Movies like Paulina

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Paulina (2015)
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Paulina (2015)
Original name: La patota
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Paulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high school as part of an inclusion program. One night, after the second week working there, she's brutally assaulted by a gang. With the disapproval of the people around her, she decides to go back to work, in the neighborhood where she was attacked, without realizing that her attackers may be even closer than she thought.
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, non-linear
Plot: teacher student relationship, sexualized violence, female teacher, teacher, female protagonist, rape, violence, life is a bitch, gang rape, school teacher, lawyer, school, police, motorcycle, father daughter relationship, night, police brutality, police violence, multiple perspectives, drinking, pregnancy, sex scene, psychotherapy, pregnant woman, gynecological exam ...
Place: paraguay
Keyword: argentine

Most similar movies to Paulina

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, disturbing and psychological films with plots about female protagonist, life is a bitch, teacher, violence, teacher student relationship, social problems and rape mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Paulina: My Teacher, My Obsession (2018), The Quietude (2018), The Summit (2017), A Teacher's Obsession (2015), The Student (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Teacher, My Obsession (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Riley is struggling to make friends after transferring to a new high school where her father, Chris, is an English teacher. When she meets Kyla, they quickly becomes close friends. However, the friendship takes a strange turn when Riley learns that ...
Style: captivating, romantic, semi serious, talky, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teacher student relationship, older man younger woman relationship, male teacher female student affair, high school teacher, teenage girl, obsession, high school, loneliness, unrequited love, school, teenage love, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 1K
The Quietude (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, touching, captivating ...
Plot: sex with sister in law, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, lawyer, family relations, pregnancy, dark secret, extramarital affair, death, mother, love and romance, family conflict ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Summit (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story: At a Latin American Presidents’ Summit in Chile where the region’s alliances and geopolitical strategies are shaped, Hernán Blanco, the president of Argentina, lives a political and family drama. Through his son in law, he’s implicated in a ...
Style: suspense, art house, political
Plot: snow, political election, lawyer, politics, female nudity, bare breasts, horse, singing, sex scene, memory, mountain, male protagonist ...
Time: year 2017
Place: chile, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Teacher's Obsession (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A high-school English teacher becomes dangerously obsessed with a star athlete who needs academic help.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
Audience: teen drama
Plot: lesbian subtext, high school, teacher, manipulative woman, female protagonist, couples, society, teenage girl, teachers and students, social problems, school, schoolgirl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 5.7
 430
The Student (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Lana, a teacher in high school, does not know what to do about Benny, a new student, who is an aggressive yet coldblooded alfa male. Benny intimidates her and she tries to escape his dark magnetism.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, erotic
Plot: teacher student relationship, female teacher, older woman younger man relationship, teacher student romance, teacher student sex, relationship problems, relationships, forbidden love, women, school teacher, love interest, fatal attraction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.1
 113
Brava (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Janine works in a bank giving credits to clients to buy houses and receives the offer of a promotion to work in a future branch in China for which she takes Mandarin classes. One night he travels from work to his home on the subway. There is ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense, thought provoking
Plot: violent sex, sexualized violence, abused woman, gang rape, traumatic experience, female protagonist, sexual abuse, violent, social problems, life is a bitch, psychological trauma, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Queen's Classroom (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The Queen's Classroom is a live-action Japanese television drama about Maya Akutsu, a new teacher at Hanzaki Elementary School who strives for perfection and punishes her students in unorthodox manners. A 12 year old student, Kazumi Kanda, has ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: school, female teacher, teacher, relationships, teacher student relationship, life is a bitch, teachers and students, high school life, female protagonist, relationship problems, student, child abuse ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
You Shall Not Lie (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The peaceful life of the residents of the coastal urbanization of Belmonte changes radically the day a sex video of Macarena, a school teacher, and Iván, one of her adult students, appears on the networks. This event shakes the lives of all of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: teacher student relationship, sex tape, older woman teenage boy relationship, teacher, changing lives, older woman younger man relationship, society, videotaping, relationship problems, female teacher, social misfits, lifestyle change ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Above Suspicion (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Daphne seems to have the perfect marriage. Her loving husband Maxime seems to have it all: a brilliant education, an illustrious career. Above all, he is an attentive father to their two young girls; a man above suspicion. So much so that when his ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: unhappy marriage, abusive father, child abuse, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence, parents and children, mother and daughter, life is a bitch, family relations, violence, domineering father ...
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36%
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 131
Guilt (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: After being sexually assaulted by an acquainted and incapable of dealing with the situation, a woman leaves her whole life behind and hides herself away in an isolated cabin in the mountains.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot: violence against women, sexualized violence, rape and revenge, troubled past, tragic past, rape, traumatic past, psychological trauma, violence, emotional abuse, confronting the past, traumatic experience ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Sadistic Yoga (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The female instructor Mariko gives yoga classes at a high-class club in Tokyo. She has a crush on Rika whom she gives private lessons to. When she notices bruises on Rika's body, Mariko learns that the young woman is involved in a highly ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: bondage, yoga, sadism, torture, sadomasochism, violence, life is a bitch, female protagonist, relationship problems, yoga instructor, revenge, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.9
 16K
Monster (2023)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds through the ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, semi serious, suspense thriller, suspense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: teacher student relationship, lgbt child, coming of age, elementary school, gay, life is a bitch, family life, family relations, family problems, social problems, relationships, gay love ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Just the Two of Us (2023)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But ...
Plot: rape, violent husband, unhappy marriage, forest, party, sea, lawyer, taxi, same actor playing two characters simultaneously on screen, beach, abortion, husband wife conflict ...
Place: normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.5
 3K
An Affair (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A newly appointed teacher finds herself being followed, and soon discovers that one of her own students is obsessed with her.
Style: erotic, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: teacher student sex, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man relationship, teacher student relationship, female teacher, older woman younger man sex, unfaithful wife, dangerous attraction, mature woman, forbidden sex, illicit affair, fatal attraction ...
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32%
 5.2
 590
Damaged (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An English teacher's life turns upside-down once a new student moves in across the street.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: teacher student relationship, teacher, neighbor, frame up, student, teacher student romance, relationship problems, social problems, relationships, life is a bitch, revenge, school teacher ...
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30%
 5.0
 347
Cradle of Lies (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Following a whirlwind romance, a woman begins to unravel the dark secrets of her husband's past when his obsession to produce a male heir turns deadly.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating
Plot: adultery, inheritance, pregnancy, family problems, male female relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, pregnant wife, infidelity, unwanted pregnancy, adulterer, female protagonist ...
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 5.3
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Nuclear (2019)
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Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a small village under the shadow of a nuclear power station, a toxic family with a past must face the ghosts that threaten their future.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: violence, mother daughter relationship, family relations, learning the truth, family problems, life is a bitch, hidden truth, mother and daughter, brother sister relationship, violent man, abuse, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 5.6
 117
White Blood (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Martina and Manuel cross the border from Bolivia as «mules». Manuel dies with the cocaine capsules inside his body. Martina turns to her father, who she never met before, for help.
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: moral dilemma, father daughter relationship, drug traffic, social problems, drug, father and daughter, female protagonist, life is a bitch, father, family relations, criminal, absent father ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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A Student's Obsession (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: High school teacher Stephanie breaks the cardinal rule of not getting romantically involved with one of her students. To make things worse, her handsome teenage lover James starts to demonstrate psychotic, obsessive behavior. When James starts ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: romantic obsession, stalker, obsession, female teacher, teacher student relationship, teacher, relationship problems, school teacher, schoolboy, relationships, male female relationship, teacher student romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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You Can't Take My Daughter (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young woman fights to keep her rapist from gaining custody of her daughter.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, rape victim, relationship problems, rape and revenge, violence, rape, mother daughter relationship, feminist
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Man in the Basement (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple ...
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Beauty and the Dogs (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Qatar, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mariam just wanted to enjoy the night, when a tragic event occurs. Despite the trauma, the pretty tunisian student is determined to go to the police. But what can be done when your persecutor is your only chance?
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: student, party, female protagonist, police station, police, police brutality, policewoman, cycling, muslim, women, violence against women, woman ...
Time: year 2017
Place: tunisia, middle east, maghreb
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.5
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Hostile Border (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When she’s deported to México, Claudia must choose between reconciling with her estranged father or partnering with a dangerous smuggler to return to the U.S.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: drug smuggling, social problems, drug smuggler, father daughter relationship, money problems, illegal immigrant, smuggling, family problems, criminal gang, dysfunctional family, illegal drugs, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Movie in collections
 6.4
 2K
Koblic (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tomás Kóblic, a former pilot and captain of the Argentinian Navy, disobeys an order and becomes a fugitive in order to survive. He chooses to hide in a small town in the south of the country, where his presence will catch the attention of the ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, mindfuck, social
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 6.0
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Orphan (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young woman who moves to Paris and has a brush with disaster. The grown-up at last, an accomplished woman, who thought she was safe from her own past. Gradually, these characters come together to form a single heroine.
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing, non-linear ...
Audience: adult
Plot: violence against women, teenage girl, little girl, female protagonist, father daughter conflict, prison, dark past, missing child, social problems, violent father, tragic past, family problems ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
My Daughter's Disgrace (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A high school senior’s life is turned upside down when photos of her naked body are distributed to a revenge porn website. Frustrated by police inaction, her mother takes the investigation into her own hands.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
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The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and ...
Plot: troubled teen, rape, voice over narration, assault, bicycle, student, teacher, teenage girl, school, female protagonist, marriage proposal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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A Violent Life (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: funeral, violence, radical, nationalist, radicalism, murder, death, prison, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, confronting the past, criminal ...
Time: year 2017
Place: corsica
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Brother's Keeper (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Romania
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: boys' school, teacher student relationship, illness, tragedy, friendship, friends, child illness, fighting the system, boy, fighting illness, boarding school life, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Lost Choices (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young women is raped while on her way home. When she is rejected by the police, because they don't believe her, she sets out revenge. But not only on her rapist, but also the police and everybody who did not believe her.
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: rape, revenge, rape and revenge, incompetent police, vengeance, social problems, violent, sexual abuse, violence, violence against women, rape victim, kidnapping ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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