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Modesty (2007)
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Original name: Pudor
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Pudor is about intimacy, about the desires, obsessions, secrets and fears that we keep hidden, even from those we love most. The characters in this story are a man who is going to die, a woman who receives anonymous erotic notes, an older man who is offered a last chance at falling in love, a teenager struggling to handle the doubts generated by puberty and a small boy who sees ghosts. As is the case in many families, in spite of living together, all the characters in Pudor are alone.
Style:
sincere, serious, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
husband wife relationship, adultery, dysfunctional family, secret admirer, guilt, unhappy marriage, loneliness, dementia, lesbian, ghost, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, female masturbation, funeral, father son relationship, hurricane katrina, sexually dissatisfied wife, terminal illness, brain tumor, coming of age, cousin cousin relationship, insecurity, privacy, incestuous desire, mother son relationship ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, sincere, serious and psychological films with plots about dysfunctional family, family relations, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, family problems, female nudity and relationship problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Modesty: The Unpolished (2007), Animales Heridos (2006), Red Roses and Petrol (2003), Without You I'm Nothing (2008), We Only Know So Much (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their ...
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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