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Gia (1998)
 6.9
 50K
Gia (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gia Carangi travels to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model. Within minutes of arriving, she meets Wilhelmina Cooper, a wise and high-powered agent who takes Gia under her wing. With Cooper's help and her own natural instincts, Gia quickly shoots to the top of the modeling world. When Cooper dies of lung cancer, however, Gia turns to drugs – and both she and her career begin to spiral out of control.
Style: psychological, melancholic, erotic, sexy, rough, sad, serious, touching, bleak, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: lesbian, fashion, addiction, aids, drug abuse, drug addiction, heroin, mental illness, model, supermodel, lesbian romance, fashion industry, lesbian love, depression, lesbianism, nightlife, biopic, female nudity, life is a bitch, lesbian sex, lgbt, lgbtq, strong sexual content, lifestyle, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york
Keyword: feminist film, doctors, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about female nudity, lgbt, sex, couples, nudity, friendship and sexual content mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Gia: Requiem for a Dream (2000), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Factory Girl (2006), Christiane F. (1981), The Basketball Diaries (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.4
 22K
Factory Girl (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a ...
Style: factual, sentimental, melancholic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: art, artist, fashion, biopic, addiction, drug addiction, painter, bare butt, drug, mentor, rise and fall, love ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 29K
Christiane F. (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, depressing, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, junkie, drug abuse, drug addict, downfall, teenage girl, drug overdose, teenager, friendship, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1981
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, europe, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style: emotional, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, junkie, drug addiction, drug overdose, teenager, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, near future, 60s
Place: new york, seattle, boston, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.2
 19K
Prozac Nation (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style: psychological, depressing, emotional, melancholic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, depression, college, university, teenage girl, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, coming of age, therapy, bipolar disorder, female nudity, mental disorder ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2010s, 90s
Place: harvard university, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.6
 11K
High Art (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.
Style: erotic, sexy, emotional, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, photography, addiction, photographer, couples, drug, sexuality, love, lesbian teen, drug addiction, art ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.0
 35K
Sid and Nancy (1986)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Following their breakout success in England, flagship punk rock band the Sex Pistols venture out on their first U.S. tour. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious takes his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, along for the ride. Along the way, the ...
Style: bloody, cult classic, disturbing, independent film, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: punk, addiction, rock and roll, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, biopic, punk rock, couples, musician, heroin addict, drug ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1986
Place: new york, london, paris france, england, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.9
 13K
Fashion (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Fashion begins in, where aspiring model Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) expresses her wish to go to Mumbai and pursue her dream of becoming a supermodel. Through her eyes we see that behind the glitz and glamour of the world of fashion not ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, entertaining ...
Plot: fashion, model, ambition, drug abuse, rise to the top, lifestyle, follow your dream, abortion, friendship, desire for fame, infidelity, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug abuse, drug use, drug addict, heroin, drug, heroin addict, life philosophy, death of pet, redemption, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Normal Heart (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the ...
Style: sad, touching, emotional, sincere, compassionate ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: aids, gay, gays and lesbians, gay slur, homosexuality, terminal illness, male homosexuality, lgbt, homosexual, life is a bitch, friendship, gay love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 2014, year 1982, year 1981 ...
Place: new york, usa, ethiopia, manhattan new york city, yale university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Aimee & Jaguar (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Berlin 1943/44 ("The Battle of Berlin"). Felice, an intelligent and courageous Jewish woman who lives under a false name, belongs to an underground organization. Lilly, a devoted mother of four, though an occasional unfaithful wife, is ...
Style: erotic, romantic, sad, historical drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, holocaust, lesbian interest, gender, woman in danger, nazi, gays and lesbians, world war two, couples, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1999, ancient times, 20th century, 1940s, year 1943 ...
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style: bleak, captivating, serious, intellectual, talky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: poet, writers, gay, obsession, youth, friendship, coming of age, sexual tension, mental illness, murder, friends, lifestyle ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1944, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place: usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 10K
Foxfire (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.
Style: teen, touching, realistic, sincere, spectacular ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, teacher, feminism, teenage girl, lesbian, girl gang, high school, youth, rebellion, lesbianism, attempted rape, sexual harassment ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, compassionate, depressing, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: aids, transsexual, fighting the system, hiv, transgender, human spirit, life is a bitch, drug, casual sex, treatment, gay slur, hiv positive ...
Time: year 2013, 80s, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: texas, usa, america, midwest, nebraska ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
House of Versace (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Based on Wall Street Journal reporter Deborah Ball’s widely-read book "House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder, and Survival", the movie brings to light the story of Donatella, who, following the brazen murder of her ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, stylized
Plot: fashion, fashion industry, family business, fashion designer, drug abuse, fashion show, workplace, life is a bitch, family relations, siblings relations, addiction, model ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 48K
Candy (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, romantic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heroin, drug abuse, addiction, junkie, drug addict, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, obsession, drug, love story, love, mental illness ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.2
 9K
Frances (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style: depressing, disturbing, compassionate, factual, psychological ...
Plot: mental illness, hollywood, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, family relations, showbiz, rise to the top, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: california, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 7.1
 13K
Bird (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, factual, stylized, realistic ...
Plot: jazz, music, biopic, drug abuse, addiction, heroin, musician's life, drug addict, character study, childhood, showbiz, musician ...
Time: 1940s, year 1988, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 1K
Let Me Fall (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Iceland, Finland, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story: When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags them both into a world of drugs, which brings serious consequences for each of them, and their relationship. Twelve years later their paths cross ...
Style: suspense, depressing, harsh, disturbing
Plot: lgbt, junkie, coming of age, drug addiction, lesbian relationship, reunited friends, unfulfillment, drug abuse, life is a bitch, human nature, obsession, self destructing ...
Place: reykjavik iceland, iceland, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 95K
Frida (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style: visually appealing, stylized, colorful, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, disability, female artist, feminism, bohemian life, lesbian, biopic, life, female protagonist ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place: mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, america, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
14%
My Summer of Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, coming of age, teenage life, gays and lesbians, women, summer, sex, countryside, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Vita & Virginia (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly ...
Style: sentimental, factual, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, polyamory, first lesbian experience, female writer, feminism, bisexual woman, female protagonist ...
Time: 1920s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 6.1
 7K
Elena Undone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The wife of a pastor who preaches against homosexuality embarks on an affair with a female writer.
Style: captivating, realistic, touching, sexual, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbianism, lesbian couple, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian mother, gays and lesbians, family problems, lesbian sex, lgbtq, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.5
 103K
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
Style: bleak, disturbing, touching, independent film, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, gender, rape, transgender, transsexual, violence, prejudice, lgbt, tragic love, small town, gay slur, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: nebraska, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Lost and Delirious (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lost and Delirious is the story of three adolescent girls' first love, their discovery of sexual passion, and their search for identities. Set in a posh, private boarding school surrounded by luxuriant, green forest, Lost and Delirious moves ...
Style: touching, sexy, psychological, depressing, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian teen, coming of age, lesbian love, sapphic, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, gender, lesbian lover, boarding school, youth, lesbian sex ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.6
 13K
Freeheld (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Style: uplifting, touching, sad, romantic, detective ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, cancer, older woman younger woman relationship, lgbtq, love, lgbtqi, equality, gay, gay bar ...
Place: new jersey, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Perfect Ending (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.
Style: touching, sexy, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, self discovery, lesbian interest, couples, lesbian couple, prostitute, first lesbian experience, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young kid from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine. He gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs, and starts a steady decline. The only hope is the cousin of one of his drinking partners, can she pull him through it ?
Style: intense, serious, realistic, bleak, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, redemption, addiction, writers, nightlife, drug, life is a bitch, starting over, supportive spouse, downfall, alcohol abuse, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, ...
Style: captivating, sexual, psychological, disturbing, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, lesbianism, feminism, gender, lesbian interest, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian friend, tomboy ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 20th century, year 2000, year 1961 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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