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Movies Like Private Fears in Public Places

If you liked Private Fears in Public Places (2006), a drama and romance movie directed by Alain Resnais, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Nine Lives

    Nine Lives (2005)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

  2. 2Life in a Year

    Life in a Year (2020)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama and romance

    A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

  3. 3Luna

    Luna (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    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…

  4. 4The Lost Husband

    The Lost Husband (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.

  5. 5Sidonie in Japan

    Sidonie in Japan (2024)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    Sidonie Perceval, an established French writer, is mourning her deceased husband. Invited to Japan for the reedition of her first book, she is welcomed by her local editor who takes her to Kyoto, the city of shrines…

  6. 6Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  7. 7Boy Meets Girl

    Boy Meets Girl (1984)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    In Paris at night, a young aspiring filmmaker grapples with heartbreak after his girlfriend leaves him for his best friend. After a failed attempt to confront his friend, he wanders the streets and encounters a girl…

  8. 8My First Time

    My First Time (2012)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    Zachary is 20 years old. Dark and independent, he collects amorous conquests and school failure. Sarah is 18 years old. First class, fragile, she fills her emotional gaps with perfect control of his life. Nothing…

  9. 9I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

    I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for the occasion. There is Jean-Pierre, the elder, who took on the role…

  10. 10The Man from Elysian Fields

    The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and romance

    A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

  11. 11I'm in Love with a Church Girl

    I'm in Love with a Church Girl (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and romance

    Miles Montego has it all - cars, boats, good looks, mansion, money, women, but more importantly, he has a past.

  12. 12Purple Hearts

    Purple Hearts (2022)

    ★ 8/10Also romance and drama

    An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.

  13. 13Lady J

    Lady J (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.

  14. 14Salome

    Salome (1953)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and romance

    In the reign of emperor Tiberius, Gallilean prophet John the Baptist preaches against King Herod and Queen Herodias. The latter wants John dead, but Herod fears to harm him due to a prophecy. Enter beautiful Princess…

  15. 15The History of Love

    The History of Love (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.

  16. 16Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between

    Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also romance and drama

    Clare and Aidan make a pact to break up before college — no regrets, no broken hearts. But will one epic goodbye date offer them a last chance at love?

  17. 17The Children of the Century

    The Children of the Century (1999)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and romance

    True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where…

  18. 1824 Days

    24 Days (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".

  19. 19The Beasts

    The Beasts (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be…

  20. 20TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

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