Movies like Birdcage Inn

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Birdcage Inn (1998)
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Birdcage Inn (1998)
Original name: 파란대문
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: With a red-light district in Seoul being demolished, the residents there find they have to relocate. Jin-a opts to leave Seoul and heads to the eastern city of Pohang. There she takes up residence in a boarding house run by a small family. Besides the parents, there is a daughter attending university and a son in high school. At first Jin-a is very happy there, however she continues to sell her body driving her into confrontation with the repressed daughter, Hye-mi. Things go from bad to worse when Jin-a meets Hye-mi's boyfriend.
Style: sad, avant garde
Plot: lesbian, prostitution, prostitute, gays and lesbians, sensuality, melancholy, social injustice, female homosexuality, unrequited love, teenager, gay, rape, fight, police officer, violence, friendship, female nudity, sex scene, rapist, beach, doctor, house, jealousy, family relations, sexualized violence ...
Place: south korea, seoul
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, crying, disturbing and serious films with plots about female nudity, bare chested male, male nudity, barefoot male, undressing, sex scene and male objectification mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Birdcage Inn: Samaritan Girl (2004), The Cleaner (2015), We (2018), The Burning Snail (1996), White Whore (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Samaritan Girl (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. ...
Style: captivating, touching, serious, realistic, erotic ...
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Place: korea, east asia, europe, germany, south korea
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The Cleaner (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 94 min.
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We (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between ...
Style: erotic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex scene, sensuality, open relationship, nudism, female exhibitionist, nudity, orgy, nudist, sex orgy, exhibitionist, group sex, mother daughter conflict ...
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The Burning Snail (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up in an inescapable spiral of increasingly self-destructive and deadly violence.
Style: gaming
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White Whore (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Pinku from 1974.
Style: naughty
Plot: incest, masturbation, erotica, female nudity, rape, voyeurism, prostitute, seduction, sex scene, sexual fantasy, erotic fantasy, exhibitionism ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
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Beauty and the Beast (1977)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story: Decameron-style collection of entertaining short stories with such diverse themes as nymphomania, bestiality, and masochism.
Style: anthology, erotic, psychotronic, sex comedy, crying ...
Plot: bestiality, high school student, father daughter incest, dog sex, teenage sexuality, exhibitionist, older man younger woman sex, female exhibitionist, nymphomania, reading the bible, public nudity, sadomasochism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, period piece
Audience: teen drama
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Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: rome italy
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Crocodile (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Crocodile is a 1996 South Korean film. It was the directorial debut of Ki-duk Kim and stars Cho Jae-hyun as "Crocodile".The film tells the story of a man living at the edge of the Han River in Seoul, who saves a woman trying to commit ...
Style: depressing, realistic, serious, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: monster, suicide, performer's life, life is a bitch, misfit, betrayal, mute or deaf, friends, friendship, male nudity, street kid, woman ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
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Audience: teens
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Duration: 89 min.
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Style: disturbing, sexy, bleak, harsh, cult classic ...
Audience: girls' night
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