Movies like Wishing for a Dream

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Wishing for a Dream (2016)
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Wishing for a Dream (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Actress Mika Andrews and her filmmaker boyfriend, Louis Digman struggle through the stresses, hopes, desires and disappointments of the entertainment industry to succeed in 'Hollywood.'
Plot: hollywood, female nudity, dream, hamster, actor, bare breasts, insomnia, smoking, filmmaking, audition, drug, studio, shower, drugs
Place: los angeles

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, captivating and serious films with plots about female nudity, bare breasts, nudity, sex, hollywood, filmmaking and actor mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Wishing for a Dream: A Porn Star Is Born (2011), Blue Movie (1969), The Last Tycoon (1976), Hollywood Dreams (2006), Adolescence (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Porn Star Is Born (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: (Long Synopsis) "In this true story, beautiful Aliana Love (as herself) – like so many other young hopefuls – moves to Los Angeles with dreams of becoming a star … But quickly realizes that, in Hollywood, you are either on the plate or in ...
Style: captivating
Plot: porn star, sex work, porn actor, glory, love interest, money problems, ambition, social problems, aspiration, financial problem, price of fame, desire for fame ...
Place: los angeles
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Blue Movie (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Viva (playing herself) and Louis Waldon (playing himself) spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.
Style: sexy, independent film, erotic, weird, no music
Plot: real sex, vietnam war, girl, exploitation, exhibitionism, female nudity, nudity, horniness, bare breasts, horny woman, male full rear nudity, breaking the fourth wall ...
Place: new york
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67%
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, sentimental, cult classic ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, producer, introspection, ambition, film industry, showbiz, fall in love, great depression, literary, female nudity, time travel ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Hollywood Dreams (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sex comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, artists and showbiz, fall in love, desire for fame, showbiz, filmmaking, fish out of water, actor, producer, audition, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Adolescence (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A teenager from an abusive household falls in love with a free-spirited runaway that leads him into the fast-lane lifestyle of drugs and addiction which threatens to destroy him.
Plot: drug addict, breaking and entering, addiction, infidelity, adultery, drug, overdose, rock concert, drug trip, coming of age, topless woman, pretty girl ...
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Jailbait (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gritty coming of age thriller about a young girl sent to juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive step father. The film follows Anna Nix's journey into the dark world of an all girls jail where she discovers complex relationships, drugs, ...
Style: emotional, rough, erotic, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: women's prison, women in prison, prison, survival, juvenile detention, prison sex, voyeur, female female relationship, teenage life, confined, exploitation, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Dark Side of Tomorrow (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: While their husbands are away on a hunting trip, two bored housewives get together to commiserate. One thing leads to another, and they wind up in bed. For one of the women the incident was just a pleasant diversion, but for the other it's ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, sex, lesbian sex, female nudity, lesbianism, sexual revolution, jealousy, friends, thirtysomething life, couples, gender, unfulfillment ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
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The Hero (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, touching, exciting ...
Plot: cancer, old man, marijuana, actor, audition, father daughter relationship, dying, drug dealer, beach house, aging, friendship, doctor ...
Time: year 2017
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Trouble with Sex (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A sexy romantic drama in which, at the outset, the characters are leading their own lives in very different worlds, though each is beset by niggling discontentment. Michelle (Renée Weldon - IFTA Best Actress) is a fast-rising young Dublin lawyer ...
Plot: nudity, fight, sex scene, orgasm, party, friendship, dancing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rain, love, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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21%
David Searching (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The story of a young gay man's search to find himself. David is a young, gay aspiring documentary filmmaker and takes his first tentative steps towards his adult life. His roommate, Gwen, after ending a mysterious marriage, is looking for ...
Style: independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, roommate, neighbor neighbor relationship, sex talk, talking about love, profanity, gay interest, gay man straight woman relationship, cigarette smoking ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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20%
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Lover's Leap (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An architect is struggling to get over his wife's death. He meets a young woman who brings him happiness only to find out she is his son's girlfriend.
Style: sexy, hot
Plot: male nudity, telephone call, sex, female nudity, erotica, bare breasts, nudity, bare butt, sunglasses, topless, bikini, sex in bed ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.6
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Glass Houses (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The film's plot centres around the libidinous sexual shenanigans of a middle-class Californian family, and deftly explores themes such as marital discord, middle age, adultery, and incestuous desire.
Style: independent film
Plot: father daughter incest, older man younger woman relationship, girl man relationship, wife, love, business, social commentary, hitchhiker, sex scene, cheating wife, dysfunctional family, business partner ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: southern california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Jailbait Babysitter (1977)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Vicki is seventeen and her older friends call her Jailbait. Her boyfriend Robert is frustrated because Vicki doesn't want to do the wild thing, but he's willing to wait. After a party gets out of hand, Vicki escapes with the help of ...
Style: independent film
Audience: adult
Plot: exploitation, babysitter, woman with a gun, love, runaway, teenage runaway, teenage girl, teenager, prostitute, female nudity, party, sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.1
 122
Heartbreaker (1983)
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Car clubs in East LA provide the background for gang rivalry and a blossoming romance between Beto (Fernando Allende in his first English-speaking role) and the blonde newcomer to the neighborhood, Kim (Dawn Dunlap)
Style: intercultural, independent film
Plot: auto racing, gang, car, car racing, female nudity, male female relationship, african american, love triangle, sex, rivalry, chicano, love ...
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Pamela Principle (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pamela is a young actress who has moved into New York City from the midwest. She meets up with Carl who is middle-aged tailor of women's clothings and is going through a "mid-life crisis". He sees his son's amourous escapades and ...
Plot: woman seduces a man, threesome, female pubic hair, nudity, menage a trois, female nudity, bare breasts, unfaithful husband, femme fatale, adultery, sexually liberated, christmas ...
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19%
 5.2
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Casting Couch (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Ever wonder what young, beautiful would-be starlets might endure to get their "big break?" Casting Couch answers the question with a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most unscrupulous talent interviews ever recorded. It is just good, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, erotic
Plot: casting couch, erotica, casting, audition, sex, swinger, eroticism, sexy woman, seduction, seductive woman, sexploitation, backstage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
Plot: hollywood, historical event, behind the scenes, actress, director, film set, filmmaking, film industry, movie star, casting, actor, film producer ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Redemption (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Christian is a young man growing up in Hollywood who dreams of following in his father's footsteps into show business. When he meets Tony, an industry insider with "connections," he is convinced that he has found his big break -- ...
Plot: party, police, love, sex, interracial relations, actor, poetry, fight, drug, gunshot
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Red Nights (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Story of a Idealistic Young man (Played by Chris Parker), who goes to Los Angeles to become an actor, but is disillusioned and jaded when the cold and realistic violent world of Hollywood shatters then explodes all around him.
Style: neo noir, independent film
Plot: hollywood, drug, puffy nipples, porn, gangster, aspiring actor, female nudity, movie business, murder, actor, revenge, addiction ...
Place: los angeles, california, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Erika's Hot Summer (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Sleazeball photographer Steve is busy taking pictures of beautiful young women, bedding them, and then dumping them. One day he meets the woman of his dreams on the beach: Erika. Once he's frolicked on the beach and taken her to bed, the other ...
Style: independent film, grindhouse, sexploitation film
Plot: beach, photographer, sexploitation, nightclub, homicide, female nudity, male full rear nudity, bare breasts, erotica, male nudity, sex scene, hippie ...
Place: california
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19%
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Talk Sex (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An attractive radio hot line worker becomes romantically involved with callers.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, sexploitation film
Plot: radio dj, seductive man, sexual desire, sex, erotica, sexual relations, talk show, female protagonist, seductive woman, sexual fantasy, sexual tension, seductress ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Cruel Game (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The con is on when a gorgeous LA playboy tries to juggle four beautiful women and gets more than he bargained for. When a million bucks goes missing from the Yakuza, Japan's notorious mafia, the chase is on for the culprit. But in this tale of ...
Style: sexy, surprise ending, suspense
Plot: love, rejection, sexual tension, seductive behavior, money, erotica, female nudity, woman on top, gift, beach, bartender, loyalty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Black Starlet (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Girl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, hollywood, betrayal, drug, black, casting couch, stripper, price of fame, fortune, poverty, rags to riches, starlet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Dark Secrets (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A woman convinces her boyfriend to go to couple therapy with her friend's and things go downhill from there.
Style: erotic
Plot: couples therapy, sex scene, sex therapy, female nudity, male nudity, group therapy, redhead, woman on top, bare breasts, female pubic hair, nudity, large breasts ...
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19%
The Big Picture (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once ...
Style: light, suspense, melancholic, harsh, entertaining ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, friendship, movie business, rise to the top, desire for fame, rivalry, ambition, artists and showbiz, celebrity culture, rich and poor, satire ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 1K
Circuit (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: John is an ex-cop who leaves small-town life and provincial attitudes behind for a new existence in West Hollywood. As he seeks an open, accepting gay life, John is introduced to the fast-paced Circuit Party scene, featuring beautiful people and a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, male prostitution, male prostitute, drug abuse, lgbt, addiction, fish out of water, love and romance, lifestyle, gay culture, nightlife, city life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, illinois, california, palm springs california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film starring George Peppard as a character based largely on Howard Hughes and Alan Ladd as a former western gunslinger turned actor with the pseudonym Nevada Smith, played the following year in a prequel ...
Style: retro, stylized, clever, serious, realistic ...
Plot: showbiz, hollywood, aviation, sex, love story, friendship, filmmaking, uncontrollable, family problems, friends, couples, lifestyle ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Speaking Parts (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, stylized, tech noir ...
Plot: obsession, love triangle, wedding, love affair, couple relations, siblings relations, looking for love, couples, love and romance, power relations, family relations, master and servant ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 4.6
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The Real Deal (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Real Deal
Style: witty, realistic, semi serious, suspense, cynical ...
Plot: murder, filmmaking, actor's life, hollywood, dishonesty, womanizer, fight, male female relationship, media satire, artists and showbiz, satire, sex in a hot tub ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.1
 7K
Timecode (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, into giving her a screen test. Alex's wife, Emma, knows about the affair and is considering ...
Style: ironic, psychological, enigmatic, tense, cerebral ...
Plot: manipulation, infidelity, jealousy, existentialism, surveillance, adaptation, storytelling, artists and showbiz, love and romance, couple relations, showbiz, lesbian ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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