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The Sea (2000)
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Original name: El mar
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Childhood friends reunite later in life in Spanish tuberculosis sanitorium. Pressures of death all around combine with dark secrets of their past.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful, controversial, atmospheric, thought provoking, realistic, crying ...
Plot:
tuberculosis, childhood friend, naked man, gay rape, homoerotic friendship, gay erotica, homoeroticism, male rape, gay, friendship, friendship between boys, male pubic hair, male nudity, life is a bitch, society, terminal illness, political unrest, haunted by the past, male rape victim, lgbt, passion, spanish civil war, gays and lesbians, gay interest, civil war ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 30s
Place:
spain, europe, mallorca
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and crying films with plots about nude, male nudity, nudity, life is a bitch, bare chested male, undressing and pubic hair mostly in Drama, War and Romance genres. Some movies like The Sea: The King of Havana (2015), Shank (2009), Sexual Tension: Volatile (2012), Black Bread (2010), Johnny Got His Gun (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Dominican Republic
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
sex scene, male nudity, reformatory, male pubic hair, sexuality, adolescence, poverty, murder, life is a bitch, survival, rivalry, society ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
100%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from his fellow gang members despite their often violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them, be they unsuspecting shoppers, foreign students, gays, etc. When his world collides with ...
Style:
erotic, serious, realistic, lgbt cinema, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gay slur, first gay sexual experience, gay bashing, gay erotica, homoeroticism, lgbt teen, closeted homosexual, lgbt, gang, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Have you ever met someone who made your body heat up, get a little nervous and sweaty, and made your crotch stir a bit? Sexual Tension: Volatile will reignite those lustful feelings as it weaves six scintillating experiences of men in various stages ...
Style:
homoerotic, erotic, anthology, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, gay interest, gay, lgbt, gay crush, sex, male nudity, lust, gay teenager, longing, seduction, homoerotic friendship ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spanish civil war, post war, coming of age, revenge, hate, human nature, society, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, uncover truth, injustice, social relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
spain, catalonia, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, thought provoking, independent film, surreal ...
Plot:
anti war, hospital, disability, dream, body horror, haunted by the past, mute, soldier, patient, isolation, freak, amputation ...
Time:
near future, 1920s, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place:
colorado, france, los angeles, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Belarus, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in ...
Style:
surreal, harsh, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
foreign legion, gay, desert, obsession, military, military training, gay interest, discipline, french foreign legion, soldier, homoeroticism, existential loneliness ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
africa, france, south africa, marseille, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks.
Style:
freeze frame, bliss
Plot:
world war one, breast feeding, cossack, great war, renaissance, faith, nude young male, nude boy, sex scene, group, sneeze, public nudity ...
Time:
year 1914, pre world war one
Place:
poland, eastern europe, austria
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Marek starts as a trainee on a container ship. It's 197 meters long, 30 meters wide, and bound for Martinique. Full of anticipation, he leaves his parents' farm in Western Pomerania and goes on board at Saint-Nazaire. Marek wants to find ...
Style:
sexy, touching, contemplative, psychological, meditative ...
Plot:
gay interest, gay, gay relationship, homoeroticism, male objectification, sailor, male nudity, nudity, workplace romance, swimming, gay lead character, ship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlantic ocean, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, serious, realistic, tense, crying ...
Plot:
coming of age, altar boy, adolescence, catholic school, sex, catholic, boys' school, boarding school, gay, sensuality, youth, lgbt ...
Time:
1950s, year 1976, 70s, year 1953, 50s
Place:
australia, melbourne
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. He becomes the roommate of top student in his class. Rivals at first, the roommates form a bond and share a secret.
Style:
sad, heartbreaking, art house, depressing, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
nazi, friendship, world war two, nazism, childhood, french resistance, coming of age, holocaust, gestapo, lgbt teen, nazi occupation, anti semitism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1944
Place:
france, paris france, israel, europe, jerusalem ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. ...
Style:
political, insightful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, forbidden love, captivity, female nudity, nazi, older man younger woman relationship, desire, ghetto, holocaust survivor, nude girl, israeli ...
Time:
1940s, year 1985
Place:
eastern europe, israel, europe, poland, holland ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of ...
Style:
sincere, historical drama, captivating, uplifting, gloomy ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, concentration camp, children, holocaust survivor, prisoner, writers, biopic, political intrigue, world war, judaism, shoah ...
Time:
year 1997, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
italy, russia, europe, turin italy, venice
Similarity:
100%
9K
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form ...
Style:
sexy, homoerotic, disturbing, brutal, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
gay, holocaust, lgbtq, gay interest, sex scene, gay love, nazi, making love, glbt, homosexuality, lgbt, gay slur ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place:
europe, berlin germany, poland, germany, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, disturbing, controversial, sexual ...
Plot:
exploitation, lust, orgy, world war two, gynecological exam, female orgasm, forbidden love, sex, ss, depravity, third reich, oral sex ...
Time:
1940s, year 1939, 1930s
Place:
germany, italy, europe, paris france, naples italy ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Madrid, Roberto Orbea is a member of the Spanish communist party. He is married to Carmen, and he has been elected as Deputy in the first democratic elections in Spain. But his enemies, the fascist, know his double life. Roberto likes boys, and they ...
Style:
political, social, sensual, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, male pubic hair, gay love, gay slur, male prostitute, gays and lesbians, politics, male prostitution, ladies man, unfaithfulness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
spain, madrid, europe, venice
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their ...
Style:
anthology, art house, postmodern, visual, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
world war two, french resistance, occupation, gestapo, nazi occupation, children in wartime, resistance, resistance movement, nazi, wartime life, world war, holocaust ...
Time:
1940s, year 1974, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
vichy, france, israel, europe, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style:
disturbing, lgbt cinema, depressing, independent film, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, child abuse, gay, sexual abuse, pedophilia, homosexuality, homosexual, child molestation, lgbtq, male rape, homosexual rape, youth ...
Time:
90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place:
kansas, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may ...
Style:
disturbing, surreal, experimental, political, psychotronic ...
Plot:
extreme, spanish civil war, surrealism, youth, incestuous desire, exploitation, boy, prison, torture, female nudity, nihilism, francisco franco ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
spain, europe, sahara
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sensual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, emotional, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
threesome, brother sister sex, sadomasochism, incest, incestuous sex, sex, brother sister relationship, rape, erotica, sex with brother, sex crime, taboo ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Front of Aragon, 1937. LluÃs (Marcel Borrà s), a young republican officer destined for a temporarily dormant position, meets an enigmatic widow of whom she falls in love, Carlana (Núria Prims), who manages to fool him to falsify a Document that ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, sincere
Plot:
spanish civil war, european history, friendship, soldier, politics, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, male nudity, mediterranean ...
Time:
1930s, year 1937
Place:
catalonia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pim lives in a run-down house in a dead-end street somewhere on the Flanders coast, together with his mother Yvette Bulteel. Life here smells of cold French fries, cheap cigarettes, vermouth and stale beer. Mother Yvette uses her friend Etienne, ...
Style:
touching, homoerotic, lgbt cinema, romantic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay teenager, lgbt teen, gay love, lgbtq, first gay sexual experience, gay lead character, boys love, coming of age, lgbt child, homoeroticism ...
Time:
2000s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, idaho, flanders, europe, belgium
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, disturbing, harsh, touching ...
Plot:
boxing, nazi, friendship, nazi germany, boarding school, german soldier, anti semitism, pow, boys' school, youth, military school, gestapo ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942, post world war two
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany, cape town south africa, london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A guy is found by the police swimming naked. He can't, or refuses to, speak and is sent to a hospital. Since no diagnosis can be made, he will be transferred to a mental hospital, when his male nurse decides to take another route. Slowly the ...
Style:
homoerotic, suspenseful, realistic, serious, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
gay, homoeroticism, lgbt, small town, male pubic hair, foreigner, mental institution, gays and lesbians, small town life, male nudity, erotica, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot:
court martial, soldier, political unrest, bare chested male, male nudity, pow, racism, military, courtroom drama, officers and cadets, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, New Zealand, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In 1942, British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honour and glory. In his view, the allied prisoners are cowards when they chose to surrender instead of commiting ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, realistic, bleak, art film ...
Plot:
world war two, pow, homoeroticism, japanese culture, war, japanese occupation, prison, war crime, anti war, christmas, imperial japan, samurai ...
Time:
1940s, year 1983, year 1936, year 1946, 20th century ...
Place:
southeast asia, asia, britain, japan, australia ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Toni and Emma are brother and sister who owns a stable farm. Ramon and his son, Aaron works for them. Toni is openly gay and loves to party, Emma has a crush on Aaron who is a closeted gay who is afraid that his father might find out, but his father ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, homoerotic ...
Plot:
gay, sex scene, male nudity, gay sex, murder, couples, male objectification, farm, police, birthday party, voyeurism, lgbtq ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Cameroon
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Maria is a White farmer who runs a failing coffee plantation in an unnamed African country in the present day. Civil war has broken out and rebel soldiers, many of them child soldiers, are advancing on the area. Rebels on the radio advocate attacks ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, rough, emotional ...
Plot:
coffee, terrorist, family relations, civil war, chaos, family in danger, family business, political unrest, single parent, state affairs, danger, colonialism ...
Time:
90s, year 2009, 2000s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland, Germany, Canada
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his ...
Style:
harsh, sincere, uplifting, social, tense ...
Plot:
holocaust, nazi, world war two, atrocity, shoah, survival, genocide, outside help, hitler youth, judaism, world war, sewer ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1945 ...
Place:
poland, germany, eastern europe, europe, israel
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: West Germany, France, Poland
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, controversial, clever, epic ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, coming of age, boy, circus, nazi, wartime life, magic realism, cheating wife, extramarital affair, infidelity, beach ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1939 ...
Place:
germany, middle east, israel, europe, central europe ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona a 14-year-old girl tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
Style:
disturbing, touching, serious, bleak, social ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
child soldier, civil war, slavery, murder, battles, rebel army, teenager, life is a bitch, wartime life, haunted by the past, rebellion, african ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
africa, canada
Similarity:
50%
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