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Whity (1971)
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Whity (1971)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.
Style: art house, thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
Plot: dysfunctional family, gay, sex, lgbt, butler, surrealism, gay subtext, male homosexuality, dark humor, betrayal, family relations, life is a bitch, injustice, couples, vengeance, rivalry, social differences, society, dishonesty, master and servant, destructive relationship, power relations, love, prostitute, psycho ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1870s
Place: southern usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, art house and disturbing films with plots about society, murder, life is a bitch, dishonesty, deadly, couples and gays and lesbians mostly in Drama, Western and Crime genres. Some movies like Whity: Katzelmacher (1969), In a Year with 13 Moons (1978), Querelle (1982), The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), Effi Briest (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Katzelmacher (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this unflinching German drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a group of young slackers, including the couple Erich and Marie, spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos, moves ...
Style: art house, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: racism, migration, small town, refugee, conversation, xenophobia, inn, jealousy, male female relationship, boys and girls, passive aggression, foreigner ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: greece, germany, europe, munich germany
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95%
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and ...
Style: art house, sexual, sexy, erotic, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lesbian, fashion designer, lesbian relationship, fashion, lgbtq, servant, lesbian lover, heartache, all female cast, gays and lesbians, lgbt, model ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, australia, west germany, frankfurt germany, miami ...
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87%
In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to ...
Style: disturbing, art house, philosophical, depressing, controversial ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, lgbt, gender, transgender, suicide, loser, gay, sex, identity, psychopath, social outcast, prostitution ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: frankfurt germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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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 ⇓
63%
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The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the ...
Style: art house, psychological, sad, neo noir, philosophical ...
Plot: heart attack, street vendor, family relations, alcoholism, drinking, adultery, obsession, female nudity, hospital, marriage, depression, alcoholic ...
Time: year 1972, year 1971, 20th century, 70s, 1950s
Place: munich germany, germany, bavaria, morocco
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61%
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Effi Briest (1974)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A German-made film based on one of the most famous German novels by Theodor Fontane. Effi Briest (Hanna Schygulla) is a socially ambitious, 17-year-old German girl who accepts a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a much older ...
Style: black and white, art house, postmodern, costume drama, realistic ...
Plot: literary, age difference, adultery, women, german history, summer, crazy love, countryside, infidelity, young wife, grownups, naivete ...
Time: 19th century, year 1974, 1890s, 1880s
Place: berlin germany, northern germany, europe, germany, prussia
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61%
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a ...
Style: psychological, emotional, touching, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: marriage, world war two, infidelity, wartime life, lovers reunited, rise to the top, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, danger, human nature, survival ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, post world war two, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany
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58%
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The Garden (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by ...
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: gay, life is a bitch, society, gender, injustice, christ allegory, humiliation, torture, passion, religion, art, surrealism ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Gods of the Plague (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
Style: art house, realistic, serious, offbeat, stylized ...
Plot: prison, released from prison, prostitute, betrayal, dead body, girlfriend, dying young, lack of money, nightclub owner, nightclub, bank robbery, plague ...
Time: 60s
Place: munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Man Who Came Back (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Framed for murder and left for dead, a local legend comes back to make the guilty pay as he seeks revenge on those who killed his family, in this traditional Western about one man who stood against injustice.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Plot: discrimination, post civil war, racism, injustice, righting the wronged, old west, vengeance, dishonesty, life is a bitch, prison escape, perjury, american civil war ...
Time: 19th century
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51%
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. The point, we soon ...
Style: black comedy, art house, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Plot: communist, anarchist, family relations, old woman, death of father, widow, suicide, media manipulation, working class, politics, parent child relationship, injustice ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: germany, europe, frankfurt germany, west germany
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46%
I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of the young man Peter, who grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives ...
Style: art house, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: couples, family relations, alienation, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, injustice, unfulfillment, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, unlikely criminals, human nature ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: europe, germany, munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The American Soldier (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer in Fassbinder’s subversive and experimental gangster movie.
Style: art house, neo noir, noir, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: killer, hitman, genocide, murder, soldier, suicide, hired killer, hotel room, vietnam war, master criminal, law enforcement, femme fatale ...
Place: germany, vietnam, asia, europe, munich germany
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44%
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. His wife pushes him to seek a promotion, which may be a long shot after he gives a dull and tipsy toast at an office dinner. But why would Herr Raab run amok?
Style: art house, controversial, cult classic, existential, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, uxoricide, murder, existentialism, colleague, suicide, serial killer, alienation, midlife crisis, marxism, couples, everyday life ...
Time: year 1970, 60s
Place: germany, europe
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42%
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Off Beat (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lukas (Hans Jakob Mühlethaler) is a successful hip hop star on a drug fuelled fade, much to the annoyance of his producer/lover, Mischa (Domenico Pecoraio). When Mischa opts to include Lukas' brother Sämi (Manuel Neuburger) on his latest ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: gender, rivalry, couples, ego clash, artists and showbiz, musician's life, destructive relationship, drug abuse, hip hop, gay, brother brother relationship, producer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, europe
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42%
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Blind Faith (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: in 1957 an African-American criminal lawyer (Courtney B. Vance) defends his nephew, who faces the death penalty for murdering a white boy. Charles S. Dutton, Kadeem Hardison, Garland Whitt and Lonette McKee costar in this drama of racial and social ...
Style: thought provoking, independent film, realistic, serious
Plot: gay, lgbt, law, black, eye, murder, criminal lawyer, gay slur, conspiracy, courtroom drama, police corruption, false accusation ...
Time: year 1998, 50s
Place: bronx new york city, new york, usa
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38%
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Jailbait (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Randy commits a crime that would normally get him probation and a hefty fine, but in the "three-strikes" world of justice, he finds himself locked up for 25 years. His cellmate Jake is a congenial yet remorseless lifer who casually informs ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic
Plot: prison, homosexual rape, gay, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, power relations, prison life, fighting the system, confined, going straight, murder, false accusation ...
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37%
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Painted Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story centers on the life of a bordello in a midwestern prairie town in the 1870s. The whorehouse is run by pragmatic madam Annie Ryan and the film follows the life of several of her girls.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: prostitute, old west, nudity, sex trafficking, forced prostitution, feminism, betrayal, supernatural ability, follow your dream, survival, life is a bitch, contests and competitions ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Shooter (1997)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story is of a small town in the early west and of a 'shooter' of reputation that drifts into it and stands up to the controlling family that runs it. But far from a John Wayne, this hero is caught and brutally beaten and left to die, ...
Style: independent film, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, prostitute, nudity, revenge, shootout, violent content, small town life, old west, vigilantism, lone wolves, good versus evil, hopes ...
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36%
The Wind's Fierce (1970)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This western is set in Valencia, Spain at the end of the 19th century, and stars Terence Hill as a close-mouthed gunslinger. The bad guy is the local landlord and aristocrat (Fernando Rey), who horribly abuses the laborers in his community. Written ...
Style: spaghetti western, euro western, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: anarchist, gunslinger, provincial life, conflict, rebellion, heroes, rebelliousness, society, vengeance, rivalry, family relations, hitman ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1900s
Place: spain, europe
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36%
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Cal (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love affair, life is a bitch, society, gay interest, coming of age, age difference, lgbtq, male nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Anatomy of a Hate Crime (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This MTV film dramatizes the horrific hate-crime killing of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard (Cy Carter) in Wyoming. In 1998, Shepard, a gay college student, was savagely beaten by Russell Henderson (Ian Somerhalder) and Aaron McKinney (Brendan ...
Style: disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: youth, murder, hate crime, life is a bitch, social decay, society, gay slur, gay, real life, violent content, injustice, gender ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: wyoming, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Macho Dancer (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A former American soldier becomes an exotic dancer and male prostitute in Manila.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, erotic, disturbing ...
Plot: gays and lesbians, male prostitution, lgbt, gay, glbt, police corruption, prostitute, gay subtext, male stripper, sexual abuse, teenage life, murder ...
Time: 80s
Place: the philippines, asia, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Third Generation (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released ...
Style: political, art house, black comedy, postmodern, cult classic ...
Plot: transvestism, terrorism, politics, raf, anarchist, female nudity, exodus, protest, cold war, satire, hostage, death squad ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, europe, west germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter Egermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of "Scenes From A Marriage." After Peter ...
Style: disturbing, black and white, suspense thriller, art house, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, mental illness, prostitution, death, dream, psychiatry, nordic, labor, depression, dialogue, mental disorder, art ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Servant (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A decadent London aristocrat hires a man-servant to attend to his needs. However, the balance of power starts to shift...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, sexy, surreal, thought provoking ...
Plot: servant, decadence, manipulation, master and servant, gay subtext, homosexual subtext, sadomasochism, sexual repression, lgbt, alcoholism, surrealism, obsession ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place: england, london, america, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to join.
Style: art house, neo noir, political, surreal, mind bending ...
Audience: manly
Plot: hitman, gangster, fall in love, sex, prostitute, street walker, ruthlessness, dying young, serial killer, nihilism, killer, beaten up ...
Time: 60s
Place: munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Meanest Men in the West (1974)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Bronson and Marvin star as murderous half-brothers who are running from the law as well as each other. A climatic confrontation proves to each of them just how mean the other can be. "The Meanest Men in the West" is actually an amalgam of ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: revenge, old west, family relations, farm, on the run, bounty hunter, vengeance, heroes, chases and races, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, investigation ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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White Night (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Flight attendant Won-Gyu (Won Tae-Hee) left Korea 2 years ago with painful memories and now comes back. Won-Gyu meets Tae-Joon (Lee Yi-Kyung), who is a quick service delivery man and has a special night with him.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: lgbt, male homosexuality, revenge, gay, haunted by the past, introspection, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, gender, society, gays and lesbians, gay bashing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.0
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Blood Red (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: modern western, love, modern west, gang, murder, immigrant, sexual content, conspiracy, profanity, love and romance, heroes, forbidden love ...
Time: year 1989, 19th century, 1890s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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