Movies like Shadow of Angels

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Shadow of Angels (1976)
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Shadow of Angels (1976)
Original name: Schatten der Engel
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
Plot: sex, prostitute, rich man, transvestite, pimp, perversion, ex nazi, prostitution, male nudity, father daughter relationship, homosexuality, class differences, strangulation, male prostitute, cash, suitor, lack of money, social criticism, nudity, hooker, nude, beating, killing a cat, coughing, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and psychological films with plots about prostitute, sex, female nudity, prostitution, nudity, male nudity and pimp mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Shadow of Angels: In a Year with 13 Moons (1978), Memoirs of a French Whore (1979), Old Narcissus (2023), Diary of a Sinner (1974), The Life (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to ...
Style: disturbing, art house, philosophical, depressing, controversial ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transsexual, lgbt, gender, transgender, suicide, loser, gay, sex, identity, psychopath, social outcast, prostitution ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: frankfurt germany
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Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the ...
Plot: prostitution, pimp, exploitation, women, girl, relationships, sex, physical abuse, brothel, masochism, streetwise, seduction ...
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Old Narcissus (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 74-year-old Yamazaki, having been handsome as a young gay man, grows narcissistic of his beauty and is unable to bear his own aging. One night, Yamazaki meets a young and beautiful man named Leo. Having loved only himself during his long tumultuous ...
Style: psychological, captivating, sexual, serious
Plot: sex worker, gay sex, gay, gay interest, homosexual, conflict, male nudity, prostitution, prostitute, male prostitute, gay couple, homosexuality ...
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78%
Diary of a Sinner (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The revealing story of the shocking exploits of those who fulfill the most bizarre fantasies.
Style: erotic, grindhouse
Plot: sexploitation, pimp, canuxploitation, nudity, sex, female nudity, male nudity, erotica, surrealism, rape, suicide, debauchery ...
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67%
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The Life (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, rough, sexual ...
Plot: prostitute, sex, interview, prostitution, women, bare breasts, sex talk, female nudity, nudity, couples, actor's life, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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66%
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I, a Man (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: I, A Man is Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish [film] I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I, A Man. They created the ...
Style: experimental, independent film
Plot: voyeurism, sex, male nudity, nudity, male prostitute, hustler, staircase, boredom
Time: 60s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Er Moretto - Von Lieben leben (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This is the story of a runaway desperate poor 14 years old boy, becoming a prostitute and suffering all kinds of tribulations in Rome in the 80s. And the gay scene is somewhat accurate of those days
Plot: gay, voyeurism, lgbt, male prostitute, gay interest, male nudity, prostitute, beach, priest, poverty, nudity, photography ...
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60%
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Change My Life (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Nina is an unemployed actress who has just taken a lethal overdose of tranquilizers. Stumbling though the streets of Paris in a deathly haze, Nina collapses into unconsciousness. Fortunately for Nina, lonely Algerian Sami happened to jog by at just ...
Style: psychological, suspense, sincere, captivating
Plot: actress, prostitute, sex, male female relationship, male prostitute, couple relations, relationships, lgbt, mad love, street prostitution, street walker, hooker ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Prostitute (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Prostitute is the tale of two women: Sandra, an ambitious but naive Birmingham working girl who moves to London with the hope of securing wealthier patrons, and Louise, her social worker friend, who is fighting to change the antiquated and ...
Style: psychotronic, independent film, controversial
Plot: sex, prostitution, feminist, lady, prostitute, explicit sex, sex for money, call girl, skin, black bra, friend, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: london, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Downfall (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story revolves around an orphan girl who became a prostitute to survive and finds love with one of her clients. A young woman is tricked into prostitution, thinking she's going to sell beverages at a village store. She soon learns about the ...
Plot: asian, prostitution, village, woman, nudity, male nudity, sex, female nudity, young, breasts
Place: korea
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58%
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Street Sisters (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: What Would You Do If Your Mother Was a Hooker?
Style: crying, independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, erotica, black, revenge, prostitute mother, woman, hooker, interracial relations, sexploitation, prostitute, sex, funeral ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Garbage, the City and Death (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz (Stanislav Majer), the closer she is to a complete ...
Style: compassionate, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: prostitute, female impersonator, prostitution, man dressed as woman, transvestite, family relations, gay interest, manipulative person, nightclub, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, pimp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, central europe, prague
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56%
Too Much Too Often! (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: When swaggering and conceited teddy boy Mike (played by fleshy-faced BUCK STARR) isn’t combing his wavy hair in a stance reminiscent of The Fonz, he’s latching onto each and every female who crosses his slimy path. The guy is bad news and has ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: sexploitation, nudity, prostitution, female nudity, exploitation, bare breasts, prostitute, sex, sadism, sadist, blackmail, homosexual ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Whore 2 (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jack sets himself up in the Hotel St James to work on his book on prostitution in New York. Along the way he meets and grows fond of Mary Lou.
Style: semi documentary, social documentary, independent film, fake documentary
Plot: murder of a prostitute, sex shop, street walker, dead prostitute, rape, prostitution, prostitute, writers, sex for money, hooker, degradation, strip club ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Bubu (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the money she makes. The young couple find their place in the world of prostitutes and pimps, but the lack of perspective in their life - which ...
Plot: prostitute, pimp, bakery, money, conflict, hospital, death of father, fired from the job, caught stealing, impossible love, sexually transmitted disease, lack of money ...
Time: 1900s
Place: paris france
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49%
Another Day, Another Man (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A young couple move into an expensive new apartment after the husband gets a big pay raise. Unfortunately, he is soon stricken with a mysterious ailment and becomes bedridden. The wife, unable to find a job and with bills piling up, runs into a ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film
Plot: fetish, suicide, prostitution, man hits a woman, nudity, female nudity, prostitute, sex, sexploitation, exploitation, playing footsie, newlywed ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 3K
Much Loved (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, touching, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: prostitute, sex, shemale, orgy, real sex, teenage daughter, debauchery, mother daughter relationship, prostitution, feminist, child prostitution, art ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: middle east, africa, maghreb, morocco, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Cheech (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Six people, some more depressed than others, living through the worst day of their lives.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: prostitute, pimp, who done it, murder, dark humor, suicide, suicidal, nudity, female nudity, bare breasts, pharmacy, pharmacist ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 22
Shiba (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with ...
Plot: hooker, rural setting, cultural difference, village, seaside, dice, brother sister relationship, family relations, prostitute, hotel manager, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
On the Verge of a Fever (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Against the backdrop of poverty, fear and the brutal dictatorship of Haiti in 1971, ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER is about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy who just wants to experience life for himself with his streetwise friend Gégé. Having lived a somewhat ...
Plot: prostitute, dictatorship, dictator, sexual initiation, poverty, coming of age, pimp, girl next door, overprotective mother, bare breasts, sex, female nudity ...
Time: 70s
Place: haiti
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter Egermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of "Scenes From A Marriage." After Peter ...
Style: disturbing, black and white, suspense thriller, art house, psychological ...
Plot: lgbt, mental illness, prostitution, death, dream, psychiatry, nordic, labor, depression, dialogue, mental disorder, art ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.8
 86
Made in Ash (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A grittily realistic tale of prostitution at an Eastern European border town
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexy, sexual ...
Plot: prostitute, roommate, life is a bitch, down on your luck, sex, seamstress, nudity, innocence lost, romani people, female protagonist, exploitation, sexual content
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 1K
Beefcake (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thom Fitzgerald's (The Hanging Garden) provocative blending of fiction and documentary, tells the story of Bob Mizer, the pioneering founder of the Athletic Model Guild, a company which produced still photographs and short films extolling the ...
Style: factual, stylized, controversial, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, male prostitute, gay, homosexuality, lgbt, prostitution, muscleman, physical appearance, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, media, against the rules ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: nova scotia, venice beach california, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Call Girl '88 (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad.
Style: erotic, depressing
Plot: prostitution, dead body, car, tragedy, actress, castration, pimp, birthday present, filmmaking, runaway, wedding dress, hospital ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Slovenian Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Aleksandra is a student from Krško, a small town in Slovenia. She has a plan to conquer the world. Working as a prostitute, her life is heading to where she wants it, but an accidental death has her wrestling with new feelings of fear, loneliness, ...
Style: sexy, psychological, captivating, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: prostitute, call girl, nudity, prostitution, secret, nubile, rough sex, lifestyle, city life, pimp, female nudity, nymph ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovenia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Toys Are Not for Children (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Miserable with her marriage to a toy-store clerk and obsessed with memories of her long-absent father, child-like Jamie learns that toys are not for children when she turns her life around--by becoming a hooker! Playing "daddy's little ...
Style: controversial, psychosexual thriller, disturbing, psycho sexual, independent film
Plot: erotica, exploitation, female nudity, prostitute, call girl, adultery, prostitution, pimp, psychotic, young adult, bad father, sexual repression ...
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36%
A Szerencse lányai (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
Plot: woman, prostitute, mother daughter relationship, prostitute mother, female teacher, pimp, emigrant, prostitution, customer, russian immigrant, female pubic hair, stripper ...
Time: 90s
Place: moscow russia, warsaw poland
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35%
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Woods Are Wet (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.
Plot: sexual sadism, rape, sadism, pink film, perversion, sexual perversion, sex, female nudity, male nudity, hotel, hand job, sadomasochism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.1
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Dandelions (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: no overview.
Plot: motorcycle, drug addiction, wife, nudity, model, drug addict, picture, sex, male nudity, erotica, betrayal, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.1
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Alexa (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alexa is very attentive to her customer's requests, but soon realizes that prostitution has limited long term career potential...
Style: erotic drama, independent film, sensual
Plot: prostitute, female protagonist, call girl, prostitution, sex with prostitute, sensuality, female nudity, hooker, stockings, legs
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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