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Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
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Original name: Storie di ordinaria follia
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.
Style:
sexual, erotic, absurd, disturbing, controversial, neurotic, psychological, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
alcoholic, poet, insanity, addiction, arrest, ex husband ex wife relationship, prostitute, teenage life, drug abuse, artist, mental disorder, writers, art, beach, fetish, masochism, sexual content, existentialism, psychotherapy, drunkenness, binge drinking, self mutilation, suicide attempt, deadbeat dad, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and sexual films with plots about couples, female nudity, life is a bitch, nude, love and romance, lifestyle and addiction mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Tales of Ordinary Madness: Crazy Love (1987), The Pornographer (1999), Opening Night (1977), A Rage to Live (1965), Drunks (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Grace Caldwell, a young Pennsylvania newspaper heiress living with her widowed mother, has trouble restraining herself when it comes to the amorous attentions of young men. As word starts to spread about her behavior, Grace becomes a major source of ...
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sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
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marriage, love, heiress, fall in love, infidelity, singleness, looking for sex, couples, love and romance, journalism, dishonesty, nymphomania ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, ...
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realistic, talky, splatter, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot:
alcoholic, alcohol abuse, drug addiction, drugs, self discovery, redemption, drug abuse, addiction, support group, heroin, drug addict, death ...
Time:
90s
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, california, asia, mount fuji
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54%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
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Country: France
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Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Duration: 108 min.
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Audience:
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