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Surrogate (2008)
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Original name: סרוגייט
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
Eli is a 32 year old man who has problems with relationships with women. Hagar is a surrogate, an alternative partner for practical, sexual therapy. They meet once a week and practice a relationship and intimacy in laboratory conditions. The fictitious relationship between them exposes them both physically and emotionally and brings to surface repressed fears from the real world. The changes Eli goes through during the therapy, along with the secrets revealed, not only shake his own life, but also the life of his family. Between clinic walls, due to an "artificial" process, Eli learns how to love for the first time.
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, suspense, sexy, queer cinema
Plot:
israeli, therapy, male female relationship, childhood trauma, laboratory, sex crime, sex, female nudity, sexual abuse, male nudity, family relations, child abuse, abuse, therapist, female pubic hair, nudity, trauma, male pubic hair, sex therapist, sex therapy, nude, hebrew, bathtub, pubic hair, female full frontal nudity ...
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
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Most similar movies to Surrogate
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, realistic and serious films with plots about family relations, israeli, female nudity, family problems, female full frontal nudity, pubic hair and male nudity mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Surrogate: Princess (2014), Restoration (2011), The Exchange (2011), Aviva, My Love (2006), Our Father (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
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Place:
palestine, israel, middle east
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
family problems, family business, family relations, parents and children, workplace, disagreement, aging, unfulfillment, loss of partner, store, estrangement, israeli ...
Time:
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Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
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90%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, psychological, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family relations, couples, midlife crisis, family life, couple relations, introspection, obsession, hopes, surrealism, husband wife relationship, lie, routine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, tel aviv israel
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Aviva, a hard-working hotel cook in the small northern Israeli town of Tiberias, is on the brink of finally fulfilling her lifelong dream. For years she kept her remarkable writing abilities under wraps, until her sister, Anita, introduces her to ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, touching, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, writer's life, family problems, working class, dysfunctional family, creative block, small town, small town life, unemployment, social decay, betrayal, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine, middle east, tel aviv israel
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Ovadia Rachmim is the strongest and most violent doorman of Tel Aviv night clubs. He and his wife Rachel are trying to get pregnant for 5 years. A small time gangster named Shalom, offers Ovadia a job, to be a debts collector, offering him a lot of ...
Style:
suspense, captivating
Plot:
gangster, husband wife relationship, israeli, parenthood, fatherhood, family problems, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, couple relations, criminal, outlaw gang ...
Place:
palestine, tel aviv israel, israel
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, touching, serious ...
Plot:
estrangement, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, grandfather granddaughter relationship, hospital, husband wife relationship, coma, family secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While her husband struggles to keep his restaurant in business, a mother of three lands a job as an assistant to a powerful, but sexually harrassive realtor and brings herself to fight back.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
sexual harassment, husband wife relationship, employer employee relationship, family problems, career change, relationship vs career, money problems, financial problem, relationship problems, forbidden love, female protagonist, moral dilemma ...
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When Brian Cherry, a sweet, sensitive young Los Angeleno, falls for the beautiful, electric, and damaged Jules, she turns his ideas about women and sex upside-down. Slowly, he is drawn into a twisted love-triangle that includes Jules and his best ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, sexy, independent film ...
Plot:
love triangle, couples, fall in love, best friend, love, friendship, escapades, revenge, youth, love and romance, male female relationship, generation y ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A story with a bit of despair: six or seven families who live in the same blocks that surround a parking lot. And they are all involved in each other’s lives.
Style:
erotic, sexual, semi serious, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
sex, female nudity, female pubic hair, nudity, strong sexual content, dishonesty, family life, petty theft, society, sex scene, making love, airport ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
77%
731
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Gili is a teenager who decides to change schools. She is determined to improve her lame social status. Over the course of a few weeks she hooks up with several different boys, all from her new school. Their encounters get more and more sexual, each ...
Style:
realistic, sexual, sexy, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
teenage life, youth, sex scene, sexual promiscuity, sexual relations, sexual abuse, casual sex, male masturbation, school, life is a bitch, hot and sexy, erotic art ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, israel, middle east
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Rachel, 27, is raising her mentally retarded sister Gabby, 24, all by herself. When the social worker finds out she leaves her sister alone in the house while at work, she is forced to place her in a day-care center. For the first time in her life ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy, weird
Plot:
mentally challenged, destructive relationship, fall in love, family relations, family problems, love and romance, love, sister sister relationship, illness, third world, israeli, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
politics, soldier, military life, friendship, terrorism, women, danger, israeli, third world, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt ...
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, palestine
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
painter, artist, marriage, dementia, marital problem, marriage crisis, illness, changing lives, family in crisis, family relations, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Shadowed by a strict, military father who inflicts severe methods of punishment as a form of discipline, seventeen year old Ariella commits a grave error that her father isn't willing to punish her for. Seeking a punishment of her own, Ariella ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
abusive father, daughter, father daughter relationship, violent father, dark past, father and daughter, father, family problems, secret past, family relations, life is a bitch, israeli ...
Place:
middle east, palestine, israel
Similarity:
74%
175
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ilan Ben-Natan is a man on his sixties and a well-known professor of astrophysics at the University of Haifa. He is married with Naomi, a 28 years old, attractive book illustrator. Inclined to suspect, he finds out her wife's betrayal and then ...
Style:
realistic, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
affair, murder, obsession, couples, love triangle, redemption, crumbling marriage, husband and wife, investigation, disposing of a dead body, jealousy, lust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
73%
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Country: Israel, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French woman of Israeli origin comes to the Gaza Strip to find her long ago abandoned daughter.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
israel, middle east, germany, palestine, france
Similarity:
72%
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Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, psychological, emotional, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
mental institution, haunted by the past, uncover truth, human spirit, culture clash, memory loss, life is a bitch, hopes, mentally unstable, conflict, israeli, israeli palestinian conflict ...
Place:
israel, palestine, usa, middle east
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face. The juxtaposition between fabulous beauty and disfigurement proves unsettling for the villagers and she grows up ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense
Plot:
female nudity, older man younger woman marriage, female pubic hair, cuckold, unhappy marriage, disfigured face, venereal disease, sexual tension, relationship problems, dysfunctional marriage, marriage, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Not for the easily embarrassed, “The Story
of Richard O.” is an explicit take on sex as a
way to connect with other people. Richard
feels cornered and takes some time off from
his girlfriend in order to come to terms with
his relationship ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
erection, coitus, unsimulated sex, male nudity, sex, sexual perversion, male female relationship, attempted seduction, sexual awakening, looking for sex, lifestyle, life philosophy ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
life & death, care, nursing, last wish, near death experience, male nudity, amputee, female nudity, disability, women, man in underwear, erotica ...
Similarity:
71%
237
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
child rape, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, family relations, troubled past, confronting the past, tragic past, shame, haunting, coming of age ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
funeral, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, male nudity, male pubic hair, female nudity, bicycle, flashback ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
The story of a young couple who live in a small town with their four-year-old daughter. The husband is so caught up in his work as a policeman that he gradually becomes increasingly alienated from his wife and daughter who become ever closer to one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
couple relations, accident, family problems, couples, family relations, small town, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, parents and children, police officer, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, doctors and patients, political unrest, injustice, society, wartime life, friendship, life is a bitch, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, palestinian authority, jerusalem
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Philippines
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Kim-Dusik, who committed a murder in Korea, fled to Manila and has lived there nearly 15 years. He lives with his Filipino wife, Medusa, and their 15-year old son, Philip. Dusik, his irresistible yearning for his mother, turns into violence ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot:
father son relationship, marital abuse, rape, murder, male female relationship, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, violence, family problems, violent, life is a bitch, father and son ...
Place:
manila philippines, korea
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, road movie, captivating, humorous, serious ...
Plot:
self discovery, on the road, human nature, bittersweet, righting the wronged, selflessness, bribery, redemption, friendship, israeli, hopes, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine, romania, europe ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social
Plot:
mother daughter conflict, second wife, second marriage, bedouin, impossible love, family problems, women in society, marriage, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
israel, middle east, indiana, palestine
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, car accident, family secret, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Not everyone is born to be a soldier. Not even in Israel, where universal conscription is the tradition. This movie is about a Sad Sack in the Israeli army, incompetent to complete training and yet incompetent to extricate himself.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking, bleak
Plot:
israeli, basic training, power relations, soldier, misfit, army investigation, military, hapless soldier, military life, officers and cadets, boot camp, nudity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
israel
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An illegal Chinese immigrant and her teenage daughter are held captive in their home after a stranger breaks in.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
prostitution, mother daughter relationship, changing lives, illegal prostitution, family relations, lifestyle change, prostitute, family problems, mysterious stranger, mother and daughter, life is a bitch, relationship problems ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
70%
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