Movies like The Lonely Lady

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The Lonely Lady (1983)
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The Lonely Lady (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
Style: rough, sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: screenwriter, lesbian, female nudity, hollywood, rape, sex scene, film industry, misogyny, price of fame, casting couch, writers, betrayal, showbiz, abortion, older man younger woman relationship, nervous breakdown, sexism, misfit, love and romance, life is a bitch, rise to the top, mental illness, couples, ambition, filmmaking ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, california

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Most similar movies to The Lonely Lady

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sexy and sexual films with plots about couples, female nudity, artists and showbiz, love and romance, nude, infidelity and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like The Lonely Lady: The Kreutzer Sonata (2008), Dangerous Game (1993), Scarlet Diva (2000), Strangers Kiss (1983), The Pornographer (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Kreutzer Sonata (2008)
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: sexy, erotic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: sexual abuse, couple relations, obsession, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional marriage, infidelity, erotica, unfulfillment, nude ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Dangerous Game (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
Style: psychological, sexy, melancholic, erotic, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: redemption, filmmaking, drugs, obsession, multiple storylines, addiction, lifestyle, life is a bitch, downfall, showbiz, human nature, infidelity ...
Time: 90s, 70s
Place: los angeles, israel, new york, middle east, california ...
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84%
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Scarlet Diva (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.
Style: stylized, sexy, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Plot: sexy woman, lesbian sex, actor's life, drug abuse, career, casting couch, celebrity culture, tragic love, showbiz, sexual relations, addiction, downfall ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, los angeles, rome italy, france, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
A Woman, Her Men, and Her Futon (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Recently divorced, aspiring filmmaker Helen (Jennifer Rubin) enters into a love triangle fueled by sexual hunger and manipulation. But as she attempts to define herself and fulfill her wants and needs, she must choose between her independence and ...
Style: sexy, erotic, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: sexuality, open marriage, human relationship, love triangle, filmmaking, infidelity, strong sexual content, breakup, love affair, couples, self discovery, lifestyle ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Strangers Kiss (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: To help his actress girlfriend regain her confidence a Hollywood bigshot bankrolls a small budget film being made by a first-time producer and director pair. Despite the hand-to-mouth way it has to be made the film starts to come good, as does the ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, talky, sentimental ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, realism, couples, actor's life, artists and showbiz, gangsters, underdog, love and romance, showbiz, fall in love, love triangle ...
Time: 80s, 50s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Pornographer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: prostitute, erotica, pole dancer, sexual abuse, adult filmmaking, porn industry, stripper, female nudity, sex, small town life, filmmaking, small town ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Hollywood Wives: The New Generation (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Hollywood star (Fawcett), fed up with her husband's cheating, hires a private investigator to tail him. Emotional support is offered by her two friends - a soul singer (Givens) and a famous director's wife (Gilbert)
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: hollywood, private detective, celebrity culture, showbiz, womanizer, best friends, couple relations, aging, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, celebrity, hollywood star ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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The Wild Party (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Loosely based on the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, an aging silent movie comic star tries for a comeback by staging a wild party that turns into a sexual free-for-all. The comic ends up killing his mistress and her latest boyfriend.
Style: gloomy, stylized, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: hollywood, nightlife, psychopath, infidelity, film industry, party, mate swapping, estate, couples, celebrity culture, filmmaking, showbiz ...
Time: 1920s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Ivans xtc. (To Live and Die in Hollywood) (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Update on Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," set in contemporary Hollywood.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, art house
Plot: introspection, uncover truth, death, rise and fall, ambition, life is a bitch, human nature, drug abuse, showbiz, self destructing, hollywood, skinny dipping ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Reform School Girl (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Donna is sent to a reform school to take the fall for bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes friends and learns about herself.
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, sexual, rough ...
Plot: lesbian sex, lesbian, prison, fondling, female nudity, women's prison, courtroom, scapegoat, lgbt, lesbian interest, erotica, lust ...
Time: 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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I'm Losing You (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Style: talky, realistic, serious, emotional, biting ...
Plot: hollywood, aids, family relations, father son relationship, family problems, showbiz, terminal illness, infidelity, artists and showbiz, dealing with death, dysfunctional family, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.2
 396
Men (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A single young woman moves to Los Angeles, gets a job as a chef and has casual affairs.
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, sexual, witty ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: erotica, lesbian sex, sexual relations, looking for sex, cooking and food, drug addiction, older woman younger man relationship, alcohol abuse, fondling, female nudity, lesbian, lust ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The System Within (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tony "Wise" Good, is an internationally famous model. He fought his way out of the inner city and rocketed straight to the top. He had it all... The career, the trophy wife, fame, fortune and all the luxuries that come with success. But ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: rivalry, rise and fall, rise to the top, ambition, betrayal, lifestyle, dishonesty, fashion model, husband wife relationship, prison, nightmare comes true, fashion ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
An American in Hollywood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A talented young filmmaker from New York sets off to Los Angeles in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, only to discover through his relationship with a beautiful feisty young actress, that Hollywood is not all that it seems.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, sincere, humorous
Plot: filmmaking, ambition, fall in love, follow your dream, hopes, showbiz, love and romance, buddies, hollywood, friends, artists and showbiz
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Rich and Famous (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
Style: sexy, melancholic, scenic, dramatic, talky ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: writers, suspense, sex, female writer, police investigation, poetry, sexualized violence, ethnic conflict, corruption, murder, fantasy world, guilty pleasure ...
Time: 80s, year 1959, year 1981, 70s
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, malibu california, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Black Limousine (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A ghost story set in the city of dreams (IMDb.com).
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, introspection, down on your luck, downfall, addiction, depression, accidental death, love interest, surrealism, existentialism, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: "Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, semi serious
Plot: showbiz, ambition, rise to the top, desire for fame, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, musician's life, music band, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Butterfly (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Orson Welles, as judge Rauch, holds a lengthy trial against Jess Tyler, a caretaker deserted by his wife ten years before, who's accused of improper relations with his daughter Kady. Complications follows when Wash, father of Kady's baby, ...
Style: sexy, erotic, neo noir, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: father daughter incest, incest, lust, seduction, sex scene, voyeur, female nudity, forbidden love, desert, sword and sorcery, lesbian, erotica ...
Time: 1930s, year 1937
Place: arizona, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 5.2
 2K
The Betsy (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An auto-dynasty family experiences scandal, adultery, incest and power struggles in a juicy adaptation of Harold Robbins's best-selling novel. Ruthless patriarch Loren (Laurence Olivier) hires racecar driver Angelo (Tommy Lee Jones) to build a ...
Style: sentimental, sexual, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: business, car, auto racing, infidelity, italian mafia, gay husband, sex with a maid, family life, family business, parents and children, love affair, destructive relationship ...
Time: 1930s, 70s, 1920s, year 1936
Place: detroit, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 679
Crashing (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray (Campbell Scott, The Exorcism of ...
Style: sexy, psychological, realistic, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: writers, love triangle, writer's block, love and romance, couples, infidelity, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, college, family problems, dull life, overnight success ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
Plot: hollywood, backstage, historical event, party, film producer, director, casting, filmmaking, movie star, actor, film industry, actress ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Open Window (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: rape, dysfunctional family, introspection, family problems, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female nudity, family in crisis, vegetarian ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Bending All the Rules (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When single photographer Kenna finally gets her own exhibition, she turns her attention to her love life. Yet two different men, sensitive Jeff and strong-willed Martin, are determined to win her heart, pulling her free spirit in opposite directions.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexy, sincere, humorous
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle, couples, wooing, bartender, art exhibition, carnival, radio dj, singleness, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Play It As It Lays (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: mental institution, mental breakdown, mental illness, family relations, filmmaking, hollywood, infidelity, alienation, drug abuse, forced abortion, fame, lgbt ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, beverly hills, las vegas, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.4
 435
The Big Bounce (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: farm, vietnam war, heist, lust, car accident, robbery, femme fatale, vietnam veteran, couples, sexual relations, gays and lesbians, dishonesty ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Tear This Heart Out (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful ...
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: couples, infidelity, fall in love, family problems, crumbling marriage, rise to the top, politics, crumbling relationship, dishonesty, revolution, state affairs, ambition ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.0
 886
Weeds (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without paroll, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, rough
Plot: prison, criminal heroes, follow your dream, prison escape, prison life, redemption, optimism, hopes, artists and showbiz, confined, lifestyle, journalism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Sex, Lies & Obsession (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, sincere, sexy ...
Plot: adultery, sex addict, infidelity, prostitute, obsession, family relations, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.5
 922
Last Call (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Renowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant, and protégé who later wrote a memoir of their time together.
Style: serious, realistic, clever, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: prodigy, couples, showbiz, terminal illness, life is a bitch, mental illness, crumbling marriage, split personality, love and romance, ambition, lifestyle, family problems ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.0
 552
Hussy (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Beaty, a prostitute, and Emory, a lighting/sound technician, fall in love while working at the same London cabaret, but their relationship isn't easy.
Style: anime, sexy, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, murder, eroticism, nude, couples, single parent, drug dealing, love and romance, gangsters, society, going straight ...
Time: 70s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%