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Love Exposure (2008)
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Love Exposure (2008)
Original name: 愛のむきだし
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 237 min.
Story: After Yu's mother dies his father, a priest, only seems to take solace in the confessions of his sons sins causing Yu to partake in various 'sinful' activities to appease him. This is a teen love story as only the Japanese could bring us, complete with up-skirt photography, cross dressing, and bloody gore.
Style: disturbing, surreal, uplifting, controversial, psychological, bloody, poignant, atmospheric, sexy, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: sin, religion, brainwashing, coming of age, group of friends, japanese schoolgirl, family values, teenage love, youth, parents and children, teenage life, society, rebelliousness, prank, religions or cults, family relations, rebellion, porn, women, loneliness, surrealism, voyeurism, priest, lesbian relationship, virginity ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, xian
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Most similar movies to Love Exposure

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, surreal, disturbing and psychological films with plots about blood, sex, youth, female nudity, love and romance, asian prostitute and suicide mostly in Drama, Comedy and Horror genres. Some movies like Love Exposure: Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013), The Handmaiden (2016), I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006), Noriko's Dinner Table (2005), Strange Circus (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Style: humorous, rough, exciting, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, gang war, parents and children, female killer, chaos, rivalry, love and romance, vengeance, danger, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 8.1
 170K
The Handmaiden (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 145 min.
Story: 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. ...
Style: erotic, sexy, atmospheric, tense, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, plot twist, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, sex, lust, lgbtq, lesbian romance, lesbian sex, lesbianism, twists and turns, seduction ...
Time: 1930s, year 2016, 2010s, ancient times
Place: japan, south korea, asia, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another ...
Style: surreal, touching, psychological, emotional, sweet ...
Plot: love story, surrealism, mental institution, psychology, escape from reality, cyborgs, mental illness, androids and robots, love, relationships, mental disorder, misfit ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 159 min.
Story: A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, scary, psychological ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: mass suicide, dysfunctional family, family relations, internet, suicide, nihilism, woman in danger, teenage life, youth, on the run, leaving home, investigation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Strange Circus (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Style: disturbing, psychological, surreal, suspense, scary ...
Plot: incest, child abuse, surrealism, violence, incest rape, father daughter incest, dysfunctional family, prostitute, identity crisis, revenge, writers, extreme ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Guilty of Romance (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A detective probes the brutal murder of a woman in a red light district while a housewife hides her double life as a prostitute from her husband.
Style: erotic, disturbing, rough, stylized, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prostitute, murder, erotica, strong sexual content, murder investigation, submissive woman, brothel, adultery, porn, japanese girl, rape, strangulation ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.1
 8K
Tag (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Female highs school students, including Mitsuko, Keiko and Izumi, become the targets of ghosts with various appearances including a groom with a pig's face and female teacher with a machine gun.
Style: enigmatic, surreal, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: massacre, japanese schoolgirl, japanese girl, mass murder, wedding, alternate reality, blood, murder, girl, death, surrealism, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.4
 5K
Anti-Porno (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.
Style: erotic, sexy, mindfuck, experimental, contemplative ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexploitation, japanese woman, teenager, filmmaking, erotica, pink film, female nudity, sexuality, painting, secretary, sexual freedom, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Machine Girl (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge
Style: surreal, bloody, disturbing, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: female protagonist, yakuza, female killer, violence spree, revenge, bullying, murder, gory, teenage girl, girl heroine, attempted rape, gangster ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.0
 4K
Tokyo Fist (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, cult classic, stylized, controversial ...
Plot: boxing, violent, dark humor, obsession, loneliness, surrealism, violence, revenge, boxer, big city, asian, sex crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: High school student Mizushima receives Valentines Day chocolates from the new student, Monami. Little did she know that the chocolates contained traces of Monami's vampire blood. He gets infected from eating them and Monami confesses that she ...
Style: scary, not serious, stylized, rough, dark fantasy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, gory, supernatural, mad scientist, frankenstein, high school, imaginary, supernatural ability, superhuman powers, disorder, family relations, deadly creature ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.8
 4K
2LDK (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Nozomi and Lana share an apartment in Tokyo. They have both auditioned for the same role in a movie, and know that the shortlist has been cut down to just the two of them. As they wait the night before finding out who will get the role, their ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot: obsession, rivalry, actor's life, uninhibited rivalry, audition, roommate, mental disorder, martial arts, extreme, girl fight, female fight, lgbt ...
Place: japan, asia, tokyo, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Hana and Alice (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two teenage best pals attracted to the same boy end up scrambling his life after he walks into a door and is knocked unconscious.
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, erotic drama, gay cinema ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, best friend, love triangle, amnesia, fall in love, friendship, teenage life, love and romance, youth, couples, high school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.8
 253
You, I Love (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rin, Yuu, Koyomi and Keita are friends in high school who live in the same apartment building. Rin and Yuu like each other, but they don’t tell each other, until Kazuma shows up.
Style: sexy, touching, sentimental, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot: japanese schoolgirl, japanese school, teenage girl, shyness, high school, classmate, japanese teenager, teenager, neighbor, couples, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.7
 42K
Confessions (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.
Style: unusual plot structure, twisted, disturbing, visually appealing, mind twisting ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: vengeance, revenge, teachers and students, grief, japanese schoolgirl, dead daughter, teenage murderer, twists and turns, bullying, child murder, extreme, asian ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.5
 23K
Santa Sangre (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, dark, psychedelic, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, psychology, clown, extreme, art, magic realism, schizophrenia, macabre, funeral ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Snake of June (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, erotic, black and white ...
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, blackmail, power relations, couple relations, stalking, sexual relations, surrealism, erotica, sexual blackmail, pink film, porn, sex ...
Place: japan, europe, italy, asia, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yuichi Hasumi and Shusuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yuichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop ...
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, depressing, teen, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, bullying, music, alienation, high school, social misfits, teenage life, friendship, adolescence, youth, loneliness, school ...
Time: year 2000, year 1999, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, okinawa, asia, okinawa japan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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My Summer of Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, coming of age, teenage life, gays and lesbians, women, summer, sex, countryside, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?
Style: disturbing, semi serious, captivating
Plot: filmmaking, audition, filmmaker, casting, actor, acting audition, film industry, black bra, horniness, mad woman, horny woman, skin ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Last Life in the Universe (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his lifeless apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of Nid, seconds before he was about to jump off a bridge. This brings ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, lyrical, psychological, serious ...
Plot: suicide attempt, suicide, friendship, self discovery, melancholy, perfectionist, loneliness, relationships, opposites attract, existentialism, couples, destiny ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003
Place: japan, thailand, east asia, bangkok thailand, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.9
 98K
Secretary (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: bdsm, sex scene, obsession, secretary, fetish, workplace romance, sexual perversion, sex in office, submissive woman, desire, sexual relations, coitus ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.1
 24K
Excision (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, scary, tense, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: social outcast, body horror, dysfunctional family, surgeon, high school, sister sister relationship, gory, surgical operation, mentally unstable, teacher, mentally unstable protagonist, erotic dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An aspiring hair dresser (Kuriyama) becomes the infatuation of a tricophilic man who sells hair extensions to nearby hair salons. The source of the hair is the corpse of a girl whose dead body continues to grow beautiful, voluminous, black hair that ...
Style: surreal, scary, psychological, serious, christmas horror ...
Plot: body horror, supernatural, obsession, vengeance, ghost, danger, woman in danger, profanity, objects come to life, gory, curses spells and rituals, grudge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 2K
Careful (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, experimental, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot: surrealism, family problems, erotica, mother son incest, psychology, survival, magic realism, human relationship, village, mountain, ghost, voyeur ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: swiss alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Style: dark comedy, stylized, melancholic, disturbing, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: sex, college, virginity, drug, drug abuse, youth, lesbian, suicide, virgin, gay, love triangle, party ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, italy, dublin ireland, rome italy, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.9
 13K
Gozu (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, enigmatic, dark comedy ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, surrealism, obsession, murder, nightmare, extreme, hitman, mission of murder, mental illness, danger, lactation ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Three generations of women in a Mexican American family experience sexual awakenings over the course of a summer.
Style: sexy, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, looking for love, parents and children, family life, teenage life, lifestyle, society, family in crisis, mother daughter relationship, loneliness, women, family relations ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: One day, apathetic high school student Yosuke meets a beautiful girl named Eri. Eri does battle every night with an indestructible, chainsaw-wielding maniac, “Chainsaw Man”. As Yosuke and Eri bond, he eventually joins the fight. Features CG ...
Style: scary, stylized, semi serious, humorous, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, good versus evil, escapades, imaginary, uninhibited rivalry, teenage crush, gory, martial arts, teenage life, youth, young heroes, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and ...
Style: feel good, sexual, surreal, funny, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, lesbian love, sapphic, gays and lesbians, conversion therapy, cheerleading, lesbian relationship, cheerleader, lesbianism ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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