Movies like Elaha
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Elaha (2023)
487
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Elaha, 22, believes she must restore her supposed innocence before she weds. A surgeon could reconstruct her hymen but she cannot afford such an operation. She asks herself: why does she have to be a virgin anyway, and for whom?
Plot:
virginity, marriage, wedding, doctor, freedom, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, tradition, patriarchy, suicide attempt, kurd, patriarch, sexually liberated, dog, dancing, telephone call, culture, sister sister relationship, laptop, nudity, female masturbation, female nudity, bathtub, female full frontal nudity, woman in bathtub ...
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Most similar movies to Elaha
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, melancholic, suspense and tense films with plots about female nudity, female full frontal nudity, female protagonist, nudity, female pubic hair, nude and bathtub mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Elaha: Maryline (2017), Looking for Her (2015), Invisible Life (2019), Desideria (1980), The August Virgin (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
462
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A wannabe actress follows her dreams and moves to Paris.
Plot:
women, girl, stage actress, theatre play, sea, female protagonist, wine, theater, flashback, snow, bus, dog ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, touching
Plot:
racism, mother son relationship, adoption, husband wife relationship, pregnancy, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, abortion, mother daughter reunion, racial discrimination, cycling, dog ...
Time:
year 2015
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s. The life of Guida and Euridice Gusmão, raised to be invisible in the eyes of the Brazilian society of that time, like all the other women of that generation.
Style:
erotic, visually stunning, psychological, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
sister sister relationship, sex scene, missing sister, sailor, female protagonist, unwanted pregnancy, family relations, erotica, sisters, masturbation, wedding, sexism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2019, 1940s
Place:
rio de janeiro, iberian peninsula, south america, brazil
Similarity:
78%
303
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An overweight teenage girl walks in on her mother having a three-way. She later confronts her mother and gets her birthday cake shoved in her face. She then tries to commit suicide, but survives and loses a lot of weight. Now attractive to boys and ...
Plot:
prostitute mother, sex, rape, defloration, suicide attempt, sexual attraction, mother daughter relationship, bisexual, lesbian sex, nudity, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, ...
Plot:
summer, female protagonist, women, neighbor neighbor relationship, baby, dancing, pregnant woman, neighbor, river, female nudity, museum, sex scene ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
madrid
Similarity:
62%
43K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Qatar
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Style:
sad, realistic, heartbreaking, art house, social ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
sisters, teenage girl, coming of age, sexism, running away from home, sister sister relationship, virginity, teen suicide, islam, women's rights, women, arranged marriage ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 80s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east, maghreb, israel ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Hamdias, a producer who's set out to break new boundaries, plans to finance a film about torture. According to him, torture, the clash of two or more people, is not only what substantiates basic human relationships but also love and politics. ...
Style:
depressing
Plot:
female pubic hair, terrorism, torture, female nudity, nudity, political activist, revolutionary, terrorist, actress, belly dancer, violence, rebel ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chad, France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina discovers Maria is pregnant and does not want a child, the two women begin to seek out an ...
Style:
political, thought provoking, emotional, realistic, controversial ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, abortion, single mother, moral dilemma, family bonds, religious conflict, female empowerment, empathy, islam, poverty, human rights, resilience ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lieutenant of the French forces engaged in Mali, David Faber is seriously burned during the explosion of his armored vehicle. Repatriated to France for intensive care, he must begin a long convalescence, under the worried but devoted gaze of his ...
Plot:
birthday, military, french military, beach, marriage, brother sister relationship, traumatized man, fire, night, cave, wedding, drinking alcohol ...
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54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A tangled drama of cruelty and manipulation, attraction and love.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
high school student, sexual manipulation, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, teacher, humiliation, high school, blackmail, teacher student relationship, adultery, twists and turns ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon ...
Style:
road movie, sad, serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot:
kurd, human rights, female fight, female fighter, anarchist, injustice, politics, racism, discrimination, friendship, self discovery, social misfits ...
Time:
90s
Place:
kurdistan, turkey, iraq, istanbul turkey, germany
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Satan Said Dance is an Instagram film in times of the selfie. A kaleidoscope of moments from life of Karolina – a scandalous writer obsessed with parties, drugs, sexuality and complex relationships, on her way to self-destruction.
Style:
melancholic, touching, rough, weird
Plot:
sex scene, sexy woman, complex characters, family problems, mother daughter relationship, bittersweet, human nature, favoritism among siblings, doubts and hesitations, estrangement, parents and children, female writer ...
Similarity:
53%
254
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the ...
Style:
family saga, tense, melancholic
Plot:
wedding, corruption, hypocrisy, character study, emotional breakdown, suicide attempt, arranged marriage, satire, ballerina, villa, bureaucracy, intimate ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, psychological, dark, tension ...
Plot:
suburban life, insecurity, shyness, virginity, loneliness, female protagonist, character study, love story, manipulation, seduction, cohabitation, intimate ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of longtime married couple Lena and Tore, who need to deal with Lena's sudden lost of biographical memory due to amnesia.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, independent film, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male pubic hair, female pubic hair, amnesia, memory loss, identity, explicit sex, female protagonist, self discovery, retrograde amnesia, marriage, alienation, switching roles ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on a stage play of the same name by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, the story follows Cassandra, who is portrayed by the two women, expressing the opposing voices that exist inside the modern woman's head, during a 48-hour period as she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
funeral, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, male nudity, male pubic hair, female nudity, bicycle, flashback ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Summer in Corsica. In a Corsican village nestled in the mountains everyone experiences summer in his or her own way: children play, teenagers flirt, and the elders comment on the passage of time at their local bar. In the August heat, it ...
Plot:
erection, male masturbation, friendship, slice of life, helicopter, dancing, masturbation, vacation, female masturbation, old woman, fight, male full rear nudity ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
corsica
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dermatology professor Marie-Claire is embarking on a new project linking skin cells and sexuality, when unexpected events disrupt her professional, family and intimate life.
Style:
erotic, psychological, captivating, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
interracial sex, slutty woman, male female relationship, teenage sexuality, scientist, horny wife, older woman younger man sex, jealousy, doctor, marriage, research, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.
Style:
psychological, tense, touching, contemplative, social ...
Plot:
sex scene, lesbian, unhappy marriage, married woman, female protagonist, couples, family relations, love and romance, husband wife relationship, love, male pubic hair, female pubic hair ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, future
Place:
poland
Similarity:
44%
949
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Qatar, Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the ...
Plot:
women's rights, family drama, bureaucracy, moral dilemma, social realism, shame, teenage pregnancy, guilt, identity crisis, girl, pregnant woman, birth ...
Place:
morocco
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social
Plot:
mother daughter conflict, second wife, second marriage, bedouin, impossible love, family problems, women in society, marriage, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
israel, middle east, indiana, palestine
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
Style:
sexual, cult classic, historical drama, contemplative, disturbing ...
Plot:
rape, prostitution, poverty, erection, male nudity, sex crime, call girl, dutch history, family relations, prostitute, sexual abuse, teenage prostitution ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
amsterdam, europe, holland, netherlands
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The movie chronicles the life of Khadeeja, a married muslim woman confined within the four walls of the household, forced to conceal her desires in the name of religious and societal norms. When fate brings her to an abandoned life, she chooses a ...
Style:
intense, art house, melancholic, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex worker, patriarchy, feminist, social realism, gender roles, female protagonist, sexually liberated, village life, sex work, women's rights, trauma, survival ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
longing, couple relations, suicide, death, couples, hopes, betrayal, dishonesty, starting over, human nature, love, lie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
41%
255
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Slovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, a single mother who fled communist Czechoslovakia has to return to her homeland in order to pay an old debt. The risky trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Plot:
communism, single mother, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, museum, cheating wife, flashback, hotel room, bus, cuckolded husband, female protagonist, train, mother ...
Time:
80s, year 1990, year 1981
Place:
czechoslovakia, vienna
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK, Norway
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
wedding, marriage, poverty, nordic, destiny, family bonds, wealth, family relations, family problems, family secret, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, india, bombay india
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Helena, 29, a single mother with an 11-year-old daughter, is a moderately successful actress who earns a living as an escort in the sex industry. Her relationship with her own mother, a singing teacher, is tense, and she’s also increasingly ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
female protagonist, single mother, mother daughter relationship, sex work, single parent, sexual content, family problems, family relations, sexual relations, life is a bitch, sexuality, sexploitation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
40%
483
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Summer 1900, Switzerland.
Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm. Stifled by the suffocating and strict rules of the village, walking in her ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
female pubic hair, mountain, death of sister, desire, convent, nun, diary, female protagonist, loss of sister, nudity, snow, faith ...
Time:
1900s, year 1900, 19th century
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three women - no moral. Morality is the excuse for those who don't dare to live their truth.Michaela, Gabriela and Lucy are angels of vice. On their motorbikes they ride through the countryside to live their pleasure. They could see a lot, but ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
striptease, strip club, female masturbation, female nudity, sexual intercourse, intercourse, pole dancing, diary, hand job, lap dance, voyeur, female pubic hair ...
Similarity:
39%
367
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the ...
Plot:
prison, robbery, culture, protest, female pubic hair, nudity, skinny dipping, female nudity, drug, smuggling, lesbianism, masturbation ...
Time:
year 1976
Similarity:
36%
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