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Una (2016)
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
Style:
psychological, cynical, thought provoking, sad, disturbing, suspense, art house, independent film, psychological thriller
Plot:
child abuse, childhood trauma, female nudity, confrontation, pedophilia, forbidden love, teenage sexuality, sex scene, sex, incest, pedophile, teenage girl, abuse, illicit affair, age-gap relationship, forbidden sex, unsettling, love, relationships, father daughter relationship, mental illness, couples, love affair, family problems, introspection ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
england
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Most similar movies to Una
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, disturbing, realistic and erotic films with plots about female nudity, forbidden love, family relations, incest, sex scene, family problems and love affair mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Una: The Summer House (2014), Towelhead (2007), The Woodsman (2004), Mickey and the Bear (2019), Lolita (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A haunting portrait of a well-established German family living on the outskirts of Berlin in their ideal world, but are slowly shaken by external influences. It's a subtle portrait of human desire, inner desolation, self-deception and moral ...
Style:
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Plot:
man boy relationship, gay husband, pedophilia, bisexual, loveless marriage, unhappy marriage, pedophile, gay, boy, male masturbation, lgbt, male nudity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Style:
disturbing, sensual, teen, erotic, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
sexual abuse, pedophilia, adolescence, coming of age, child abuse, sexual exploration, sex with a minor, virginity, teenager, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, child molestation ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s, year 1990, year 1991
Place:
austin texas, usa, houston texas, texas, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A paedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
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sexy, harsh, independent film, psychological, controversial ...
Plot:
pedophilia, pedophile, ex convict, friendship, parole officer, sexual perversion, temptation, starting over, psychology, factory worker, suspicion, anger ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, california
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place ...
Style:
psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
teenage girl, father daughter relationship, addiction, teenager, incest, war veteran, father daughter incest, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, rural setting, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montana
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, controversial, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
obsession, older man younger woman relationship, forbidden love, lolita, pedophile, girl man relationship, age difference, teenage girl, lust, nymphet, older man young girl relationship, love affair ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1947 ...
Place:
cannes, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Odette is eight, she likes to dance and draw. Why would she be wary of a friend of her parents who offers to play "Tickling"? Once an adult, Odette frees her word, and plunges body and soul into her career as a dancer, in the whirlwind of ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, non-linear
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
pedophile, child rape, child sexual abuse, psychoanalysis, little girl, traumatic childhood, abused child, childhood sexual abuse, pedophilia, trial, dancing, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film
Plot:
dysfunctional family, rape, female nudity, introspection, family problems, couples, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, couple relations, haunted by the past, family in crisis, flashback ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
Style:
touching, realistic, compassionate, psychological, novela ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
mental institution, diary, destiny, female protagonist, tragic love, false accusation, world war two, obsession, priest, psychotherapist, life is a bitch, motorcycle ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1920s, 1930s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming of age stories of four teen-age girls.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, independent film, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, boarding school, teenage girl, friendship, girls' boarding school, nymphet, female friendship, youth, friends, social relations, power relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, depressing ...
Plot:
child abuse, pedophile, rape, child molester, child rape, child molestation, prostitute, sex, coming of age, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, society ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
indiana, asia, tennessee
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories ...
Style:
stylized, realistic, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
forbidden love, brother sister incest, brother sister sex, incest, dysfunctional family, taboo sex, siblings relations, sex, hot and sexy, secret, haunted by the past, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, south australia, new zealand
Similarity:
32%
251
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One day seventeen-year-old Alma sees her father who had left the family five years before and had never contacted them since then accidentally on a subway stop in Berlin. She finds out where he works and start spending time together. Very soon the ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
incest, father daughter incest, forbidden sex, moral dilemma, estranged father, father daughter relationship, father and daughter, sex with daughter, confusion, seductress, ex husband ex wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The story of a love relationship between a brother and sister and an eventual breakup that will forever change their lives.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sincere, suspenseful, touching
Plot:
incest, brother sister relationship, forbidden love, brother sister incest, sex scene, sibling relationship, sex with brother, sex with sister, brother sister sex, husband wife relationship, marital problem, relationships ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home.
Style:
art house, independent film, psychological, realistic, serious
Plot:
infidelity, love affair, nudity, affair, female nudity, extramarital affair, wedding ring, archaeologist, church, physician, hospital, art ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, london
Similarity:
32%
839
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar's role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan, an ethereal boy that accompanies her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
Style:
realistic, serious, erotic, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
forbidden sex, pedophilia, mother daughter relationship, teenage sexuality, dysfunctional family, rape, family relations, parents and children, friendship, pedophile, friends, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, israel, middle east
Similarity:
32%
155
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 92-year-old man decides that the time has come to say goodbye to all that is most important in his life, including his lover – who is 55 years younger than him.
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, emotional, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, love, age difference, elderly man, mortality, older man younger woman relationship, age-gap relationship, life, love story, love and romance, love affair, couple relations ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, sexy, talky, compassionate, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
incest, coming of age, brother sister incest, brother sister sex, forbidden sex, sex with sister, sex, sex with brother, teenage life, sister sister relationship, siblings relations, incestuous relationship ...
Time:
90s, near future, year 1993
Place:
england
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
Style:
erotic, eros, sexual, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
forbidden love, brother sister sex, incest, teenage sexuality, brother sister incest, sex with sister, forbidden sex, sex with brother, incestuous relationship, incestuous sex, sexual content, jealousy ...
Place:
portugal, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Charlotte, 27, meets her brother Henrik, 35, for the first time as an adult, it becomes an encounter without boundaries, between two people who don't know what a normal family is. How does sibling love manifest itself if you have never ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, eros, controversial, hot
Plot:
incest, family affairs, forbidden sex, incestuous relationship, female nudity, half brother half sister relationship, sex scene, illicit affair, love triangle, forbidden love, brother sister relationship, dance teacher ...
Place:
oslo norway
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dawn isn't like other kids her age full of typical teenage angst about boys, school and parents. Her pain goes far deeper, and to deal with her emotional overload she physically cuts herself. The problem of adolescent girls committing ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, teen, neurotic ...
Plot:
mental illness, self harm, teenage girl, self mutilation, mother daughter relationship, bullying, therapist, physical abuse, female friendship, depression, father daughter relationship, brother sister relationship ...
Similarity:
31%
144
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Gisela is a young wife and mother, living in a working class German Housing Scheme. She is a supermarket cashier, her husband a delivery driver. The marriage is stale but together they are working their way up into the middle class. George and ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
romantic triangle, love triangle, forbidden love, relationship problems, love affair, opposites attract, jealousy, relationships, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love story, tragic love ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The timeless story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, retro ...
Plot:
greek, turk, love, war for independence, love affair, male female relationship, love story, family problems, relationships, fight for justice, revolution, fight ...
Time:
1820s
Place:
greece, ottoman empire
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her ...
Style:
sexual, touching, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
incest, brother sister sex, brother sister incest, brother sister relationship, incestuous sex, caught having sex, older woman younger man sex, incestuous relationship, sex with sister, dysfunctional family, shame, sex ...
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Mio is a woman who owns a funeral parlor in a small port town. After losing her husband, her libido suddenly awakens. A typhoon rips through the town. Not only does she provide funeral services for the grieving parties but also attends to their ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, sincere, erotic
Plot:
loss of husband, relationship problems, star crossed lovers, couples, family problems, funeral home, fall in love, in love, small town, sexual relations, love interest, couple relations ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as ...
Style:
controversial, sexy, erotic, disturbing, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
virginity, innocence lost, nymphet, child prostitution, prostitution, girl man relationship, loss of virginity, world war one, photographer, brothel, child sexual abuse, sexual content ...
Time:
1910s, ancient times, victorian era, year 1978, year 1917 ...
Place:
new orleans, america, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
31%
476
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After not having seen each other in five years, Chris Terry goes to visit his younger sister Noelle Terry in Montréal. Their lives, both together and apart, have been turbulent ones with something toxic having affected the way they interact with ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, sexy, erotic
Plot:
implied incest, incest, erotica, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, prison, relationships, debt, forbidden love, strong sexual content, making love, bisexual man ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Charlotte, 27, meets her brother Henrik, 35, for the first time as an adult, it becomes an encounter without boundaries, between two people who don't know what a normal family is. How does sibling love manifest itself if you have never ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, brother sister sex, brother sister incest, incest, stepbrother stepsister relationship, incestuous relationship, female nudity, incestuous sex, sex scene, incestuous desire, forbidden love, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oslo norway
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This examination of a famous scandal from the 1970s explores the relationship between Barbara Baekeland and her only son, Antony. Barbara, a lonely social climber unhappily married to the wealthy but remote plastics heir Brooks Baekeland, dotes on ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, erotic, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, gay, sexual relations, sex scene, adultery, crimes of passion, mother son relationship, son, older woman younger man, murder, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
1940s, year 2007, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
london, europe, new york, spain, peru ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot:
coming of age, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family problems, dysfunctional family, forbidden love, living with parents, relationship problems, divorced parents, family relations, tragic love, parenthood ...
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A beautiful young woman with every privilege except freedom. A despised older man with nothing except his obsession. Are they the key to one another’s salvation? Or are they destined to destroy each other and themselves? Having just finished a ...
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
relationships, older man younger woman relationship, affair, family problems, romantic relationship, love interest, relationship problems, tragic romance, male female relationship, forbidden love, father and daughter, love affair ...
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