Movies like Adieu Philippine

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   Muriel, or the Time of Return

   Strong story similarity

   1963 · 117 min · Drama

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   In the seacoast town of Boulogne, antique furniture saleswoman Hélène lives with her stepson, Bernard, who's back from military duty in Algiers. An old lover of Hélène's comes to visit, Alphonse, with his niece Françoise; he too is back from Algiers, where he ran a café. Bernard speaks of his fiancée, Muriel, whom Hélène has not met. The past is obscured by guilt, misperceptions, and missed possibilities. Appearances deceive, things change. As Hélène and Alphonse try to sort out a renewal, everyone seems off-kilter just enough to hint that all cannot end well.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Cléo from 5 to 7

   Similar atmosphere

   1962 · 90 min · Drama

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   Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

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   • a closely matched era
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   Lola

   Strong story similarity

   1961 · 89 min · Drama · Romance

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   A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Pierrot le Fou

   Same studio

   1965 · 110 min · Crime · Drama · Romance

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   Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

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   • shared production studio: Rome-Paris Films

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   Vivre Sa Vie

   Similar atmosphere

   1962 · 84 min · Drama

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   Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era
   • similar audience response

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   Love at Twenty

   Same studio

   1962 · 120 min · Drama · Romance

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   Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era
   • shared production studio: Unitec Films

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   Tout Va Bien

   Shared cast

   1972 · 95 min · Drama

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   A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Hiroshima Mon Amour

   Strong movie match

   1959 · 92 min · Drama · History · Romance

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   The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

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   • strong recommendation signals

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   Day for Night

   Strong story similarity

   1973 · 116 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A committed filmmaker struggles to complete his latest project while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

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   • substantial genre overlap
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    La Chinoise

    Strong story similarity

    1967 · 96 min · Comedy · Drama

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    A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap

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