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Bombal (2011)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
María Luisa Bombal is an underground writer in the early twenties trying to reconcile her passionate and very sexual lifestyle with her life as a socialite among Santiago's very conservative elite.
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, erotic, contemplative
Plot:
open marriage, infidelity, female writer, painter, fictional biography, sex scene, making love, literature, biopic, prison, gay, artist, writers, female nudity, unrequited love, bare breasts, cuckold, horny wife, one night stand, dysfunctional marriage, skinny dipping, suicide attempt, bare butt, cuckolded husband, female pubic hair ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
chile, santiago chile, santiago de chile
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic and serious films with plots about female nudity, female full frontal nudity, biopic, sex scene, female pubic hair, bare breasts and male nudity mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Bombal: Cezanne and I (2016), Love Life (2007), Papa Hemingway in Cuba (2015), Foujita (2015), Tove (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
They loved each other with the ardor of thirteen-year-old boys. Rebellion and curiosity, hopes and doubts, girls and dreams of glory – they shared it all. Paul was rich, Emile poor. They went skinny-dipping, drank absinthe, starved, only to ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, factual, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
painter, art, friendship, artist, painting, novelist, female nudity, portrait, nude painting, seaside, infidelity, end of friendship ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, 1880s, victorian era, 1860s ...
Place:
south of france, paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style:
intellectual, talky, clever, witty, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
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Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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518
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
making love, sexually dissatisfied wife, horny wife, cheating wife, age difference, male female relationship, older man younger woman sex, unrequited love, forbidden love, love, midlife crisis, sex scene ...
Place:
germany, israel
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
writers, cuban revolution, revolution, cultural icon, historical figure, lifestyle, meeting, social problems, skinny dipping, world war one, journalism, art ...
Place:
cuba
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78%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, who was famous for mixing up European and Japanese styles.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, intercultural, avant garde ...
Plot:
artist, biopic, painter, art, painting, relationship problems, artists' life, family problems, social problems, world war two, modernism, identity ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb ...
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, melancholic, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbianism, writers, lesbian relationship, lgbt, artist, unrequited love, lesbian love, lovers, young lovers, female artist, love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1947, year 1952, 1950s, 1940s ...
Place:
helsinki finland, paris france, finland, eastern europe
Similarity:
72%
214
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kreola arrives in Santa Domingo to join her photographer husband Andy. Although Andy is initially jealous of Marco, who is in town looking for his missing girlfriend who did not return from Santa Domingo with her coworkers after a girls getaway. ...
Style:
erotic, sexy
Plot:
unfaithful wife, cuckold, erotica, romantic triangle, infidelity, extramarital affair, unfaithfulness, nudity, female pubic hair, horny wife, bare breasts, neglected wife ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, controversial, sensual, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
sexuality, sex, writers, affair, open relationship, unfaithful wife, love triangle, sexual promiscuity, sensuality, lesbian, lesbian sex, adultery ...
Time:
1930s, year 1931, year 1932, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, serious, art house
Plot:
psychoanalysis, musician, infidelity, love triangle, couples, love affair, artists and showbiz, couple relations, love and romance, composer, crumbling marriage, doctors and patients ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, 1900s
Place:
germany, europe, holland, amsterdam, vienna
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious, art house ...
Plot:
painter, dysfunctional family, suicide, father son relationship, murder, family feud, suicidal tendency, art, artist, love letter, art history, biopic ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s, 2000s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote short stories for newspapers to sign Antosha Tchékhonté. Important characters, writer and editor, just make him aware of his talent. His situation ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
writers, literature, writer's life, biopic, tuberculosis, family relations, couple relations, life is a bitch, obsession, siblings relations, artists and showbiz, infidelity ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It all begins at a party in Santiago, Chile, when a seemingly innocent gesture -- the offer of a ride home -- ends in a passionate night of lovemaking and intense conversation for young singles Bruno and Daniela. Shacked up at a flea-bitten motel ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, one night stand, sexual pleasure, voyeur, erotica, massage, female pubic hair, love and romance, sex with a stranger, infidelity, fall in love, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In contemporary Paris, expat American writer Henry Miller works his way through a series of amorous encounters while trying to find his literary voice.
Style:
stylized, realistic, atmospheric, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
female nudity, school, social relations, artists and showbiz, writer's life, womanizer, mental institution, immigrant, nudity, husband wife relationship, american abroad, english teacher ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1920s, 60s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA, Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Set in a traditional world of bullfighting ranches in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, “Where Life is Born” tells the story of Juan and Ester, a couple who have an open relationship, and the problems that arise when Ester falls in love with ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
lovers, adultery, open marriage, cuckold, cuckolded husband, female nudity, sexually dissatisfied wife, cheating wife, husband and wife, husband wife relationship, jealousy, horny wife ...
Place:
mexico
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55%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
Style:
erotic, psychological, touching, neurotic, spiritual ...
Plot:
writers, mental illness, making love, depression, biopic, schizophrenia, children, art, women, mental disorder, female writer, woman ...
Time:
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Place:
new zealand, london, paris france
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Sachiko and Yoshida are newlyweds, and have just moved into a newly-constructed apartment with completely white rooms. It’s reasonable to expect that they would be enjoying their newlywed life, but Sachiko is refusing to go along with Yoshida’s ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
cuckolded husband, sexually dissatisfied wife, unfaithful girlfriend, sexual desire, sexually frustrated woman, family relations, family problems, relationships, infidelity, love affair, cheating wife, sexual relations ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
54%
306
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Distinguished Italian poet Antonia Pozzi (1912–1938) was among those women who were at odds with the times in which they lived. Her poems record her inability to adapt to social norms and her desire to live fully, and in poetry she sought an ...
Plot:
poet, female nudity, public nudity, poetry, girl, writers, poem, mountain, suicide, school, professor, teacher ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
milan italy
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Austrian expressionist poet Georg Trakl was in love with her sister. And she loved him back. Their relationship became sexual and caused quite a stir in the local society. But when his sister asked him to flee with her to Australia where no one ...
Style:
sincere, serious, captivating, disturbing, erotic
Plot:
incestuous relationship, brother sister incest, incestuous sex, forbidden love, dark secret, doomed love, sex with sister, brother sister sex, obsession, loveless marriage, miscarriage, domineering mother ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sad, factual ...
Plot:
painter, painting, artist, prodigy, biopic, art, art history, life is a bitch, addiction, tragic love, couple relations, tragic hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1919, 1920s
Place:
europe, france, paris france, south of france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot:
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Place:
florida
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
painter, artist, biopic, grief, mental illness, social problems, life is a bitch, problem, outcast, character study, loss, addiction ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 20th century
Place:
oslo norway, berlin germany, copenhagen
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly ...
Style:
historical romance, period piece, factual, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
1920s
Place:
england
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
denmark, paris france, idaho, copenhagen, europe ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, intellectual, independent film ...
Plot:
death, sex scene, gay, female nudity, filmmaker, artists and showbiz, murder, interview, society, biopic, writers, nudity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mariana and Julian are a couple that have been happily married for many years. They have two kids: Juan Maria and Bibiana. They are in love and are very successful in their professional lives. They have a wonderful sex life and in the foreplay that ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, hot
Plot:
unfaithful, open marriage, cuckold, unfaithful wife, marital infidelity, horny wife, swinger couple, infidelity, husband wife relationship, lovers, male female relationship, forbidden love ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
ibiza
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Aurora Rumelin is happy because the noble writer Leopold Sacher-Masoch has asked for her hand. Little by little the marriage goes into crisis mainly because Leopold asks his wife to beat him before sexual relations and to treat him like a slave. ...
Style:
erotic, erotic drama, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dominatrix, masochism, bdsm, biopic, mature, sadomasochism, marriage crisis, sexual humiliation, taboo, sexual obsession, infidelity, divorce ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another ...
Style:
erotic, heartbreaking, sexy
Plot:
painter, artist, art, art history, painting, biopic, famous, artwork, sex, fashion, world war one, love ...
Time:
1910s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, psychological, captivating
Plot:
painter, bohemian life, genius, surrealism, art, male female relationship, relationships, love story, historical figure, couple relations, storytelling, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place:
manhattan new york city, spain, new york
Similarity:
42%
648
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A film inspired by the life and work of Nelly Arcan. The portrait of a fragmented woman, lost between irreconcilable identities: writer, lover, call girl and star. Several women in one, navigating between great exaltation and great disenchantment. ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
writers, seductress, love interest, female sexuality, prostitute, confession, customer, female protagonist, doctor patient relationship, female pubic hair, female masturbation, teenage sexuality ...
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