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Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001)
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Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001)
Original name: Betty Fisher et autres histoires
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.
Style: psychological, stylized, tense, harsh, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, serious, depressing ...
Plot: kidnapping, friendship, parents and children, human nature, unlikely criminals, family relations, family problems, hopes, dealing with death, complex characters, betrayal, self discovery, family drama, death, hospital, guilt, marriage, age-gap relationship, chase, friends, bittersweet, violent content, missing child, christmas, dancing ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, france, new york, paris france, singapore, andalusia, japan ...
Keyword: russian, gangsters, doctors, french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and crying films with plots about friendship, friend, husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking, death, family relations and drink mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Betty Fisher and Other Stories: Late August, Early September (1998), With a Friend Like Harry... (2000), Read My Lips (2001), The Yards (2000), Little Lili (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Late August, Early September (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style: talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france
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100%
With a Friend Like Harry... (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot: obsession, serial killer, murder, friendship, violence, imagination, investigation, family relations, writers, couple relations, darkness, poet ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.3
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Read My Lips (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Style: tense, suspenseful, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mute or deaf, workplace, disability, relationships, opposites attract, character study, parole officer, criminal heroes, mentally unstable, unlikely partners, looking for love, partner ...
Time: year 2001, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.4
 23K
The Yards (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big ...
Style: tense, bleak, neo noir, emotional, intense ...
Plot: corruption, betrayal, political corruption, murder, whistleblower, character study, police corruption, false accusation, mafia, female nudity, injustice, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Little Lili (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, touching, erotic ...
Plot: filmmaking, older man younger woman relationship, actor's life, love triangle, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, obsession, unfulfilled love, infidelity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Kings and Queen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: terminal illness, adoption, family relations, parents and children, destiny, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, musician's life, life is a bitch, couples, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.4
 316
Marseille (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: gang, danger, family relations, parents and children, murder, mafia, father son relationship, lawyer, reprisal, rivalry, black, violent content ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries ...
Style: philosophical, sentimental, touching, emotional, clever ...
Plot: friendship, illness, culture clash, medical, drug addiction, terminal illness, cancer, existentialism, life, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, future, september 11 2001, 2000s ...
Place: quebec, canada, montreal, philadelphia, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Tenants (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves in down the hall.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, interracial relations, manuscript, couple relations, writer's life, couples, losing-it hero, friend, father son relationship, interracial couple, black cast, writers ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, year 1972
Place: usa, new york, detroit, harlem, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style: realistic, touching, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation, masseuse, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.5
 58K
Tell No One (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, detective, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder, serial killer, frame up, twists and turns, torture, loss of wife, surveillance, brutality, grief, corpse, disappearance ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 2000s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
In This Tricky Life (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, exciting, romantic ...
Plot: infidelity, prostitute, hopes, love and romance, fall in love, social decay, dysfunctional family, looking for love, downfall, womanizer, single parent, life is a bitch ...
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, uruguay, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.5
 709
Slingshot (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: infidelity, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, fall in love, dysfunctional family, breakup, couples, single parent, criminal heroes, cons and scams, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Life of Riley (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live.
Style: realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, aging, disorder, life is a bitch, friends, elderly, unfulfillment, bittersweet, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, flirting, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, yorkshire, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.5
 584
For Sale (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective.
Style: detective, erotic, contemplative, mind bending, serious ...
Plot: wedding, sex scene, private investigator, making love, erotic scene, prostitute, investigation, private detective, nightclub, missing person, on the road, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: france, paris france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Almost Peaceful (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. ...
Style: sincere, captivating, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, anti semitism, holocaust, survival, human spirit, starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, life is a bitch, couple relations, moral dilemma, society ...
Time: 1940s, year 1946, post world war two
Place: paris france, france, europe, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
 628
Steel City (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, ...
Style: emotional, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: police, family life, family relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, couple relations, introspection, youth, redemption, siblings relations ...
Place: usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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21 Grams (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style: mind bending, emotional, bleak, gloomy, depressing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, guilt, tragedy, grief, drug addiction, multiple storylines, drug addict, drug, loneliness, loss, mathematician, hit and run ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Kicked in the Head (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Redmond is a young guy who can't find what to do with his life. When his uncle Sam gives him the bag to deliver to some uptown connection he fails to do so and it gets them in trouble with Jack, low-key criminal. After that tough guy Stretch ...
Style: independent film, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: gangster, stewardess, marijuana, self discovery, farce, parents and children, twentysomething life, cons and scams, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood, gambling, disorder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Julia (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Mexico, Belgium
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, stylized, cult classic ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, insanity, ransom, loneliness, mental illness, character study, life is a bitch, twists and turns, alcoholic, alcoholism, crime gone awry, pursuit ...
Time: year 2008
Place: mexico, france, san diego california, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.9
 2K
His Brother (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thomas has been estranged from his brother Luc for several years, due in part to his difficulties in dealing with Luc's homosexuality. But when Thomas is diagnosed with a rare blood disease, which is difficult to treat and impossible to cure, ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, homosexual, life is a bitch, family problems, lgbt, male pubic hair, male nudity, reconciliation, parents and children, human nature, brother brother relationship, suffering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
Style: melancholic, touching, tricky, light, lyrical ...
Plot: amnesia, memory loss, love story, justice, master criminal, police, fall in love, couple relations, couples, love affair, love and romance, dangerous attraction ...
Time: year 2002
Place: france, paris france, morocco, england, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso ...
Style: tense, neo noir, lyrical, stylized, talky ...
Plot: piano, male nudity, going straight, violence, father son relationship, storytelling, dysfunctional family, pianist, hopes, follow your dream, teachers and students, gang war ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.5
 759
Clara and Me (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot: couples, introspection, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, parents and children, midlife crisis, lovers reunited, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Love the Hard Way (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, bleak, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love and romance, student life, cons and scams, destructive relationship, college, lie, dancing, police, friendship, friend, secret ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Style: sentimental, psychological, humorous, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: female nudity, divorce, midlife crisis, breakup, marital separation, starting over, self discovery, couple relations, betrayal, fall in love, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.5
 12K
The Deep End (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their ...
Style: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, suspense, emotional ...
Plot: gay, murder, lgbt, gay teenager, danger, life is a bitch, conspiracy, tragedy, plot twist, police investigation, murder mystery, fight ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The life you love may be your own.... The wife of a much older man finds herself attracted to their neighbour's son, who is closer to her age.
Style: melancholic, stylized, emotional, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: age difference, self discovery, depression, marriage, older man younger woman relationship, starting over, love and romance, family life, love affair, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2009, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Julie Walking Home (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: cheating wife, true love, cancer, infidelity, hopes, betrayal, family relations, human nature, danger, survival, dishonesty, couples ...
Place: poland, nova scotia, holland, europe, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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