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The Pillow Book (1995)
14K
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies.
Style:
sexy, erotic, art house, surreal, enigmatic, non-linear, eros, experimental, stylized, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nudity, model, lovers, obsession, male nudity, art, geisha, sex, artist, book, homosexual, exhibitionist, pleasure, sexuality, nude, close up of a penis, translator, erotica, surrealism, japanese girl, revenge, betrayal, dialogue, lgbt, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 1996, 10th century, middle ages
Place:
japan, california, tokyo, asia, hong kong, shanghai, kyoto japan ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sexy, realistic, sexual and erotic films with plots about sex, female nudity, male nudity, nude, erotica, female full frontal nudity and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like The Pillow Book: The Night Porter (1974), Live Flesh (1997), The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998), Drowning by Numbers (1988), In the Realm of the Senses (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In this unsettling drama from Italian filmmaker Liliana Cavani, a concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, sexual, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sex, nazi, hotel, eroticism, sexual perversion, guilt, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexuality, public nudity, holocaust ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, post world war two, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
hungary, vienna, germany, frankfurt germany, italy ...
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100%
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:
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 ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An ironic black comedy of love and death that takes place an a lyrically beautiful landscape. Three related women, all named Cissie Colpitts share a solidarity for one another which brings about three copy-cat drownings. The local coroner is in love ...
Style:
surreal, black comedy, dark comedy, art house, humorous ...
Plot:
surrealism, drowning, friendship, murder, sex, investigation, satire, murder by drowning, murder mystery, dysfunctional marriage, mathematics, coroner ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.
Style:
sexy, controversial, erotic, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, passion, jealousy, sex, lust, bdsm, sexual relations, sexual perversion, sensuality, sexuality, asian sex ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two, year 1976, 20th century, year 1936
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, tokyo, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, erotic drama, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
incest, sexuality, protest, sexual relations, sex, nudity, youth, couples, love triangle, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, sex scene ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, visually stunning, breathtaking, art house ...
Audience:
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Plot:
stripper, writer's life, party, high society, passion, female nudity, friendship, artist, aging, surrealism, skinny dipping, male nudity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Netherlands
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but ...
Style:
sexy, black comedy, art house, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
food, cannibalism, brutality, restaurant, taboo sex, violence, sex, gangster, adultery, public humiliation, surrealism, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s, future
Place:
britain
Similarity:
46%
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216K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life ...
Style:
sexual, erotic, sexy, psychological, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, sex, sex addict, sexuality, nudity, sexual relations, sex scene, sexual dysfunction, male nudity, masturbation, lifestyle, fetish ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Style:
erotic, sexual, sexy, enigmatic, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drifter, adultery, sexualized violence, infidelity, boat, naked man, destructive relationship, couple relations, unfaithfulness, sex, sexual content, murder ...
Time:
20th century, year 2003, 1940s, year 1954, 1950s ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland
Similarity:
45%
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:
45%
72K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, hospital, erotica, obsession, sex, lust, car accident, sexual perversion, sex scene, female nudity, husband wife relationship, deviant sex ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
los angeles, canada
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Style:
art house, sexual, talky, aesthetic, experimental ...
Plot:
architect, artist, cancer, art, male nudity, dialogue, infidelity, obsession, painting, painter, melancholy, tragedy ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, postmodern ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male nudity, sexually dissatisfied wife, erotica, nudity, art, obsession, temptation, world war two, infidelity, lesbian sex, poetry, threesome ...
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1940s
Place:
paris france, england, france, europe, new york ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bdsm, sex, sexual perversion, sex addict, sexuality, nymphomaniac, explicit sex, lust, sexual relations, nudity, sex scene, erection ...
Time:
year 2013, 20th century, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
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43%
16K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. The last part depicts the ...
Style:
surreal, serious, atmospheric, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot:
suicide, homoeroticism, art, rebellion, friendship, nationalism, writers, emperor, radical, writer's life, state affairs, tragic hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 60s, post world war two
Place:
japan, kyoto japan, mount fuji, tokyo
Similarity:
43%
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:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexual, sexy, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, sexuality, lust, sex addict, explicit sex, sexual relations, erection, nymphomaniac, sexual exploration, sexual perversion, erotica, sex scene ...
Time:
90s, year 2013, 80s, 20th century, 2010s ...
Similarity:
43%
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22K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, sexual, sexy, cerebral ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
striptease, stripper, sex, lesbianism, temptation, lesbian sex, grief, illegitimate daughter, unfaithfulness, accountant, sexual content, public nudity ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
san francisco, toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
43%
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:
43%
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:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, erotic, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, gay, sexual relations, sex scene, adultery, crimes of passion, mother son relationship, son, older woman younger man, murder, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
london, europe, new york, spain, peru ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot. For one thing he grows fascinated by the story. For another he is ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, psychological, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, femme fatale, infidelity, sexual perversion, writers, husband wife relationship, male nudity, fatal attraction, destructive relationship, couples, passionate interest, bdsm ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
eastern europe, europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 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, sexy, surreal, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
bdsm, sex, sexual relations, true love, prostitute, gangster, femdom, violent, sex toy, lesbian sex, female nudity, call girl ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji, california
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Nina, an art dealer, has her weekly massage appointment and is surprised to find out her usual masseur, Douglas, has sent a replacement named Fitch. The pair develop an easy rapport during the session, with talk about past relationships. As Nina ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
massage, erotica, female nudity, sex, love and romance, starting over, lifestyle, lovers reunited, skinny dipping, masseur, dishonesty, femme fatale ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Here is the story of a beautiful, proud and tough loner, a sailor named Querelle, whose commanding officer Seblon worships and desires him from afar. Querelle turns on his drugs-smuggling partner and murders him. He then goes to a notorious brothel ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, controversial, art house, erotic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, lgbtq, surrealism, gays and lesbians, lgbt, murder, male male relationship, male homosexuality, glbt, sexuality, psychology ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, erotic drama ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sex, infidelity, passion, adultery, waitress, photography, voyeurism, lesbianism, voyeur, erotic scene, photograph, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, year 1968, 60s
Place:
central europe, california, switzerland, soviet union, europe ...
Similarity:
42%
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:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The first episode – featuring frequent Borowczyk muse Marina Pierro – is the longest and, in a way, most substantial: it’s set in Renaissance Rome, with the lusty (and perpetually nude) leading lady sexually involved with famous painters and ...
Style:
sexy, eros, sensual, sexual, erotic ...
Plot:
bestiality, male nudity, dog sex, perversion, ancient history, erotica, beastiality, voyeur, male pubic hair, fetish, intercourse, sexual intercourse ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
europe, france, rome italy
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944 ...
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
Similarity:
42%
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