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Whatever (1999)
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Original name: Extension du domaine de la lutte
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, erotic, disturbing, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, contemplative, cynical, gloomy ...
Plot:
christmas, sex, female nudity, beach, restaurant, office, psychiatrist, masturbation, car accident, male masturbation, nihilism, erection, dance lesson, social criticism, female pubic hair, software, sex scene, existentialism, manic, making love, midlife crisis, social decay, dark humor, programmer, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and psychological films with plots about female nudity, female full frontal nudity, life is a bitch, nude, couples, unfulfillment and nudity mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Whatever: She's One of Us (2003), Gift from Above (2003), Carré blanc (2011), I Am from Titov Veles (2007), Les corps impatients (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
workplace, murder, friendship, investigation, police detective, love and romance, social misfits, workplace romance, couples, misfit, businesswoman, alone ...
Time:
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Country: Israel, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a parking lot. And they are all involved in each other’s lives.
Style:
erotic, sexual, semi serious, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
sex, female nudity, female pubic hair, nudity, strong sexual content, dishonesty, family life, petty theft, society, sex scene, making love, airport ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Philippe lives in a world controlled by a caste system. Those who play the "game" correctly become higher and more powerful. Phillipe plays the game well but his wife wants him to return to reality. Its a love story after marriage.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, stylized, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
couple relations, introspection, fighting the system, crumbling marriage, human nature, social decay, society, estrangement, life is a bitch, couples, dark humor, emotionless ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
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68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Slovenia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Burdened by memories of their late father, three sisters struggle to escape the suffocating environment of the dying town of Veles. A contemporary story of urban decay, „Jas sum od Titov Veles“ employs a stark realism to depict the vivid ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
adult virgin, introspection, social decay, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, society, daydreamer, life is a bitch, small town, economist, nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
macedonia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous ...
Style:
serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
betrayal, life is a bitch, tragic hero, infidelity, love triangle, love and romance, terminal illness, nude girl, couples, unfulfillment, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, menage a trois ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
62%
506
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a ...
Style:
dark comedy, dark, controversial, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
misfit, sex, drunkenness, corpse, necrophilia, perversity, freak, drug addiction, addiction, social misfits, buddies, friendship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style:
erotic, sexual, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
pregnancy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hotel, sex scene, unwanted pregnancy, strong female character, single mother, coming of age, lgbt, lust, minimalism, single parent ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
60%
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:
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Norway, UK, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What could be better than knowing your future? And what could be worse? A love-filled childhood abruptly ends when catastrophe descends. A catastrophe that the child had foreseen yet failed to act upon.
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
small town, haunted by the past, childhood trauma, life is a bitch, unlikely couple, midlife crisis, life turned upside down, unfulfillment, young love, childhood memory, village life, village ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland, europe
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, psychological, rough
Plot:
necrophilia, dominatrix, overdose, sex, male nudity, female nudity, necrophiliac, nudity, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, mentally unstable ...
Time:
turn of the century, 90s
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, car accident, family secret, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The portrait of a woman going through a terminal illness and the tumorous lives of her husband and son.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, death of mother, love letter, family relations, mother son relationship, death, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, elderly, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
51%
165
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a small French town is rocked by a bizarre incident.
Style:
contemplative, serious, sincere, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, workplace, youth, teenage life, workplace situations, realism, small town, social relations, restaurant, male nudity, small town life, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot:
bank, introspection, losing-it hero, unlikely criminals, rivalry, workplace, road not taken, workplace situations, boss and employee, murder, suicide, business ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
49%
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:
49%
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:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, looking for sex, prostitute, swinger couple, destructive relationship, infidelity, sexual relations, couples, dishonesty, nudity, double life, sex with prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
aids, female nudity, lecture, sex scene, female pubic hair, male nudity, male pubic hair, lgbt, lgbtq, pretending to be gay, unfulfillment, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
italy, france, netherlands, paris france
Similarity:
47%
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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:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, erotic, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
illegal prostitution, female nudity, female masturbation, immigrant, voyeur, au pair, life is a bitch, starting over, self discovery, job seeking, hopes, misfit ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
ukraine, europe, austria, central europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A film by Bernard Rose, based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy with music by Ludwig Van Beethoven. Edgar Hudson meets Abby, a concert pianist, at a dinner party. Abby is involved with someone else but that doesn't stop the two from acting upon their ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, sexual abuse, obsession, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional marriage, nudity, infidelity, erotica, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, beverly hills
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style:
contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, unemployment, working class, family relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch, assassination, couple relations, parents and children, immigrant, society, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
marseille, provence, france, europe
Similarity:
44%
294
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The meeting of two lonely, marginal souls. There is Henri, a man in his 50s, limp, resigned, somewhat alcoholic. And Rosette, a (slightly) retarded woman who dreams of love, sexuality, normality
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
mentally challenged, love and romance, dull life, unfulfillment, misfit, social misfits, looking for love, mental disorder, dancing, restaurant, pigeon, loss of wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Betty is caught en flagrante, her bourgeois in-laws and husband force a divorce settlement upon her and bar her from seeing her two daughters. She is rescued from an alcoholic stupor by Laure, a middle-aged woman who takes Betty to her hotel ...
Style:
sexual, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
high society, alcoholism, girl, alcohol abuse, performer's life, strong female presence, unfulfillment, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, society, betrayal, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, versailles
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This movie is foremost distinguished by the use of a subjective camera, and nearly 100 % of the time consists of close-up of the young girl's face. She is capable of changing her facial mimic so much that she never looks artificial or ...
Style:
sexual, anthology, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
sex, hipster, infidelity, restaurant, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, sexual relations, love affair, hotel, obsessive compulsive disorder, virgin ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Redheaded teen Remy is bullied by his soccer teammates and drawn into fights with his younger sister and mother in their cramped apartment. After a flare-up of domestic violence, he flees home and is tracked down by a bitter guidance counselor, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, erotic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
society, hopes, partner, self discovery, introspection, misfit, friendship, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, discrimination, physical appearance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, ireland
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Not for the easily embarrassed, “The Story
of Richard O.” is an explicit take on sex as a
way to connect with other people. Richard
feels cornered and takes some time off from
his girlfriend in order to come to terms with
his relationship ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
erection, coitus, unsimulated sex, male nudity, sex, sexual perversion, male female relationship, attempted seduction, sexual awakening, looking for sex, lifestyle, life philosophy ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
41%
193
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female pubic hair, bullfighting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s and 80's, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60s counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier, he is now directing a porno ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
porn industry, porn, sex, lust, adult filmmaking, male pubic hair, voyeur, making love, filmmaking, dysfunctional family, real sex, explicit sex ...
Time:
turn of the century, 70s, 80s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
David, a professor of dermatology, has been treating 13-year-old Romain since he was a baby. Afflicted with a rare skin condition, Romain must avoid sunlight and is condemned to live in the shade. David and Romain have become the closest of friends ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, friends, power relations, child illness, terminal illness, hospital, teenage boy, man boy relationship, genetics, skin disease ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
39%
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