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The Isle (2000)
16K
Original name: 섬
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love to Hyun-Shik, who is on the run for the police and rescues him with a fish hook, when he tries to commit suicide.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, brutal, erotic, sexual, bleak, harsh, controversial, cult classic, explicit ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sexualized violence, mute, prostitute, violence, brutality, violent, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, pleasure, suicide attempt, fishing, sex, runaway, lifestyle, loneliness, prostitution, boat, guilt, animal abuse, animal cruelty, existentialism, sailing, hot and sexy, sadomasochism, fish ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
south korea
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and disturbing films with plots about violence, sex, blood, obsession, murder, revenge and vengeance mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Isle: Moebius (2013), School of the Holy Beast (1974), Bad Guy (2001), Oldboy (2003), Samaritan Girl (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, psychological, erotic, serious, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
korea, asia, seoul, south korea, india
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This South Korean film takes place on an isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, melancholic, meditative, spiritual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A criminal who runs a brothel becomes obsessed with a beautiful college student. When she rejects him he sets her up by introducing her to a loan shark and when she can't pay, she is forced into working in the brothel. But when she gets the ...
Style:
sexy, bleak, psychological, erotic, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, prostitution, eroticism, obsessive love, pimp, deaf, red light district, sex worker, domination, forced prostitution, fetish, revenge ...
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south korea, seoul, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
twist ending, psychological, bleak, neo noir, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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:
erotic, captivating, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
east asia, germany, europe, south korea, korea ...
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, rough, tense, serious, art house ...
Plot:
rape, vengeance, redemption, revenge, loan shark, uncover truth, criminal heroes, long lost relative, parents and children, family reunited, family relations, merciless ...
Time:
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Place:
seoul, south korea, east asia, korea, india
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england, birmingham alabama, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
forbidden love, erotica, prostitute, prostitution, double life, obsession, sex scene, preacher, sex, sex toy, role playing, stalking ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: Taiwan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
depressing, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
korea, seoul, south korea
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, satirical, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, valencia spain
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south korea, korea, east asia, asia
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south korea, korea, asia
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Story:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexy, psychological, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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37K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
38%
61K
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, sexy, sexual, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
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Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, depressing, erotic, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
incest, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, father son relationship, rape, sex, sex with daughter, dysfunctional family, incestuous relationship, sodomy, incest rape, loneliness ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
38%
13K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, philosophical, stylized ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style:
art house, sexy, bleak, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, sadism, rape and revenge, sexualized violence, brutality, anal rape, sexual perversion, rape victim ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
depressing, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bloody ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, loneliness, butcher, revenge, incest, alienation, insanity, transgression, violent, existentialism, nihilism, extreme ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world that, for him, is filled with strange voices, electrical noise, disconcerting images, and jarringly ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, independent film, art house, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Time:
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37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Chihiro is raped by three men and it is captured on video camera. She leaves her hometown and prepares to marry a colleague five years later, when one of the rapists arrives and says the others are on their way. He behaves like her long-lost lover ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, grindhouse, cult classic, psychological ...
Plot:
rape and revenge, revenge, rape, rape victim, sexual abuse, woman in danger, haunted by the past, making love, sex, exploitation, fear, sex scene ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
37%
861
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, mind bending ...
Plot:
psychic, female nudity, erotica, strangulation, sex, voyeur, serial killer, murder, power relations, couples, college, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, lesbian, older man younger woman relationship, obsession, dangerous attraction, nymphet, teenage girl, adultery, teenage life, seduction, fatal attraction, high school ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
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1.1M
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, psychological thriller, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, scam, wealth, basement, plot twist, rich snob, driver, unemployment ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, asia, india
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Country: Sweden
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, cerebral, bloody, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south korea, australia, east asia, asia, korea ...
Similarity:
37%
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