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Tough Love (2015)
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Original name: Härte
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Half documentary, half docu-drama about a German karate champion, who used to be a successful pimp...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tragic
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, male female relationship, karate, therapy, sex with mother, relationships, violence, life is a bitch, changing lives, social problems, lifestyle change, couple relations, male full rear nudity, child sexual abuse, abusive father, female pubic hair, gay, prison, prostitute, psychologist, female nudity, prostitution, psychotherapy, debt collector, childhood trauma ...
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Most similar movies to Tough Love
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, disturbing and suspense films with plots about life is a bitch, female nudity, relationships, male female relationship, social problems, family relations and female full frontal nudity mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Tough Love: Jan Dara: The Finale (2013), Her Way (2021), Perfect Education 6 (2004), Happy Lambs (2015), Adam (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Based on a famous Thai erotic novel, the film tells the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. Set in the 1930′s the story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
passionate sex, brothel, father daughter sex, incest, revenge, rape, hate, violence, violent, domestic violence, vengeance, social problems ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
bangkok thailand, thailand
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raise her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, dramatic, realistic ...
Plot:
prostitution, mother son relationship, prostitute, prostitute mother, female protagonist, single mother, motherhood, family drama, financial problem, blind ambition, money problems, life is a bitch ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her husband. Fumiya has no choice but to kill Mr. Hosoi. Unfortunately he's see by a neighbor. In ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
bondage, gambling debt, slavery, gambler, money problems, life is a bitch, male female relationship, social problems, relationships, cheating wife, female nudity, bare breasts ...
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61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, sexy
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, prostitute, dysfunctional family, family problems, mother daughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, single mother, family secret, family relations, single parent, social problems ...
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, romantic ...
Plot:
physical disability, hopes, relationships, disability, down on your luck, friendship, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, goodhearted, wheelchair bound, catastrophe, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An illegal Chinese immigrant and her teenage daughter are held captive in their home after a stranger breaks in.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
prostitution, mother daughter relationship, changing lives, illegal prostitution, family relations, lifestyle change, prostitute, family problems, mysterious stranger, mother and daughter, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, historical drama
Plot:
political repression, jailed, male female relationship, gulag, political persecution, political prisoner, couple relations, love affair, wartime, relationships, love story, wartime life ...
Time:
year 1934
Place:
siberia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, art film, hispanic, period drama
Plot:
biopic, social relations, society, relationships, lifestyle change, life is a bitch, male female relationship, female protagonist, social problems, family relations, changing lives, writer's life ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A film about a man and one woman who do absurdly crazy things. But although their shocking behaviors are outrageous, but it remains not just as some spectacles. When the communication between two comes to fail, it suddenly arouses subtle sorrows.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, crying
Plot:
insanity, relationships, mentally unstable, tragic love, love affair, love story, relationship problems, male female relationship, couple relations, life is a bitch, mental illness, madness ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In a countryside house where they are meant to explore the troubles in their sexuality, three women spend days and nights apprehending their inner demons. A serene German therapist and a kind-hearted social worker supervise them, help them and try ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
sex, psychotherapy, relationship problems, group therapy, relationships, therapy, psychology, psychological manipulation, introspection, female protagonist, lifestyle change, skinny dipping ...
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56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
painter, artist, marriage, dementia, marital problem, marriage crisis, illness, changing lives, family in crisis, family relations, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face. The juxtaposition between fabulous beauty and disfigurement proves unsettling for the villagers and she grows up ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense
Plot:
female nudity, older man younger woman marriage, female pubic hair, cuckold, unhappy marriage, disfigured face, venereal disease, sexual tension, relationship problems, dysfunctional marriage, marriage, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An indonesian biopic movie on the controversial former Jakarta governor Ahok.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, semi autobiographical, tragic
Plot:
politics, corrupt, business, family problems, corrupt politician, estranged father, changing lives, political candidate, social problems, domineering father, political unrest, lifestyle change ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 2000s, 20th century, 80s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Marla and Simone are madly in love and have a very passionate relationship. They are also struggling to get by and are unable to pay the rent. In desperation they decide to make porn videos. Sex cowboys is a travel inside our generation, the lost ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, controversial, independent film
Plot:
love, sexual desire, poverty, social problems, male female relationship, adult filmmaking, money problems, passion, financial problem, love affair, society, couples ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on true events, seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of Salzburg, usually famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love for her son. Despite of this Adrian ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
drug addiction, heroin addict, drug, drug addict, social issues, drug abuse, junkie, life is a bitch, parents and children, child custody, family relations, mother son relationship ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An isolated farm in a remote part of the Jura region: this is where Pauline and Alex are living in complete self-sufficient harmony with nature. Their life project is sealed by their love, their ideals and their work. The couple is now ready to take ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic drama
Plot:
couples, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, farm, lifestyle change, relationship problems, love interest, female protagonist, farmhouse, farmer, changing lives ...
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54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
gambler, male female relationship, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, troubled past, love affair, couple relations, prostitute, mysterious past, confronting the past, red light district ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dance teacher and mother Nadja left her son Mario with her own mother when he was little. Now she has reappeared on his doorstep, seeking a closeness that knows fewer and fewer boundaries. An uncompromising film about family relationships.
Style:
erotic, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
incest, mother son relationship, mother son incest, mother son estrangement, sex with mother, incestuous sex, ballerina, incestuous relationship, incestuous desire, forbidden sex, taboo sex, mother son reunion ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the “Threepenny Film” is radical, ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, political ...
Plot:
beggar, fighting the system, problem, film industry, social issues, movie business, filmmaker, life is a bitch, social problems, filmmaking, film producer, cinema ...
Time:
1920s, year 1929, year 1933
Place:
london, berlin germany
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Henry is a loner and a night owl. His rare skin disease has kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire life. One night, a young woman's car breaks down and Henry's life will change forever.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller
Plot:
skin disease, relationship problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, small town life, love affair, lifestyle change, mother son relationship, relationships, male female relationship, family relations, illness ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil, New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Little Secret is a film with three interlocked stories all connected by a single secret that converge to reveal the tragic yet beautiful lives of three families and how hope, dreams and destiny can unite people from very different parts of the world.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, depressing
Plot:
change of luck, relationships, adopted daughter, foster child, destiny, family secret, foster parent, family problems, teenager, couple relations, teenage life, multiple storylines ...
Place:
new zealand, brazil
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Yeong-gil is in graduate class and is stressed about getting a job. To make things worse, he's not had any experience with women yet, so he's always searching for something in his dreams but wakes up to nothing. Then one day, there is a ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
boss secretary relationship, attempted seduction, erotic dream, employer employee relationship, male female relationship, lifestyle change, relationships, changing lives, coworker, couple relations, new job, boss and employee ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The destinies of five young women from all over the world intertwine in Paris as they embark on a roller-coaster ride of extremes in their search for love, sex and money. Based upon true stories, Shanghai Belle tells the destiny of five young women ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot:
lesbian love, nightclub, women, social problems, prostitution, female protagonist, sex, seduction, forced prostitution, life is a bitch, sexual relations, model ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Based on the real life love story of Moideen and Kanchanamala, which happened in 1960s in the backdrops of Calicut.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, realistic, tragic ending ...
Plot:
fall in love, in love, hindu, muslim, social problems, forbidden love, star crossed lovers, relationships, life is a bitch, relationship problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, religious intolerance ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
couples, sexual assault, husband wife relationship, relationships, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, marital reconciliation, pregnant wife, violence, marriage, pregnancy ...
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An ex-felon returns home from prison and must confront the demons of his past.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, f word
Plot:
life is a bitch, lifestyle, secret past, criminal, changing lives, social problems, tragic past, confronting the past, bandit, lifestyle change, ex convict, haunted by the past ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Jing is a teenager who starts dating Eiam, a woman who is 20 years older than him. Things go well at the beginning but when Eiam turns 40 and Jing starts to mature, the couple increasingly experiences conflicts and arguments.
Style:
romantic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
older woman younger man, relationship problems, love triangle, age difference, male female relationship, romantic triangle, romantic relationship, love story, in love, tragic love, love and romance, social problems ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Toni leads a normal life with his wife Paola but full of enthusiasm and passion. The chance meeting with the young and wealthy Chiara will rekindle in him the desire to redeem himself and to realize his secret dream: to become an artist. The paths ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
affair, lovers, love triangle, love story, problem, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, love affair, intrigue, couple relations, love interest ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, teachers and students, disabled child, relationships, lifestyle, changing lives, family relations, lifestyle change, parents and children, horse, female protagonist, donkey ...
Time:
year 1900
Place:
paris france, rome italy
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"L'emprise" is the story of a drama, adapted from the moving book-witness "Acquitted", by Alexandra Lange. The story of a mother of four children, which is found in March 2012 in the dock of the foundations of Douai for the ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, suspense
Plot:
man hits a woman, courtroom, social problems, murder, dysfunctional marriage, family relations, violence spree, social injustice, family problems, social relations, murderer, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
50%
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