. Emilienne is greatly impressed, unaware ...
Style: erotic, sensual, serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, menage a trois, polyamory, bisexual woman, infidelity, lesbian sex, husband wife relationship, lesbian seduction, couples, dishonesty, unfulfillment ...
Time: 70s
Place: france
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33%
The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her ...
Style: serious, realistic, sexy, contemplative, talky ...
Plot: redemption, couples, terminal illness, human spirit, destructive relationship, vengeance, art history, painter, artist, underground, inventions and discoveries, supernatural romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, italy, england, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Sunday in the Country (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, touching, intellectual ...
Plot: countryside, art, painter, artist, father daughter relationship, aging, dance, painting, elderly man, family relations, automobile, french countryside ...
Time: 1910s, year 1984
Place: france, europe
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Tony Takitani (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Tony Takitani had a solitary childhood. Being alone was normal since his mother died young and his father was always away with his jazz band. At school he studied art, but while his sketches are accurate and detailed they lack feeling. Used to being ...
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: emotionless, loneliness, obsession, couples, life is a bitch, alone, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, solitude, jazz, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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Manon of the Spring (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his ...
Style: surprise ending, touching, atmospheric, thought provoking, anthology ...
Plot: revenge, female nudity, haunted by the past, provincial life, unrequited love, spring, cave, rural setting, water, suicide, obsession, mayor ...
Time: year 1986, 20th century, 1920s
Place: france, provence, europe
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Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another ...
Style: erotic, sexy, heartbreaking
Plot: painter, artist, art, art history, painting, sex, fashion, biopic, porn, artwork, famous, love ...
Time: 1910s
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30%
This Is My Body (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot: love affair, couple relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, family relations, family business, gay, suicide, lgbt, sociology, dancer, jealousy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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30%
To Paint or Make Love (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An affluent, middle-aged couple's uneventful lives are forever changed when they move into an isolated house in the country and befriend an odd, younger couple.
Style: captivating, sensual, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: swinger, mate swapping, swingers, swinger couple, wife swapping, husband wife relationship, marriage, sexual relations, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, life turned upside down ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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29%
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Little Jerusalem (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, culture clash, society, lifestyle, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, infidelity, social differences, youth, male female relationship ...
Place: middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
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29%
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Betty (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: girl, alcohol abuse, alcoholism, strong female presence, performer's life, society, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, lifestyle, mentally unstable, destructive relationship, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: france, paris france, versailles
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29%
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The Erotic Man (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The film has been ten years in the making, and over time it has grown to become what the director himself has called an artistic testament. It is simultaneously his most personal and most provocative film. A film about growing older, about losing, ...
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: eroticism, human nature, introspection, love and romance, couples, sexual relations, physical appearance, strong sexual content, nudity, boat, river, female pubic hair ...
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Klimt (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Style: thought provoking, stylized, visual, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, female pubic hair, art history, obsession, prodigy, sexual relations, ambition, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, turn of the century, year 1900 ...
Place: austria, france, paris france, europe, vienna
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29%
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Providence (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, father son relationship, writers, terminal illness, unfulfillment, human nature, crumbling marriage, writer's life, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1977
Place: france
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29%
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Style: art house, talky, sexual, aesthetic, experimental ...
Plot: architect, artist, art, cancer, dialogue, infidelity, obsession, painter, painting, melancholy, insanity, tragedy ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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29%
Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Style: sexy, manga, explicit, realistic, serious ...
Plot: writers, female nudity, erotica, art, prostitution, literary, exodus, lifestyle, writer's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, womanizer ...
Time: 1930s
Place: paris france, europe, france
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29%
Les corps impatients (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous ...
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: betrayal, life is a bitch, tragic hero, infidelity, love triangle, love and romance, terminal illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, unfulfillment, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, menage a trois ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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29%
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards ...
Style: erotic, touching, emotional, colorful, atmospheric ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, love triangle, love, tragedy, love story, nude girl, love and romance, dishonesty, unfulfilled love, love affair, fall in love ...
Place: italy, europe, france, new york, paris france ...
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29%
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Gilles' Wife (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, family problems ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office at Night", "Western Motel", "Usherette", "A Woman in the ...
Style: serious, realistic, contemplative, atmospheric, postmodern ...
Plot: relationship vs career, art, idealism, couple relations, ambition, actor's life, society, couples, workplace, hopes, repression, supportive spouse ...
Time: 1930s, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1940s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their ...
Style: erotic, sexy, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: sexual abuse, obsession, couple relations, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional marriage, nudity, infidelity, erotica, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: beverly hills, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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