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The Sessions (2012)
45K
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:
sexy, sentimental, touching, erotic, compassionate, sincere, humorous, feel good, eros, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
first sexual experience, near death experience, loss of virginity, sexual activity, female nudity, disabled, male virgin, nudity, oral sex, woman on top, therapist, fetish, sexual awakening, sexuality, virginity, hopes, erotica, orgasm, marriage proposal, male pubic hair, priest, disability, misfit, life changing experience, relationships ...
Time:
year 2012, 80s, 20th century, year 1988, 70s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, boston
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sexy, erotic and melancholic films with plots about female nudity, sex, nude, kiss, relationships, love and romance and male nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Sessions: The Waterdance (1992), 50/50 (2011), I Am a Sex Addict (2005), Secretary (2002), Spread (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
inspirational, psychological, breathtaking, sincere, depressing ...
Plot:
disability, hospital, paralysis, death, coma, stroke, memory, writers, courage, patient, mute or deaf, communication problem ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place:
france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, 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:
emotional, touching, talky, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
friendship, disability, paraplegic, sex scene, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human nature, society, hopes, human spirit, physical disability ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
santa monica california
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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, inspirational, tragicomedy, independent film, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
cancer, friendship, terminal illness, happy ending, relationships, chemotherapy, meaning of life, doctor, hopes, buddies, patient, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2011, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington state, iran, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
erotic, semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex addict, eroticism, addiction, massage parlor, sexual relations, ecstasy the drug, free love, marriage, obsession, love and romance, couples, sex ...
Time:
year 1984, year 1987
Place:
paris france, austin texas, italy, munich germany, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
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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:
erotic, sexy, sexual, psychological, sex comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
bdsm, sexual perversion, workplace romance, sadomasochism, obsession, sex scene, fetish, secretary, masochism, masochist, sexual relations, power relations ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
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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, sex comedy, erotic, teen, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
womanizer, battle of the sexes, sex, fall in love, seduction, in love, love and romance, gigolo, infidelity, party, relationships, sex scene ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009
Place:
california, los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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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:
sexy, sexual, erotic, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, sex, teenager, high school, sex scene, older woman younger man, prostitute, young lovers, looking for sex, contests and competitions, teenage love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
46%
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:
sexy, teen, sex comedy, clever, light ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
womanizer, sex, relationships, infidelity, couples, friendship, obsession, friends to lovers, dating, friends, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, france, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Vietnam
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, psychological, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, sex, lolita, lovers, lust, interracial romance, love affair, sex with a minor, nymphet, asian man white woman relationship ...
Time:
1920s, ancient times, 20th century, year 1929, year 1992 ...
Place:
vietnam, indochina, southeast asia, china, saigon ...
Similarity:
45%
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:
sexy, dark comedy, stylized, teen, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
college, sex, suicide, virginity, violence, drug abuse, lesbian, party, virgin, nudity, youth, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new hampshire, italy, paris france, dublin ireland, europe ...
Similarity:
45%
44K
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, sexy, erotic, erotic drama, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, porn actress, redemption, sex, nudity, husband wife relationship, porn star, female nudity, orgasm, porn industry, skinny dipping, prostitution ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1970
Place:
usa, miami, new york, malibu california, florida ...
Similarity:
45%
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, sexy, sexual, period piece, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
beauty, courtesan, forbidden love, prostitute, medieval, prostitution, love and romance, couple relations, sex, love story, social differences, rich and poor ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, victorian era, year 1998
Place:
venice, italy, europe, turkey, cyprus ...
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45%
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, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, family outing
Plot:
dog, mental illness, neighbor, friendship, writers, gender, artist, love story, depression, gay, single mother, waitress ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1997
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, maryland, baltimore ...
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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, sexy, erotic, erotic drama, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loss of virginity, sexuality, strong sexual content, youth, sexual relations, nudity, family life, teenage boy, teenage life, first sex, caught masturbating, masturbation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
44%
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:
sexy, touching, sexual, independent film, witty ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
lesbian, gender, coming of age, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, glbt, lgbt, sapphic, family relations, biological father, lesbian couple ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, buenos aires argentina, southern california, california
Similarity:
44%
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:
depressing, psychological, sexy, teen, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, depression, coming of age, college, teenage girl, suicide attempt, university, therapy, female nudity, borderline personality disorder, drug, adolescence ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 2001, 90s, 2000s
Place:
harvard university, austin texas
Similarity:
44%
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, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
female pubic hair, friendship, sexual attraction, female nudity, college graduate, looking for love, love triangle, college, lifestyle, introspection, human nature, couples ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
44%
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:
sexy, feel good, sex comedy, funny, rom com ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
breakup, vacation, love and romance, resort, sex scene, sarcasm, rock star, nothing goes right, surfing, one night stand, friendship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, los angeles, oceania, usa
Similarity:
44%
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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, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
infidelity, orgasm, depression, sexual dysfunction, adultery, fall in love, high school, female masturbation, age difference, couples, unfaithfulness, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
ohio, cleveland ohio, usa
Similarity:
44%
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, neo noir, intense, serious ...
Plot:
gambling, casino, card playing, fall in love, sex, gambler, bad luck, character study, public nudity, love and romance, down on your luck, female pubic hair ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
44%
40K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Style:
sexy, psychological, semi serious, independent film, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, personal assistant, fall in love, depression, musician, starting over, self fulfillment, misfit, mental illness, mentally unstable, love and romance, buddies ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
44%
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:
sexy, humorous, erotic, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
sex, roommate, sexuality, sex scene, erotica, sexual relations, relationships, lifestyle, buddies, couple relations, opposites attract, looking for sex ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A man and woman meet and try to have a romantic affair, despite their personal problems and the interference of their disapproving friends.
Style:
romantic, talky, sentimental, romantic comedy, retro ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
male nudity, love, sex, friendship, high school, dating, new year's eve, bittersweet, nudity, young lovers, thanksgiving, yuppie ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
44%
37K
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, explicit, erotic, sexy, sensual ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
sex, gay, lgbtq, group sex, lgbtqi, male nudity, glbt, explicit sex, orgy, swinger, sexual intercourse, gender ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
Similarity:
44%
47K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, sensual ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, erotica, dangerous attraction, sex scene, sexuality, bdsm, sexual relations, strong sexual content, destructive relationship, couples, masturbation, sexual desire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
43%
52K
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:
sexy, sexual, controversial, talky, psychological ...
Plot:
scientist, gay, lgbt, sexuality, lgbtq, gay interest, sexology, research, sex scene, psychology, nudity, college ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, 1940s, 2000s, y2k ...
Place:
indiana, usa
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
Style:
sexy, sincere, suspenseful, enigmatic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, age difference, obsession, teacher student sex, male teacher female student affair, couples, infidelity, love and romance, male female relationship, hospital, love story, hedonism ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Follows the tale of a young woman’s sexual awakening and subsequent journey around the world in pursuit of her ideal lover. Encounters include an Arabian sheik and a Spanish bullfighter. Her friend and butler accompany her and help to arrange her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, grindhouse, sex comedy ...
Plot:
sex scene, bullfighter, lust, erotica, loss of virginity, virgin, orgasm, impotence, blonde, coming of age, american abroad, seduction ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
spain, europe, north africa, morocco
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, naughty, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sex, sex scene, nudity, lust, sexual relations, erotica, porn, female masturbation, hopes, waitress, strong sexual content, hot and sexy ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
mediterranean sea, spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, valencia spain ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, Frankie develops an attraction for Cora's friend and fellow waitress ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, light, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cafe, true love, waitress, restaurant, male female relationship, love, dating, loneliness, happiness, love story, ex convict, food ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
Similarity:
43%
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