Movies like Games of Love and Chance

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   Poetical Refugee

   Same director

   2001 · 130 min · Drama

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   Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he discovers and shares in the solidarity felt by the destitute.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • substantial genre overlap

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   18 Years Old and Rising

   Strong story similarity

   2011 · 92 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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   Primo is an ordinary middle-class youngster studying for his baccalaureate, who gets side-tracked when he falls in love with a rich girl. They soon learn they have to deal with her condescending friends who look down upon this upstart.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared production studio: CinéCinéma

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   Blue Is the Warmest Color

   Same director

   2013 · 180 min · Drama · Romance

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   Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Luna

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 93 min · Drama · Romance

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   A film in which the director captures the beautiful and accurate qualities of reality when building the energetic portrait of a 16-year-old girl immersed in the macho culture of urban suburban south-west France, just a stone’s throw away from the nearby countryside.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Dreamers

   Similar atmosphere

   2003 · 115 min · Drama · Romance

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   When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

   Why it connects

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

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   Come Undone

   Strong story similarity

   2000 · 94 min · Drama · Romance

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   Story of two gorgeous, young French boys who begin a passionate relationship that boils over and threatens to destroy both their lives. Shy 18-year-old Mathieu is on summer vacation in the south of France. He spends his days lazily sunning himself at the beach, until he spies the handsome Cédric and falls in love.

   Why it connects

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

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   The Class

   Strong story similarity

   2008 · 128 min · Drama

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   Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: immigrant and teacher
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Hunting & Gathering

   Strong story similarity

   2007 · 97 min · Drama · Romance

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   When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.

   Why it connects

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

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   La Haine

   Strong story similarity

   1995 · 98 min · Drama

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   After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap

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    Same Old Song

    Strong story similarity

    1997 · 120 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance

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    Business executive Odile seeks a new, larger apartment. Her younger sister Camille, having completed her doctoral thesis in history, is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours as he's attracted to her. However, Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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