Movies like Sade

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Sade (2000)
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Sade (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, sexy, sexual, melancholic, sensual, tense, erotic, independent film ...
Plot: debauchery, fetish, teenage girl, female masturbation, female nudity, sadomasochism, sexual relations, infidelity, french revolution, sexual exploration, murder, couples, couple relations, voyeur, voyeurism, nudity, rebellion, rebelliousness, writers, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship, immorality, jealousy, masturbation ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s
Place: france, paris france
Keyword: french

Most similar movies to Sade

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, period drama and stylized films with plots about female nudity, sex, nudity, biopic, love and romance, male female relationship and infidelity mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like Sade: Of Freaks and Men (1998), Fruits of Passion (1981), Fellini's Casanova (1976), Henry & June (1990), Danton (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Marquis de Sade (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the notorious Marquis de Sade. In 18th century Paris, an innocent beauty's search for her missing sister leads her into the deadly sensuous realm of the infamous Marquis de Sade. Imprisoned for his sordid crimes, the ...
Plot: sex, deviant sex, fetish, loveless marriage, perversion, prostitute, torture, virgin, debauchery, infidelity, prisoner, missing person ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s
Place: france
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100%
Of Freaks and Men (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
Style: serious, captivating, disturbing, sexual, sex comedy ...
Plot: depravity, female nudity, voyeurism, obsession, corporal punishment, porn, freak, society, manipulation, sexual perversion, sexual harassment, submissive woman ...
Time: year 1998, victorian era, 19th century, 1900s, turn of the century
Place: russia, soviet union, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Fellini's Casanova (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?
Style: surreal, erotic, art house, visual, cerebral ...
Plot: womanizer, casanova, sex, voyeurism, biopic, looking for sex, italian neorealism, passion, clergy, decadence, renaissance, sleaze ...
Time: 18th century, year 1976
Place: italy, europe, venice, france, england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Austria, Luxembourg
Duration: 110 min.
Story: At the beginning of the 20th Century Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him - his sister and ...
Style: serious, captivating, touching, realistic, art house ...
Plot: painter, art, art history, biopic, love, trial, model, death of brother, terminal illness, art exhibition, money problems, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 1910s, year 1918
Place: vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
Plot: sexuality, writers, open relationship, lesbian sex, love triangle, sex, lesbian, affair, sexual promiscuity, unfaithful wife, adultery, extramarital affair ...
Time: 1930s, year 1931, year 1932, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.4
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Danton (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. ...
Style: political, epic, talky, historically accurate, historical drama ...
Plot: french revolution, revolution, french history, biopic, politics, revolutionary, colonialism, idealism, execution, terrorism, political unrest, world history ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1983, ancient times, 1780s ...
Place: paris france, france, poland, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.4
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Queen Margot (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 161 min.
Story: The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the ...
Style: period piece, sexy, epic, visually appealing, historical drama ...
Plot: royalty, french history, renaissance, medieval, religion, sex, female nudity, queen, male nudity, catholic church, politics, political intrigue ...
Time: middle ages, 16th century, year 1994, ancient times, medieval times
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Libertine (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Style: period piece, costume drama, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: writers, libertine, decadence, poet, infidelity, oral sex, biopic, alcoholic, depression, dysfunctional marriage, sexual attraction, lust ...
Time: 17th century, year 2004, ancient times, year 2006, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Children of the Century (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: True tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century, novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset. But their affair falls apart during an excursion to Venice, Italy where Musset is distracted by drugs and ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, captivating, sexy, visually stunning ...
Plot: sex, love affair, writers, lifestyle, destructive relationship, love and romance, sexuality, obsessive love, forbidden love, poet, female writer, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1830s
Place: paris france, italy, venice, france, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Augustine (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set in Belle Époque France, the story follows nineteen-year-old "hysteria" patient Augustine, the star of Professor Charcot's experiments in hypnosis, as she transitions from object of study to object of desire.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, sincere, tense ...
Plot: mental illness, obsession, doctors and patients, hospital, sexual content, hypnosis, epilepsy, illness, medicine, girl, scientist, psychoanalyst ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, France, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Style: costume drama, period piece, visual, melancholic, visually stunning ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: queen, french revolution, historical character, princess, french history, royal family, royal court, aristocracy, decadence, biopic, fashion, royalty ...
Time: 18th century, year 2006, victorian era, ancient times, georgian era ...
Place: france, versailles, europe, austria, vienna ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He's living with his much younger wife Leocadia and their daughter Rosario. He ...
Style: surreal, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: biopic, artist, art, painter, art history, painting, storytelling, napoleonic wars, exile, artwork, famous, ancient ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, georgian era, year 1999, ancient times ...
Place: spain, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Painted Fire (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The struggles of an artist. Jang Seung-up (1843-1897), also called Owon, focusing on the years 1882 to 1897, when Korea was in political upheaval, caught between China and Japan, the conservative dynasty dying, and peasant revolt at hand. Jang, born ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot: painter, artist, biopic, art, politics, painting, ambition, human spirit, actor's life, hopes, rise to the top, power relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 1870s, 1860s, 1890s ...
Place: korea, japan, asia, seoul, china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
Style: costume drama, period piece, factual, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: countess, politics, conspiracy, royal family, revenge, justice, police investigation, nobility, french revolution, royalty, couples, love and romance ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, ancient times, year 2001, 1780s ...
Place: france, paris france, versailles, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
 4K
Mad Love (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain, Italy, Portugal, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The love story who transformed Juana I de Castilla, Queen of Spain, into Juana "The mad". The tragic fate of a Queen madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
Style: melancholic, costume drama, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Plot: betrayal, obsession, royal family, intrigue, infidelity, love and romance, politics, tragic hero, royalty, state affairs, society, rivalry ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, ancient times, 15th century
Place: spain, austria, europe, flanders, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Curiosa (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Loüys and Marie de Régnier
Style: sexy, atmospheric, erotic, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: erotica, strong sexual content, bohemian life, cheating wife, adultery, love and romance, cuckold, nudity, female nudity, horny wife, love triangle, sexual tension ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place: paris france, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
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Goya's Ghosts (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.
Style: period piece, intense, factual, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: rape, artist, art, spanish history, prison, prostitute, painter, biopic, spanish inquisition, life is a bitch, lifestyle, painting ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, regency period, 19th century, year 2006 ...
Place: spain, persia, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless ...
Style: dramatic, costume drama, historical drama, romantic drama, political ...
Plot: slavery, biopic, president, interracial romance, revolution, u.s. president, french revolution, american revolution, politics, african american, slave, ambassador ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, ancient times, 1780s
Place: france, paris france, versailles, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Klimt (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Style: thought provoking, stylized, visual, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, biopic, female pubic hair, art history, obsession, prodigy, sexual relations, ambition, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, turn of the century, year 1900 ...
Place: austria, france, paris france, europe, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Anton Chekhov 1890 (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: literature, writers, writer's life, biopic, tuberculosis, family relations, couple relations, obsession, life is a bitch, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, convict ...
Time: 19th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.4
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The Key (1983)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After twenty years of marriage, art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him as well. This sets off ...
Style: erotic, sexy, realistic, sensual, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: exhibitionism, cuckold, sexploitation, erotica, infidelity, sexual tension, voyeurism, porn, obsessive love, desire, voyeur, older man younger woman marriage ...
Time: 80s, 1940s
Place: europe, italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.1
 910
Another Way (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia's husband, ...
Style: historical drama, political, captivating, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbianism, gay, female bonding, infidelity, hospital, politics, female nudity, biopic ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: europe, hungary, budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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That Night in Varennes (1982)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 150 min.
Story: In June of 1791, a group of passengers in a stagecoach find themselves caught up in the events of the French Revolution, when they find themselves in the city of Varennes when revolutionists arrest the fleeing King Louis.
Style: historical drama, road movie, costume drama, realistic, serious ...
Plot: french revolution, king of france, revolution, teenage prostitute, older man young girl relationship, female nudity, writers, escape attempt, aristocracy, time machine, revolutionary, napoleonic wars ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1982, 1790s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.4
 881
Pandemonium (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Set in England during the early 19th century, Pandaemonium evokes late-1960s America in its depiction of the relationship between Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Linus Roach) and William Wordsworth (John Hannah). Instead of going to Vietnam, Wordsworth ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating, costume drama ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, politics, addiction, drug abuse, prodigy, lifestyle, rise and fall, writer's life, tragic hero, tragic love, idealism ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 1800s, 1790s
Place: france, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.0
 14K
Valmont (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as ...
Style: stylized, period piece, sensual, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: betrayal, virginity, seduction, manipulation, infidelity, virgin, tragedy, hypocrisy, couple relations, wager, love triangle, love ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Elegant Criminal (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, stylized, bleak, serious ...
Plot: murder, gay subtext, biopic, criminal heroes, rise and fall, legal, confined, society, death row, gay interest, breaking the fourth wall, guillotine ...
Time: 19th century, 1830s
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.5
 50K
A Royal Affair (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
Style: period piece, costume drama, realistic, stylized, factual ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: royal family, queen, love affair, love triangle, adultery, political intrigue, aristocracy, coup d'etat, royalty, royal court, infidelity, king ...
Time: 18th century, year 2012, ancient times, victorian era, georgian era ...
Place: denmark, europe, england, scandinavia, copenhagen ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a little rebellion ...
Style: anthology, historical drama, realistic, serious, weird ...
Plot: royalty, royal family, female nudity, libertine, french royalty, time machine, french history, time travel, french revolution, scandal, prisoner, priest ...
Time: 18th century, year 1975
Place: france, versailles, europe, spain, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Lover (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, lolita, interracial romance, lust, sex with a minor, nymphet, love affair, loss of virginity, erotica, asian man white woman relationship ...
Time: 1920s, ancient times, year 1992, 20th century, year 1929
Place: vietnam, indochina, southeast asia, china, saigon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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