Movies like Fair Sex
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Fair Sex (2012)
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Original name: Les manèges humains
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Would-be filmmaker Sophie left Africa for Canada as a child. After graduating, she films the daily doings as part of a summer job at a fair. When pointing the camera at herself, she reveals painful secrets from the past.
Style:
sincere, serious, captivating, emotional, thought provoking, realistic
Plot:
introspection, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, filmmaking, gender, art, slut, women's issues, strong female presence, amusement park, nude, explicit sex, female nudity, carnival, unsimulated sex, strong sexual content, film within a film, documentary filmmaker, fair, fingering, vaginal sex, nudity (full frontal - brief), romance, theme park
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada, quebec
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and emotional films with plots about life is a bitch, haunted by the past, family relations, introspection, female nudity, nude and parents and children mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Fair Sex: My Heart Beats (2010), G.H.B. (2014), The Valley of Tears (2012), Hearts & Minds (2009), California Solo (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A poor and lonely English professor, Juri(37), decides to become a porn actor using a mask to hide behind, after she watches an unusual porn, featuring an old and fat woman. And she visits Myungsook, a porn producer, despite their separation of 10 ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
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realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, gloomy ...
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friendship, on the run, obsessive quest, on the road, looking for love, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, strong female presence, friends
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21st century
Place:
europe, france
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88%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, realistic, emotional, serious
Plot:
lebanese, haunted by the past, uncover truth, life is a bitch, interracial relations, society, family relations, atrocity, religions or cults, testimony, racism, refugee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, lebanon, canada
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86%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Conscription has been introduced in Britain. Across the country, young people are being called upon to serve the nation in another reactionary Middle-Eastern conflict. They face war on a scale not seen in any of their lifetimes. hearts & minds ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
introspection, life is a bitch, wartime life, military, soldier, conscription, protest, youth, war on terror, fictional war, character change, changing lives ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style:
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Plot:
music, deportation, haunted by the past, musician's life, introspection, life is a bitch, society, estrangement, dancing, age difference, immigrants, down on your luck ...
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Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption.
Style:
road movie, realistic, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
crime spree, self discovery, friends, introspection, haunted by the past, buddies, partners, countryside, unlikely criminals, hopes, dealing with death, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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, ...
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Time:
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Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Clara and Nikolai meet at a sweat-soaked rave and end their night at his apartment. The first part of the film is an erotic and candid portrait of their lovemaking. When Clara tries to sneak out without saying goodbye, this typical hookup takes an ...
Style:
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Plot:
rave, one night stand, slacker, young lovers, couples, conversation, introspection, twentysomething life, sexual relations, isolation, sex, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with love and personal loss against the backdrop of a land torn by civil war in this drama from filmmaker Ozcan Alper. Sumru (Gaye Gursel) is a Turkish woman who studies ethnic music at a college in Istanbul and frequently makes ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, emotional, art house, captivating ...
Plot:
journey, tragic love, unfulfillment, on the road, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, missing person, ethnic conflict, self discovery, society, strong female presence, uncover truth ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Like many Native families, Lena Mahikan grew up in the cycle of abuse. Her father, a residential school survivor, was an alcoholic until he killed himself when Lena was 10. Her mother, only 14 years her senior, turned to the slots. By the time Lena ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
small town, haunted by the past, single parent, social misfits, society, youth, life is a bitch, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family life, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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slut, lifestyle, materialism, introspection, troubled youth, youth, love and romance, nightlife, fall in love, shopping, abortion, slutty attitude ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In Patagonia, a successful interior designer's life falls apart after he suffers a horrific accident.
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realistic, emotional, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, dealing with death, life is a bitch, car accident, loneliness, melancholy, introspection, destruction, nude, death, snow, drunkenness ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. ...
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serious, psychological, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Romania, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Place:
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81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
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Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
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Plot:
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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