Movies like Vibrator

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Vibrator (2003)
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Vibrator (2003)
Original name: ヴァイブレータ
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. We first meet her in a convenience store where she is buying too much alcohol and not enough food. At the magazine rack she pauses to contemplate the happiness of the glamour girls on the glossies for which she writes. Only later do we realize that this is self-reflection. A chance encounter with truck driving Takatoshi, leads to a two day romp of sex, friendship and introspection. It's unclear if what happens to her is the product of her writer self imagining it all as a magazine serial (hence the inter-titles and voice of the narrator).
Style: road movie, psychological, serious, realistic, offbeat, contemplative, crying
Plot: on the road, truck, self discovery, loneliness, friendship, misfit, alcohol abuse, destiny, female nudity, curses spells and rituals, self doubt, truck driver, drug addiction, melancholy, trucker, sex, male nudity, masturbation, oral sex, eating disorder, insomnia, friends, mental illness, sexual relations, couples ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, tokyo, asia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and contemplative films with plots about friendship, male female relationship, female nudity, food, couples, drinking and sex mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Vibrator: Last Orders (2001), Body Shots (1999), The Eel (1997), Tokyo Decadence (1992), Peppermint Candy (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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95%
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Body Shots (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the clubs seeking good times, companionship and maybe a little sex. But in the harsh light of the morning ...
Style: sexy, suspense, melancholic, entertaining, intense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, nightclub, erotica, oral sex, rough sex, friendship, bodyguard, rape, life philosophy, dysfunctional family, happy ending, lone hero ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought ...
Style: emotional, touching, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, tour guide, father son relationship, village, redemption, family relations, parents and children, aging, estranged father, unfulfillment, estrangement, understanding ...
Time: year 2005
Place: china, east asia, tokyo, japan
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77%
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The Eel (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a ...
Style: enigmatic, captivating, psychological, touching, independent film ...
Plot: self discovery, starting over, human nature, social relations, hopes, crimes of passion, haunted by the past, murder, suicide attempt, prison, adultery, obsession ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Tokyo Decadence (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Style: erotic, disturbing, tense, surreal, sexy ...
Plot: bdsm, sex, sexual relations, sexual abuse, prostitute, gangster, prostitution, true love, femdom, pink film, downfall, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Peppermint Candy (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho"s depression becomes ...
Style: bleak, psychological, serious, existential, realistic ...
Plot: suicide, loneliness, haunted by the past, politics, destiny, regret, mental disorder, society, boat, tragedy, murder mystery, alienation ...
Time: 90s, year 1980, year 1987, year 1984, year 1994 ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Brown Bunny (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true ...
Style: road movie, independent film, controversial, sexy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: road trip, sex, sex scene, real sex, unsimulated sex, prostitute, controversy, explicit sex, redemption, rape, drug addict, oral sex ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, las vegas, new hampshire ...
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60%
Tony Takitani (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Tony Takitani had a solitary childhood. Being alone was normal since his mother died young and his father was always away with his jazz band. At school he studied art, but while his sketches are accurate and detailed they lack feeling. Used to being ...
Style: captivating, serious, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: emotionless, loneliness, obsession, couples, life is a bitch, alone, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, solitude, jazz, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Road Movie (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gil and Hank are two independent truckers who run into problems when they are forced to pay off traffic managers to get loads. They also have to pay off highway cops when their rigs are overweight and bank loans but consider themselves lucky just to ...
Style: road movie, independent film, crying
Plot: truck, trucker, passenger, sleeping, hitchhiker, labor, fight, abuse, highway, mining, sadness, insurance ...
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Maborosi (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant. Yumiko remarries and moves from Osaka to a small fishing village, yet continues to search for meaning in a lonely world.
Style: art house, atmospheric, contemplative, slow cinema, retro ...
Plot: suicide, stepbrother stepsister relationship, death, self discovery, arranged marriage, train, memory, drinking, water, asian, meditation, mental disorder ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: japan, venice, asia, europe, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Speakeasy (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two men become unlikely friends after a minor traffic accident.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, friendship, haunted by the past, drug addict, love and romance, hopes, redemption, introspection, human nature, homecoming, mute or deaf ...
Time: 1930s, 2000s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Blood and Bones (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1923, the young Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island (South Korea), to Osaka (Japan). Through the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko (processed seafood products) in his poor Korean-Japanese ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, obsession, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, loan, violence, abusive relationship, badass, asian ...
Time: 1950s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
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50%
Landscape in the Mist (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Road movie about two children searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.
Style: road movie, serious, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot: on the road, youth, children, soldier, family relations, siblings relations, human nature, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, greek, father son relationship, fear ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: germany, greece, europe
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50%
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Gandu (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Gandu hates his life. He hates his mother. Gandu raps out his hate, anger, dirt and filth of his existence. He and his rickshawpuller friend enter the world of smack, rap, porn and horror. Reality and fiction, surreal and bizarre come together. Can ...
Style: surreal, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: rapper, hand job, explicit sex, depression, escape from reality, human nature, friendship, drug abuse, friends, drug use, sex, prostitute ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, kolkata, asia
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49%
Café Lumière (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko (Japanese pop idol Yo Hitoto) keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father (Nanji Kobayashi) and stepmother (Kimiko Yo) or Hajime (Tadanobu Asano), the owner ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: pregnancy, love and romance, lifestyle, writer's life, youth, friendship, family life, train, single mother, bookstore, cafe, coffee ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Help Me, Eros (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Ah Jie lost everything in the stock market due to a severe economic crisis. He spends his days in his sealed apartment, smoking joints and looking after the marijuana plants that he secretly grows in his wardrobe. In desperation, he calls a suicide ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, sexual ...
Plot: strong sexual content, animal sex, obsession, destructive relationship, society, stalking, downfall, lifestyle, life is a bitch, social decay, sexual relations, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, taiwan
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47%
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Morvern Callar (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use ...
Style: disturbing, talky, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, suicide, christmas, friendship, writers, life philosophy, supermarket, road trip, friends, couple relations, best friend, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2002, 90s
Place: scotland, spain, ibiza, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Alone (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in the shabby part of a big city. She is pregnant, and the ...
Style: touching, serious, erotic, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: pregnancy, hospital, mother daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, loneliness, parents and children, drinking alcohol, society, relationships, redemption, poverty, friendship ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: spain, europe, andalusia
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46%
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Jerome (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: factory, on the road, desert, petty theft, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, self discovery, society, hopes, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa
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44%
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The New Twenty (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Five best friends in their late 20's discover new truths about themselves and the friendships they thought would last forever.
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: lgbt, gay interest, friendship, hiv, gay, college, best friend, young lovers, male homosexuality, friends, wall street, couples ...
Time: 1920s, year 2006
Place: new york, usa
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43%
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Bolivia (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A Bolivian immigrant working illegally as a cook in a small restaurant in Buenos Aires suffers abuse and discrimination from its customers.
Style: depressing, tense, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: restaurant, food, racism, migration, refugee, worker, exile, gourmet, lgbt, cafe, unemployment, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina, bolivia, buenos aires argentina
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42%
Luminous Motion (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mom and her 10 year son motor around the country as she makes ends meet by turning tricks until her car breaks down. She then temporarily takes up with a hardware store owner until she gets her own place. Then the kid's father shows up to try ...
Style: independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, offbeat ...
Plot: coming of age, road trip, bad father, family relations, on the road, dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, family problems, single parent, parents and children, store, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, beirut lebanon
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42%
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Tokyo Noir (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: city life, prostitute, singleness, couples, lifestyle, strong female presence, urban
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young kid from Kansas moves to New York to work on a magazine. He gets caught up in the world of drink and drugs, and starts a steady decline. The only hope is the cousin of one of his drinking partners, can she pull him through it ?
Style: intense, serious, realistic, bleak, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, redemption, addiction, writers, nightlife, drug, life is a bitch, starting over, supportive spouse, downfall, alcohol abuse, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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40%
The Journey to Kafiristan (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1939, the author Annemarie Schwarzenbach and the ethnologist Ella Maillart travel together by car to Kabul, but each is in pursuit of her own project. Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who was among Erika and Klaus Mann's circle of friends in the ...
Style: psychological, captivating, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, journey, on the run, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, society, couples, friendship, redemption, life is a bitch, politics ...
Time: 1930s
Place: afghanistan, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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It's Only Talk (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35 year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.
Plot: mental disorder, urban setting, female masturbation, gangster, depression, bathhouse, goldfish, pervert, loneliness, horse race, cousin cousin relationship, internet ...
Place: tokyo
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38%
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Thumb Tripping (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Gary and Shay are two happy-go-lucky flower children who hitchhike in the beautiful Big Sur-Monterey area of California.
Style: road movie, independent film
Plot: hippie, counterculture, hitchhiking, eccentricity, nudity, motorcyclist, love, mother daughter relationship, female nudity, truck driver, husband wife relationship, marriage ...
Time: year 1972
Place: monterey california, california, san francisco
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38%
Kings of the Road (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter (Rüdiger Vogler) and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander (Hanns Zischler)--a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt--travel along the Western ...
Style: road movie, contemplative, black and white, spiritual, art house ...
Plot: on the road, travel, male pubic hair, spirituality, drifter, past, filmmaking, truck, summer, existentialism, trucker, realism ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, berlin germany, west germany, german democratic republic, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Burning Hot Summer (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, breakup, fall in love, human nature, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, husband wife relationship, adultery, jealousy, friendship between men, affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy, france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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