Movies like Lea 2011

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Lea (2011)
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Lea (2011)
Original name: Léa
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Léa lives in Le Havre, where she attends college whilst taking care of her elderly grandmother. To make ends meet, she works as a waitress in a night club. Her admittance to the Institute of Political Studies in Paris offers her new opportunities, but at a high price. Léa finds work as a striptease artist, so that each evening she can put into practice the theory of economic liberalism which she learns by day...
Style: sexy, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, explicit, gloomy, sexual, hot
Plot: strong sexual content, real sex, youth, nightlife, introspection, lifestyle, human nature, hopes, student life, strong female presence, student, money, female protagonist, old woman, strip club, needing money, nude, erotica, prostitution, girl, nudity, sex, urban, stripper, striptease ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about female nudity, nudity, female full frontal nudity, sex, hopes, couples and lifestyle mostly in Drama, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like Lea: Slovenian Girl (2009), I Don't Kiss (1991), The Night and the Moment (1994), Elles (2011), Quiet Days in Clichy (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Slovenian Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, ...
Style: sexy, psychological, captivating, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: prostitute, call girl, nudity, prostitution, secret, nubile, rough sex, lifestyle, city life, pimp, female nudity, nymph ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovenia, europe
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I Don't Kiss (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot: prostitution, male prostitute, sex work, unrequited love, young man, prostitute, sex, lgbt, male prostitution, gay, lgbtq, pimp ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france
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The Night and the Moment (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes ...
Style: sexy, serious, tense, sexual, realistic ...
Plot: erotica, confined, cons and scams, writer's life, lovers reunited, prison life, lifestyle, mysterious character, twists and turns, love and romance, strong sexual content, dishonesty ...
Time: 18th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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53%
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Elles (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, prostitution, female nudity, female masturbation, husband wife relationship, bare breasts, journalist, society, ambition, introspection, hopes, coitus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
Style: sexy, manga, explicit, realistic, serious ...
Plot: writers, female nudity, erotica, art, prostitution, literary, exodus, lifestyle, writer's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, womanizer ...
Time: 1930s
Place: paris france, europe, france
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Breaking the Surface (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Having just landed a gig with a trendy magazine, young photographer Nadja celebrates at the local disco, where she bumps into Darius, a 20-year-old skateboarder. Although her frankness at first scares him, the two quickly become a couple, and as ...
Style: erotic, emotional, atmospheric, sensual, art house ...
Plot: strong sexual content, sex scene, love and romance, couple relations, couples, clubbing, looking for sex, sex, erotica, woman peeing, doomed love, making love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, central europe
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Little Jerusalem (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An orthodox Jewish teen living with her family in France attempts to balance her religious upbringing with her increasingly complex view of the outside world.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: self discovery, culture clash, society, lifestyle, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, couples, infidelity, social differences, youth, male female relationship ...
Place: middle east, paris france, france, europe, israel
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Whore (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This melodrama investigates the life of a prostitute in a pseudo-documentary style.
Style: erotic, harsh, serious, sincere, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prostitution, sex, violence against women, redemption, hooker, violence, nightlife, friendship, sexuality, downfall, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
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Lily Sometimes (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After the death of her mother, a woman returns home to care for her sister.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: country girl, lawyer, sister, introspection, estrangement, family relations, siblings relations, hopes, family problems, death in the family, dysfunctional family, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france, marseille
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Gigola (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting ...
Style: sexy, controversial, stylized, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: lesbian, prostitute, murder, lifestyle, couples, destructive relationship, sexual relations, nightlife, gangster, lgbt, gays and lesbians, prostitution ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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51%
My Heart Beats (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A poor and lonely English professor, Juri(37), decides to become a porn actor using a mask to hide behind, after she watches an unusual porn, featuring an old and fat woman. And she visits Myungsook, a porn producer, despite their separation of 10 ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: porn actor, sexual content, loss of virginity, life is a bitch, introspection, couples, sexual relations, filmmaking, university, porn actress, virgin, adult filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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To Life (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, auschwitz, human spirit, hopes, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, reunited friends, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place: europe, france
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Kissing on the Mouth (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Ellen is sleeping with her ex-boyfriend while trying to ignore the fact that he's looking for more than just sex. Her roommate, Patrick, isn't helping matters with his secretive and jealous behavior.
Style: erotic, mumblecore, psychological, humorous, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: real sex, strong sexual content, lifestyle, adolescence vs adulthood, introspection, love and romance, youth, young lovers, best friend, female nudity, female pubic hair, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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50%
She Is Not Crying, She Is Singing (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot: hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, family secret, car accident, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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A Reason to Believe (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sorority gal Charlotte's innocence is lost after she is raped during a frat party. Confused, terrified and shunned by her peers, she finds solace and the courage to confront her attacker after she is befriended by the leader of a campus ...
Style: independent film, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: rape, fraternity, nudity, college, friendship, female nudity, rape victim, wild party, feminism, youth, self discovery, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Where There Is Shade (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Cambodia still haunted by the crimes of the Khmer Rouges, a 45 years old French crossdresser, Mirinda, lives as a prostitute in the backstreets of Phnom Penh. Meeting a young trafficked girl, he gradually discovers the feeling of fatherhood.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful
Plot: gender, youth, danger, transvestism, on the run, hopes, chases and races, redemption, child in peril, transvestite, male nudity, drug ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cambodia
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The Future (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Chile, Germany, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, strong sexual content, orphan, family problems, juvenile delinquency, destructive relationship, dishonesty, moral dilemma, danger, youth, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
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50%
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Nuit #1 (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Clara and Nikolai meet at a sweat-soaked rave and end their night at his apartment. The first part of the film is an erotic and candid portrait of their lovemaking. When Clara tries to sneak out without saying goodbye, this typical hookup takes an ...
Style: talky, serious, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: rave, slacker, one night stand, couples, young lovers, conversation, introspection, twentysomething life, sexual relations, isolation, sex, porn ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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50%
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Showgirls (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A young drifter named Nomi arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become a top showgirl.
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, realistic, sensual ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: striptease, stripper, showbiz, erotica, sex, showgirl, rape, seduction, sex scene, pole dancing, nudity, lap dance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
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Family Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: family relations, deportation, family problems, aging, hopes, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, elderly, gender, death in the family, homosexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Melody (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Melody, 28 years old, a confused child born under the name X, decides to rent out her body in order to get the money she needs to realize her dream: opening a hair-dressing salon. To do so, she accepts to carry the child of Emily, a rich English ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: surrogate mother, hairdresser, homeless, pregnancy, follow your dream, money, baby, social differences, social relations, hopes, women, swimming pool ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, belgium
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Made in Ash (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: prostitute, roommate, life is a bitch, down on your luck, sex, seamstress, nudity, innocence lost, romani people, female protagonist, exploitation, sexual content
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia, czech republic
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49%
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Therese (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the little way" to God are shown clearly, using plain ...
Style: spiritual, slow cinema, aesthetic, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: saint, catholic, nun, spirituality, convent, christian, religion, girl, erotica, catholic saint, spirit, bible ...
Time: year 1986, victorian era, 80s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Sofie (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story: From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, religions or cults, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, fall in love, society, love and romance, introspection ...
Time: year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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 ⇓
49%
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Being 14 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, friends, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Beautiful Troublemaker (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
Story: The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: painter, painting, art, artist, eroticism, husband wife relationship, couples, creative process, taxidermy, model, drawing, human nature ...
Time: year 1991
Place: provence, usa, france, los angeles, south of france
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49%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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Poison Friends (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of college students are duped by a charming pathological liar.
Style: talky, psychological, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: college, friendship, youth, friends, power relations, college life, betrayal, teachers and students, student life, student, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mishap ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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49%
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The Big Dream (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Italian Revolution, 1968. Police officer, Nicolas, wants to become an actor. He goes out in plain clothes and meets Laura who is among students against the government, Vietnam War and who seek sexual freedom. One day, his identity gets exposed and ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, tense, touching ...
Plot: love triangle, politics, rebelliousness, state affairs, against the rules, follow your dream, love and romance, secret movement, double life, mole, student life, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1968
Place: italy, europe
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49%
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