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Don't Call Me Mama (2025)
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Original name: Se meg
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Eva is a popular teacher who is married to the local mayor. Although he has betrayed her trust, she still plans to support his election campaign, and so she starts to volunteer at a local refugee center. Here, she grows close to eighteen-year-old refugee Amir, who charms her with his poetic talents. But the closer they get, the less control she has over the situation.
Style:
controversial, tragic ending, psychological thriller, complex
Plot:
mayor, adultery, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, betrayal, taboo, scandal, illicit affair, tragic romance, domestic drama, obsession, manipulation, poetry, reputation, guilt, class conflict, midlife crisis, small town, identity crisis, forbidden love, sex scene, extramarital affair, language barrier, cheating wife, teacher ...
Time:
2020s
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Most similar movies to Don't Call Me Mama
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, captivating and art house films with plots about obsession, betrayal, infidelity, moral ambiguity, female nudity, cheating wife and psychological drama mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like Don't Call Me Mama: Sweetheart (2022), S&M (2010), Mom's Friend 4 (2017), The Salamander (2021), The Shadow Within (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A 37-year-old teacher falls for the charms of a student 20 years younger, causing a family crisis and her brutal fall to prison.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, dramatic, intense ...
Plot:
teacher student relationship, extramarital affair, horny wife, infidelity, sexually dissatisfied wife, cheating wife, sex scene, male nudity, forbidden romance, horny woman, adultery, female protagonist ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
95%
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 ...
Style:
tense, realistic, melancholic, dark, psychological thriller
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, jealousy, seduction, sexual obsession, office romance, sexual tension, domestic drama, secret relationship, loss of control ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Min Jung's husband has been traveling for 300 days and she feels lonely. When her friend Chung Hee moves in next door, Min Jung often visits her house, during which she keeps meeting Jae Ho, Jung Hee's son. After having an impulsive affair ...
Style:
sensual, erotic drama, emotional, intense
Plot:
taboo, sexual tension, infidelity, adultery, married woman, affair, moral dilemma, temptation, infatuation, forbidden romance, black ops, intimate ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Paralysed by fear of the future, a middle aged French bureaucrat escapes to Brazil where a destructive affair with a boy forces her to learn to live in the present.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, art house, existential ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, female protagonist, self destructing, midlife crisis, obsession, woman, relationships, couple relations, couples, life, love affair, love interest ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, sinister, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, domestic drama, betrayal, infidelity, moral ambiguity, character study, symbolism, jealousy, guilt, midlife crisis, mature ...
Similarity:
56%
329
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Aurora, the daughter of a religious leader, enters into a secret affair that changes her life. She tries to please everyone but when it's time for a lavish wedding anniversary celebration, an uninvited guest arrives.
Plot:
black ops, female protagonist, family drama, forbidden love, uninvited guest, scandal, hypocrisy, confrontation, identity crisis, betrayal, wedding anniversary, dysfunctional family ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and an interesting job: she has no motive to be troubled, but she decides to join him and to become his lover. She ...
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, tense, suspenseful, art house ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, years of lead, female protagonist, infidelity, adultery, marriage crisis, secret lover, betrayal, obsession, tragic romance, moral ambiguity, fate ...
Place:
naples italy, sicily
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Golden Lotus is based, in part, on Jin Ping Mei, a famous erotic novel of ancient China. Li Han-Hsiang adapted part of the story into this film, which starts with Hsi Men Ching, a successful merchant, wooing Pan Chin Lien, the beautiful wife of one ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, costume drama, tragic ending, dark ...
Plot:
erotica, adultery, mature, murder, betrayal, lust, fatal attraction, forbidden love, taboo, literary, sexploitation, obsession ...
Place:
ancient china
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
Style:
erotic drama, period piece, art house, tension, suspense
Plot:
blackmail, adultery, infidelity, affair, nudity, love triangle, romantic obsession, marital crisis, jealousy, female protagonist, scandal, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After years together, Petr and Hana, partners in work and in life, share their unspoken erotic fantasies. What begins as an innocent conversation gradually turns into curious experimentation with a non-monogamous approach to their relationship. But ...
Plot:
open marriage, sex scene, polyamory, promiscuous woman, naked breasts, unfaithfulness, horny woman, sex with friend's wife, polygamy, cheating wife, erotica, promiscuity ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Julie is a young tennis star who falls in love with his trainer - because she yearns for love and because she wants to liberate themselves from the ambitions which the father has on her behalf. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen has a conflict and fragile ...
Style:
dramatic, tense, tragic ending, dark, art house ...
Plot:
power struggle, forbidden romance, class conflict, father daughter conflict, character study, sexual tension, female protagonist, manipulation, tragic romance, emotional breakdown, adaptation, intimate ...
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
Similarity:
45%
95
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:
sexy
Plot:
extramarital affair, infidelity, betrayal, seduction, domestic drama, temptation, sexual tension, jealousy, guilt, female protagonist, manipulation, intimacy ...
Similarity:
44%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, ...
Style:
romantic drama, art house, melancholic, tense, ambiguous ending
Plot:
teacher student relationship, forbidden love, moral ambiguity, guilt, reputation, infidelity, betrayal, character study, literary, shame, obsession, emotional manipulation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
42%
387
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Laura is spending a few days at her beach house to supervise the construction of a barbecue shed. One afternoon, she seduces the chief builder, who never returns. Over the following days, the builders continually invade her home – until Laura ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
tragic romance, horny woman, employer employee relationship, slow burn, class conflict, relationships, relationship problems, lifestyle change, family problems, male female relationship, tragic love, marital problem ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three erotic stories from classic writers Marguerite de Navarre, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne and Guy de Maupassant.
Style:
anthology, erotic, erotic drama, sensual, period drama
Plot:
seduction, literary, sexual content, sexual tension, revenge, nudity, jealousy, adultery, infidelity, marital strife, manipulation, forbidden love ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century, 18th century
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Germany, Mexico, UK, Uruguay
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Pablo, professor at the University of Buenos Aires, has an affair with Luciana, one of his students. Natalia, another professor at the University of Buenos Aires starts an affair with her student Gonzalo. Two stories, as two sides of the same coin.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
extramarital affair, cheating wife, infidelity, professor, female teacher, teacher student romance, problem, teacher, relationship problems, older woman younger man relationship, older man younger woman sex, sex scene ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the ...
Style:
tragic ending, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, jealousy, manipulation, gender roles, betrayal, love triangle, literary, power struggle, obsession, social satire, moral ambiguity, small town ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A newly appointed teacher finds herself being followed, and soon discovers that one of her own students is obsessed with her.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher student sex, older woman teenage boy sex, mature woman, teacher student relationship, unfaithful wife, female teacher, sex scene, older woman younger man sex, dangerous attraction, older woman teenage boy relationship, older woman younger man relationship, longing ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, emotional, melancholic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, incest, sex with stepmother, adultery, older woman younger man sex, sex with stepson, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman teenage boy relationship, cheating wife, unfaithful wife, mature woman ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
39%
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 ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Alina is married to Daniele, a famous conductor. While Daniele is away, she finds herself attracted to Bruno, a butcher. One day, Bruno left a message… “Tomorrow morning I’ll knock on your door. If you don’t want me, don’t be there.” ...
Style:
erotic, erotic drama, gay cinema, pretentious
Plot:
unfaithful wife, horny wife, extramarital affair, unfaithful, affair, making love, illicit affair, wife, sex, sex scene, male nudity, marital infidelity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
sicily, italy, palermo italy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
tabloid journalism, scandal, privacy invasion, politician, female protagonist, betrayal, media manipulation, moral ambiguity, shame, ethical dilemma, societal hypocrisy, love triangle ...
Time:
70s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Monaco
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ...
Style:
erotic, ambiguous ending, tense, noir
Plot:
voyeurism, hotel, suicide, female protagonist, loneliness, alienation, melancholy, sex, obsession, tragic romance, political unrest, sexual tension ...
Place:
west berlin west germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Claire Wilson, a young teacher at a suburban Texas high school, begins an affair with her student, Eric Walker. But their relationship accelerates faster than anticipated and the permanent damage becomes impossible to ignore.
Style:
sexy, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, psychological, moody
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, teacher student sex, older woman teenage boy sex, unfaithful wife, older woman teenage boy relationship, teacher student romance, older woman younger man sex, oral sex, teacher student relationship, school, longing, horny wife ...
Time:
year 2013, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
36%
3K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From an intoxicating fantasy to a dangerous affair, a wealthy married woman finds her life irreversibly shattered after picking up an unpublished novel.
Style:
erotic drama, suspenseful
Plot:
rough sex, infidelity, betrayal, forbidden love, affair, mysterious stranger, moral ambiguity, obsession, seduction, class conflict, toxic relationship, jealousy ...
Similarity:
33%
255
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes him into the consulting room instead. As they talk, she offers him something to eat and then notes that his manner of eating is just like that ...
Style:
bleak, art house, period piece
Plot:
post war, sexual repression, sexual awakening, domestic drama, character study, guilt, regret, moral dilemma, moral ambiguity, family secret, longing, intimacy ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
hungary
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Elle Spencer has devised a terrifying plan. Soon her friend, Anna Bellcroft will be released from jail, where she served time for a DUI. Anna has nothing. No family, no money, no job...BUT Elle is there for her. What Elle does not reveal, is that ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, revenge, vengeance, stepfather, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, intrigue, secret, women, plan, girlfriend, criminal's revenge ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
student, moral ambiguity, escapades, problem, lawyer, criminal, gambling, criminal underworld, mature, identity crisis, law student, obsession ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds.
Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
religion, female protagonist, miraculous event, religious faith, belief in god, faith, christian faith, religious, moral ambiguity, female exploitation, prostitution, character study ...
Time:
year 1917
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Antônio Martins, respected theatrical critic, is a very rational man. But a chance meeting with young Inês, a nude painting model, is going to rock him. Inês keeps a relationship with painter José Torres Campana, an older man with a deep ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
amputee, painting, desire, jealousy, love triangle, romantic triangle, obsession, seduction, danger, character study, moral ambiguity, adultery ...
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
31%
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