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American Nudist (2011)
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A young woman invites a filmmaker to follow her through the modern world of nudism.
Style:
contemplative, art house, independent film, experimental, sexy, sensual
Plot:
self discovery, female protagonist, intimate, filmmaking, liberation, identity, female empowerment, minimalism, social experiment, interview, female nudity, skinny dipping, nudist, nude women, taboo, voyeurism, woman, nudism, female full frontal nudity, nude swimming
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, contemplative and psychological films with plots about intimate, female protagonist, identity, self discovery, minimalism, female nudity and character study mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like American Nudist: Mist (2017), Simple Being (2014), Daughters (2014), The Nude Princess (1976), Looping (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
90
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Martina gets pregnant from her selfish boyfriend. Without knowing exactly what to do, she travels to Berlin to find her own father, the one she never met.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, self discovery, female protagonist, identity, pregnant woman, lifestyle change, changing lives, unplanned pregnancy, introspection, life is a bitch, motherhood, journey ...
Place:
mexico city, berlin germany
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young man who feels he doesn't fit in, decides to embark on an intimate journey. Three weeks for three impediments: deafness, mutism and blindness. Three weeks not to escape, but to find reality.
Style:
existential, meditative, psychological, experimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
intimate, blindness, deafness, self discovery, personal growth, existential crisis, identity crisis, loneliness, minimal dialogue, alienation, isolation, identity ...
Similarity:
93%
147
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray ...
Style:
emotional, art house, melancholic, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, character study, identity, missing person, grief, loss, motherhood, intimate, obsession ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ajita Wilson plays an African diplomat who comes to Milan to head a trade delegation. At the delegation she feels haunted by her past in which she appeared in a pornographic magazine. In a series of psychedelic scenes, we learn the sordid secrets of ...
Style:
erotic, psychedelic, sensual, erotic drama, controversial ...
Plot:
erotica, sexuality, exploitation, female protagonist, nudity, scandal, identity, taboo, sexploitation, voyeurism, female nudity, counterculture ...
Time:
70s
Place:
milan italy, italy
Similarity:
77%
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264
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three intertwining stories about women, who end up in a psychiatric clinic...
Style:
tense, sensitive, erotic, sensual, queer cinema
Plot:
mental health, intimate, honest, character study, conflict, friendship, lesbian, self discovery, healing, therapy, single, trauma ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a woman's mental confrontation and drifting between dream and reality after experiencing loss.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, grief, character study, intimate, female protagonist, loss, loneliness, memory, isolation, confrontation, identity, minimalism ...
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
"Alicia, Go Yonder" is the story of Alicia, a nineteen-year-old who sets out on a solitary journey to the end of the world only to come face to face with the immensity of the universe.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, reflective, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
personal growth, young woman, coming of age, female protagonist, self discovery, character study, young adult, solitude, odyssey, minimalism, spiritual journey, intimate ...
Similarity:
72%
151
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
When a hula dancer on the run crashes into a broken spirit of a man, they begin a journey into a hidden world, developing a connection through humanity, nature, and culture.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
beach, female protagonist, love affair, relationships, spiritual journey, self discovery, island life, journey, redemption, identity, inheritance, folklore ...
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
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2K
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
Areum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is she hearing what's been written?
Style:
melancholic, psychological, contemplative, reflective, captivating ...
Plot:
guest, creative process, secretly observing, antisocial behavior, lifestyle, cafe, socially awkward, intimate, ambiguity, slice of life, female protagonist, everyday life ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Darren Prager is an aspiring writer who finds himself completely unable to comprehend the intricacies of human behavior. Obsessed with finding the key to understanding the nature of character, he turns a co-worker's family into the unwitting ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, independent film, tense, experimental ...
Plot:
obsession, voyeurism, ethical dilemma, character study, moral ambiguity, social experiment, manipulation, isolation, male protagonist, identity crisis, experimental narrative, alienation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
60%
19
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
This avant-garde film is a stained glass window of emotion. 28 different people's feelings are woven into an emotional time capsule that will never exist again. A multi-dimensional bottle of feelings and time and art captured in a film.
Style:
art film, experimental, avant garde, art house, emotional ...
Plot:
empathy, intimate, memory, humanism, visionary, bittersweet, character study, identity, artistic, cult
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student, encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
secret, art student, grief, coming of age, loss, summer, female protagonist, relationships, life is a bitch, self discovery, beauty, intimate ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
One Year Later tells the story of an American woman, recently recovered from a serious illness, who learns to savor the essence of life through a cathartic trip to the Italian Alps. Liz, a dedicated teacher of comparative literature, struggles with ...
Style:
heartfelt, contemplative
Plot:
personal growth, self discovery, female protagonist, independent woman, female empowerment, travel, friendship, cancer, post traumatic stress disorder, ptsd
Place:
italy, milan italy, alps
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
"Schöne Frauen“ handelt genau davon: von schönen Frauen. Fünf Schauspielerinnen finden sich nacheinander zum Casting für einen Fernsehfilm ein. Sie schweigen, taxieren sich, begutachten sich und ihre Gegenüber. Und kommen sich mitnichten ...
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, realistic
Plot:
road trip, friendship, self discovery, audition, female empowerment, self acceptance, personal growth, bonding, midlife crisis, companionship, bittersweet, slice of life ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Nine women sign up for a class in striptease in order to enrich their lives.
Style:
sensual, independent film, erotic drama, sexploitation film
Plot:
stripper, striptease, dance class, female sexuality, self discovery, female empowerment, woman, identity, milf, nightlife, urban, taboo ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Style:
slow cinema, contemplative, art film, art house, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mourning, loss, grief, intimate, character study, secret, immigrant, immigration, haunting, identity, memory ...
Place:
lisbon portugal, africa, west africa
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ines, who wants to change who she is and become someone else in order to cover up her insecurities. When she accompanies her boyfriend Lucas on a business trip to Norway, Ines meets a half-Japanese tourist, Maria, who instantly fascinates her. ...
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, art house ...
Plot:
self discovery, obsessive love, female protagonist, identity, character study, impostor, double life, deception, identity theft, slow burn, moral ambiguity, danger ...
Place:
japan, osaka japan
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman sabotages her own wedding in order to reclaim her identity and obliterates her life in the process.
Style:
captivating, dramatic, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
female protagonist, desert, wedding, mute, left for dead, runaway bride, woman, self discovery, identity, life, fiancee, sabotage ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ms. Deniz will marry Nurperi with her father's compulsion. For Otilia concert, Deniz went to Burgazada a week before Nurperi's bed and encountered the sun while diving here. The sea thinks that the sun is hearing impaired and decides to ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, poetic, sensitive, contemplative ...
Plot:
sun, sign language, forbidden love, family drama, secret love, longing, arranged marriage, love triangle, female protagonist, passion, magic realism, intimate ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mika arrives in Poland to pay a hospital visit to her father, who is suffering from severe brain injury and memory loss. It's the first time they have met in many years, yet her father thinks they still live together and she's a teenager. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, art film ...
Plot:
memory, father daughter relationship, memory loss, dementia, family relations, relationships, introspection, amnesiac, family life, estrangement, alienation, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
51%
172
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to ...
Style:
independent film, disturbing, psychological, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
filmmaking, self discovery, director, actor, surrealism, creative process, lifestyle, social problems, life philosophy, filmmaker, existentialism, character study ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A daughter finds a journal her dad left behind, only to discover there was another woman in his life she knew nothing about. She sets out to find this woman and the reason her father never ended up with the woman he must have loved.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, melancholic, romantic drama, independent film
Plot:
father daughter relationship, family drama, female protagonist, self discovery, memory, intimate, bittersweet, personal growth, small town, reconciliation, investigation, identity ...
Place:
mississippi
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
Style:
emotional, realistic, intense, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
prostitution, female protagonist, sacrifice, survival, poverty, mother and daughter, motherhood, social realism, branding iron, moral dilemma, class struggle, resilience ...
Time:
90s
Place:
moscow russia, warsaw poland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This enigmatic, mysterious minimalist feature, a collaboration between CalArts graduate C.W. Winter and photographer Anders Edström, combines elements of narrative fiction, documentary, and even installation art in depicting the daily routine of ...
Style:
art film, contemplative, experimental, slow cinema, art house ...
Plot:
isolation, island, solitude, minimalism, forest, silence, character study, female protagonist, portrait, wind, ritual, weather ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Friends Cory and Anna are drifting through life, struggling to find their place. Cory is sick of life in the desert and wants to be on a reality show so he can prove to his brother that he isn't a screw-up. Anna is in the country illegally, ...
Style:
art house, contemplative, melancholic, realistic, experimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
identity, illegal immigration, character study, desert, poverty, sex work, intimate, social realism, slice of life, family conflict, punk rock, coming of age ...
Place:
poetic realism
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
They're the erotic toys of the mindless generation... trapped in a never-neverland of distorted sexual practices
Style:
erotic drama, sensual, controversial, erotic, art house ...
Plot:
sexual exploration, lesbian sex, erotica, threesome, sexually liberated, love triangle, taboo, moral ambiguity, clown, collector, voyeurism, manipulation ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After 35 years working as a clerk in a government office, Doña Flor has become such a cog, invisible to herself. Cloaked in solitude and routine, she has even suppressed the loss of her daughter who drowned years ago. As her retirement approaches ...
Style:
existential, poetic, contemplative, melancholic, lyrical ...
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, introspection, solitude, everyday life, grief, realism, intimate, routine, aging, memory, loss of child ...
Place:
peru, mexico
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Recently divorced, aspiring filmmaker Helen (Jennifer Rubin) enters into a love triangle fueled by sexual hunger and manipulation. But as she attempts to define herself and fulfill her wants and needs, she must choose between her independence and ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
open marriage, sexuality, human relationship, love affair, infidelity, breakup, filmmaking, love triangle, couples, love and romance, moral dilemma, writer's life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Follows the journey of one man on the path of his self-discovery that would traverse landscapes outside and layers deep within.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, road movie, independent film ...
Plot:
self discovery, introspection, life, personal growth, coming of age, travelogue, wanderlust, intimate, minimalism, escape, road trip, journey ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
A reworking of the myth of Hippolytus, in which a chaste youth rejects the incestuous advances of his mother and is saved from death by a caring physician.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, independent film, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
incest, sexual repression, family tragedy, character study, domestic drama, symbolism, taboo, jealousy, crazy love, literary, sexual awakening, obsession ...
Similarity:
40%
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