Movies like May 2008

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May (2008)
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May (2008)
Original name: Máj
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After success of Kytice, which is based on the famous collection of poems of K.J.Erben, one of the most well-known character of classic Czech literature, Mr. Brabec went for even more famous poem Máj of K.H. Mácha, which is considered the peak of Czech romanticism
Style: psychotronic, campy
Plot: love, sex, dog, horse, village, bandit, ghost, violence, female nudity, love triangle, death, torture, burglar, murder, criminal, wine, priest, sword, jealousy, church, suicide, ant, boat, death of protagonist, bare breasts ...
Place: central europe
Keyword: mass

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Most similar movies to May

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, realistic, serious and erotic films with plots about female nudity, death, murder, jealousy, sex, flashback and love mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like May: Shades of Fern (1986), Under the Skin (1996), Too Late Tomorrow (2002), Half Past Ten (2008), 3 Seasons in Hell (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shades of Fern (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young ...
Style: homoerotic, period drama
Plot: gay, gay interest, poem, forest, dream, lost in the woods, police officer, cave, teenage protagonist, scout, homoeroticism, loss of friend ...
Time: 1920s
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.9
 352
Under the Skin (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Peru, Spain, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.
Plot: female nudity, dead body, nudity, museum, femme fatale, father son relationship, guilt, police, death, obsession, jail cell, violence ...
Place: peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Too Late Tomorrow (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young convict named Antonis, takes a 48 hour discharge from prison. His brother wants to spent this time together, but Antonis has other plans. He meets Olia, a girl who has abandon her household and her boyfriend has pimp her. The two fall in ...
Plot: money, criminal, nudity, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, female nudity, security guard, hotel, prostitute, robbery, male nudity, brother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Half Past Ten (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 55 min.
Story: An alcoholic married man discovers he has fallen out of love with his moody wife.
Style: homoerotic, captivating, talky, contemplative, romantic ...
Plot: bisexuality, love triangle, alcoholic, relationship problems, forbidden love, tenderness, nightclub, love, jealousy, suicide, murder of husband, fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, freeze frame, intellectual
Plot: writers, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship between men, employer employee relationship, student, teenage boy, communism, male objectification, youth, writer's life, society, love and romance ...
Time: year 1947, 1940s, year 1948, year 1949
Place: prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.5
 115
Storyteller (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Story: A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová's novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of emotions and feelings of two injured and beloved women, two women that the aging lothario Mára came between. The ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, melancholic, romantic ...
Plot: love triangle, jealousy, false identity, selfish woman, boarding school, unfaithful boyfriend, police detective, ex husband ex wife relationship, cheating boyfriend, pregnant woman, investigation, female judge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, central europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Ardent Summer (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Barbara is a sexy stripper, but she is dedicated to her husband. When a rich and above-the-law land-owner orders the murder of her husband to get her, she plans, and conducts, deadly revenge. She starts by intriguing between the rich man and his ...
Plot: gaucho, stepmother, affair, stripper, murder, love, woman, husband, cheating wife, woman riding a horse, farm, striptease ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Janosik: A True Story (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Adventure
Country: Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt out by war experiences and disappointment in love, joins a team of brigands. Soon after he ...
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense, crying
Plot: mother son relationship, european history, criminal as protagonist, soldier, friendship between men, crime and punishment, crime spree, death of protagonist, friendship, politics, gangster, drunkenness ...
Time: 18th century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Swimming Pool (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his ...
Style: neo noir, crime drama, technicolor, anthology, art house ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: summer vacation, nudity, death by drowning, swimming pool, summer, love triangle, haunted by the past, female nudity, crimes of passion, police officer, lust, mediterranean ...
Time: 60s
Place: french riviera, cote d'azur, south of france, mediterranean sea, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Feast of July (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
Style: stylized, talky, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, dysfunctional family, soldier, family relations, tragic hero, couple relations, love triangle, down on your luck, wartime life, love and romance, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.9
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Lila Says (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo who develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also ...
Style: erotic, sexy, emotional, non-linear, artsy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: sex, dream girl, love, blonde, horniness, coming of age, erotic fantasy, flirting, erotica, love triangle, friends, sexual relations ...
Time: near future, year 2004
Place: paris france, maghreb, lebanon, middle east, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.2
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Bad Blood (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country; it's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment. While a serum that can ...
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, psychedelic, art house, deep ...
Plot: unrequited love, aids, older man younger woman relationship, crazy love, mafia, robbery, love, ex convict, doom, in love, new love, underworld ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.6
 12K
Cholera Street (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, Hungary, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The film is set in a rundown, crime ridden neighborhood of Istanbul dubbed "Cholera Street" (Kolera Sokağı). Salih is a mechanic and son of a respected barber Ali. A woman Tina arrives at Cholera street where she takes up residence and ...
Style: lgbt cinema, art house, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: turk, serial killer, women's issues, lgbt, murder, revenge, gangster, prostitute, violence, sexual abuse, junkie, alcoholic ...
Time: 90s
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.4
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Siberia (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Goof and Hugo are flatmates in Amsterdam who have made a tidy sum from having sex with tourists, then robbing them. Their goal is to spend the money together on a world trip and their scam is going well until they meet Lara, originally from Siberia, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, stylized, witty ...
Plot: drug, friendship, love and romance, betrayal, dishonesty, fall in love, dark humor, friends, cons and scams, theft, motorcycle, caper ...
Time: 90s
Place: amsterdam, europe, new york, pakistan, siberia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Traffic Department (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.
Style: psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot: adultery, marriage, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, infidelity, violence, winter, polish, racism, police, interrogation, snow ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Wild Flowers (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
Style: serious, dark, fairy tale, atmospheric, gothic horror ...
Plot: folklore, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, surrealism, religions or cults, magic, ghost, romanticism, danger, folk horror, mythology, church ...
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Cat's Meow (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
Style: stylized, witty, tense, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: hollywood, murder, yacht, infidelity, adultery, police investigation, secrets, gossip, mistress, crimes of passion, artists and showbiz, actor's life ...
Time: 1920s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: california, greece, los angeles, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 2K
Hardcore (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
Style: captivating, serious, rough, stylized, controversial ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, brothel, lesbian, lesbian sex, drug abuse, femme fatale, life is a bitch, going straight, youth, love and romance, destructive relationship, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Runaway Blues (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Before he was crowned one of the "Four Heavenly Kings", Andy Lau starred in the 1989 gangster film Runaway Blues. He plays Lam, a Taiwan gangster who flees to Hong Kong after killing a rival gangster. Hiding at his uncle gang boss ...
Style: heroic, poliziottesco
Plot: heroic bloodshed, exploitation, hostage, murder, corpse, burned alive, blood, brutality, sadism, death, female nudity, gangster ...
Place: taiwan, macau
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35%
The Youth Killer (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Plot: nudity, female nudity, rape, running from police, bare chested male, dead body, family relations, parents, disposing of a dead body, assassination attempt, dreaming, crucifix ...
Place: japan
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35%
An Unlikely Romance (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Story: Luisa and Erika are prototypes of young women who plunge into relationships with the "wrong" men. Luisa (Berenika Kohoutová) wants to become an actress, which upsets her husband Igor to no end. Erika (Alzbeta Pazoutová) is trying to work ...
Style: lgbt cinema, psychological, compassionate, romantic, crying ...
Plot: psychiatrist, mental institution, lesbian, lesbian interest, husband wife relationship, doctor patient relationship, gay interest, doctor, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, jealousy, hospital ...
Place: prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
 121
A Tale of Love (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This drama about a young girl's struggle to overcome the dehumanization of poverty depicts the steady, corrosive effects of her life on her psyche. Bruna (Valeria Golino) has had to work since the age of 13 to help support her father and ...
Plot: age difference, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, love triangle, teenage boy, violence, death, teenage girl, roommate, friendship, bus ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Trilogy of Lust (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A failed medical student running a fish farm in Hong Kong buys a new wife...
Style: erotic, art house, sexual, hot
Plot: unsimulated sex, sex scene, making love, nudity, fishing, eel, public nudity, male pubic hair, female pubic hair, fisting, female nudity, coitus ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Anatomy of Love (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young attractive widow has a one-night stand with a handsome architect. The couple soon starts a tumultuous relationship.
Plot: voice over narration, narration, female nudity, sex, jealousy, love, hugging, card playing, male female relationship, young
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Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the ...
Style: grindhouse, lyrical, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: lovers on the run, depression, justice, visceral, mafia, loneliness, train, female nudity, chases and races, on the road, great depression, anarchist ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1972
Place: usa, arkansas, chicago, illinois, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Vanilla Flavour (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A dramatic love story, taking place in the final days of the Second World War when the American Army liberated the Pilsen region of West Bohemia. Anne lives with her mother, husband and stepchildren at a solitary country farm. But her life is not ...
Style: crying
Plot: shootout, woods, bare chested male, rural setting, family relations, store, translator, police officer, czech village, pushy mother, passive aggressive behavior, passive aggressive woman ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
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The Drummer (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When Sid insults a powerful triad boss, his father sends him to Taiwan for safety. Bored and restless, he discovers a community of Zen drummers high in the hills, and joins up - a decision inspired by a pretty face that soon becomes a challenge.
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: gangster, martial arts, self discovery, redemption, rivalry, introspection, hopes, drummer, chase, business partner, training, on the run ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, taiwan, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.7
 2K
Happy End (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set during the 1999 Asian fiscal crisis Ki-Mun has lost his job and feels ashamed at having to act as domestic housekeepr for his career woman wife Bo-ra. Bo-ra feels trapped in a passionless marriage and is having an affair with a former college ...
Style: erotic, sensual, realistic, sincere, sexual ...
Plot: infidelity, family relations, adultery, love triangle, family problems, male full rear nudity, cheating wife, passion, loveless marriage, extramarital affair, sex scene, affair ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.0
 117
The Profiteer (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young seminarian who can't be ordained because of a speech impediment leaves the seminary to take a job with a wealthy baroness' crippled son. The seminarian is actually what the italian title of the movie describes as an exploitative ...
Style: crying
Plot: age-gap relationship, oral sex, exploitation, mourning, satire, silent man, blind character, domineering mother, chambermaid, family relations, female exhibitionist, greedy woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.7
 183
The Assistant (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Daniel Petrie scripted and directed this Canadian-British film, an adaptation of the memorable 1957 Brooklyn-based novel by Brooklyn-born Bernard Malamud, author of The Natural. During the Depression, drifter Frank Alpine (Gil Bellows) and hobo Ward ...
Style: detective, independent film
Plot: anti semitism, drifter, assistant, guilt, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, great depression, robbery, father daughter relationship, brutality, love, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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