Movies like Baal

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Baal (1970)
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Baal (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’
Plot: social outcast, poet, sexuality, rudeness, poem, wandering, morality, outsider, bourgeoisie, rape, demon, forest, pregnancy, gypsy, stripper, taxi driver, death of protagonist, baby, bare breasts, beer, dying man, blood, nihilism, lumberjack, drunkenness ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and disturbing films with plots about female nudity, bare breasts, alcohol, drunk, life is a bitch, rape and drinking mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Baal: Das Andechser Gefühl (1975), White Trash (1983), The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972), Katzelmacher (1969), I Only Want You to Love Me (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Das Andechser Gefühl (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 68 min.
Story: An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he ...
Style: depressing
Plot: stupidity, drunk, beer, pretty woman, drinking alcohol, hopelessness, german culture, sexuality, desperation, couples, death, teacher ...
Place: southern germany
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White Trash (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 62 min.
Story: The precise portrait of people in the Berlin neighborhood, their longings, despairs and paltry consolations
Plot: wife, 40 year old, striptease, cigarette smoking, beer, sexuality, drunk, bar
Place: west berlin west germany
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The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the ...
Style: art house, psychological, sad, neo noir, philosophical ...
Plot: heart attack, street vendor, family relations, alcoholism, drinking, adultery, obsession, female nudity, hospital, marriage, depression, alcoholic ...
Time: year 1972, year 1971, 20th century, 70s, 1950s
Place: munich germany, germany, bavaria, morocco
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Katzelmacher (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this unflinching German drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a group of young slackers, including the couple Erich and Marie, spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment building. When a Greek immigrant named Jorgos, moves ...
Style: art house, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: racism, migration, small town, refugee, conversation, xenophobia, inn, jealousy, male female relationship, boys and girls, passive aggression, foreigner ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: greece, germany, europe, munich germany
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I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of the young man Peter, who grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives ...
Style: art house, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: couples, family relations, alienation, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, injustice, unfulfillment, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, unlikely criminals, human nature ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: europe, germany, munich germany
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No Mercy No Future (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a filmmaker ...
Style: art house, controversial, disturbing
Plot: schizophrenia, berlin wall, psychiatric ward, schizophrenic, mental illness, delusion, immigrant, sick woman, rich father, suicide attempt, killing an animal, bare breasts ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The protagonist, Bora, is a charming but mean-spirited gypsy, while his older wife, Lence, is submissive. Bora is in love with the younger Tisa, who is being offered in marriage by her father. The two get themselves in trouble and eventually have to ...
Style: black and white, mondo, surreal
Plot: gypsy, black, social injustice, murder, business rivalry, bare chested male, girl man relationship, baby, horse, blood, marriage, wedding ...
Time: 60s
Place: eastern europe, balkan, serbia, belgrade, former yugoslavia ...
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
Style: bleak, disturbing, rough, intense, social ...
Plot: prostitute, rape, prostitution, transsexual, gang rape, working class, gay, labor union, fight, union, hooker, society ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1989
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
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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 ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Martin Sheen plays an alcoholic father who loses his family.
Style: spiritual, contemplative, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: alcoholic, drinking, recovery, substance abuse, family relations, alcohol abuse, downfall, love and romance, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, family problems, couples ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kent, Lasse, Olle and Sven are in their mid-twenties and have been friends since childhood. At a restaurant they meet two young women and one of them, Lena, becomes pregnant. Now, who is the father? Well, it's definitely not Kent, but the ...
Plot: friendship, maternity ward, rape, birth, betrayal, modeling, drinking, male chauvinist, horse race, pregnancy, best friend, sexual abuse ...
Place: eastern europe
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Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.
Style: sexual, erotic, absurd, disturbing, neorealism ...
Plot: alcoholic, poet, insanity, addiction, ex husband ex wife relationship, arrest, prostitute, drug abuse, teenage life, writers, poetry, drinking ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece, Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: bathhouse, women, pregnancy, muslim, female nudity, underage girl, bare breasts, terrorist attack, terrorist bombing, terrorism, life is a bitch, social problems ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: north africa, algeria, maghreb, africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.
Style: contemplative, serious, stylized, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: circus, utopia, clown, workplace situations, performer's life, animal training, down on your luck, hopes, showbiz, artists and showbiz, human spirit, workplace ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 136 min.
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Audience: adult
Plot: teacher, nudity, loneliness, sexual promiscuity, sexual humiliation, adultery, sex scene, depression, sexual abuse, one night stand, looking for love, sexual relations ...
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Genre: Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Style: talky, suspense, disturbing, psychological, social
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Place: berlin germany, barcelona, germany
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39%
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Genre: Drama
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Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, erotic ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: disturbing, black and white, controversial, contemplative, thought provoking ...
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Genre: Drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: absurd, erotic, serious, realistic, stylized ...
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Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Nil by Mouth (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, heroin, drug addict, drug addiction, drug abuse, working class, addiction, drug, profanity, brutality, violence, alcoholism ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: london, england, europe
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The Fire Within (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alain Leroy is a recovering alcoholic who decides to end his life, but first decides to visit his friends in Paris one last time, in an attempt at finding a reason to continue living.
Style: philosophical, art house, depressing, independent film, existential ...
Plot: suicide, depression, addiction, existentialism, melancholy, alcoholism, drinking, solitude, character study, european, loneliness, mental illness ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
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31%
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Paper Star (1989)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 91 min.
Story: Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
Plot: jealous boyfriend, businessman, abuse, tragedy, fashion model, domestic violence, jail cell, publicity, fashion show, mannequin, journalism, model ...
Time: 80s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
Style: sex comedy, independent film, experimental
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