Movies Similar to The Courtesan and the Female Scholar

N or NW(1938)

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends well, but with the moral that correspondents should get the address right.

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Red Wine in the Dark Night(2015)

A boy who gets frustrated in love meets another boy who loses all of his memories and they find some ways to start a new life together.

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Imagine Me & You(2006)

During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.

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Dream Girl(2016)

Humans use technology to improve their lives, to forge connections, to create time that doesn’t exist, to replace real interactions. When we devise a second version of ourselves on social media, do we lose a piece of our true selves in the process? Do our digital connections threaten our real life relationships? What happens if the filtered characters we’ve imagined take on a life of their own?

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Liberty's Secret(2016)

The daughter of a preacher becomes the centerpiece for a conservative political campaign but finds herself falling in love with a woman.

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Once Upon a Zipper(2014)

Rachel can't stop herself from falling in love with Paulie, the woman who helps her try on wedding gowns.

4.2

Fish and Elephant(2001)

A lesbian deals with her former girlfriend and a divorced mother who wants her to meet men.

3.5

As We Hold Hands(2022)

Over the course of one day, a model falls in love with a photographer as they venture around New York City together.

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wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net(1996)

A Japanese-Chinese couple hangs out and shoots each other.

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The Dream Songs(2023)

On the afternoon of the day before her school trip, Se-mi wakes up from her strange dream and heads to her Ha-eun. It was because she felt like she had to convey the feelings she had been holding back for a long time today. However, unlike her overflowing heart, the two keep falling apart.

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Let Me Kiss You(2017)

Guide and Good are at a club when Guide starts reminiscing about an ex. He then finds himself bumping into a stranger and has a strong urge to kiss him.

7.0

Just Ask Him(2021)

Just Ask Him is a romantic LGBT short film about an out high school kid gathering the courage to ask his soccer jock crush to a dance.

2.5

Disease(2025)

A human asks his zombie boyfriend to bite him, resulting in a transformative- and gruesome- consummation of their love.

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When Night Is Falling(1995)

Camille is a professor at a Protestant college and is in a long-term relationship with Martin, a respected minister and fellow professor. When Camille meets Petra, a bold and flamboyant performer in a circus troupe, she is inexplicably drawn. Pursuing Petra, Camille throws her whole conservative life into disarray.

6.3

The Mirage(1992)

An old woman who is unaware that she is near death, falls in love with her son’s young American tutor.

6.8

The Daytime Doorman(2016)

After exchanging glances between "good mornings" and "good afternoons", Marcelo realizes it's time to try to go further with Márcio, the doorman in his building. Two worlds will collide through these men's bodies.

6.2

Diamonds. Theft(2010)

This is a poetic film set in the times of Lenin's NEP. A ballet dancer steals a brooch and gives it as a present to another dancer. This is a crime of passion. A mysterious black ball is after the heroine. She runs away from it and manages to give the brooch in an exquisite pirouette movement, as shiny as diamond facets. What gives a stone its dazzling luster are its polished facets. But the real gem is love, and it's much harder to get than any diamond in the world.

5.0

Three of Hearts(1993)

A lesbian hires a male escort to break the heart of the bisexual woman who has just dumped her.

4.8

Hotel Chevalier(2007)

In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. Will they make love? Is their relationship over? (A prequel to The Darjeeling Limited, 2007.)

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A Magic Mirror(1999)

A jerk husband Sandro and his young wife Giulia have moved into a new apartment. She is unpacking, and he his lounging in the bath. When his brother Walter comes over to deliver a new wall mirror. The brother makes a pass at the young wife, as he has secretly wanted to do for years.

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