Movies like Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano

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Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano (2010)
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Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano (2010)
Original name: 名前のない女たち
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to disintegrate.
Style: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, erotic, anime
Plot: porn industry, suicide, alienation, stalking, japanese woman, porn actress, popularity, jealousy, self discovery, interview, employer employee relationship, sex work, family relations, couples, society, sex scene, sex trafficking, making love, exploitation, loneliness, female nudity, videotaped sex, pink film, friendship, pregnancy ...
Place: tokyo

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, psychological, serious and captivating films with plots about female nudity, couples, sex scene, family relations, society, female full frontal nudity and family problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano: Transylvania (2006), Twelve Thirty (2010), The Ravine of Goodbye (2013), The Lowlife (2017), He Loves Me (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Transylvania (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left ...
Style: psychological, captivating, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: self discovery, obsessive quest, couple relations, love and romance, pregnancy, on the road, gypsy, family relations, travel, european, infidelity, couples ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
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Twelve Thirty (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: TWELVE THIRTY is drama about a family with adult children that is broken, and a self-centered young man who, in the span of a week, becomes entangled in each of their lives, wreaking havoc in the process.
Style: serious, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, sex scene, family relations, love triangle, couples, family problems, gender, sexual relations, parents and children, loneliness, gay, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
The Ravine of Goodbye (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that Satomi is involved in a romantic relationship with her next door neighbor Ozaki. The information ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, realistic, romantic ...
Plot: reporter, slutty woman, journalist, suspect, secret, police, husband wife relationship, witness, television, uncover truth, child murder, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
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33%
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The Lowlife (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry .
Style: captivating
Plot: porn actress, japanese schoolgirl, women, female protagonist, relationships, erotica, social problems, mother daughter relationship, family relations, life, porn, female nudity ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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He Loves Me (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Laura begins to suspect her husband is cheating on her, she is devastated by his infidelity, despite having a torrid affair of her own. While she desperately tries to save her marriage, Laura's mysterious past begins to emerge, making her ...
Style: psychological, emotional, captivating, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, sex scene, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, stalking, dishonesty, memory loss, suburban life, midlife crisis, manipulation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., seattle
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29%
I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of the young man Peter, who grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives ...
Style: art house, serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: couples, family relations, alienation, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, injustice, unfulfillment, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, unlikely criminals, human nature ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: europe, germany, munich germany
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28%
Dawn of the Felines (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A glimpse into the lives of three prostitutes in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo and the clients who solicit them.
Style: sincere, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: sexy woman, prostitute, loneliness, sex scene, prostitution, escort, pink film, friendship, social satire, friend, money, lifestyle ...
Place: tokyo, japan
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27%
Blood and Bones (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1923, the young Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island (South Korea), to Osaka (Japan). Through the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko (processed seafood products) in his poor Korean-Japanese ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, obsession, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, loan, violence, abusive relationship, badass, asian ...
Time: 1950s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Lena (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, leaving home, teenage love, parents and children, teenage life, physical appearance, youth, family problems, family relations, teenager, loneliness, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe, rotterdam netherlands
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26%
Tokyo Decadence (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.
Style: erotic, disturbing, tense, surreal, sexy ...
Plot: bdsm, sex, sexual relations, sexual abuse, prostitute, gangster, prostitution, true love, femdom, pink film, downfall, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji
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26%
The Most Distant Course (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tang (Muo) goes on a trip to Taitung to record the sounds of nature, hoping the tape may save his relationship with his girlfriend who is leaving him. What he does not know, is that she has already moved away and another girl, Yun (Kwai), has moved ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: lost love, suicide, introspection, self discovery, on the road, love triangle, couples, cause and meaning, love affair, unfulfillment, road trip, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, taipei, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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25%
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Pleasure (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Netherlands, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 20-year-old Bella Cherry leaves the small town life in Sweden for Los Angeles with the aim to become the worlds next big porn star but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.
Style: erotic, captivating, underground film, disturbing, hot
Audience: adult
Plot: porn industry, prostitution, sexploitation, prostitute, porn star, seductress, teenage prostitute, interracial sex, sex worker, porn actress, sex work, sexuality ...
Place: los angeles, eastern europe, scandinavia
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25%
Black & White & Sex (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Prostitute. Hooker. Sex Worker. Whore. Candid and seductive, Angie is determined to set the record straight about sex. As she reveals herself, layer-by-layer, she also exposes the man who is interviewing her. Sometimes provocative and confronting, ...
Style: sexy, realistic, controversial, serious, sincere ...
Plot: sex scene, making love, sex, society, couples, eroticism, femme fatale, artists and showbiz, gender, battle of the sexes, sexual dysfunction, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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25%
A Hole in My Heart (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a decript apartment, a young man watches as his father and a friend shoot an amateur porn film. Issues of morality, reality TV and friendship are explored.
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, bleak, avant garde ...
Plot: sexploitation, porn industry, father son relationship, obsession, dysfunctional family, social decay, family problems, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, human nature, isolation, teenage life ...
Place: eastern europe
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24%
The Favourite Game (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: As a kid, Leo thought he possessed, like a magician, the secret power to make things happen. As a young man, he certainly knows how to make things happen with women. But as his best friend Krantz would say to him, "Why do you always ask ...
Style: psychological, captivating, serious, realistic, erotic
Plot: dysfunctional family, road trip, flashback, summer camp, self discovery, womanizer, wooing, cheating wife, adultery, children, abusive father, making love ...
Place: canada
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24%
A Single Girl (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style: sexual, erotic, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, hotel, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age, minimalism, lgbt, lust, making love, sex scene, single parent, strong female character, single mother ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Blue Spring (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of ...
Style: bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious, manga
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, high school, gang, society, high school life, teenage life, life is a bitch, friendship, youth, coming of age, school, asian ...
Place: japan, asia
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24%
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Lola (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story follows a troubled woman and her search for identity. She is given a choice between a return to the dysfunction of the past, or a new life in self assumed identity.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspense, independent film
Plot: mistaken identity, hidden identity, self discovery, couples, family relations, mentally unstable, society, couple relations, parents and children, female protagonist, female nudity, deadly ...
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23%
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Girl$ (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Four young women are tempted by the money that can be earned in prostitution. They have to learn in their own way that nothing comes without a price.
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: prostitute, sexual relations, society, anal rape, couples, swinger, redemption, sex scene, human trafficking, escort, sex, swing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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23%
This Girl's Life (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, erotic, captivating ...
Plot: porn star, porn actress, infidelity, investigation, lifestyle, life is a bitch, actor's life, human nature, family problems, starlet, showbiz, parents and children ...
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23%
Abe Sada: The Last Seven Days (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: In May 1936, the “Abe specific incident.” shook the entire country of Japan. It is said that Abe had a live-in maid (Yuma Asami), the owner of the restaurant’s employer Ishida (Nobuyuki Matsuda) was killed, that the cut is more localized. With ...
Style: erotic, exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: sexploitation, erotica, true crime, japanese woman, murder, female nudity, female killer, assassin, sex scene, making love, pink film, murderer ...
Time: year 1936
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Vibrator (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. We first meet her in a convenience store where she is buying too much alcohol and not enough food. At the magazine rack she pauses to contemplate the happiness of the glamour girls on the ...
Style: road movie, serious, psychological, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: on the road, truck, self discovery, loneliness, destiny, friendship, alcohol abuse, misfit, female nudity, curses spells and rituals, self doubt, truck driver ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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23%
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Concrete Night (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother, in Finnish master Pirjo Honkasalo’s gorgeously stylized and emotionally devastating work about what we pass on to younger ...
Style: realistic, bleak, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage boy, male nudity, siblings relations, family problems, realism, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, urban ghetto, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, helsinki finland, finland
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23%
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Little Foxes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alzbeta and Tina are sisters bound by jealousy and love, an unspoken history hovering over them like a dark cloud. It is this history that compels Alzbeta to refuse Tina's help in finding a better life, until the day arrives that forces them to ...
Style: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, touching, emotional ...
Plot: jealousy, sibling relationship, haunted by the past, family relations, envy, betrayal, couples, sister sister relationship, rivalry, au pair, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, slovakia, europe
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22%
Memories of Tomorrow (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After being stricken with Alzheimer's disease in the prime of his life, a successful young businessman slips slowly away from his loving family.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: alzheimer's disease, family relations, mental illness, family problems, unfulfillment, family in crisis, supportive spouse, terminal illness, businessman, love, society, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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22%
Wilderness: Part One (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, psychotronic
Plot: boxing, friendship, criminal, japanese man, life is a bitch, social problems, poor, boxer, social issues, society, poverty, female nudity ...
Time: near future
Place: japan, tokyo
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21%
This Is My Body (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gifted student Antoine goes against his family’s wishes and accepts the lead role in a controversial director’s film. He learns that the role had previously been offered to a young man who committed suicide after an on-set affair – and events ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot: love affair, couple relations, artists and showbiz, parents and children, family relations, family business, gay, suicide, lgbt, sociology, dancer, jealousy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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21%
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Strands (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Isabel and Clara are two childhood friends separated by fate. Isabel is a naive provincial lass who works as an indigenous fabric weaver while Clara is the liberated city girl. Clara has gone wild after her mother runs off with another man. The two ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, tagalog
Plot: murder, family relations, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, relationship problems, culture clash, life is a bitch, female protagonist, relationships, dysfunctional family, friends ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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In the Open (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Elisa, a thirty-eight-year old woman, leaves for a week with her husband and young daughter on a vacation to a house in the country. Everything is going for her: she has a successful professional career, loves her family, has enough money for a ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: countryside, family problems, couple relations, estrangement, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, relocation, making love, domestic disturbance, crumbling marriage, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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