Movies like Japan
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Japan (2002)
4K
Original name: Japón
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old religious woman. Although only a few words are spoken, love grows.
Style:
erotic, meditative, art house, melancholic, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, slow cinema, spiritual, controversial ...
Plot:
rocky mountains, solitude, depression, suicide, life philosophy, runaway, older woman younger man sex, village, artist, sex, desert, sex scene, painting, suicide attempt, sexual relations, widow, farm, beautiful scenery, sexual desire, love of one's life, painter, death, surrealism, drinking, mountain ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city, argentina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and art house films with plots about nude, sex, female nudity, couples, male female relationship, husband wife relationship and male nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Japan: The Brown Bunny (2003), Silent Light (2007), The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998), Post Tenebras Lux (2012), Battle in Heaven (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true ...
Style:
controversial, road movie, sexy, independent film, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
sex scene, longing, road trip, controversy, sex, prostitute, unsimulated sex, drug addict, rape, redemption, explicit sex, lovers apart ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, las vegas, new hampshire ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, erotic, slow cinema, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, passionate kiss, making love, fall in love, farmer, redemption, moral dilemma, religion, couples, regret, sin, human nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
Style:
sensual, erotic, sexual, avant garde, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dog sex, innocence lost, woman urinating, sex, fetish, passion, woman peeing, sexuality, desert, erotica, male female relationship, elderly lovers ...
Time:
1950s, year 1999, 20th century, 50s, stone age
Place:
africa, tunisia, england, kenya, london ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, cerebral, experimental ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
male nudity, female nudity, sex therapy, dream, countryside, family life, family relations, society, swinger couple, couples, hopes, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america
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45%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss's daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
extramarital affair, nudity, infidelity, husband wife relationship, kidnapped girl, redemption, erotica, teenage sex, attraction, desire, real sex, kidnapping ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico city, mexico
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
In this modern retelling of the Virgin birth, Mary is a student who plays basketball and works at her father's petrol station; Joseph is an earnest dropout who drives a cab. The angel Gabriel must school Joseph to accept Mary's pregnancy, ...
Style:
controversial, erotic, disturbing, art house, psychedelic ...
Plot:
female nudity, basketball, female athlete, gas station, childbirth, virgin, sex, controversy, female pubic hair, jesus, passionate kiss, car ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
switzerland
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
Story:
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he ...
Style:
erotic, sincere, atmospheric, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painting, painter, artist, art, eroticism, husband wife relationship, couples, couple relations, creative process, taxidermy, drawing, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1991
Place:
provence, france, usa, los angeles, south of france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, realistic, sensual, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
longing, sex, couple relations, couples, sexual perversion, strong sexual content, suburbs, sexual relations, surrealism, husband wife relationship, erotica, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
vienna, austria
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use ...
Style:
erotic, talky, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot:
self discovery, christmas, writers, desert, friendship, supermarket, life philosophy, road trip, friends, couple relations, best friend, twentysomething life ...
Time:
year 2002, 90s
Place:
scotland, spain, ibiza, europe, united kingdom
Similarity:
39%
28K
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Style:
controversial, black and white, surreal, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
religion, satire, dark humor, catholic, passion, rape, morality, voyeurism, idealism, nun, loser, sexual deviant ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place:
spain, madrid, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Style:
sexy, road movie, erotic, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, sexuality, sex, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, age difference, friendship between men, on the road, threesome, male friendship, gay ...
Time:
year 2001, near future, year 2002, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, mexico city, acapulco mexico ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.
Style:
art house, atmospheric, contemplative, slow cinema, retro ...
Plot:
suicide, stepbrother stepsister relationship, death, arranged marriage, melancholy, self discovery, drinking, memory, sea, loss of husband, widow, water ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
japan, europe, venice, asia, italy ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, sincere, sexual ...
Plot:
betrayal, jealousy, infidelity, dysfunctional family, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, couples, family problems, clergy, countryside ...
Time:
year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, lust, sex, nudity, desire, erotica, unfaithful wife, rape, older woman younger man, disability, obsession, strong sexual content ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, sarajevo ...
Similarity:
39%
14K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style:
art house, black and white, depressing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
child abuse, coming of age, suicide, adolescence, minimalism, betrayal, sexual abuse, solitude, existentialism, children, poacher, humiliation ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, japan, tokyo, paris france
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. He has heart problems, seeks a transplant, and then goes in search of a son sired years before in Tahiti. Told elliptically, with few words, we see ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
angel of death, female nudity, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, family problems, estrangement, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, going straight, redemption, transplant ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
tahiti, europe, france, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. ...
Style:
art house, cerebral, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
nightmare, depression, isolation, self pity, animal cruelty, suicide, guilt, female nudity, psychology, dialogue, insanity, nordic ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
38%
13K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style:
independent film, intense, art house, black and white, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sex, divorce, prostitute, feminism, feminist, drinking, male nudity, depression, marriage, extramarital affair, cheating ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young men.
Style:
erotic, sexy, serious, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
sexual relations, making love, lust, older woman younger man relationship, tourist, looking for love, lifestyle, unfulfillment, love and romance, sex scene, age-gap relationship, drug use ...
Time:
year 2005, 70s, 20th century
Place:
haiti, caribbean, africa, savannah georgia, boston
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style:
bleak, intense, atmospheric, apocalyptic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, boy, hopes, sex scene, dysfunctional society, survival, chaos, danger, social differences, life is a bitch, countryside ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 2000s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Drama while a tour bus driver shows church ladies around Mexico. Helped establish Puerto Vallarta as tourist destination.
Style:
black and white, sexual, talky, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
priest, church, mental illness, hotel, iguana, clergy, redemption, baptist, bishop, tour guide, self discovery, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
mexico, usa, virginia, tennessee, latin america ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
kurd, countryside, small town, village, fish out of water, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, politics, village life, death, existentialism ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, year 1999
Place:
iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia, asia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen ...
Style:
sexual, art house, black and white, disturbing, cerebral ...
Plot:
existentialism, surrealism, nihilism, sister sister relationship, religion, lesbian incest, dysfunctional family, female masturbation, translator, war zone, room, sibling rivalry ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
europe, tokyo
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A man rescues a woman from a suicide attempt in a gay nightclub. Walking the streets together, she propositions him: She'll pay him to visit her at her isolated house for four consecutive nights. There he will silently watch her. He's ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, sexual, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
sex, strong sexual content, voyeurism, coitus, female masturbation, female nudity, transgression, oral sex, female pubic hair, exhibitionism, gays and lesbians, obsession ...
Time:
year 2004, turn of the century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
38%
32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his ...
Style:
disturbing, sexual, sexy, art house, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, sex, strong sexual content, explicit sex, underage sex, older woman younger man relationship, youth, incest, teenage sex, nudity, suicide, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, australia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, sexy ...
Plot:
fall in love, adultery, couples, friendship, human nature, artists and showbiz, love and romance, husband wife relationship, jealousy, friendship between men, affair, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy, paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of a famous old sculptor, weary of life and the folly of men, who finds, thanks to the arrival of a Spanish girl escaped from a refugee camp, the desire to return to work and sculpt your final work in occupied France in 1943. Model and ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, touching, light, melancholic ...
Plot:
art, skinny dipping, artist, painter, muse, model, world war two, sculptor, inspiration, sculpture, female nudity, young girl ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Divided into chapters, the film first chronicles Hemel's many sexual conquests, but then takes on a different tone as it explores her complicated relationship with her father, Gijs. A dapper auctioneer, Gijs has dated a series of younger women ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, atmospheric, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual relations, forbidden sex, woman urinating, female nudity, couple relations, sex with multiple partners, female sexuality, violent sex, rape, father daughter relationship, parents and children, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
38%
16K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style:
road movie, thought provoking, disturbing, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
homeless, solitude, freeze to death, homelessness, death, drifter, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, feminist, wine ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, depressing, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
religion, existentialism, suicide, priest, winter, faith, midlife crisis, darkness, philosophy, spirituality, great ending, art ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
37%
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