Movies like Aquarius 2016
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Aquarius (2016)
22K
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Boa Viagem Avenue. All the neighboring apartments have already been acquired by a company which has other plans for that plot.
Style:
melancholic, realistic, talky, stylized, controversial, independent film, spectacular, allegory, tense, intellectual ...
Plot:
real estate, family drama, horny woman, sex, fighting the system, lifeguard, orgy, class differences, nostalgia, female protagonist, manipulation, character study, cancer, capitalism, city life, life is a bitch, feminist, wine, greed, photography, erection, dancing, party, female nudity, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1980, 2010s, year 2016
Place:
northeast brazil, brazil
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Most similar movies to Aquarius
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, sexy, serious and psychological films with plots about female nudity, nude, sex, nudity, male nudity, cigarette smoking and bare breasts mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Aquarius: Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Neighboring Sounds (2012), Neon Bull (2015), Cold Showers (2005), Paradise: Love (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, compassionate, melancholic, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, nudity, sex, adultery, woman on top, sex in car, loneliness, one night stand, depression, sexual promiscuity, looking for love, sexual relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1977, year 1975, year 1976
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Life in a middle-class neighbourhood in present day Recife, Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men brings a sense of safety and a good deal of anxiety to a culture which ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
brazil, latin america
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Iremar is part of a rodeo troupe that tours the Brazilian northeast. His task is to send bulls into the arena. Intensely exciting physical scenes alternate with contemplative episodes that sketch a painterly portrait of the members of the troupe. ...
Style:
erotic, eros, sexual, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
rodeo, mannequin, rags to riches, fashion, ambition, lifestyle change, rodeo cowboy, changing lives, gay, lgbt, social realism, minimalism ...
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brazil, northeast brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexual, emotional, serious, erotic, sensual ...
Plot:
gay interest, coming of age, love triangle, teenage life, menage a trois, gay, cheating girlfriend, hot and sexy, hot guys, lgbt, male nudity, contests and competitions ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On the beaches of Kenya they're known as "Sugar Mamas" -- European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
tourist, beach, interracial relations, sexual intercourse, older woman younger man relationship, hotel, exploitation, strong sexual content, resort, tenderness, black man white woman relationship, male pubic hair ...
Time:
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Place:
africa, kenya, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, serious, talky ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay interest, tumor, photograph, grandparent grandchild relationship, photographer, gay cruising, gay brother, group sex ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
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21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, australia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s. The life of Guida and Euridice Gusmão, raised to be invisible in the eyes of the Brazilian society of that time, like all the other women of that generation.
Style:
erotic, visually stunning, psychological, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
sister sister relationship, sex scene, missing sister, sailor, female protagonist, unwanted pregnancy, family relations, erotica, sisters, masturbation, wedding, sexism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 2010s, year 2019, 1940s
Place:
rio de janeiro, iberian peninsula, south america, brazil
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the expectations of three generations, she tries to discover who she really ...
Style:
touching, psychological, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, lgbt, family relations, death of mother, cancer, mother daughter relationship, loss of mother, terminal illness, lesbian, sex scene, teenager ...
Similarity:
21%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, sexy, serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, california, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, sexual, sexy ...
Plot:
transsexual, eroticism, lgbt, relationships, nudity, sexual content, self discovery, couple relations, couples, sexual relations, bare breasts, transgender ...
Time:
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Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative, experimental ...
Plot:
self discovery, dedication, human nature, society, isolation, hopes, wilderness, village, loneliness, in love, road trip, social realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
northeast brazil, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style:
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Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
stripper, writer's life, party, high society, passion, female nudity, friendship, artist, aging, surrealism, skinny dipping, male nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, light, sincere, semi serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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20%
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Country: France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
pornochanchada
Plot:
maid, exploitation, sex, bare breasts, male full rear nudity, male nudity, beach, woman on top, female nudity, car, sex scene, shy man ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Denmark, France, Sweden, UK, Turkey
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, art house, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through ...
Style:
sexy, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
explicit sex, bisexuality, sexual intercourse, coitus, making love, naked man, sex scene, erotica, erection, repression, free love, poverty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nicaragua, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, sexual, entertaining, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
nightclub, sex, erotica, bodyguard, friendship, happy ending, young lovers, rape, bondage, dating, dance club, fondling ...
Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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19%
14K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, sexy, bleak, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, innocence lost, rape, defloration, virginity, virgin, teenage girl, female nudity, rapist, rape victim, sexuality, first time ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, 2000s
Place:
france, rome italy, south of france, paris france
Similarity:
19%
16K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, thought provoking, disturbing, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Gandu hates his life. He hates his mother. Gandu raps out his hate, anger, dirt and filth of his existence. He and his rickshawpuller friend enter the world of smack, rap, porn and horror. Reality and fiction, surreal and bizarre come together. Can ...
Style:
surreal, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
rapper, sex scene, profanity, explicit sex, male masturbation, prostitute, stealing money, depression, escape from reality, human nature, drug abuse, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
india, kolkata, asia
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Style:
sexy, road movie, erotic, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, sexuality, sex, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, age difference, friendship between men, on the road, threesome, male friendship, gay ...
Time:
year 2001, near future, year 2002, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, mexico city, acapulco mexico ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Satan Said Dance is an Instagram film in times of the selfie. A kaleidoscope of moments from life of Karolina – a scandalous writer obsessed with parties, drugs, sexuality and complex relationships, on her way to self-destruction.
Style:
melancholic, touching, rough, weird
Plot:
sex scene, sexy woman, complex characters, family problems, mother daughter relationship, bittersweet, human nature, favoritism among siblings, doubts and hesitations, estrangement, parents and children, female writer ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
single mother, cancer, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, corruption, lawyer, family drama, fighting illness, family relations, illness, life is a bitch, problem ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In her first onscreen adventure, journalist/photographer Mae Jordan (known to her readers as "Emanuelle") travels to Africa on assignment. Questions of her own racial and sexual identity come to a head as she observes the troubled marriage ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, sensual, sexual, grindhouse ...
Plot:
erotica, emmanuelle, voyeur, oral sex, public nudity, female masturbation, orgy, intercourse, sexploitation, nude model, sex, female pubic hair ...
Time:
70s
Place:
africa, east africa, kenya
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Style:
sincere, touching, inspirational, visually stunning, aesthetic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
friendship, poverty, social services, mother daughter relationship, children, motel, single mother, little girl, childhood, swimming pool, eviction, female friendship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
florida, nebraska, orlando florida
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18%
465
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, character study, motherhood, family drama, poverty, family problems, family relations, social problems, relationship problems, kids and family, problem ...
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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109
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman, withdrawn from life, rescues a live bird that had been trapped in the wall of her apartment.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, art house, existential ...
Plot:
estrangement, strong female presence, restaurant, loneliness, isolation, solitude, character study, female protagonist, alienation, symbolism, slow burn, intimate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
18%
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