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The Cooler (2003)
37K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
(William H. Macy) works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin), is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected happiness when he begins dating attractive waitress Natalie Belisario (Maria Bello).
Style:
sexy, realistic, neo noir, intense, serious, offbeat, spiritual, controversial, comedy drama, independent film ...
Plot:
gambling, casino, card playing, fall in love, sex, gambler, bad luck, character study, public nudity, love and romance, down on your luck, money, blackjack, waitress, female pubic hair, debt, mafia, couples, dishonesty, con artists, voyeurism, evil, fraud, love, violence ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
las vegas, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sexy, serious and sexual films with plots about female nudity, love and romance, couples, sex, nude, love and fall in love mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Cooler: Leaving Las Vegas (1995), Indecent Proposal (1993), Closer (2004), 9½ Weeks (1986), The Center of the World (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Style:
depressing, sexual, disturbing, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, loneliness, casino, alcoholism, prostitute, alcohol abuse, prostitution, depression, self destructing, tragedy, alcoholic, medical ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, nevada
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Robert Redford stars as billionaire John Gage, who offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband (Woody Harrelson) $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife (Demi Moore).
Style:
sexy, sexual, emotional, erotic, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
adultery, sexual relations, gambling, sex, husband wife relationship, love triangle, infidelity, love story, money problems, casino, moral dilemma, cuckold ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada, los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
250K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, cynical, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
infidelity, love triangle, adultery, love affair, lovers, passion, marriage, sex, stripper, couples, photographer, desire ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, europe, new york, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
80%
47K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, sensual ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, erotica, dangerous attraction, sex scene, sexuality, bdsm, sexual relations, strong sexual content, destructive relationship, couples, masturbation, sexual desire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire, she's a lap dancer at a club. He's depressed, withdrawing from work, missing meetings with ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
sex, erotica, threesome, male female relationship, women, strip club, coitus, sexual fantasy, nude painting, erotic dance, lifestyle, destructive relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
las vegas, usa, california, iowa, nevada ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Wayne Dobie is a shy cop whose low-key demeanor has earned him the affectionate nickname "Mad Dog." After Mad Dog saves the life of Frank Milo, a crime boss and aspiring stand-up comedian, he's offered the company of an attractive ...
Style:
sweet, erotic, clever, detective, neo noir ...
Plot:
premarital sex, photograph, organized crime, making love, nudity, photographer, drinking, gangster, sex, female nudity, blonde, police ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. ...
Style:
surreal, depressing, dark comedy, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
loner, disability, paranoia, surrealism, drunken sex, psychiatry, workplace, creativity, obsession, insanity, self discovery, suicide ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, erotic drama ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
dangerous attraction, erotica, sex, sexual obsession, young lovers, sexual relations, love, love story, unfaithful wife, nudity, couples, voyeur ...
Time:
80s
Place:
southern usa, alabama
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a young couple loses all of their money at a casino, the husband performs certain "favours" in order to work the debt off, while his wife is unaware of this kinky arrangement.
Style:
sexy, realistic, erotic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
sexual favor, erotica, steamy romance, sexploitation, exploitation, casino, couples, moral dilemma, love triangle, sexual relations, gambling, infidelity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, erotic drama ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sex, infidelity, passion, adultery, waitress, photography, voyeurism, lesbianism, voyeur, erotic scene, photograph, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, year 1968, 60s
Place:
central europe, california, switzerland, soviet union, europe ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
Style:
sexy, erotic, melancholic, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
bare butt, nudity, skinny dipping, interracial relations, immigrant, regret, writers, opposites attract, love affair, writer's life, fall in love, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 1930s, 19th century
Place:
los angeles, italy, california, usa, mexico ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George ...
Style:
romantic, visually stunning, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
voyeur, gambler, stripper, femme fatale, infidelity, casino, dangerous attraction, gambling, brat pack, sex scene, trophy wife, blonde ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
Style:
romantic, touching, inspirational, erotic, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
infidelity, love, lesbian, sex scene, adultery, female nudity, female pubic hair, woman on top, sex on first date, divorce, american football, bare butt ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
oregon, portland oregon, usa, california, san francisco
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Style:
sexy, romantic drama, sensual, romantic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, summer vacation, hippie, infidelity, cheating wife, love affair, erotica, bittersweet, skinny dipping, lust, sexual attraction, extramarital affair ...
Time:
60s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1969
Place:
new york, usa, woodstock, new york state, california
Similarity:
24%
837
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
"My Normal" is the story of Natalie, a young lesbian from the Lower East Side, who's struggling to find a balance between her dreams of becoming a film maker and her lifestyle as a dominatrix. Her exotic looks and unconventional ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
lesbian, dominatrix, friendship, lesbian relationship, voyeur, lgbtq, blonde, female nudity, follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Kate, a depressed thirty-something who unsuccessfuuly attempts suicide by slitting her wrists. Reflecting briefly upon her circumstance in the hospital, she realizes that nothing has been solved, whereupon she vacates the premises, wearing nothing ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, realistic, independent film, erotic ...
Plot:
couple relations, couples, sex, porn, hopes, sexual relations, love, dancing, nude women, isolation, haunted by the past, massage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, psychological, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, depression, dysfunctional family, couple relations, lust, husband wife relationship, passion, crumbling marriage, sexual content, lovers, love story, sex ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, brooklyn new york city, florida
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A compulsive gambler plans the heist of his life - a priceless collection of art from the world-class Casino Riviera in Monte Carlo.
Style:
noir, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
casino, heist, robbery, poker, gambler, perfect crime, voyeur, one last job, prostitute, drug addiction, female nudity, gambling ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s
Place:
monte carlo, france, french riviera, europe, new york ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.
Style:
sexy, tricky, twisted, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
multiple storylines, love, incest, female nudity, trauma, hotel room, guilt, unfaithful husband, estrangement, couples, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
paris france, rome italy, europe, italy, new york ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A sexy Spanish siren named Elvira schools a young man in tantric lovemaking.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, sexual, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sleepwalking, sexual pleasure, couples, sex, love and romance, male pubic hair, fondling, coitus, strong sexual content, male nudity, love letter, training ...
Time:
turn of the century, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, touching, erotic, compassionate ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
near death experience, first sexual experience, loss of virginity, sexual activity, female nudity, disabled, male virgin, nudity, woman on top, oral sex, therapist, sexual awakening ...
Time:
year 2012, 20th century, 80s, year 1988, 70s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, boston
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual relations, lesbian, dangerous attraction, sex, husband wife relationship, one night stand, prostitute, fall in love, adultery, striptease, gynecologist, voyeur ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles ...
Style:
sexy, sincere, sensual, non-linear, psychological ...
Plot:
divorce, infidelity, sex, rape, adultery, wedding, husband wife relationship, wedding night, sex scene, relationships, orgy, voyeurism ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
france, sardinia, sicily, europe, senegal ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
erotica, sex scene, sexual pleasure, forbidden love, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, strong sexual content, voyeurism, lust, passion, femme fatale, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, latin america, new york
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, naughty, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sex, sex scene, nudity, lust, sexual relations, erotica, porn, female masturbation, hopes, waitress, strong sexual content, hot and sexy ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
mediterranean sea, spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, valencia spain ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Happily unattached, the sexually voracious Leila satisfies her desires with a host of rapidly changing bed partners, unconcerned about the emotional consequences. But that all changes when she meets an artist looking for a deeper commitment.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, erection, oral sex, lust, sexually liberated, sex, strong sexual content, sex scene, love and romance, promiscuous woman, orgasm, unsimulated sex ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
ontario canada, north america, toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Monaco
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A compulsive gambler falls in love with a bank clerk (Claude Mann) on holiday in Nice. At first, the two lovers simply use each other as good luck charms; but what happens to love when luck runs out?
Style:
sexy, sexual, technicolor, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
roulette, gambling, casino, gambler, luck, passion, blonde, con artists, bank, couples, fall in love, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
monte carlo, nice france, france, south of france, paris france ...
Similarity:
23%
43K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he's amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. His newest gig, with Samantha, an attorney whose house ...
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, erotic, teen, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
womanizer, battle of the sexes, sex, fall in love, seduction, in love, love and romance, gigolo, infidelity, party, relationships, sex scene ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009
Place:
california, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style:
independent film, terrifying, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, gay slur, sex, lgbt, sexual attraction, horniness, gay bar, nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male, masturbation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, melbourne, oceania, tokyo
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, controversial, sensual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
sex, impotent husband, obsession, world war one, nudity, master and servant, love triangle, erotica, female masturbation, dysfunctional marriage, war injury, infidelity ...
Time:
year 1981, 1910s, 80s
Place:
england, britain, france, europe
Similarity:
23%
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