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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is gradually being destroyed. From sexual trauma to financial disaster, he slowly descends into a world of insanity, perversion and finally the bottomless pit!
Style:
bleak, dark, erotic drama, controversial, intense, suspense, period piece, art house, independent film
Plot:
businessman, midlife crisis, sexual dysfunction, driven mad, mental breakdown, character study, loneliness, obsession, jealousy, high society, infidelity, paranoia, troubled marriage, taboo, isolation, perversion, urban, slow burn, manipulation, escapism, impotence, gypsy, contract killing, brothel madam, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1981
Place:
paris france
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Most similar movies to Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out intense, art house, independent film and period piece films with plots about obsession, psychological drama, manipulation, character study, isolation, infidelity and jealousy mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid: Diary of a Sinner (1974), Misbehaviour (2008), My Rabbit is the Best (1982), A Woman (2010), The Perfect Education (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The revealing story of the shocking exploits of those who fulfill the most bizarre fantasies.
Style:
grindhouse, intense, controversial, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
pimp, sexploitation, suicide, self destructing, exploitation, desperation, moral ambiguity, loneliness, character study, alienation, obsession, mental illness ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In an effort to break away from her mundane life, Stephanie sets her sights on seducing her handsome teacher, and finds that he has some stimulating secrets. Submission was the name of the game and Mr. Carling demands total control. But, soon their ...
Style:
intense, suspense, dark, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
coming of age, trauma, discipline, moral ambiguity, manipulation, seduction, boarding school, forbidden romance, control, sexual relations, teen angst, deception ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire ...
Style:
erotic, controversial, erotic drama, intense, dark ...
Plot:
bdsm, male nudity, erotica, lesbian, sexploitation, sexual abuse, taboo, female protagonist, manipulation, teenage sexuality, emotional abuse, underage ...
Similarity:
79%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, controversial, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
kidnapping, older man younger woman relationship, schoolgirl, abduction, high school, mature, hostage, coercion, taboo, manipulation, control, sexual abuse ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
no overview.
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, bleak, noir, period piece ...
Plot:
infidelity, addiction, alcoholism, betrayal of trust, anti hero, manipulation, revenge, seduction, jealousy, sexploitation, female antagonist, obsession ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
Style:
religious drama, melancholic, bleak, poignant, independent film ...
Plot:
self destructing, faith, obsession, crisis of faith, female protagonist, clergy, character study, guilt, choir, unrequited love, isolation, catholicism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
montreal, canada
Similarity:
72%
175
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A horror-movie actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, detective, independent film
Plot:
love triangle, character study, midlife crisis, forbidden romance, jealousy, infidelity, adultery, unrequited love, bittersweet, loneliness, mature, obsession ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When young Daria enters rehab to kick the drug habit her first love left her with, her perceived innocence saves her from the sexual advances of the mostly male junkies inside and gains her their protection. Suddenly thrown into the spotlight and ...
Style:
intense, emotional, dark, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
drug rehab, addiction, trauma, female protagonist, recovery, manipulation, survival, abuse of power, sexual content, sexual manipulation, character study, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, dramatic, sensual, moody
Plot:
writers, midlife crisis, melancholy, seduction, love triangle, obsession, infidelity, retreat, adaptation, exile, passion, ambition ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl with mysterious intentions.
Style:
romantic drama, intense, independent film, disturbing, twisted ...
Plot:
self destructing, toxic relationship, anti hero, obsession, manipulation, sexual tension, femme fatale, psychological manipulation, character study, infidelity, betrayal, ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes ...
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:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her ...
Style:
bleak, intense, suspense, period piece, dark
Plot:
affair, accident, accidental killing, murder, female protagonist, jealousy, guilt, betrayal, love triangle, infidelity, moral ambiguity, behind the scenes ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.
Style:
intense, serious, bleak, melancholic, grim ...
Plot:
alienation, infidelity, domestic drama, character study, control, power struggle, obsession, manipulation, isolation, family conflict, claustrophobia, revenge ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After getting out of jail, where she learned to care for the sick, Alma, an albino woman, is determined to recover at any cost something much more important than her own freedom. In order to do so, Alma must spend her nights taking care of Clemente, ...
Style:
emotional, psychological thriller, melancholic, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
fear of death, obsession, female protagonist, compassion, character study, loneliness, moral ambiguity, redemption, domestic drama, manipulation, isolation, slow burn ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
While doing a story on the intrusion of surreptitious surveillance in peoples' private lives, a television reporter rents some surveillance equipment to get a feel for what it's like to spy.
Style:
suspense, creepy, period piece, independent film, deviant
Plot:
surveillance, voyeurism, obsession, privacy invasion, paranoia, ethical dilemma, social commentary, peeping tom, investigative journalism, guilty conscience, urban, loneliness ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Beverly a teaser bar girl, that think she hates men, but is in fact suffering from repressed nymphomania. She finds out when she flirts with her best friends man and gets thrown out in the street. Beverly runs into a toy store owner.
Style:
psychological, independent film, erotic drama, controversial, intense ...
Plot:
nymphomania, repressed sexuality, sexual repression, sexploitation, desire, sexual awakening, infidelity, female protagonist, taboo, shame, obsession, character study ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Bart, a young film student slowly loses his mind while studying at the film academy. Based on a true story.
Style:
realistic, independent film, dark, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
psychosis, hallucination, mental illness, mental breakdown, character study, delusion, coming of age, identity crisis, isolation, loneliness, self destructing, young adult ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
Style:
erotic drama, period piece, art house, tension, suspense
Plot:
blackmail, adultery, infidelity, affair, nudity, love triangle, romantic obsession, marital crisis, jealousy, female protagonist, scandal, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man who is a theater director and music composer picks up a young homeless woman off the street. But as soon as she starts living with him she becomes his object of desire. Soon his ex-girlfriend finds out about his new lover in his life and ...
Style:
erotic, erotic drama, sensual
Plot:
lesbian sex, seduction, sexual tension, obsessive love, love triangle, obsession, emotional manipulation, homeless woman, romantic rivalry, loneliness, sexual jealousy, manipulation ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls ...
Style:
dark, intense, tense, gothic, surreal ...
Plot:
overprotective mother, mother son relationship, sexual repression, obsession, jealousy, sexual awakening, taboo, power struggle, manipulation, sexual abuse, confrontation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
57%
175
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.
Style:
independent film, intense, tense, bleak, minimal cast ...
Plot:
drug addiction, heroin, desperation, claustrophobia, self destructing, isolation, confined space, realism, moral ambiguity, character study, rehabilitation, survival ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Story:
Eva auditions for a role in an obscure art-house film. An anonymous, masked director creates an intimidating atmosphere. He dominates and humiliates Eva, forcing her into prostitution. She sleeps with a Jewish film producer named Josh. When he ...
Style:
art house, disturbing, bleak, dark, tense ...
Plot:
manipulation, exploitation, control, abuse of power, humiliation, dehumanization, female protagonist, blackmail, sexploitation, intimidation, coercion, film industry ...
Similarity:
51%
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185
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
Style:
independent film, art house, psychological, erotic, erotic drama ...
Plot:
role playing, love triangle, identity, sexual tension, character study, obsession, voyeurism, intimacy, sexual exploration, domestic drama, jealousy, transformation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Story:
Libuse is a divorcee who owns a dog hotel and would much rather spend her time with her dogs than stepping back into the dating pool.
Style:
suspense, captivating, intense, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
domestic violence, manipulation, loneliness, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, toxic relationship, emotional blackmail, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, psycho, marital problem, trap, family relations ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An estranged father and son on holiday bond over the beautiful foreign girl they find unconscious on the beach.
Style:
intense, tension, suspense, period piece, controversial ...
Plot:
father son relationship, beach, generation gap, family drama, love triangle, male bonding, moral ambiguity, reconciliation, estrangement, mystery woman, murder, jealousy ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
48%
174
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A school teacher falls in love with a stripper/singer. He even leaves his wife and children for her. He soon spends a lot of time at the club where he works part-time as the M.C.. But the owner, a mobster, interferes in the relationship which brings ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, intense, suspense, noir ...
Plot:
nightclub, infidelity, stripper, teacher, forbidden love, nightlife, jealousy, mobster, seduction, betrayal, heartbreak, danger ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A bored couple separately seduces young girls, when the husband becomes obsessed with and begins to pamper a young neighbor with disastrous results.
Style:
controversial, erotic drama, independent film, erotic, period piece ...
Plot:
infidelity, seduction, mature, sexual obsession, jealousy, manipulation, taboo, moral ambiguity, voyeurism, female exploitation, cautionary tale, sexual awakening ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
Style:
independent film, captivating, psychological, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
love affair, director, longing, male female relationship, couple relations, love interest, romantic relationship, couples, love and romance, relationships, infatuation, love story ...
Similarity:
46%
281
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A sexually frustrated policeman starts investigating the doings of his wife.
Style:
psychological, bleak, tense, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
jealousy, sexual frustration, adultery, infidelity, humiliation, shame, character study, moral ambiguity, betrayal, chinese culture, machismo, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
45%
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