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S&M (2010)
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Original name: SとM
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Makoto Toda was an earnest man who had lived an ordinary life, working as an ordinary company employee. He had built himself an average, but happy home along with his wife and his daughter. Things change however, when a new female recruit named Saya arrives at Makoto’s division. The young woman does everything she can think of to get herself closer to Makoto, and it isn’t long before the two become sexually involved. The affair first seemed as though it would end as a quiet secret only the two would ever know... However, the secret escalates slowly until it spins out of control, and Makoto’s home heads toward destruction...
Style:
tense, dark, melancholic, realistic, psychological thriller
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, seduction, jealousy, office romance, sexual obsession, secret relationship, sexual tension, domestic drama, betrayal, manipulation, shame, guilt, loss of control, family tragedy, escalation, character study, urban, middle aged man, tragic romance, cheating wife, psychological drama, age gap
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, melancholic, intense and romantic drama films with plots about betrayal, obsession, infidelity, adultery, seduction, psychological drama and jealousy mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like S&M: Sabik (2025), The Shadow Within (1970), O Gosto do Pecado (1980), Anaagarigam (2011), Betray (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Saya had planned a scheme so that Sakiko, who works under Makoto, would witness her sexual affair with Makoto in the office. Makoto’s home is about to become a broken one when his wife Sachiko is told of her husband’s unfaithful doings. Saya, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A wife leaves her husband to work abroad. But when her husband meets an enigmatic woman who seduces her every time their marriage is put to the test.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After his wife leaves him, Júlio starts an affair with his secretary.
Style:
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Plot:
infidelity, divorce, adultery, seduction, marriage crisis, lesbian sex, lust, betrayal, sexually liberated, middle aged man, promiscuity, midlife crisis ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Story of a newly married professor who suffers his whole life for having an affair with his student.
Style:
serious, tense, emotional, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
professor, abuse of power, marriage, student, infidelity, teacher student relationship, affair, adultery, relationships, moral dilemma, betrayal, scandal ...
Similarity:
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314
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bored within her marriage, an unhappy wife falls to temptation which quickly spirals toward a fatal encounter.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, intense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
infidelity, betrayal, marriage, adultery, relationships, male female relationship, adulteress, love affair, seduction, marital problem, family relations, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A tale of obsession and jealousy
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
intense, serious, bleak, melancholic, grim ...
Plot:
alienation, infidelity, domestic drama, character study, control, power struggle, obsession, manipulation, isolation, family conflict, claustrophobia, revenge ...
Time:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jane Seymour makes a six-course meal of her starring role as a magazine editor in Obsessed With a Married Woman--indeed, her performance is the only tangible reason for sitting through this artistically bankrupt TV movie. The story contrives to have ...
Style:
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Plot:
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
infidelity, extramarital affair, secret relationship, female protagonist, sexuality, betrayal, marriage crisis, regret, loneliness, guilt, longing, urban ...
Place:
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Similarity:
27%
132
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: South Korea
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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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