Best movies like Ricky
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Plot Summary:
When Katie meets Paco they fall in love. From this an extraordinary child is born; Ricky, who quickly develops into something wonderful and not so normal.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, enigmatic, surreal, offbeat, serious, crying, avant garde, weird
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The Son of Gascogne (1995)
Plot Summary:
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying
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Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 193 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic, mindfuck, disturbing, art house, cult classic, psychological, atmospheric
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It's Easier for a Camel... (2003)
Plot Summary:
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, neurotic, crying
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Or (My Treasure) (2004)
Plot Summary:
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but Ruthie is a burden. She's just out of hospital, weak, and Or has found her a job as a house cleaner. The call of the quick money on the street is tough for Ruthie to ignore. Or's emotions roil further when the mother of the youth she's in love with comes to the flat to warn her off. With love fading and Ruthie perhaps beyond help, Or's choices narrow.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, psychological, sincere, bleak, realistic, erotic, depressing, gloomy, crying
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The Sleeping Beauty (2010)
Plot Summary:
On the heels of the mesmeric “Bluebeard” comes this wonderfully idiosyncratic, heady and erotic exploration of another classic Charles Perrault fairy tale by French cinema’s endlessly probing and brilliant provocateuse. Time-tripping with a truly precocious heroine, we follow a once-cursed six-year-old princess as she awakens a century later at the ripe old age of 16.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, atmospheric, captivating, surreal, sexy, stylized, tense, offbeat, serious, modern day adaptation
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Sitcom (1998)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sado-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband... And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, offbeat, sexual, erotic, atmospheric, sexy, experimental, controversial, deep, crying
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Western (1997)
Plot Summary:
Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen out from under him. Local gift shop owner Marinette gives the Spaniard a lift. Their mutual attraction manifests itself quickly, and Paco, who was fired over the stolen-car episode, hangs around. When he happens to spot Nino in the same town, he beats up the scrawny Russian, who lands in the hospital. Oddly enough, this marks the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Paco and Nino soon take the trip down the road together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film
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Almost Peaceful (2002)
Plot Summary:
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. Variety called it "thoroughly charming. Sad, gentle, and funny in the best French tradition of high quality cinema." A film by Marcelo Gomes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, emotional, thought provoking, bleak, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, intellectual
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Carnage (2002)
Plot Summary:
After a bull is killed in a bullfight, its body parts are transported across Spain, France, Italy and Belgium. The bull's parts fall into the wide variety of people, including: an Italian actress selling the bones in a supermarket promotion, a Spanish woman who dines on its steaks, a little girl in France who imagines a world where animals are much larger than humans, and a taxidermist whose wife is simultaneously giving birth to quintuplets.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, touching, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying, black comedy, dark comedy
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The New Girlfriend (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, sexy, romantic, erotic, controversial, serious, realistic, gloomy, transgressive
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Delivering Milo (2001)
Plot Summary:
A guardian angel has 24 hours to convince a soul that life on Earth is worth the effort.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, captivating, independent film, offbeat, crying
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A Brief Vacation (1973)
Plot Summary:
Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world--and potential new life--is opened up to her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neorealism, psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, crying
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The River (2001)
Plot Summary:
Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, anthology, crying, freeze frame
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I Smile Back (2015)
Plot Summary:
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, erotic, psychological thriller, touching, gloomy, independent film, crying
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Goodbye First Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, erotic, romantic, sexy, heartbreaking, independent film, sensitive
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Cheri (2009)
Plot Summary:
A sumptuous dramatic comedy set in late 19th Century France, during the Belle Epoque, a period of social and cultural excess in European upper classes which ended only as the First World War erupted.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, period piece, romantic, costume drama, sincere, humorous, captivating, erotic, offbeat
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Five Times Two (2004)
Plot Summary:
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, enigmatic, non-linear, sensual, stylized, sincere, inspirational, disturbing, tense
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Tiptoes (2002)
Plot Summary:
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
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Barry Munday (2010)
Plot Summary:
Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital after a freak attack only to find that his testicles have been removed.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, offbeat, psychological, light, captivating, sentimental, tragicomedy, realistic, independent film
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Dona Herlinda and Her Son (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this sly Mexican sex comedy, a manipulative mama deftly manages the life of her homosexual son so that he can have his cake and eat it too. A woman of means, she does this by allowing her son, a doctor, to tryst in her home with his lover. Putting her son's happiness above all else, she then arranges a marriage of convenience to a woman. When the marriage is consummated, the young male lover gets terribly jealous and this creates problems until the irrepressible Doña Herlinda again gets involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual, crying, sex comedy
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My Wife Is an Actress (2001)
Plot Summary:
My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive co-star. Attal also wrote and directed the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: melancholic, disturbing, stylized, touching, semi serious, humorous, witty, erotic, romantic comedy, clever
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No Filter (2019)
Plot Summary:
Beatrice celebrates with her family the release of her book: she tells about the accident of her husband Frederic. He became blind and without filter - always so funny and seductive, he is totally unpredictable. But this book, hymn-to-life, will turn into a joyful fist because if Beatrice changed the names, each of his friends seeks to find his character. The book awakens secret jealousies, while the group of friends and family pitch.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Under the Sand (2000)
Plot Summary:
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: bleak, enigmatic, melancholic, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, surreal, art house
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With a Friend Like Harry... (2000)
Plot Summary:
Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, dark comedy, black comedy, atmospheric, intellectual, stylized, scary, humorous
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101 Reykjavík (2000)
Plot Summary:
Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother's Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year's Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark, France, Norway, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, dark comedy, black comedy, humorous, realistic, sexual, sensual, sincere, clever, offbeat
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2 Days in Paris (2007)
Plot Summary:
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 two-day stop in Marion's hometown, the couple's romantic trip takes a turn as Jack is exposed to Marion's sexually perverse and emotionally unstable family.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, artsy, funny, melancholic, witty, contemplative, romantic comedy, realistic, talky
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Paris (2008)
Plot Summary:
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, semi serious, touching, serious, realistic
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
Plot Summary:
A newly unemployed salaryman meets a particularly sexual woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: surreal, sexy, erotic, sentimental, sincere, touching, contemplative, art house, humorous, romantic
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Mood Indigo (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, touching, sentimental, psychedelic, offbeat, stylized, visually stunning, existential, clever
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The Science of Sleep (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, mind bending, intellectual, meditative, visually appealing, cerebral, mindfuck