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A New Life (2002)
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Original name: La Vie nouvelle
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A 2002 French experimental film directed by Philippe Grandrieux and starring Zachary Knighton and Anna Mouglalis. The story involves a young American who falls obsessively in love with a mysterious courtesan named Melania against the backdrop of a dilapidated Eastern European landscape.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, erotic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
obsession, social decay, nihilism, prostitute, society, destructive relationship, forbidden love, sexual relations, couples, starting over, dancer's life, courtesan, fall in love, in love, relationship problems, love interest, underground, sexual intercourse, big city, exploitation, intercourse, unsettling, arthouse horror, battles, soldier ...
Time:
turn of the century, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, new york, france, london, europe, american
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Most similar movies to A New Life
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and disturbing films with plots about female nudity, couples, female full frontal nudity, life is a bitch, sex, male nudity and sexual relations mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like A New Life: A Lake (2008), Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971), Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969), China White Serpentine (2003), Dark Places (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
866
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story takes place in a country about which we know nothing: a country of snow and dense forests somewhere in the North. A family lives in an isolated house near a lake. Alexi, the brother, is a young man with pure heart. A woodcutter. An ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
forbidden love, physical appearance, losing-it hero, family relations, mysterious character, love and romance, couple relations, family problems, wilderness, human nature, isolation, obsession ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on ...
Style:
sexy, satanic, realistic, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, satanism, blasphemy, murder, nun, seduction, serial killer, investigation, school, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.
Style:
erotic, sexual, experimental, disturbing, sensual ...
Plot:
prostitute, exploitation, pink film, sexual abuse, juvenile delinquency, vengeance, violence spree, mentally unstable, murder, violence, blood, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, future, 20th century, 70s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Dave's brother Trent was enticed by dark forces and entrapped in a lair of sin. Trent was under the control of Tracey, the drug-dealing seductress who had spun this web of wrongdoing. It was a world of erotic indulgence, frequent drug use, and ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, controversial ...
Plot:
investigation, mind game, dangerous attraction, femme fatale, obsession, haunted by the past, couples, danger, supernatural, life is a bitch, survival, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Three narratives ("Cutting Moments," "Home" and "Prologue") combine to create a shocking trilogy of modern American life, a portrait drawn with brushstrokes of hidden violence and disturbing cruelty. Directed by Douglas ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, murder of family, social decay, dysfunctional family, family problems, couple relations, society, life is a bitch, family life, sexual abuse, family in crisis, child molester ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Keri Walker is a drug-addicted prostitute who ends up killing her latest john in self-defense. She finds shelter at a place run by a couple who find pleasure in others' pain. The haven house turns into a hell house and Keri must do whatever she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
prostitute, murder, life is a bitch, danger, addiction, drug abuse, couples, gory, sexual relations, death, blood, gay ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine photo shoot. They find a motel in the town of ...
Style:
sexy, road movie, psychological, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
desert, road trip, male nudity, sex scene, murder, female pubic hair, woman urinating, public nudity, explicit sex, human nature, male full rear nudity, car chase ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland, France, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of an anthropology professor Michal's who as the movie progresses develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a Shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out ...
Style:
sexy, mysterious, controversial, sexual, emotional ...
Plot:
nudity, obsession, female nudity, college student, danger, couples, surrealism, professor, nymphomaniac, sex, archeological dig, young girl ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, prehistoric times
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
23%
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105
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
obsession, pregnancy, unfulfillment, prostitute, nightshift, hospital, love, couples, society, lonely, gays and lesbians, dull life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, gothic, controversial, slasher ...
Plot:
convent, nunsploitation, torture, castration, medieval, nun, exploitation, religion, catholic, female nudity, revenge, sect ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 13th century
Place:
southern italy, europe, italy, xian
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, bleak, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, grandfather granddaughter relationship, sexual torture, coitus, voyeurism, strong sexual content, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, village life, poverty, female pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
22%
470
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In a once thriving Arizona mining town, a woman starts renovating an abandoned brothel and meets the ghosts who still haunt it.
Style:
suspense, sexy, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
ghost, skinny dipping, female nudity, supernatural, love and romance, prostitute, unfulfilled love, couples, hotel, sexual relations, afterlife, nude women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually ...
Style:
erotic, controversial, suspense, sensual, bleak ...
Plot:
female nudity, lesbian sex, sexploitation, hedonism, monk, sex, erotica, debauchery, misogyny, libertine, poison, voice over narration ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
On the outskirts of civilisation, three young women, Magalie, Marie-Steph and Barbara live a desperate life together. Drowning in alcohol, they both lust for and hate one another, coupling like animals. Yet gradually they become enmeshed in a ...
Style:
tense, serious, disturbing, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
murder, manipulation, destructive relationship, femme fatale, lifestyle, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, female psychopath, strong female presence, power relations, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A blind sculptor and his mother kidnap a young woman and use her as a model. In the darkness of an abandoned warehouse, she suffers at the hands of the artist, eventually losing both her sight and her mind as whips give way to knives and knives give ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, erotic drama, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
sex, rape, model, sexploitation, blind man, bondage, fashion, fashion model, surrealism, blindness, dismemberment, escape attempt ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In a decript apartment, a young man watches as his father and a friend shoot an amateur porn film. Issues of morality, reality TV and friendship are explored.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, bleak, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexploitation, porn industry, losing-it hero, father son relationship, obsession, dysfunctional family, social decay, sex, family problems, life is a bitch, human nature, teenage life ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, haunted by the past, best friend, losing-it hero, serial killer, danger, violence, black bra, female nudity, killer, violent content, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This is a story of Ida and Krister. It's about a relationship that goes to hell. They are both crazy in love but manage to strangle the supply of oxygen and adapt to each other in a way that will lead to catastrophic consequences.
Style:
sexy, tense, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, hot and sexy, sex scene, destructive relationship, woman in danger, penetration, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, female nudity, male nudity, love ...
Place:
europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
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204
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is the life motto of 30-year-old Agnieszka. After serving five years in prison, Agnieszka flees Poland for Germany in an attempt to start over. In Munich she meets the lonely 70-year-old Madame, ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
older woman younger man, relationship problems, age difference, middle aged, love affair, love story, life is a bitch, middle aged woman, star crossed lovers, female protagonist, fall in love, in love ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An erotic melodrama about the public and private lives of sex workers. Josie Hunter (aka Blake Pickett) co-starred in the role of Erica, a single mother who works a stripper, and sometimes as a prostitute to support her daughter. But when the threat ...
Style:
erotic, independent film, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, making love, lesbian sex, prostitution, stripper, masturbation, voyeurism, sex, lesbianism, sleaze, college, sex scene ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, danger, psychopath, theater, small town, murder, violence, mentally unstable, solitary, woman in danger, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A man rescues a woman from a suicide attempt in a gay nightclub. Walking the streets together, she propositions him: She'll pay him to visit her at her isolated house for four consecutive nights. There he will silently watch her. He's ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, sexual, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
sex, strong sexual content, voyeurism, coitus, female masturbation, female nudity, transgression, oral sex, female pubic hair, exhibitionism, gays and lesbians, obsession ...
Time:
year 2004, turn of the century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A recent college graduate goes to Paris after breaking up with his girlfriend of five years. His life should be open-ended and full of promise, but he can’t shake his feelings of loss. Being a stranger in a strange land only aggravates his ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
american abroad, prostitute, college graduate, fish out of water, disorder, misfit, fall in love, mysterious character, lifestyle, eye, blackmail, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
19%
637
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Hua, a young woman from Beijing, is a recent arrival in Paris. Exiled in an unknown city, she wanders between her tiny apartment and the university, drifting between former lovers and recent French acquaintances. She meets Matthieu, a young worker ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, sexual, psychological ...
Plot:
love affair, sexual content, rape, sexual relations, sexual desire, chinese woman, sex scene, couples, destructive relationship, eroticism, fish out of water, interracial sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Multi-narrative adaptation of Richard v. Krafft-Ebing's notorious medico-forensic study of sexual perversity.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, controversial, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual harassment, strong sexual content, dominatrix, love and romance, sexual relations, gender, couples, power relations, lifestyle, obsession, lesbian, lgbt ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1900s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
19%
933
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
It is a story of a depressed, isolated man stuck in a tedious but well-paying programming job.
Style:
explicit, disturbing, erotic, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
social criticism, female pubic hair, software, beach, christmas, female nudity, sex, car accident, masturbation, office, dance lesson, male masturbation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style:
surreal, controversial, demonic, mind bending, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, occult, insanity, obsession, body horror, cosmic horror, possession, supernatural power, private detective, supernatural horror, berlin wall, sex ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, prostitute, women, female protagonist, couples, society, sex, female nudity, doctor patient relationship, sex therapy, psychotherapy, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Valeria is a passive onlooker to her own life in Turin, and she grows so obsessed with the activities of her neighbor Massimo that when he moves to Rome she decides to follow him. There she meets and unexpectedly befriends Massimo's companion ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot:
voyeurism, fall in love, obsession, destructive relationship, love triangle, dishonesty, redemption, stalking, couples, estrangement, forbidden love, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, turin italy, rome italy
Similarity:
19%
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