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Mendy (2003)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mendy is a young Brookyln Hasid who leaves the strict rules of his insular and repressive community to join his childhood friend, Yankel, who is living securlary in Manhattan. Mendy's struggle to integrate his faith and traditions with the modern world are influenced by his growing friendship with Bianca, Yankel's free spirited Brazilian roommate.
Plot:
jewish, judaism, dancing, female nudity, belief in god, male nudity, friendship between men, orthodox jew, childhood friend, roommate, brazilian, kiss, prayer, apartment, short haired female, dance
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, touching, sincere and serious films with plots about female nudity, male nudity, jewish, judaism, nude, orthodox jew and dancing mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Mendy: Minyan (2020), Menashe (2017), For Ladies Only (1981), Proxy (2015), The Holy Office (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In rapidly changing New York of the 1980s, a Russian Jewish teenager wrestles with his identity, faith, and sexuality, all of which seem irreconcilable until he befriends two closeted men in his grandfather's senior housing complex.
Style:
touching, sincere, disturbing, erotic, gay cinema ...
Plot:
gay, judaism, gay love, gay romance, gay sex, jewish, gay interest, male nudity, lgbtq, teenage boy, gay relationship, gay couple ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son.
Plot:
orthodox jew, jewish, single father, society, widower, father son relationship, fatherhood, parent child relationship, faith, boss, little boy, supermarket ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man from Iowa comes to New York hoping to make it as an actor. However, he doesn't get a break and is almost out of money. So another actor who moonlights as a stripper encourages him to try it out. Eventually, he becomes the headliner ...
Plot:
naked man, age-gap relationship, male stripper, gay, nude, acting teacher, dancing, audition, agent, friendship between men, dancer, male nudity ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual ...
Plot:
female nudity, male nudity, sex scene
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The long arm of the Inquisition, or the "Holy Office," reached at least as far as 16th-century Mexico (known as New Spain at the time). Many Spanish Catholics of Moorish or Jewish origin found it expedient to flee to the New World to ...
Plot:
judaism, catholic, intrigue, spanish inquisition, religious persecution, inquisition, sex scene, female nudity, jewish, prison, rape, fear ...
Time:
16th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
muslim, israeli, female friendship, student, friendship, university, young woman, dating, drugs, drug use, roommate, single woman ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, tel aviv israel
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Graced with the instinctive ability to dance, Jenny Thomas wants nothing more than to become a professional dancer. All of her hard work pays off when she is accepted to a prominent dance program in New York. Against her mother's will, but with ...
Plot:
dancing, dancer, mormon, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, latter day saints
Place:
new york, utah
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Jerusalem's orthodox neighborhoods, it's Succoth, seven days celebrating life's essentials in a sukkah, a temporary shack of both deprivation and hospitality. A devout couple, Moshe and Mali, married nearly five years and ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
rabbi, charity, orthodox jew, jewish, religious, uninvited guest, redemption, couples, family relations, religions or cults, couple relations, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
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40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 53 min.
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Story:
A Hasidic Jewish woman in Brooklyn flees to Berlin from an arranged marriage and is taken in by a group of musicians -- until her past comes calling.
Style:
uplifting, social, touching, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jewish family, orthodox jew, judaism, mother daughter relationship, escape, women, jewish woman, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, follow your dream, new life, musician ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york, berlin germany, brooklyn new york city
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40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.
Style:
avant garde, experimental
Plot:
found footage, hidden camera, erotica, mental disorder, psychiatrist, analysis, psychoanalyst, model, hippie, pregnancy, symbolism, narcissism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Alexia Bissett, ex actress turned producer, lives in New York where she now produces gay cinema. After being called to take care of a situation which involves her young mute brother Christi, she decides to send her right hand man Maxwell to deal ...
Style:
erotic, queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, train travel, nude, incest, voyeurism, male full rear nudity, incest rape, sex scene, erection, gay sex ...
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New York during the 1940s, this provocative film follows the son of an orthodox rabbi and the son of a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, talky, dramatic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, jewish, religion, friendship, father son relationship, judaism, culture clash, jewish culture, chosen one, holocaust, honest, hospital ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1944
Place:
new york, israel, california, usa, brooklyn new york city
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34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with ...
Plot:
love, job, taxi driver, cat, taxi, love triangle, neighbor, female nudity, male nudity, flat, taxi ride, apartment
Place:
france, paris france
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33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
experimental
Plot:
undercover cop, subway, dream
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
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33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The oldest son in an orthodox Jewish family is living at home (in Brooklyn) with his parents and younger brothers. He's being pressured by his parents to marry the girl they have chosen, (the daughter of a rabbi). But he is coming to the ...
Style:
queer cinema
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, gay subtext, religion, gay rights, friend, cooking, subway, food, cemetery, grandfather grandson relationship, death of mother ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, jerusalem, new york, brooklyn new york city
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33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A woman learns about the death of her father. She returns to her Orthodox Jewish home and falls in love with her best childhood friend who is now married to her cousin.
Style:
melancholic, depressing, sexy, ambiguous ending, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian romance, forbidden love, lesbian relationship, lesbian sex, female nudity, infidelity, lesbian attraction, orthodox jew, funeral ...
Place:
london
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33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A popular young writer decides to write a novel on an island that was once a Mecca to the Hippie movement of the 1960s. As he tries to recapture a world that no longer exists, the writer meets an enigmatic young woman who agrees to help him in his ...
Plot:
male nudity, female nudity, pubic hair, female full frontal nudity
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33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Leading double lives and seeking redemption, a transgender man, a drag queen and a corrupt lawyer collide in this urban purgatory.
Style:
neo noir, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbt, crooked lawyer, homelessness, dancing, sex addict, female impersonator, oral sex, transsexual, lgbtq, drag, redemption, homeless ...
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32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
I, A Man is Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish [film] I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I, A Man. They created the ...
Style:
experimental
Plot:
voyeurism, male nudity, sex, boredom, staircase, male prostitute, hustler, nude
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
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32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
skinhead, judaism, racism, anti semitism, neo nazi, nazism, hate, jewish, bomb, identity crisis, anger, introspection ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, israel, argentina, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Old college chums get together for a weekend reunion that is bound to open old wounds and perhaps heal them. New romances find a spark while old ones rekindle.
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, female homosexuality, high school reunion, gay parent, child custody, alcoholic, brother sister relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, lesbian mother, pregnancy, marriage ...
Place:
massachusetts
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A naive country girl new to the big city gets involved in the underground sex scene.
Plot:
lesbian sex, female nudity, sex, orgy, sex scene, group sex, monk, lesbian threesome, male nudity, masturbation, satanism, newcomer ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, heartbreaking, compassionate ...
Plot:
judaism, orthodox jew, family relations, world war two, holocaust survivor, racism, nazi, tragedy, life, dysfunctional family, depression, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
europe, poland, israel, belgium, antwerp
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Turk, a "cool swinger", throws and wild sex and drugs party, but has trouble when three hoodlum friends of his crash the party and Turk resorts to drastic measures to remove them from the festivities.
Plot:
voyeurism, orgy, counterculture, marijuana, female nudity, party, drugs, sex, dancing, bully, motorcycle, playing footsie ...
Place:
new york
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A new Assistant D.A., Kenzie is forced to keep secrets from her gorgeous detective boyfriend, Mick. When a beautiful model turns up dead, she takes charge of the case. But when her detective sweetheart starts asking questions, she is thrust into a ...
Plot:
sex scene, female nudity, lesbian sex, male nudity, shaved labia, simulated blow job, female full frontal nudity, cunnilingus, labia, sex in shower, large breasts
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. ...
Plot:
restaurant, revenge, hare krishna, extortion, married couple, gang, desecration, molotov cocktail
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, brooklyn new york city
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking Charlie with his outrageousness and irreverence about aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is ...
Style:
sad, captivating, tense, talky, suspenseful ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, courtroom, nazi, jewish, lawyer, judaism, terrorism, genocide, destiny, wartime life, racism ...
Place:
usa, middle east, new york, israel
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This Bronx-based coming-of-age drama follows four high school friends as they navigate the treacherous waters of independence, love and careers on their individual paths toward achieving their dreams.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, semi serious
Plot:
high school, coming of age, city life, follow your dream, youth, hopes, gangsters, friendship, rivalry, moving, high school friends, major league ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obsessing over how her body will decay. As a clandestine partnership develops with Albert, a local ...
Style:
psychological, satirical, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
grief, jewish, judaism, jewish man, criminal underworld, adult humor, dark humor, absurd humor, loss of wife, bereavement, satire, jewish family ...
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mattilynn Dupree is back in her home town for her sister’s wedding, re-evaluating her life after missing out on the promotion she always wanted. She runs into an old friend, Jake, in her Dad’s auto mechanic shop and is given a reason to stay. ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, light, entertaining
Plot:
wedding, love and romance, father daughter relationship, family business, family bonds, friendship between men, relationships, love affair, love story, parent child relationship, love, mechanic ...
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27%
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