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Law of Desire (1987)
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Law of Desire (1987)
Original name: La ley del deseo
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When porn director Pablo reluctantly breaks up with his boyfriend, Juan, he encourages him to stay in touch. Juan moves away to live in a lighthouse and eventually writes his ex, but in the interim Pablo has taken up a psychotic new lover, Antonio (Antonio Banderas). Antonio intercepts their correspondence and flies into a towering rage, terrifying Pablo but inspiring him creatively as he works on a play about his transsexual sister.
Style: surreal, sexy, stylized, atmospheric, talky, humorous, semi serious, erotic, art house, social ...
Plot: gay, murder, lgbt, love, male nudity, movie business, obsession, filmmaking, love triangle, family relations, gays and lesbians, writers, love and romance, sibling relationship, lgbtq, memory loss, parents and children, gender, lgbtqi, fetish, erotica, gay interest, father son relationship, passion, nudity ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, morocco, madrid
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, erotic, sexual and sexy films with plots about gays and lesbians, lgbt, gay, female nudity, sex, male nudity and gender mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Law of Desire: To Return (2006), Saltburn (2023), Matador (1986), Pain and Glory (2019), High Heels (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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To Return (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their ...
Style: black comedy, emotional, dark comedy, touching, hispanic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: secret, death, ghost, rape, child abuse, lust, twists and turns, family secret, dark secret, superstition, adultery, women ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, europe ...
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Saltburn (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never ...
Style: psychological thriller, dark comedy, psychological, psychosexual thriller, satirical ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: obsession, college, class differences, college student, student, country estate, university, drug use, murder, teenage boy, butler, male masturbation ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, oxford university, united kingdom
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Matador (1986)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Style: disturbing, erotic, psychological, controversial, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, murder, obsession, necrophilia, character study, investigation, psychology, femme fatale, sex, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, crimes of passion ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, valencia spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, stylized, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, prostitute, male pubic hair, grandmother grandson relationship, telekinesis, pedophilia, exhibitionist, dressmaker, dark humor, male nudity, domestic abuse, maid ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, germany, europe ...
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
Style: humorous, talky, melancholic, enigmatic, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, female protagonist, farce, adultery, twists and turns, frustration, suicide attempt, couple relations, women, satire, mental health, male female relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, year 1998, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula
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Pain and Glory (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
Style: sincere, touching, disturbing, twist ending, hispanic ...
Plot: gay, movie business, filmmaker, lgbt, actor, introspection, addiction, cinema, drawing, childhood memory, nostalgia, death of mother ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, year 1985, 1950s, year 1981
Place: spain, madrid
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High Heels (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: High Heels is a murder mystery comedy centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo and her daughter Rebecca, a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life when she comes to perform a concert. ...
Style: sentimental, art house, enigmatic, serious, sexy ...
Plot: transvestism, murder, obsession, guilt, women, mother daughter reunion, family relations, couples, lgbt, mother daughter relationship, lgbtq, transvestite ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 70s
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, caribbean ...
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Style: sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house, romantic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, stockholm syndrome, porn star, obsessive love, porn actress, kidnapping, female masturbation, sex, love and romance, bdsm, nudity, porn actor ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 90s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dark Habits (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.
Style: dark comedy, erotic, surreal, social, hispanic ...
Plot: satire, lgbt, catholic, catholic church, gays and lesbians, nun, drug addiction, religion, gay, lgbtq, surrealism, sin ...
Time: year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Broken Embraces (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Harry Caine, a blind writer, reaches this moment in time when he has to heal his wounds from 14 years back. He was then still known by his real name, Mateo Blanco, and directing his last movie.
Style: neo noir, emotional, stylized, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot: obsession, filmmaking, jealousy, betrayal, destructive relationship, tragic love, actress, blind character, couple relations, blindness, family drama, suffering ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 20th century, 80s, 90s ...
Place: madrid, spain, iberian peninsula, ibiza, europe ...
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Bad Education (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are ...
Style: disturbing, neo noir, sexy, controversial, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: sexual abuse, transsexual, gay, child abuse, transvestism, boarding school, male nudity, teacher, transsexuality, gender, lgbt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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All About My Mother (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A single mother in Madrid sees her only son die on his birthday as he runs to seek an actress' autograph. Beside herself with grief, she returns to Barcelona to tell the boy's father about the death of the son he never knew he had.
Style: sad, hispanic, art house, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: aids, transvestism, lgbt, lesbian, transgender, prostitute, grief, friendship, transsexual, single mother, women, gay ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, nebraska, iberian peninsula, argentina ...
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Paris, France (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A writer has torrid fantasy affairs with young men.
Style: sexy, erotic, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: male nudity, bdsm, sex, unfaithful wife, female masturbation, cuckolded husband, nudity, erotica, male masturbation, coitus, voyeurism, infidelity ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, toronto ontario canada, france, europe
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Labyrinth of Passion (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner).
Style: sex comedy, erotic, sexy, sexual, humorous ...
Plot: gay, kidnapping, viagra, drug, nymphomaniac, farce, lgbt, lgbtq, terrorism, gay interest, psychologist, truth ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
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Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Almodovar's first film of life in Madrid during the punk era and not one for the squeamish. He covers everything from drugs and sexual violence, to female masochism.
Style: social, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, sexual ...
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Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
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The Skin I Live In (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, kidnapping, twists and turns, rape, skin, revenge, isolation, insanity, sexual perversion, gender bending, abuse, plastic surgery ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place: spain, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Confusion of Genders (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Bisexual attorney Alain is bedding his female boss, his murderer client, the client's hairdresser girlfriend, and a precocious boy who knows what he wants and tries to convince Alain that he can 'have it all'.
Style: sexy, witty, humorous, erotic, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for sex, obsession, gender, destructive relationship, lgbt, love triangle, dangerous attraction, womanizer, looking for love, couples, dishonesty, infidelity ...
Time: 90s
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30%
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Luster (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An irreverent and refreshing take on the queer world of sex, lust and unrequited love. Lanky, blue haired Jackson, record store employee and poet, is in love with most of the men in his life! A refreshing departure from the typical gay love story, ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, erotic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gay, gay erotica, unrequited love, male pubic hair, sex toy, gays and lesbians, lgbt, infidelity, gay lead character, fall in love, suicide, death of friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iowa, mojave desert, california, usa, los angeles
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30%
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Happy Endings (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: An ensemble cast telling 10 stories with intertwining characters. One story is about a father and son who are dating the same woman . Another features a woman who long ago gave her baby up for adoption but is now being blackmailed by a documentary ...
Style: semi serious, clever, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: multiple storylines, sexual relations, adoption, gay teenager, dysfunctional family, gay, lesbian, lesbian couple, gays and lesbians, relationships, family relations, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time: year 2005, year 1983, 21st century
Place: phoenix arizona, los angeles
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30%
Bulgarian Lovers (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A straight-laced Spanish man falls in love with a young foreigner.
Style: semi serious, sexy, humorous, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot: gay, gay erotica, male nudity, gay husband, infidelity, love affair, gay lead character, lgbt, dangerous attraction, male pubic hair, wedding, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, europe, madrid, cuba, eastern europe ...
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29%
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Live Flesh (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
Style: sexy, psychological, intense, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, lust, unfaithful wife, nudity, disability, obsession, desire, older woman younger man, betrayal, sex, love triangle, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1970, year 1990 ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, sarajevo ...
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Kika (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him. They might live happily ...
Style: sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, tabloid journalism, stepfather stepson relationship, murder disguised as suicide, escaped prisoner, voyeurism, masturbation, gays and lesbians, photographer, lgbt, lesbian, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: spain, europe
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Querelle (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Here is the story of a beautiful, proud and tough loner, a sailor named Querelle, whose commanding officer Seblon worships and desires him from afar. Querelle turns on his drugs-smuggling partner and murders him. He then goes to a notorious brothel ...
Style: sexual, controversial, erotic, art house, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, murder, surrealism, lgbt, male male relationship, lgbtq, psychology, sexuality, glbt, serial killer ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Not Love, Just Frenzy (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: From the land of Almodovar comes a hot new film about drugs, sex & everything else!
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual
Plot: gay, lgbt, gays and lesbians, farce, glbt, nightclub, murder, clubbing, friends, dark humor, couples, psychopath ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Style: surreal, touching, sentimental, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transvestism, transgender, gay slur, gay, transsexual, gender, adoption, coming of age, gender bending, lgbt, priest, ira ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 60s
Place: ireland, england, europe, big ben london, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.0
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Skin and Bone (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Harry, Billy and Dean are three hustlers at different stages in their careers. All must deal with the realities of their profession. One falls in love with a client, another enters deeper into denial, and another begins to learn the ropes.
Style: independent film, contemplative, experimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, hustler, nudity, lgbtq, love, lgbtqi, lgbt, masturbation, male nudity, erotica, sex, male rape ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.6
 6K
Sitcom (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sado-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited ...
Style: dark comedy, offbeat, sexual, sexy, experimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, incest, mother son incest, lgbt, suicide attempt, paraplegic, rat, dysfunctional family, sadomasochism, fetish, homosexual, cigarette smoking ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.3
 41
1-900 (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The police become involved when the callers to a 1-900 number begin turning up dead after a visit from the beautiful operator.
Style: erotic
Plot: chess, sex scene, making love, sex, accident, divorce, murder, secret, dancer, dancing, male nudity, suicide ...
Place: amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.3
 526
Love of Man (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Set in Madrid, Spain, this engaging comedy chronicles the complex relationship between single female Esperanza (Loles León), who can't buy a date, and her best friend Ramón (Andrea Occhipinti), a gay divorce attorney whose bed is never empty. ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, sexual ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: gay teacher, gay, lgbt, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, friendship, gay straight relations, wedding, thirtysomething life, couples, friends, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s
Place: madrid, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.5
 2K
Queens (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In Spain, a couple of days before a collective gay wedding, the lives of five mothers, whose sons will get married, are entwined: Judge Helena is in charge of the ceremony; the entrepreneur in hotel business Magda is hosting the guests in her hotel ...
Style: humorous, feel good, witty, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: gays and lesbians, gay wedding, lgbt, gay, hotel, gender, couples, wedding, family relations, gay marriage, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Place: spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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