Movies like Gate of Flesh

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Gate of Flesh (1964)
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Gate of Flesh (1964)
Original name: 肉体の門
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandoned building we call home, and punish whomever gives away sex (who falls in love). Maya, a young woman whose family has died, joins the group. Into the mix comes Shin, a thief who's killed a G.I. The women allow him to hide while recovering from wounds, but then he won't leave. Maya is drawn to him, discovering as she falls in love that she can feel again; she's now more fully human, but at the same time, she's endangered herself and her livelihood. Can she and Shin make it out of Tokyo to establish life as a couple?
Style: erotic, sexy, grindhouse, erotic drama, tense, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, yakuza, female nudity, sex, brothel, japanese history, sexploitation, whore, bondage, rape, torture, pimp, world war two veteran, fugitive, eroticism, pink film, ex military, life is a bitch, fugitives, fall in love, chases and races, crime and punishment, down on your luck, starting over, strong female presence ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 20th century, 40s
Place: tokyo, asia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, erotic and sexual films with plots about sex, female nudity, prostitute, prostitution, life is a bitch, sex scene and nudity mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Gate of Flesh: Story of a Prostitute (1965), Tokyo Decadence (1992), Live Show (2000), The Insect Woman (1963), The Life (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Disappointed by the marriage of her lover to a woman he does not love, prostitute Harumi drifts from the city to a remote Japanese outpost in Manchuria to work in a "comfort house," or brothel, during the Sino-Japanese war. The commanding ...
Style: sex comedy, erotic, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: world war two, prostitute, prostitution, soldier, female nudity, desertion, crazy love, wartime, sex, whore, japanese history, world war ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s
Place: china, japan
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Tokyo Decadence (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Style: erotic, disturbing, tense, surreal, sexy ...
Plot: bdsm, sex, sexual relations, sexual abuse, prostitute, gangster, prostitution, true love, femdom, pink film, downfall, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji
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58%
Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: prison, murder, obsession, criminal heroes, betrayal, embezzlement, political corruption, materialism, jail, money, rape, secretary ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan
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Live Show (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Story revolves around the sad plight of the live sex performers Rolly (Paolo Rivero), Gigi (Klaudia Koronel), Rosita (Ana Capri), Sandra (Hazel Espinosa and Vio (Simon Ibarra) and what drives them to do the inexplicable.
Style: erotic, erotic drama, captivating, thrilling, sexy
Plot: female nudity, sexual content, erotic scene, sex scene, eroticism, sexploitation, sex, asian, prostitute, suicide, male prostitute, poverty ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Insect Woman (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life.
Style: freeze frame, semi documentary, cynical, biting, realistic ...
Plot: incest, breast feeding, prostitute, prostitution, incestuous relationship, forced sex, brothel, sex, buddhism, serf, japanese history, poverty ...
Time: 1910s, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, 1920s ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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The Life (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, rough, sexual ...
Plot: prostitute, sex, interview, prostitution, women, bare breasts, sex talk, female nudity, nudity, couples, actor's life, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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49%
Fruits of Passion (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A girl loves a rich and much older man and is willing to do everything he wants to show her love, but he is playing a sick game with her. As part of this game he sends her to a Chinese brothel. A poor young boy sees her and falls in love with her. ...
Style: erotic, sexy, eros, retro, sensual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, eroticism, explicit sex, dominatrix, bdsm, sex, coitus, age difference, prostitute, sex scene, surrealism, making love ...
Time: 1920s
Place: shanghai
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Dawn of the Felines (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A glimpse into the lives of three prostitutes in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo and the clients who solicit them.
Style: sincere, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: sexy woman, prostitute, loneliness, sex scene, prostitution, escort, pink film, friendship, social satire, friend, money, lifestyle ...
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Lolita's Club (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The plot follows the story of twin brothers, one is a coldhearted violent police officer, the other is a helpless romantic with a mental disability. The two brothers are tragically involved with a prostitute who works in the bordello that gives the ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: prostitute, twins, nudity, police corruption, murder, family relations, on the run, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, nightclub, brother brother relationship, teenage prostitute ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Flower & Snake II (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The beautiful Shizuko (Aya Sugimoto) and her husband Tooyama Takayoshi (Jo Shishido) have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. His primary source of gratification involves observing his wife in ...
Style: erotic, sexy, captivating, sexual
Plot: bdsm, sex, bondage, sadomasochism, domination, self flagellation, sadism, erotica, japanese woman, sensuality, exploitation, asian ...
Place: paris france
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42%
House of Tolerance (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A young woman begins a new life at the Apollonide bordello, a high-class brothel in Paris.
Style: erotic, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prostitute, brothel, prostitution, coitus, debauchery, sexual abuse, sexploitation, disfigurement, female nudity, fondling, violence against women, lust ...
Time: 2010s, 19th century, 20th century, 1910s, year 1900
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Made in Ash (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: prostitute, roommate, life is a bitch, down on your luck, sex, seamstress, nudity, innocence lost, romani people, female protagonist, exploitation, sexual content
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Style: grindhouse, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, betrayal, mafia, gang, female nudity, samurai, mafioso, battles, tough guy, humanity, japanese mafia ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place: hiroshima japan, japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: erotic, sexy, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: beverly hills, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
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Plot: sex, samurai, old age, humanity, existentialism, elderly, japanese history, female nudity, time travel, social injustice, japanese culture, magic realism ...
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Place: japan, asia
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Whore (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
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Audience: adult
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Place: los angeles, usa
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Stella Does Tricks (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.
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Plot: teenage prostitution, prostitute, women, feminist, sex scene, making love, sexual abuse, heroin addict, life is a bitch, hopes, vengeance, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: london, scotland, europe, england
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32%
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Stolen Dreams (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: teenage sex, coming of age, friends, society, lifestyle, prostitution, friendship, rivalry, poverty, teenage pregnancy, criminality, troubled youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sweet Sex and Love (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story: They meet and they make love. They live together and they make love. Dong-Ki has one night stand with Shin-Ah, a woman who has hardly any faith in true love but indulge herself in sex. Shacking up and making love with each other day in and day out, ...
Style: sexy, serious, erotic, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: strong sexual content, sex, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, couples, swing, relationships, love affair, love interest, in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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She's Lost Control (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, sexy ...
Plot: sexual relations, life turned upside down, prostitute, sex scene, women, sex, female protagonist, couples, society, sexuality, woman, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Lost Girls and Love Hotels (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Searching for escape in Tokyo's back alleys, a haunted English teacher explores love and lust with a dashing Yakuza, as their tumultuous affair takes her on a journey through the city's dive bars and three-hour love hotels.
Style: erotic, depressing, emotional, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: foreigner in japan, erotica, asian man white woman relationship, strong sexual content, sex with a stranger, sex in a hotel, female nudity, looking for sex, interracial love, identity crisis, sex, loneliness ...
Place: tokyo, japan
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
Style: bleak, disturbing, rough, intense, social ...
Plot: prostitute, rape, prostitution, transsexual, gang rape, working class, gay, labor union, fight, union, hooker, society ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Scrounger (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Style: neorealism, realistic, serious, disturbing, talky ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, poverty, unemployment, robbery, family relations, life is a bitch, italian neorealism, couple relations, dishonesty, downfall, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Bo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Fifteen year old Deborah meets Jennifer who steers her into a career as an escort. Under the alias Bo she begins a new life that she cannot handle and starts a downward spiral that only she can end.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, rough, sad ...
Plot: prostitute, teenage prostitution, downfall, destructive relationship, escort, lifestyle, teenage life, woman in danger, society, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: antwerp, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Promised Life (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sylvie is a hooker whose illegitimate daughter commits a crime. She and her daughter flee to find Sylvie's first love in the countryside. The daughter is trying to get to know her unwilling mother. Along the way, the two meet a male fugitive ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, family relations, on the run, starting over, death in the family, estrangement, family problems, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.
Style: absurd, erotic, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: university, rape, vietnam war, sex, youth, sexuality, politics, innocence lost, love and romance, society, high school life, college ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Irezumi (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In this elegant proto-feminist shocker from Yasuzo Masumuro, a woman forced into prostitution wreaks her spidery revenge. A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's back. She and her lover are ...
Style: thought provoking, masterpiece
Plot: samurai, female nudity, yakuza, femme fatale, girl, prostitution, forced prostitution, vengeance, strangulation, kidnapping, prostitute, adultery ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Flower (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hua, a young woman from Beijing, is a recent arrival in Paris. Exiled in an unknown city, she wanders between her tiny apartment and the university, drifting between former lovers and recent French acquaintances. She meets Matthieu, a young worker ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: sexual content, love affair, rape, sexual relations, destructive relationship, couples, eroticism, fish out of water, sexualized violence, sex scene, chance meeting, relationship problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Double Suicide (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 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, psychedelic, mind bending, romantic, spiritual ...
Plot: suicide, female nudity, sex, prostitution, existentialism, love letter, spirituality, prostitute, samurai, couples, power relations, rebellion ...
Time: year 1969, 18th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Beehive (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Plot: post war, struggle, female nudity, francisco franco, freedom, revolutionary, revolutionary war, conflict, lgbt, spanish history, spanish civil war, brothel ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: madrid, spain, europe
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27%
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