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Desire (2005)
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Original name: Yokubô
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new film from a remarkably skilled cast about "the beauty of sensualism."
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, erotic drama, romantic drama, melancholic, art house
Plot:
desire, relationships, love affair, male female relationship, social problems, relationship problems, couple relations, loneliness, sexual exploration, character study, obsession, midlife crisis, alienation, bittersweet, literary, young man, urban, sexually explicit, sex, female nudity, male nudity, bare breasts, pubic hair, female full frontal nudity
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, thrilling and melancholic films with plots about relationships, male female relationship, love affair, couple relations, relationship problems, love story and love interest mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Desire: Unloved (2001), Johnen: Love of Sada (2008), The Days Between (2001), iGilbert (2021), A Blue Automobile (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 201 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
japan
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79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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135
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
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142
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
relationships, adultery, romancing partners, love affair, couple relations, male female relationship, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship, love and romance, romantic triangle, tragic love ...
Place:
germany
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534
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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34
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, love, loneliness, character study, psychological trauma, relationships, love story, love affair, love interest, mature, city life, alienation ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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57%
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Country: Japan
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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265
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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326
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
47%
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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