Movies like The Pillow Book

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The Pillow Book (1995)
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The Pillow Book (1995)
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: erotic, art house, sexy, surreal, enigmatic, artsy, non-linear, experimental, stylized, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nudity, art, model, obsession, male nudity, artist, book, sexuality, nude, translator, erotica, surrealism, geisha, homosexual, close up of a penis, lovers, sex, dialogue, revenge, betrayal, lgbt, writers, violent husband, publisher, sexual content ...
Time: year 1996, 10th century, middle ages
Place: japan, california, asia, hong kong, tokyo, shanghai, kyoto japan
Keyword: chinese, avant-garde, american, french, english, strawberry

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, erotic, sexual and serious films with plots about sex, couples, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, erotica, pubic hair and male nudity mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Pillow Book: The Great Beauty (2013), Delta of Venus (1995), The Night Porter (1974), A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), Tokyo Decadence (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Great Beauty (2013)
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, art house, visually stunning, stylized, visually appealing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: writer's life, stripper, art, party, artist, aging, surrealism, friendship, high society, journalist, magic realism, old age ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Delta of Venus (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A struggling American writer and a fellow American expatriate begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
Style: erotic, sexual, sexy, sensual, postmodern ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lesbian sex, sexually dissatisfied wife, erotica, nudity, art, sex, obsession, male nudity, infidelity, world war two, poetry, threesome ...
Time: 1940s
Place: paris france, england, france, europe, new york ...
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The Night Porter (1974)
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: psychological, serious, controversial, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: world war two, hotel, sadomasochism, nazi, eroticism, guilt, dangerous attraction, bdsm, haunted by the past, sexual perversion, holocaust, sexual abuse ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place: hungary, germany, vienna, italy, frankfurt germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving a car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, erotic, black comedy ...
Plot: death, obsession, amputation, surrealism, grief, car accident, zoologist, bestiality, zoo, death of wife, brother brother relationship, absurdism ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
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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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8 ? Women (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After the death of his wife, wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal and his son Storey open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" ...
Style: surreal, erotic, sexy, talky, clever ...
Plot: surrealism, sexual fantasy, nudity, erotica, lust, brothel, dialogue, bdsm, sex, death, obsession, prostitution ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: switzerland, europe, japan, geneva switzerland
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Eight and a Half (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style: art house, psychological, surreal, cerebral, black and white ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, dream, midlife crisis, stream of consciousness, memory, catholic, adultery, actress, movie business, showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, copenhagen, paris france ...
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100%
 7.1
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The Dreamers (2003)
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, disturbing, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: incest, sexuality, protest, rebellion, couples, youth, sex, love triangle, nudity, friends, brother sister incest, sexual relations ...
Time: 60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, psychological, intense, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, lust, unfaithful wife, nudity, disability, obsession, desire, older woman younger man, betrayal, sex, love triangle, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1970, year 1990 ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, sarajevo ...
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France
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: art house, dark comedy, allegory, surreal, black comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: food, cannibalism, restaurant, female nudity, surrealism, unfaithful wife, gangster, erotica, adultery, sexuality, public humiliation, revenge ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, future, 80s
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
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Young Adam (2003)
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: sexy, erotic, sexual, enigmatic, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: adultery, infidelity, murder, cuckold, rape, older woman younger man sex, libertine, couple relations, destructive relationship, boat, sex, character study ...
Time: 20th century, year 2003, 1940s, 1950s, year 1954
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Ken Park (2002)
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, art house, sexual, rough, explicit ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, sex, youth, explicit sex, strong sexual content, underage sex, incest, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, nude, nudity, teenage sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Crash (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
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: erotic, disturbing, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience: adult
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Shame (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: sexual, erotic, sexy, thought provoking, sensual ...
Audience: adult
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The Belly of an Architect (1987)
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, talky, sexual, aesthetic, experimental ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
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Style: sexy, sexual, erotic, melancholic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: forbidden love, sexuality, adultery, femme fatale, love affair, infidelity, obsession, dangerous attraction, sex, love triangle, passion, fondling ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, palm springs california, paris france, london, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.
Style: erotic, sensual, avant garde, eros, non-linear ...
Audience: adult
Plot: innocence lost, dog sex, elderly lovers, woman peeing, forbidden love, erotica, desert, sex, sexuality, age difference, passion, fetish ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 124 min.
Story: The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexual, sexy, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, sex addict, bdsm, lust, nymphomaniac, sexual perversion, explicit sex, nudity, nymphomania, sexuality, sex scene, erection ...
Time: year 2013, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
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: realistic, sincere, touching, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: painter, painting, art, artist, eroticism, husband wife relationship, couples, creative process, taxidermy, model, drawing, human nature ...
Time: year 1991
Place: provence, usa, france, los angeles, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Bitter Moon (1992)
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, breathtaking ...
Audience: adult
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Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: eastern europe, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Henry & June (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story: While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her ...
Style: sexy, sensual, controversial, erotic, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
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Time: 1930s, year 1931, year 1932, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
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, sexual, disturbing, art house, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, lust, sexuality, sex addict, explicit sex, erection, sex scene, nymphomaniac, erotica, nudity, masturbation, deviant sex ...
Time: 90s, year 2013, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Querelle (1982)
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: sexual, controversial, erotic, art house, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, murder, surrealism, lgbt, male male relationship, lgbtq, psychology, sexuality, glbt, serial killer ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.7
 12K
Savage Grace (2007)
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: disturbing, sexy, controversial, talky, emotional ...
Plot: incest, mother son incest, gay, murder, mother son relationship, adultery, sexual relations, older woman younger man, incestuous relationship, dysfunctional family, unhappy marriage, sex scene ...
Time: 1940s, year 2007, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place: europe, london, new york, spain, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.0
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Exotica (1994)
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, sexual, sensual, cerebral, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stripper, striptease, haunted by the past, public nudity, accountant, illegitimate daughter, strip club, grief, lesbianism, death of daughter, unfaithfulness, sexual content ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: san francisco, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
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, investigation, sex, satire, murder by drowning, murder mystery, coroner, mathematics, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
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: erotic, controversial, disturbing, psychological, disgusting ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: torture, sex, fascism, atrocity, sexual perversion, brutality, libertine, rape, world war two, kidnapping, sexual abuse, bdsm ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Anatomy of Hell (2004)
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: erotic, disturbing, sexy, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: oral sex, female masturbation, voyeurism, coitus, male nudity, strong sexual content, sex, female pubic hair, obsession, isolation, gays and lesbians, gay man has sex with a woman ...
Time: year 2004
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Brown Bunny (2003)
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: road movie, independent film, controversial, sexy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: road trip, sex, sex scene, real sex, unsimulated sex, prostitute, controversy, explicit sex, redemption, rape, drug addict, oral sex ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, las vegas, new hampshire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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