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Love Exposure (2008)
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Original name: 愛のむきだし
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, 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:
sexy, surreal, controversial, psychological, bloody, poignant, erotic, eros, romantic, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
sin, crazy love, japanese schoolgirl, religion, brainwashing, coming of age, lesbian, group of friends, family values, porn, surrealism, teenage love, youth, parents and children, teenage life, society, rebelliousness, prank, religions or cults, family relations, rebellion, voyeurism, women, loneliness, sex ...
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 surreal, psychological, realistic and weird films with plots about sex, pornography, love, coming of age, violence, youth and loneliness mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Love Exposure: Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013), Guilty of Romance (2011), Strange Circus (2005), Black Swan (2010), Anti-Porno (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
sexy, humorous, rough, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, gang, gang war, chaos, criminal's revenge, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, criminal heroes, vengeance, love and romance, danger, female killer ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
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:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, rough, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, erotica, murder investigation, novelist, japanese girl, brothel, strangulation, police investigation, sex, female sexuality, submissive woman, insomnia ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
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, identity crisis, flashback, revenge, father daughter incest, sex, dysfunctional family, prostitute ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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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:
sexy, erotic, mindfuck, contemplative, experimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
japanese woman, sexploitation, filmmaking, erotica, mental disorder, pink film, female nudity, secretary, painting, sexuality, sexual freedom, public sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
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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:
japanese schoolgirl, massacre, wedding, mass murder, japanese girl, alternate reality, blood, murder, surrealism, school shooting, death, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexy, erotic, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
lesbian, plot twist, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, twists and turns, sapphic, sex, lust, lesbian romance, lesbian sex, lesbianism ...
Time:
1930s, year 2016, ancient times, 2010s
Place:
japan, south korea, indiana, asia, korea ...
Similarity:
100%
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, emotional, psychological, sweet ...
Plot:
love story, surrealism, love, relationships, escape from reality, cyborgs, androids and robots, psychology, mental illness, antisocial behavior, misfit, schizophrenia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
south korea, india
Similarity:
100%
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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, sexy, teen, depressing, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, music, alienation, high school, teenage life, social misfits, adolescence, friendship, youth, abuse, school ...
Time:
2000s, year 1999, year 2000, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, okinawa japan, asia, tokyo ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
sexual, teen, cult classic, feel good, dark comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, sapphic, lesbian love, gay, lgbt, gays and lesbians, conversion therapy, cheerleading, lgbtq, cheerleader, lesbian relationship, lesbianism ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A beleaguered small-business owner gets a harmonium and embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman.
Style:
romantic, surreal, touching, sentimental, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
depression, asperger's syndrome, true love, shyness, love and romance, brother sister relationship, crazy love, character study, mental illness, love story, socially awkward, insanity ...
Time:
90s, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, hawaii, california, utah, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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, cult classic, surreal, stylized, deep ...
Plot:
boxing, violent, dark humor, obsession, boxer, violence, surrealism, loneliness, brutality, revenge, sex crime, asian ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love.
Style:
erotic, romantic, absurd, black comedy, crying ...
Plot:
teenage girl, girl, schoolgirl, fall in love, virginity, dancing, female nudity, loss of virginity, rehearsal, abandoned house, restaurant, photographer ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
38%
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, psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
japanese schoolgirl, japanese school, teenage girl, japanese teenager, classmate, high school, shyness, teenager, neighbor, couples, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, east asia
Similarity:
38%
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, serious, realistic, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mass suicide, dysfunctional family, family relations, internet, suicide, nihilism, woman in danger, teenage life, on the run, youth, leaving home, investigation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
38%
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:
semi serious, humorous, touching, erotic drama, hot ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
fall in love, coming of age, best friend, love triangle, amnesia, friendship, couples, love and romance, youth, teenage life, japanese teenager, high school ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Style:
bloody, disturbing, cult classic, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
game of death, survival, death, dystopia, violence, gory, desperation, jungle, cruelty, contests and competitions, satire, social commentary ...
Time:
future, year 2000, distant future, 2000s, near future
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, india, tokyo
Similarity:
37%
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, visually appealing, mind twisting, twisted, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, teachers and students, japanese schoolgirl, twists and turns, dead daughter, character study, child murders a child, child murder, bullying, grief, teacher ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, tokyo
Similarity:
37%
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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:
sexy, psychological, erotic, sexual, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, coming of age, lesbian teen, teenage life, sex, gays and lesbians, women, summer, seduction ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004
Place:
england, northern england, yorkshire, california
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A man, who once dreamed of becoming a punk rocker, is working as a low salaryman at a musical instrument parts company. He's secretly in love with his colleague. One day, he finds a little turtle on the rooftop, naming it Pikadon.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
satire, kaiju, self doubt, turtle, relationships, love affair, romantic relationship, music, relationship problems, love, lifestyle, uncertainty ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
37%
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:
atmospheric, lyrical, psychological, serious, black comedy ...
Plot:
suicide attempt, melancholy, suicide, friendship, self discovery, relationships, destiny, perfectionist, loneliness, opposites attract, existentialism, couples ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s
Place:
japan, thailand, east asia, bangkok thailand, asia ...
Similarity:
36%
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:
captivating, semi serious, disturbing
Plot:
filmmaking, audition, casting, filmmaker, actor, film industry, acting audition, actress, horniness, japanese girl, mad woman, slim ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
36%
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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:
erotic, sexy, sexual, psychological, sex comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
bdsm, sexual perversion, workplace romance, sadomasochism, obsession, sex scene, fetish, secretary, masochism, masochist, sexual relations, power relations ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
36%
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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, humorous, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
small town, looking for love, parents and children, teenage life, family life, lifestyle, society, family in crisis, mother daughter relationship, loneliness, women, passion ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Two teenagers and a group of people made homeless by a tsunami try and make their way in a devastated Japan
Style:
psychological, serious, stylized, bleak, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teen angst, youth, human nature, teenage life, earthquake, crazy love, teenager, obsession, suicide, japanese teenager, boy, hunting ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
36%
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:
sexy, dark comedy, stylized, teen, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
college, sex, suicide, virginity, violence, drug abuse, lesbian, party, virgin, nudity, youth, love triangle ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new hampshire, italy, paris france, dublin ireland, europe ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A high-school student Yoshiro has never got a spotlight in his life and spends his days aimlessly. What only shines in his life is a girl Sae at his school. Even if being completely disregarded by her, he still dreams of becoming her true love in ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, humorous, light, eros ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, sex scene, friend, friendship, seduction, infatuation, erotica, school, teacher, father daughter relationship, magic, investigation ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two women, who are dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating and relationships, decide to make a pact to spend 24 hours together hoping to find a new way to create intimacy.
Style:
sexy, erotic, atmospheric, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lgbt, lesbian, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship, dysfunctional relationship, sex, sex scene, dishonesty, couples, sapphic, erotica, lgbtqi ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, indiana
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead ...
Style:
surreal, erotic, dark comedy, sexual, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, sex, perversion, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, sexuality, female robot, street walker, call girl, film industry, adult film industry, family relations, sexual perversion ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Erika Shinohara (Fumi Nikaido) is a first year of high school student. While talking to friends, she makes up a story about her "boyfriend." In reality, Erika Shinohara doesn't have a boyfriend. Erika's friends soon begin to ...
Style:
romantic, touching, uplifting, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
japanese girl, sex, love, japanese high school, love and romance, fall in love, couples, escapades, couple relations, male female relationship, teenage life, love affair ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
36%
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