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Hideous Kinky (1998)
7K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
Style:
road movie, atmospheric, emotional, serious, realistic, cult classic, gloomy, crying, independent film, erotic ...
Plot:
lovers, single mother, child abuse, hippie, male female relationship, islam, road trip, nightmare, culture clash, sister, self discovery, thief, poverty, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, family relations, adolescence, love and romance, single parent, celebrity culture, parents and children, cons and scams, women, travel, wanderlust ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 70s
Place:
morocco, africa, london, england, europe
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Most similar movies to Hideous Kinky
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sexy films with plots about love and romance, family relations, youth, love, coming of age, male female relationship and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like Hideous Kinky: Jude (1996), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Exiles (2004), The Blue Lagoon (1980), Gas, Food Lodging (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves ...
Style:
period piece, erotic, romantic, depressing, bleak ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love, unhappy marriage, scarecrow, family affairs, victorian england, sex scene, sex, social injustice, power of love, making love, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, year 1996, turn of the century, 1890s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, ancient greece, australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
An American couple (John Malkovich, Debra Winger) drift toward emptiness in postwar North Africa.
Style:
sexy, road movie, erotic, scenic, visually appealing ...
Plot:
travel, sahara desert, desert, traveler, infidelity, passion, husband wife relationship, on the road, existentialism, beautiful scenery, heat wave, illicit affair ...
Time:
1940s, 80s
Place:
africa, morocco, north africa, new york, sahara
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Music
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
One day Zano suggest a crazy idea to his companion Naïma: travel across France and Spain down to Algeria, where they might ultimately come to know the land their parents once had to flee.
Style:
road movie, captivating, realistic, serious, epic ...
Plot:
hopes, self discovery, homecoming, on the road, exile, infidelity, love and romance, couple relations, introspection, couples, dishonesty, social relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
spain, morocco, paris france, france, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Fiji, Jamaica
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline (Brooke Shields) and Richard ...
Style:
romantic, sexual, erotic, sexy, sensual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
island, stranded, love and romance, shipwreck, young love, beautiful scenery, coming of age, teenage love, survival, desert island, youth, fall in love ...
Time:
victorian era, turn of the century, 1890s, 19th century, year 1980 ...
Place:
fictional island, pacific ocean, san francisco
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, touching, retro, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, waitress, small town, single mother, desert, women, adolescence, mother daughter relationship, love, friendship, food, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
new mexico, usa, argentina, mexico
Similarity:
66%
210K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time:
50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place:
france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A recently widowed woman on the road with her precocious young son is determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot:
single mother, waitress, widow, on the road, diner, road trip, single parent, self discovery, relationships, friendship, mother, children ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
phoenix arizona, california, arizona, tucson arizona, monterey california ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father's house.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
female nudity, coming of age, love, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, family relations, unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, parent child relationship, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In early 19th century Wales, Catherine Morgan, a widow with two daughters, must endure the bumpy road to a distant market in order to sell her cattle to save her farm and family.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
cattle, colonel, family relations, dealing with death, rise and fall, hopes, single parent, self discovery, survival, folk hero, love and romance, human spirit ...
Time:
georgian era, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
wales, england
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
impossible love, father son relationship, teenage boy, interracial relations, mountain, desert, conflict, prostitute, defiant, parents and children, self discovery, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, africa
Similarity:
64%
244
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
sisters, family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, self discovery, obsessive quest, single parent, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, lyon, europe, france
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Everything is shared in the squat, but not everyone is able to honor these ideals. Karo gets confused ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, emotional, eros ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
commune, hippie commune, hedgehog, youth, coming of age, political protest, hippie, children, girl, family relations, free love, moral dilemma ...
Time:
70s, year 1974
Place:
holland, europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, crying, retro, anthology ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
female nudity, infidelity, bare breasts, dysfunctional family, looking for sex, extramarital affair, coming of age, promiscuous daughter, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, nudity, domestic abuse ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Style:
road movie, realistic, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
self discovery, unlikely couple, starting over, haunted by the past, on the road, adolescence vs adulthood, youth, couple relations, unlikely partners, crumbling marriage, social misfits, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, southern usa, usa, louisiana
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Style:
road movie, disturbing, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, teenage girl, first love, misfit, teenage boy, supermarket, van, sex scene, on the road, adolescence, naked in public, motel ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2017, 90s
Place:
oklahoma city, kansas city, america, oklahoma, nebraska ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A worldly French teen (Judith Godrèche) is determined to escape from her current situation for a better life.
Style:
sexual, serious, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, female nudity, teenage girl, 17 year old, strong female lead, couples, family relations, destructive relationship, lifestyle, love and romance, youth, human nature ...
Time:
80s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, male nudity, death, teenager, skinny dipping, strained relationship, police officer, father son relationship, family relations, ira, politics, rural area ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
ireland, europe, tokyo, japan
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, sexual, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
pregnancy, single parent, working class, society, breakup, love and romance, youth, moral dilemma, starting over, parents and children, family life, family problems ...
Time:
80s, 1930s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Veteran French director Agnes Varda's Le Petit Amour is based on a short story by actress/songstress Jane Birkin. Birkin herself plays the main character, a loving but lonely 40-year-old divorcee. Her life is brightened a bit by the presence of ...
Style:
art house, aesthetic, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
age difference, forbidden love, coming of age, male female relationship, older woman teenage boy relationship, mother, woman peeing, amor, new love, women, erotic art, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, london
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
buddies, coming of age, obsession, love and romance, best friend, teenage life, teenage love, older woman younger man relationship, fascism, male female relationship, friends, youth ...
Time:
70s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Catholic-Irish farm girl Kate, along with her gregarious best friend Baba, moves to Dublin to pursue a more exciting life.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, kitchen sink realism, older man younger woman romance, coming of age, male female relationship, bookstore, sexual initiation, family disapproval, shyness, roommate, first love ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, britain, europe, london ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style:
romantic, costume drama, feel good, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
love story, love, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, sisters, fall in love, love affair, social differences, rich and poor, true love, village life ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 90s, regency period, 1810s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, seattle
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, first love, first sexual experience, love and romance, youth, family relations, hopes, village, parents and children, teenager, age difference, teenage sex ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
holland
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
unrequited love, obsession, bittersweet, forbidden love, love, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, farm, male female relationship, post war, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe, italy
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating ...
Style:
sad, historical drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, interfaith relationship, anti semitism, couples, death of lover, conquering, family relations, bittersweet, opposites attract, life is a bitch, love and romance, society ...
Time:
edwardian era, year 1999, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
wales, england
Similarity:
60%
11K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to be come a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside the school. Her advertisement is ...
Style:
romantic, costume drama, period piece, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
happy ending, nobility, orphan, love triangle, fall in love, power relations, family relations, love and romance, haunted by the past, rich and poor, parents and children, love affair ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, year 1996, victorian era, 18th century
Place:
england, europe, britain
Similarity:
60%
678
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through ...
Style:
road movie, touching, atmospheric, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
desert, couples, elderly, on the road, last wish, self discovery, love affair, hopes, crumbling marriage, redemption, society, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, wales, argentina, europe, latin america ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, touching, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
obsession, possessiveness, child abuse, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, parents and children, life is a bitch, single parent, family relations, family problems, teenage life, babies and infants ...
Time:
year 2005
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once ...
Style:
touching, scenic, period piece, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couples, hotel, travel, self discovery, female protagonist, country estate, piano, passion, male nudity, nude bathing, happy ending, comedy of manners ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, year 1985 ...
Place:
italy, england, europe, florence, britain ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, multicultural ...
Plot:
actor's life, desire for fame, rise to the top, ambition, theater, youth, teachers and students, celebrity culture, showbiz, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, backstage ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
london, england, europe, palestine
Similarity:
60%
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