Movies like Carnal Knowledge

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Carnal Knowledge (1971)
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Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
Style: controversial, sexy, depressing, sex comedy, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, sexual, erotic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: mate swapping, sex, college, sexual awakening, relationships, friendship, love triangle, coming of age, battle of the sexes, sexual content, friends, depression, lust, male nudity, erotica, rock, sex scene, accountant, basement, female protagonist, sensuality, conversation, campus, art history, controversy ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 70s ...
Place: new york, vietnam, usa, asia, california
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and independent film films with plots about couples, love and romance, female nudity, sex, infidelity, sex scene and friendship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Carnal Knowledge: Swingers (1996), The Last Days of Disco (1998), Heartburn (1986), Sexual Life (2004), Roger Dodger (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Swingers (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star. It's been six months since his girlfriend left him and he's not doing so good. So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the ...
Style: entertaining, funny, realistic, feel good, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: womanizer, friendship, dancing, comedian, depression, breakup, buddy, aspiring actor, self esteem, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, swinger, dating ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa, new york, wisconsin
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100%
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Two young women and their friends spend spare time at an exclusive nightclub in 1980s New York.
Style: cult classic, talky, clever, witty, spiritual ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: disco, nightclub, friendship, pretending to be gay, jealousy, nightlife, venereal disease, cynicism, love triangle, unemployment, dancing, roommate ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Heartburn (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living ...
Style: melancholic, lyrical, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: journalism, pregnancy, dysfunctional family, divorce, journalist, battle of the sexes, cheating, marriage, writers, infidelity, crumbling marriage, fall in love ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Sexual Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Disparate individuals rationalize their infidelities.
Style: sexy, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: infidelity, looking for sex, friendship, sex, sexual relations, singleness, love affair, dishonesty, womanizer, couples, battle of the sexes, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century
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27%
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Roger Dodger (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After breaking up with his lover and boss, a smooth-talking man takes his teenaged nephew out on the town in search of sex.
Style: sex comedy, realistic, biting, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: virginity, womanizer, nightlife, seduction, coming of age, relationships, sexuality, battle of the sexes, youth, flirting, dating, libertine ...
Time: year 2002, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, ohio, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Intimate Affairs (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When a scholar, is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.
Style: talky, captivating, humorous, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot: sexuality, sex, female nudity, dark humor, looking for sex, sexual relations, lifestyle, destructive relationship, erotica, sex scene, controversy, making love ...
Time: year 2001, year 1929, 1920s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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City Baby (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sexy. Style-conscious. Extreme love affairs. Complicated friendships. Life happens all too quickly when Cloey is reluctantly plucked from her comfort zone and complete reliance on others is overturned – a secure relationship with her boyfriend ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: coming of age, infidelity, love triangle, youth, friends, dishonesty, twentysomething life, city life, grownups, hipster, party, apathy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, portland oregon, oregon, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Terms of Endearment (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style: tear jerker, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, single mother, husband wife relationship, grief, adultery, terminal illness, death of daughter, relationships, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s ...
Place: texas, houston texas, new york, nebraska, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This adult comedy follows six characters, three men and three women from a cross-section of social groups, as they play sexual power games. When an affair fires up between 2 of the married characters, it sparks a chain of consequences for all of ...
Style: sexy, dark comedy, black comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dark humor, betrayal, adultery, multiple storylines, friendship between men, extramarital affair, love affair, couple relations, thirtysomething life, sexual relations, midlife crisis, looking for love ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Friends & Lovers (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Friends for ten years, a group of twenty-somethings head for the ski slopes as guests of Ian's father. (Ian and dad are estranged because dad worked too many hours when Ian was a lad.) Dad has something to say, but Ian won't listen. ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: sex, friendship, skiing, existentialism, relationships, honest, thirtysomething life, midlife crisis, infidelity, lifestyle, gay, male nudity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, ...
Style: sexy, romantic, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot: infidelity, feminist, love triangle, satire, women, child abuse, domestic violence, abuse, domestic abuse, adultery, housewife, marital problem ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Cruel Intentions 3 (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two guys at a college prep school make wagers on seducing naive young girls, and then meet their match when they agree to see which one can seduce the most popular and devious girl who has her own agenda to everything.
Style: stylized, sexy, entertaining, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: sex, love and romance, relationships, erotica, sexual pleasure, betrayal, multiple storylines, life philosophy, seduction, promiscuous woman, jealousy, love triangle ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
My Best Friend's Wife (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two friends are about to learn that they are "Grownups."
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, sexy, sensual ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: swingers, swinger, adultery, wife swapping, swinger couple, extramarital affair, best friend, looking for sex, friendship, sexual fantasy, infidelity, couple relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: new jersey, san francisco, new york, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, ...
Style: teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, funny, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage pregnancy, stoner, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, youth, high school life, shopping mall, sex scene, loss of virginity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.3
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Threesome (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Eddy and Stuart share two-thirds of a dormitory suite. Due to bureaucratic error, a woman named Alex is added to their room. At first, relations among the three are tense. Soon, however, Alex falls for Eddy, and Stuart lusts after Alex.
Style: sexy, cute, lgbt cinema, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, homosexuality, polyamory, roommate, sex, menage a trois, friendship, lgbt, lgbtq, dormitory, sex scene, erotica ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: los angeles
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21%
 6.6
 5K
Cherry (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ivy League Freshman, Aaron Milton (17) gets a different kind of education when he falls for Linda (34) a vivacious former wild-child who has returned to college to straighten out her life. The curriculum gets more challenging when Aaron meets ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, independent film, light, teen ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, love triangle, coming of age, love and romance, parents and children, teenage love, male virgin, milf, social relations, lifestyle, single parent, student life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Decline of the American Empire (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre (involved with a girlfriend) and Alain (a bachelor) discuss sex, the female body and their affairs ...
Style: talky, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, sex, sadomasochism, depression, love and romance, battle of the sexes, couple relations, couples, human nature, dishonesty, radical, relationships ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Just Looking (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's 1955. Lenny is a 14-year old boy who is totally fascinated by sex. He is too scared to "do it," so he dedicates his summer to seeing two other people do it. Easier said than done. Caught in the act of spying, his mother and ...
Style: sexy, touching, sexual, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: voyeurism, coming of age, voyeur, teenager, nudity, youth, obsession, friendship, infidelity, older woman younger man, coitus, nurse ...
Time: year 1999, 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1955
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Igby Goes Down (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.
Style: dark comedy, depressing, cynical, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, coming of age, addiction, depression, existentialism, youth, dark humor, teenage life, eccentric family, eccentricity, character study ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, chicago, new jersey, washington d.c., new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style: light, sexy, funny, sex comedy, teen ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: relationships, sex, infidelity, womanizer, love, friendship, obsession, college, unlikely friendships, friends, dating, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, france, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Spread (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he's amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. His newest gig, with Samantha, an attorney whose house ...
Style: sexy, erotic, romantic, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: womanizer, fall in love, seduction, sex, infidelity, relationships, manipulation, gigolo, party, battle of the sexes, love and romance, in love ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009
Place: california, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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21%
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Adam and Eve (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Easy-going, gentle college-boy Adam Baker enjoys frat-life, however disgusting the frat-house gets because of his sloppy house-mates Freddie, Ferguson and Munch. Then Adam meets Eve, starts falling in love, but gets jealous of frat-brother Billy, ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, college life, love and romance, fall in love, wooing, student life, couples, youth, erotica, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, virgin, looking for sex ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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A Change of Seasons (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Marriage takes a sour turn when a middle-aged husband falls for a young and sexy woman. Things get even more complicated when his wife starts a hot affair with a young lover of her own.
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, sexual, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: polyamory, midlife crisis, age difference, age-gap relationship, open relationship, polygamy, christianity, love triangle, may december romance, adultery, professor, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.3
 4K
Metroland (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris ...
Style: cult classic, sexual, comedy drama, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: male nudity, friendship, male pubic hair, marriage, adultery, sex, bittersweet, coming of age, midlife crisis, drinking, railway, liar ...
Time: year 1997, 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1977
Place: england, paris france, london, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.3
 3K
Diggers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, save the day, love and romance, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, family relations, bare chested male ...
Time: 70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place: new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Sex and Breakfast (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Two young couples using anonymous sex as a catalyst to fix their troubled relationships must rethink what makes a connection work.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, sexual ...
Plot: mate swapping, swingers, swinger couple, open marriage, relationship problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couple relations, couples, sexual relations, masturbation, voyeur ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Going All the Way (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Korean War--era veterans and ex-classmates "Gunner" Casselman and "Sonny" Burns reunite upon their return home. Gunner, who spent the war years abroad, is trying to convince his mother that his gal Marty is good enough for him, ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, love, youth, love and romance, looking for love, teenage love, marriage, homecoming, adolescence vs adulthood, small town life, male female relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1997, 50s, year 1954
Place: indiana, indianapolis indiana, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Key to Sex (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When brainy office assistant Simon is left in charge of the boss's Hollywood mansion, the weekend becomes an opportunity of a lifetime. Entrusted by power-hungry movie producer Alan to guard the estate, Simon thinks he's finally made the ...
Style: sexy, erotic, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, infidelity, adultery, shaved pussy, sex scene, lust, making love, porn, nude women, sex, woman on top, exploring sexuality ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.1
 1K
Wild Roomies (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the house forces him to get roommates.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, scenic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, looking for sex, infidelity, looking for love, love affair, youth, love and romance, disorder, college life, love triangle, college, teenage life ...
Place: usa, dallas texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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