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199 Tips to Be Happy (2008)
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Original name: 199 recetas para ser feliz
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Chilean couple, Tomás and Helena, living in Barcelona in the grip of a heat wave receive an unexpected visitor: Sandra, the girlfriend of Helena’s recently deceased younger brother. Nymph-like Sandra is in no hurry to leave and slowly manages to wind both Tomas and Helena around her little finger. Tomas is trying to finish his self-help book in spite of his writers’ block and Helena can’t get her dead brother out of her mind. Sandra provides a welcome distraction, and soon becomes the object of the couples desire. With relationship boundaries blurred, passions are ignited in this erotic arthouse drama. ~ sydneylatinofilmfestival.org
Style:
art house, art film, erotic drama, tension, sensual, atmospheric, meditative, ambiguous ending, intellectual
Plot:
love triangle, sexual tension, seduction, marital crisis, jealousy, infidelity, grief, intimacy, psychological manipulation, mourning, eroticism, slow burn, obsession, loss of brother, sexual awakening, writer's block, transformation, identity, expatriate, self-help, heat wave, female nudity, lesbian sex, bare breasts, card playing ...
Place:
barcelona, spain, barcelona spain
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out erotic drama, sensual, erotic and art house films with plots about jealousy, female nudity, obsession, seduction, sexual tension, love triangle and infidelity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like 199 Tips to Be Happy: The Bitches (1973), La strana voglia (1991), Tattoo Bar (2000), Negatives (1968), The Women on the Roof (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sensual, erotic drama, intense, art house
Plot:
sexual tension, lust, castle, gigolo, jealousy, erotica, lesbian sex, intimate, manipulation, luxury, sexploitation, obsession ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, sensual, erotic drama, dark
Plot:
tattoo, female protagonist, heartbreak, obsession, jealousy, obsessive love, desire, urban, character study, unrequited love, nightclub, betrayal ...
Place:
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Similarity:
82%
185
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, art house, psychological, erotic, erotic drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
london
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer ...
Style:
atmospheric, art house, independent film, tension, sensitive ...
Plot:
photography, lesbian romance, photographer, self discovery, coming of age, sexual awakening, love triangle, photograph, bisexuality, intimate, identity, jealousy ...
Time:
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Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A beautiful woman brings together a group of her friends in order to search for any treasures that may be hidden throughout a mansion given to her by her deceased father, and the girls find that they are more interested in exploring one another.
Style:
erotic drama, sensual, atmospheric, dramatic, erotic ...
Plot:
friendship, mansion, female bonding, secrets, inheritance, sexual tension, self discovery, identity, mature, exploration, sexual awakening, seduction ...
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71%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
art house, atmospheric, dramatic, sensual, moody
Plot:
writers, midlife crisis, melancholy, seduction, love triangle, obsession, infidelity, retreat, adaptation, exile, passion, ambition ...
Time:
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Place:
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67%
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, tension, sensual, erotic drama ...
Plot:
unrequited love, obsession, sexual tension, voyeurism, one night stand, desire, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations, family relations, love story, unfulfilled love ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Style:
romantic drama, period piece, tragic ending, sensual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female nudity, erotica, love triangle, seduction, femme fatale, passion, romantic rivalry, fascism, jealousy, obsession, manipulation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1920s, year 1975
Place:
italy
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Story:
Juliette and Paul move into their dreamhouse but they soon realize that the rent is too high for the two of them alone so that they decide to rent out their spare room to a young woman named Nathalie. She becomes Paul’s mistress but cannot get him ...
Style:
tense, erotic drama, psychological thriller, erotic, moody
Plot:
revenge, jealousy, infidelity, ex lover, betrayal, romantic triangle, manipulation, domestic drama, obsession, seduction, sexual tension, sexual jealousy ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, erotic drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Carmilla falls for her stepfather and seduces him. When he is killed in a car accident, she decides to take revenge against the driver, but this only leads to a deeper tragedy.
Style:
erotic drama, intense, dark, art house, period piece
Plot:
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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143
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
44%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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41%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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41%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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147
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 62 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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