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Lola (1981)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
Style:
art house, tense, realistic, stylized, sexual, neo noir, clever, serious, witty, gloomy ...
Plot:
nymph, prostitution, brothel, sex, prostitute, cabaret singer, crazy love, capitalism, cabaret, femme fatale, small town, female nudity, bourgeoisie, nubile, seductive, world war two, musician, slut, corruption, call girl, girl, post war germany, showgirl, street walker, mistress ...
Time:
year 1981, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 1930s, 1920s
Place:
germany, west germany, bavaria, europe, berlin germany
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Most similar movies to Lola
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and sexual films with plots about love and romance, couples, female nudity, infidelity, fall in love, couple relations and society mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like Lola: The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Eva (1962), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Lili Marleen (1981), The Sea Is Watching (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thought provoking, touching, surreal ...
Plot:
marriage, world war two, female nudity, wartime life, lovers reunited, infidelity, rise to the top, couples, life is a bitch, battle of the sexes, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 1950s, year 1979, 20th century ...
Place:
berlin germany, europe, germany, west germany, canada
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95%
2K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's ...
Style:
noir, neo noir, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
novelist, femme fatale, music and dance, girl, lust, writers, sex, couples, nudity, seductress, sexual obsession, golddigger ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
venice, rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic ...
Style:
art house, political, atmospheric, stylized, emotional ...
Plot:
racism, culture clash, female nudity, relationships, older woman younger man relationship, loneliness, working class, old woman, impossible love, forbidden love, male nudity, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place:
west germany, munich germany, germany, europe, central europe ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lili Marleen is the story of a German singer named Wilkie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert who’s family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Roberts family is skeptical of Walkie thinking she ...
Style:
stylized, clever, witty, art house, romantic drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nazi germany, nazi, wartime, women, world war, wartime life, world war two, dictatorship, nazism, dictator, forbidden love, love ...
Time:
1940s, year 1981, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe, zurich switzerland, munich germany ...
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60%
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Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on Akira Kurosawa's final unproduced script, this Edo-period drama takes place almost entirely inside an ocean-village brothel. O-Shin is a young brothel worker who one night helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
samurai, hopes, friendship, prostitute, couple relations, looking for love, fall in love, couples, village, unfulfilled love, village life, prostitution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, art house, erotic, lgbt cinema ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, lesbian lover, lesbian relationship, mother daughter relationship, mannequin, servant, possessiveness, heartache, fashion, lesbian interest, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
west germany, australia, frankfurt germany, miami, zurich switzerland ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
countryside, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, haunted by the past, farm, flashback, rural setting, happy ending, sexual content, pimp ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the ...
Style:
black and white, art house, stylized, neo noir, psychological ...
Plot:
addiction, existentialism, morphine, loneliness, reporter, intoxication, overdose, suicide, actress, psychic, frustration, blonde ...
Time:
1950s, year 1982, 80s, 70s, 50s ...
Place:
munich germany, germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
46%
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8K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, anthology, sexual, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, sexuality, love affair, erotic scene, social differences, society, lovers reunited, psychiatrist, erotica, lifestyle, obsession, infidelity ...
Time:
1950s, year 2004, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
china, asia, hong kong, italy
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
true love, renaissance, forbidden love, love, erotica, betrayal, estate, love triangle, crumbling marriage, femme fatale, dishonesty, master and servant ...
Time:
19th century, year 1989
Place:
eastern europe, russia, germany, europe, venice
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A handyman in a 1940s Paris brothel tries to help the prostitute he loves with her singing career and romantic life.
Style:
sexual, serious, realistic, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
prostitute, fall in love, wartime life, couples, prostitution, teenage sex, erotica, world war two, black market, love and romance, card playing, singing competition ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
nudity, making love, infidelity, sexual attraction, seductive, sex scene, adultery, biopic, couples, gays and lesbians, journalism, destructive relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Blue is a teenage girl who lives with her Jazz playing father Ham. Ham gets very sick and dies, and now Blue must support herself somehow. Elle, the headmistress at a brothel, talks her into living and working at her establishment. She decides to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
sacramento california
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Style:
art house, contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
world war one, sex, prostitute, soldier, infidelity, bittersweet, dishonesty, love and romance, unfulfillment, assassination, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean ...
Style:
romantic drama, costume drama, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
couples, male pubic hair, hotel, dancing, prison, theft, performer's life, dishonesty, lifestyle, couple relations, womanizer, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, year 1981
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden, Italy, Germany, Finland, Norway
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, lyrical, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, betrayal, fall in love, parenthood, custody, love affair, family problems, destructive relationship, crumbling marriage, rivalry, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, denmark, tokyo
Similarity:
41%
327
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On a night of April 1957, Albertine, a brillant and rebel 19-year-old girl, jumps from the wall of the prison where she’s serving a sentence for a holdup. In her fall, a bone from her ankle breaks: the astragal. She is rescued by Julien, a justice ...
Style:
stylized, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot:
fall in love, prostitute, on the run, life is a bitch, love and romance, chases and races, false identity, fake identity, arrest, hiding, sex, beauty ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1957, year 1958
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary.
Style:
erotic, sex comedy, bleak, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
black man white woman sex, world war two, making love, black man white woman relationship, interracial love relationship, interracial romance, wartime, black, sex scene, racism, interracial relations, society ...
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
39%
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:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Bahamas, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Spanish actor Jose Antonio Ceinos stars as a down-and-out sculptor, whose inspiration returns with the strange appearance of a beautiful, mysterious black muse.
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, sensual, sexy ...
Plot:
nude black woman, voyeur, love and romance, erotica, bare breasts, sex scene, bisexual woman, female nudity, prostitute, brothel, kept woman, orgy ...
Time:
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Place:
bahamas, paris france
Similarity:
38%
360
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1945 Spain a young man with Nazi contacts fell in love with a left wing family woman.
Style:
stylized, sentimental, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
nazism, love triangle, dangerous attraction, love affair, state affairs, dishonesty, political unrest, society, love and romance, couples, infidelity, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
europe, spain, madrid
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Style:
erotic, metafiction, neo noir, independent film, cult classic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, gender bending, espionage, transsexual, cross dressing, opera, culture clash, gender, relationships, betrayal, making love, transvestism ...
Time:
60s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
china, europe, asia, france, paris france ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A blinded French sculptor completes a statue of a friend's daughter by using his sense of touch.
Style:
sexy, sensual, erotic, controversial, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, sex, teenage girl, lolita, may december romance, erotica, nudity, nude model, teenage sexuality, ballet, teenage sex, female nudity ...
Place:
france, french riviera, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
This erotically charged drama from Japanese director Ryuichi Hiroki (Vibrator) traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.
Style:
sexy, sexual, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
prostitution, wench, couple relations, love and romance, couples, workplace, workplace situations, sexual relations, asian, harlot, supermarket, chick ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, underdog, love affair, moral dilemma, couples, ambition, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations, boxing, femme fatale, rivalry ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
sydney australia, australia
Similarity:
37%
22K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forbidden love, adultery, love affair, sex, obsession, infidelity, sexuality, dangerous attraction, femme fatale, passion, sex scene, love triangle ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, palm springs california, paris france, london, brussels ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, ...
Style:
surreal, mind bending, romantic, psychedelic, spiritual ...
Plot:
impossible love, female nudity, passion, doomed love, samurai sword, street walker, nude girl, call girl, sex, existentialism, prostitution, love letter ...
Time:
year 1969, 18th century
Place:
japan, asia, osaka japan
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A British Columbia teenager dreams of show business but winds up as a call girl in Las Vegas.
Style:
sexual, erotic, sensual, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, interracial romance, interracial marriage, female nudity, showgirl, interracial relations, nudity, couples, small town, infidelity, love triangle, chorus girl ...
Time:
60s
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, british columbia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style:
stylized, realistic, captivating, sentimental, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
filmmaking, hollywood, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, loneliness, literary, bare breasts ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, 70s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
36%
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