Movies like The Sessions

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The Sessions (2012)
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The Sessions (2012)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Green (Helen Hunt) to lose his virginity.
Style: touching, sexy, compassionate, erotic, humorous, sentimental, feel good, sincere, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: disability, first sexual experience, near death experience, loss of virginity, sexual activity, male virgin, sexuality, female nudity, virginity, sexual awakening, erotica, oral sex, woman on top, nudity, priest, therapist, misfit, life changing experience, hopes, masturbation, orgasm, ejaculation, male pubic hair, disabled, relationships ...
Time: year 2012, 80s, 20th century, year 1988, 70s
Place: california, san francisco, usa, boston
Keyword: doctors, reading, jewish, challenge

Most similar movies to The Sessions

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, sexy and erotic films with plots about sex, kiss, female nudity, love and romance, love, couples and nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Sessions: As Good as It Gets (1997), Secretary (2002), The Waterdance (1992), Spread (2009), The Late Bloomer (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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As Good as It Gets (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will ...
Style: feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, mental illness, writers, neighbor, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, gay, gender, looking for love, age difference, waitress, misanthrope ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: disability, hospital, human spirit, nurse, paralysis, courage, coma, patient, life turned upside down, writers, bittersweet, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place: france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 6.9
 98K
Secretary (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: bdsm, sex scene, obsession, secretary, fetish, workplace romance, sexual perversion, sex in office, submissive woman, desire, sexual relations, coitus ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
The Waterdance (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, talky, psychological ...
Plot: disability, friendship, paraplegic, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human spirit, society, hopes, human nature, physical disability, male nudity ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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Spread (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, Nikki is homeless, car-less and closing in on 30, but he's amoral, good-looking, and adept in the sack, moving from one wealthy woman of 35 or 40 to another, a kept boy-toy. His newest gig, with Samantha, an attorney whose house ...
Style: sexy, erotic, romantic, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: womanizer, fall in love, seduction, sex, infidelity, relationships, manipulation, gigolo, party, battle of the sexes, love and romance, in love ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009
Place: california, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The Late Bloomer (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A sex therapist goes through puberty after the successful removal of a benign tumor resting against his pituitary gland. He experiences all the changes and effects of puberty over a three-week period.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sex comedy, touching, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: puberty, coming of age, love, sex therapist, youth, orgasm, fish out of water, disorder, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Sleeping with Other People (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither ...
Style: light, sexy, funny, sex comedy, teen ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: relationships, sex, infidelity, womanizer, love, friendship, obsession, college, unlikely friendships, friends, dating, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, france, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 6.9
 35K
The Cooler (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: (William H. Macy) works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin), is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie ...
Style: sexy, realistic, intense, neo noir, serious ...
Plot: gambling, casino, card playing, bad luck, fall in love, love and romance, down on your luck, strong sexual content, debt, mafia, couples, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three generations of a French family open up about their sexual experiences and desires after young Romain is caught masturbating in his biology class.
Style: sex comedy, erotic, sexual, talky, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loss of virginity, strong sexual content, youth, teenage boy, nudity, sexual relations, masturbation, family life, first sex, sexuality, sexual frustration, explicit sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. ...
Style: feel good, sexy, funny, romantic, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: breakup, vacation, love and romance, resort, nudity, male nudity, surfing, friendship, female nudity, sex, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, betrayal ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, los angeles, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Last American Virgin (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
Style: sexual, sexy, touching, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, teenager, friendship, sex, high school, prostitute, sex scene, looking for sex, contests and competitions, teenage love, adolescence, unlikely friendships ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 7.4
 223K
Garden State (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sweet, independent film, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: depression, self discovery, coming of age, funeral, melancholy, friendship, psychiatrist, cat, family relations, drug, dysfunctional family, small town ...
Time: year 2004, near future, medieval times, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.2
 43K
Lovelace (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Style: sexual, stylized, erotic, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: porn actress, sexual abuse, nudity, porn star, porn industry, sex, rough sex, female nudity, orgasm, sex toy, rape, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1970, year 2002
Place: usa, miami, new york, malibu california, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.5
 246K
Don Jon (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
Style: sexy, sexual, humorous, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: sex, masturbation, sex addict, sexuality, nightclub, older woman younger man relationship, womanizer, obsession, male masturbation, husband wife relationship, love, addiction ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Style: dark comedy, stylized, melancholic, disturbing, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: sex, college, virginity, drug, drug abuse, youth, lesbian, suicide, virgin, gay, love triangle, party ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, italy, dublin ireland, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Love & Other Drugs (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Maggie, an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sexual, emotional, funny ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: love, sex, love story, womanizer, couple relations, sexual relations, parkinson's disease, nudity, doctor, casual sex, workplace situations, destiny ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1996 ...
Place: usa, pittsburgh, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.2
 19K
Prozac Nation (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style: psychological, depressing, emotional, melancholic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, depression, college, university, teenage girl, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, coming of age, therapy, bipolar disorder, female nudity, mental disorder ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2010s, 90s
Place: harvard university, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.4
 35K
Shortbus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of New Yorkers caught up in their milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn social/artistic/sexual salon "Shortbus", loosely ...
Style: sexual, erotic, art house, sex comedy, sensual ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: sex, gay, nudity, explicit sex, group sex, gays and lesbians, masturbation, male nudity, sexuality, homosexual, real sex, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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50/50 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Style: touching, sentimental, tragicomedy, depressing, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, friendship, chemotherapy, relationships, weed, meaning of life, doctor, patient, coming of age, best friend, life ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, iran, washington state, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 7.1
 51K
Kinsey (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endeavor soon takes on an intensely personal relevance, ultimately becoming an unexpected journey into ...
Style: sexual, controversial, talky, erotic, factual ...
Plot: gay, sexuality, professor, lgbt, scientist, male nudity, homosexual, psychology, research, nudity, gay interest, homosexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 2000s, year 2004 ...
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Oh in Ohio (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Priscilla and Jack appear to be the perfect couple, but they have a secret: She is sexually frustrated. They separate in the hope of resolving the situation. While Jack moves into a bachelor pad and begins an affair with a student, Priscilla ...
Style: light, stylized, sex comedy, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: orgasm, infidelity, depression, sexual dysfunction, adultery, high school, fall in love, love triangle, female masturbation, age difference, lesbian cunnilingus, love ...
Time: year 2006
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of questionable family. So Veronica's mother, Paola, teaches her to become a courtesan, one of the ...
Style: romantic, sexual, period piece, witty, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: beauty, courtesan, medieval, forbidden love, prostitute, prostitution, love and romance, couple relations, social differences, rich and poor, society, love story ...
Time: 16th century, victorian era, ancient times, year 1998
Place: italy, venice, europe, turkey, cyprus ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.8
 122K
Patch Adams (1998)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own ...
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, uplifting, compassionate ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, kids, teen drama
Plot: medical school, human spirit, hospital, compassion, medical profession, doctor, doctors and patients, friendship, dealing with death, mad scientist, stereotypes, medical ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 90s, year 1998, year 1969 ...
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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 6.8
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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 ⇓
88%
 7.1
 25K
Breathe (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Style: sad, touching, compassionate, factual, inspirational ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: disability, illness, supportive spouse, paralysis, marriage, love, husband wife relationship, euthanasia, hospital, biopic, adaptation, quadriplegic ...
Time: 50s, year 2017, year 1971, year 1958, year 1960 ...
Place: africa, england, spain, germany, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Kids Are All Right (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers' backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting ...
Style: touching, independent film, sexy, witty, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lesbian relationship, gender, lgbt, lesbian love, gay, biological father, infidelity, father son relationship, adultery, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, southern california, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hannah is a recent college graduate interning at a Chicago production company. She is crushing on two writers at work, Matt and Paul, who share an office and keep her entertained. Will a relationship with one of them disrupt the delicate balance of ...
Style: mumblecore, realistic, sentimental, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: friendship, looking for love, college graduate, female nudity, female pubic hair, college, love triangle, human nature, lifestyle, introspection, couples, thirtysomething life ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 7.8
 79K
My Left Foot (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style: touching, inspirational, sincere, unusual plot structure, dramatic ...
Plot: disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, handicapped, paralysis, medical, painter, art, poet ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: ireland, england, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
I Am a Sex Addict (2005)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Just moments before his third wedding, Zahedi relates with utter sincerity and astonishing candor his obsession with prostitutes. He retraces his romantic and sexual history, including his ideological commitment to open relationships, that led to ...
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex addict, eroticism, addiction, illegal prostitution, massage parlor, ecstasy the drug, marriage, prostitution, free love, obsession, prostitute, sexual relations ...
Time: year 1984, year 1987
Place: san francisco, los angeles, amsterdam, new york, munich germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Young People Fucking (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: On a Tuesday night, five couples have separate sexual adventures. Matt and Kris, friends for years, want to have an only-once, no-strings good time. Abby and Andrew, married, celebrate his birthday, but it's marred by angst and ...
Style: sex comedy, humorous, erotic, teen sex comedy, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: sex, roommate, sexuality, sex scene, erotica, casual sex, sexual relations, looking for sex, buddies, lifestyle, couple relations, opposites attract ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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