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Steaming (1985)
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Steaming (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Steaming is the final film directed by Joseph Losey. It was adapted from Nell Dunn's play by Patricia Losey and Nell Dunn. It is about three women who meet regularly in a steam room and decide to fight its closure.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, talky, sexual, independent film, sexy
Plot: friendship, nudity, friends, feminism, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, singleness, best friend, couples, single parent, strong female presence, gender, female nudity, mother daughter relationship, massage, gym, overweight woman, tantrum, friend, skinny dipping, sex talk, turkish bath, all female cast, battered wife ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: england, europe

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Most similar movies to Steaming

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about couples, family relations, friends, friendship, love and romance, parents and children and unfulfillment mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Steaming: A Doll's House (1973), Hysterical Blindness (2002), Steam (2007), Frailer (2014), Me Without You (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Doll's House (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A childish wife reveals surprising strength when faced with blackmail. A modern version of Ibsen's play.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, talky, tense ...
Plot: women's rights, friendship, friends, couple relations, crumbling marriage, introspection, unfulfillment, hopes, feminism, society, unsupportive spouse, gender ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe
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95%
Hysterical Blindness (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style: psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, working class, loneliness, character study, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, usa
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80%
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Steam (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations.
Style: serious, talky, touching, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: sauna, widow, introspection, female friendship, life is a bitch, human spirit, self discovery, love and romance, elderly, hopes, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Frailer (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: best friend, friends, friendship, strong female presence, terminal illness, siblings relations, unfulfillment, family relations, resistance
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Me Without You (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, teen ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: friendship, coming of age, teenage life, siblings relations, human nature, youth, couple relations, love and romance, family relations, teenager, women, life ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: london, england, brighton, europe
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61%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Sofie (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story: From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, religions or cults, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, fall in love, society, love and romance, introspection ...
Time: year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Between Two Women (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother ...
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, period piece ...
Plot: lesbian, forbidden love, love affair, female friendship, family relations, couples, fall in love, society, feminism, friendship, working class, homecoming ...
Time: 1950s
Place: britain, europe, england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Everyday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Plans for Tomorrow (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Three stories intertwined which occur in a single day. The day Ines discovers she is pregnant, Antonia decides to abandon her family and Marian realizes she is going to die.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: pregnancy, friendship, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, introspection, singleness, woman in danger, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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53%
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Sonja (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Sonja is struggling to deal with her parent separation, and find her feelings for her best friend might not just be a phase.
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, sexy, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: coming of age, lesbian, friendship, love and romance, family relations, youth, friends, couples, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, best friend, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Hussy (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Beaty, a prostitute, and Emory, a lighting/sound technician, fall in love while working at the same London cabaret, but their relationship isn't easy.
Style: anime, independent film, realistic, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, stripper, murder, female pubic hair, eroticism, gangster, immigrant, nudity, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Good Father (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bill Hooper -- bitter after a messy divorce -- tries to help a friend gain custody of his child any way he can.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: battle of the sexes, family relations, family problems, breakup, courtroom drama, legal action, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, custody battle, father son relationship, divorce ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
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50%
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Lotus Eaters (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Story follows a group of young Londoners as they struggle to find meaning in their lives while masking their discontent with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll.
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized
Plot: love and romance, best friend, thirtysomething life, sexual relations, friends, unfulfillment, city life, couples, twentysomething life, artists and showbiz, group, drugs/alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, british columbia, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Heartbreakers (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Best friends Eli and Blue, both at a crossroads in their professional lives, find their friendship put to the test when they become preoccupied with the same woman
Style: independent film, realistic, serious
Audience: adult
Plot: german history, extreme, gay interest, nudity, profanity, sexual content, friendship, love and romance, betrayal, friends, thirtysomething life, couples ...
Time: 60s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Solitary Fragments (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, sincere, aesthetic ...
Plot: loneliness, self discovery, family relations, hopes, human nature, parents and children, terminal illness, loss of mother, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, loss of child, nudity ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Amazing Women by the Sea (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the early 1960s, Bella, her husband Kajus and their young son, Thomas, spend seemingly endless holidays together. Next year the arrival of new neighbors, Rosa and Gabe and their two daughters, start changing their lives.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching, sentimental
Audience: girls' night
Plot: couples, friends, family relations, friendship, parents and children, feminism, gender, couple relations, strong female presence, husband, yacht, jazz ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Twenty-One (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Katie is a free spirited independently minded 21-year-old. The film follows her as she reflects on the men in her life. Along the way we meet her drug addict boyfriend Bobby, her lover Jack, close friend Baldy, and her father.
Style: manga, independent film, semi serious, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: nudity, violent content, infidelity, twentysomething life, love affair, parents and children, sexual relations, strong sexual content, self discovery, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: england, london, new york
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43%
Something Like Happiness (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: mental illness, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, eccentric family, love and romance, single parent, working class, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
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42%
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The Adopted (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lisa and Marine live a life of relative companionship together, where the only man permitted into the equation is Lisa’s young son, Leo. However, their simple existence is thrown into disarray when Marie meets and falls in love with Alex, a ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere, indie film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: family problems, love and romance, single parent, parents and children, family relations, haunted by the past, sister sister relationship, bookstore, woman, psychology, relationships, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, lyon, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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2 Friends (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two girls, at 15; Louise, in a prestigious girls' high school, and Kelly, who was admitted but forbidden by her father to attend. This is the end of their friendship, and from here the film progresses in a backwards time line to a final freeze ...
Style: non-linear, realistic, serious, surreal, emotional
Plot: friendship, female friendship, female bonding, feminist, family relations, best friend, boarding school, friends, couples, parents and children, school, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Little Soldier (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A soldier returning from war is hired by her own father to drive his prostitutes around town. She calls upon herself to help one of them.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: prostitute, haunted by the past, friendship, life is a bitch, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, injustice, family problems, human spirit, feminism, military ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Fraulein (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ruža left Serbia, her country, over 30 years ago and lives in Zurich. Her daily life is a string of repetitive moments until, one day, Ana arrives on the scene and upsets Ruža's painstakingly organized world. A subtle friendship develops ...
Style: emotional, psychological, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, self discovery, longing, friends, immigrant, society, job seeking, secret, female nudity, sex scene, cafeteria, integration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, serbia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Butterfly Kiss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, society, couples, introspection, suburbs, suburban life, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Just Between Friends (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Holly and Sandy strike up an instant friendship; they don't know however that they have more in common than they'd like. When tragedy strikes, their relationship is tested.
Style: independent film, talky, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: pregnancy, friendship, thirtysomething life, couples, friends, family problems, feminism, dealing with death, gender, journalism, crumbling marriage, human nature ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Second Generation (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An explosive two-part drama about love, family and identity - set around the tangled relationships of two Indian families with a deep-rooted, shared history.
Style: contemplative, realistic, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, family life, parents and children, greed, forbidden love, love and romance, couples, family problems, family in crisis, lovers reunited, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Taste of Honey (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Focuses on a working class girl who is struggling to create a life for herself with her gay co-worker after becoming pregnant from a one-night stand with a black sailor.
Style: independent film, black and white, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot: kitchen sink realism, coming of age, working class, social realism, interracial relations, friendship, single parent, family relations, single mother, dysfunctional family, mother, social injustice ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Locket (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.
Style: sentimental, uplifting, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot: retirement home, hopes, friendship, investigation, family relations, love affair, betrayal, nursing, elderly, human spirit, love and romance, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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