Best movies like Who You Think I Am
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Plot Summary:
Claire, a 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman. She finds a photo of a pretty young brunette and uses it. She has created an entirely fictional character, but why?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, melancholic, disturbing, thought provoking
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Leela (2002)
Plot Summary:
Leela is the story of Leela, an aware, liberal woman who struggles with the true meaning of independence. It is also the story of Krishna, born of Indian parents in America but uncomfortable with his hyphenated existence. Leela then is a universal story of two paths that cross each other and pause a moment before moving on.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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2 Nights Till Morning (2015)
Plot Summary:
Caroline, a French architect in Vilnius, Lithuania, on business, has to spend an extra night in the city due to a delayed work meeting. At the bar of her hotel she meets Jaakko, a Finnish DJ who is in Vilnius for a gig. Caroline lets him understand that she doesn’t speak English, and Jaakko doesn’t speak French. Although they lack a common language, they find themselves enjoying each other’s company.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Lithuania
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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My Golden Days (2015)
Plot Summary:
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, sincere, suspense, erotic, sexy, stylized, sensual
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Going South (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, young, provocative girl who likes men so much that she got pregnant. She soon brings along Jérémie with them. Throughout the trip, they learn to know, fight and love each other. In spite of a blooming relationship with Matthieu, Sam isolates himself because of his secret: he is headed for Spain to find his long-lost mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic, tense, queer cinema
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The Scream of the Silk (1996)
Plot Summary:
An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, serious, slasher, realistic, sexual
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E-Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Paule is pushing 50, as she repeatedly observes in her voice-over commentary. When she – a philosophy lecturer with a 10-year marriage and a 15-year-old daughter – learns that her husband is having an affair with a 28-year-old, this number takes on a special weight. The Internet site “L’âme-sœur” is supposed to help Paule get through her burgeoning midlife crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Runaway Romance (2018)
Plot Summary:
When she’s written out of her show, her relationship and her seemingly perfect life, reality TV star Ann Stanway leaves Hollywood and finds herself marooned in Amish country. But when Ann is taken in by the owner of a nearby Inn, and meets a handsome young architect, she discovers that the reality she left isn’t nearly as perfect as the one she’s found.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Flowers of Evil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Paris-Tehran. A rootless love story between Gecko, young and free, and Anahita, an Iranian woman in exile - tangled up in History and steeped in Internet, unique and spontaneous.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, sincere, offbeat, serious
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Goodbye Again (1961)
Plot Summary:
Stranded by her lover, a 40-ish interior decorator in Paris turns to a U.S. client's playboy son.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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I Was, I Am, I Will Be (2019)
Plot Summary:
While Kurdish gigolo Baran dreams of a future in Europe, German pilot Marion is struggling to come to terms with her cancer diagnosis. When the two meet at the Turkish holiday resort of Marmaris, they engage in a kind of double-cross and decide to enter into a sham marriage. After a promising beginning, a shared future seems well within their reach. But things turn out not to be quite as simple as that.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 961
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, sentimental, light, disturbing
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Honokaa Boy (2009)
Plot Summary:
Leo, a young Japanese college student, travels to Hawaii and eventually falls in love with Maray, an older Japanese-Caucasion woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Girl (2002)
Plot Summary:
Muriel moves from a small village to the big city of Brussels, hoping to start an independent life working as a museum guide. She rents a room from Laura, who has a room to spare now that her mother is in hospital. Laura is a vital and candid woman who has a child-wish but leads a very chaotic life. Meanwhile, Muriel's mother has a hard time accepting that her daughter leads a life of her own now, and she also faces some changes at the factory where she works. The movie follows the interconnected lifes of these three women of three different generations, who all face different problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, sexual, sexy
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The Sower (2017)
Plot Summary:
Violette is old enough to marry in 1852 when her mountain village is brutally deprived of all its men following the repression of the Republicans ordered by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. The women spend months in total isolation. Desperate to one day see their men again, they take an oath: if a man comes, he will be for everyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Just a Sigh (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the short break between performances in Calais, stage actress Alix makes a quick escape to Paris. On the train she meets a mysterious English stranger and, for the most fleeting of afternoons, imagines what the future could hold down a different road.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Ireland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, captivating, disturbing, touching, realistic, semi serious
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The Space Between The Lines (2019)
Plot Summary:
Emmi would like to cancel her subscription to "Like" magazine via e-mail. But due to a typo, her messages land in Leo Leike’s inbox. When Emmi repeatedly sends mails to the wrong address, Leo decides to inform her of her mistake. This marks the beginning of an extraordinary e-mail exchange, which can only be held between two strangers. Treading the fine line between complete strangeness and noncommittal intimacy, the two are soon sharing their innermost secrets and longings – until they need to face the unavoidable question: Will their feelings, sent and received virtually, survive the test of a real-life encounter? And what will happen if they do?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, romantic, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, feel good
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The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
Plot Summary:
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, atmospheric, enigmatic, art house, touching, feel good, disturbing, stylized, offbeat, heartbreaking
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Gabrielle (2005)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly ideal marriage is thrown into embarrassing turmoil in Patrice Chéreau's period drama, based on the short story The Return by Joseph Conrad.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, clever, emotional, realistic, contemplative, stylized, gloomy, crying, beautiful
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Rendez-vous (1985)
Plot Summary:
A woman and three men. Nina, who's come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he's smitten. She also meets Paulot's flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot's jealous dismay, she's willing to sleep with Quentin, and wants Paulot's friendship. After a desperate act by Quentin, Nina and Paulot share a flat, but she still won't take him as a lover; instead, her energy goes into a production of "Romeo and Juliet" directed by a detached, intense man who becomes her father figure. Quentin's ghost taunts her, Paulot wants to end all contact, and the director plans to return to London. The art of the theater may be her only refuge.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, anthology, art house, psychological, noir, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual
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Non-Fiction (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alain and Léonard, a writer and a publisher, are overwhelmed by the new practices of the publishing world. Deaf to the desires of their wives, they struggle to find their place in a society whose code they can no longer crack.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, melancholic, existential
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A Man and a Woman (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, romantic, psychological, romantic drama, erotic, captivating, art film, cerebral, serious
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The Woman Next Door (1981)
Plot Summary:
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, emotional, thought provoking, manga, anthology, art house, serious, realistic
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A E I O U: A Quick Alphabet of Love (2022)
Plot Summary:
Anna is 60 and her acting heyday is now behind her. She lives on her own but has a friend and confidant in her downstairs neighbour Michel, who is also single. Reluctantly, Anna accepts a job as a language coach for 17-year-old Adrian who has a speech impediment and is something of a misfit. She recognises him as the boy who recently snatched her handbag in the street.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Dreamchild (2020)
Plot Summary:
François and Noémie run a sawmill in the mountains not far from the Swiss border. François has taken over his family's business, making him the fourth generation. He dreams of having a child. After years of failed fertility assistance, they give up on having a baby of their own and turn to adoption. But then François meets Patricia, new to the neighborhood. They begin a passionate affair. Soon after, Patricia gets pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Alice and Martin (1998)
Plot Summary:
At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains very mysterious about his past and the reasons why he left his family. But when Alice tells him she's pregnant, he is suddenly almost driven to madness, as his past comes back to his mind. Alice will now do anything she can to help him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: melancholic, enigmatic, emotional, psychological, romantic, erotic, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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Dilan 1991 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dilan & Milea are now dating. But as time goes by, Dilan has to choose between his motorcycle club or Milea.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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A Little Chaos (2014)
Plot Summary:
A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King Louis XIV.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, period piece, melancholic, costume drama, colorful, talky, compassionate, captivating, stylized
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Worst Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eun-hee is an actress who also plays in her real life. One day, she meets three different men and changes her own character each time she dates them, just like taking a role in the play. One is clever and polite, another is boyish and honest, and the last seems elegant and mature. Though each of her performances full of lies seems going smoothly, everything is about to be messed up at the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Bin Roye (2015)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious girl seeks out her destiny and true love , when tables start to take a turn she meets a man who gives her a completely new perspective to life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Newness (2017)
Plot Summary:
In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, social, art house, erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, independent film
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Damage (1992)
Plot Summary:
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological, sensual, emotional, realistic, non-linear, romantic