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Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
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Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
Style: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
Plot: boxing, lesbian, mafia, cocaine, lesbian mother, shoplifting, gay parent
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, humorous, realistic and semi serious films with plots about lesbian, couples, female female kiss, sex scene, gay parent, lesbian mother and lesbian kiss mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Spike of Bensonhurst: Hurry Up, or I'll Be 30 (1973), Chutney Popcorn (1999), Women in Revolt (1971), Flesh (1968), Home (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hurry Up, or I'll Be 30 (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Comedy directed by Joseph Jacoby.
Plot: broken heart, bachelor, car, party
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her ...
Style: multicultural, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, woman, sapphic, family relations, lesbian mother, male homosexuality, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, asia, india
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Women in Revolt (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three women join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn't make them any happier.
Style: realistic, humorous, talky, semi serious, witty ...
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Time: 70s
Place: usa, new york
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Flesh (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A heroin junkie works as a prostitute to support his habit and fund an abortion needed by the girlfriend of his lesbian wife. His seedy encounters with delusional and damaged clients, and dates with drag queens and hustlers are heavy on sex, drugs ...
Style: independent film, erotic, controversial, disturbing, social ...
Plot: male prostitution, gay, lgbt, hot guys, lesbian, erotica, hustler, virus, basement, passion, lgbtq, youth ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Home (2005)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: On a hot summer night in Brooklyn, singles and couples converge in a brownstone apartment to flirt, fight, hook up and break up. A dreamy comedy-drama about sex, love and freedom, "Home" packs a lot of stories into just two floors.
Style: independent film
Plot: breakup, love, jealousy, cigarette smoking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, pregnancy, nerd, pianist, ex boyfriend, party, kitchen, beer drinking
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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Heat (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Former child star Joe Davis (Joe Dallesandro), reduced to living in a cheap Hollywood motel while struggling for acting jobs, is lusted after by nearly every woman he meets, including Jessica Todd (Andrea Feldman), a tightly wound feminist who has ...
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, sexy, sexual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hollywood, virus, gay, satire, gay subtext, seduction, swimming pool, ladykiller, diva, actor's life, ambition, coming of age ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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People (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Six vignettes pit an assortment of characters against each other in everyday situations.
Plot: existentialism, masochism, therapy, boxing, suicide, sadism, paranoia, hospital
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Topless (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The ever-lively and upbeat Natsuko tries to mend a broken heart by carrying on with a string of short-lived affairs after her break-up with Tomomi. But when Tomomi announces her plans to marry - a man - Natsuko becomes inconsolable. While all this ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, asian lgbt, gay, heartache, unrequited love, lesbian relationship, relationship problems, gay slur, social issues, search for mother, lesbian friend ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Out of the Blue (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Marion, a 50 year old woman, suddenly ups and leaves the man with whom she has been living for the past 20 years; she has found herself, midlife, in love with her friend Claude, another woman.
Plot: lesbian, lesbian mother, lgbt, gay parent, lesbian interest, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, female nudity, family relations, female full frontal nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Forty Deuce (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.
Style: independent film, gay cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, prostitution, bare chested male, dead body, money, drug, teenage runaway, drug deal, older man younger man relationship, african american man, racial slur ...
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49%
Most People Live in China (2002)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
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Duration: 85 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Prize Fighter (1979)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: "Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But ...
Style: funny
Plot: boxing, boxer, exploitation, hooligan, mafia, great depression, gangster, boxing match, illegal fistfight, fistfight, champion, underground tournament ...
Time: year 1979, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.3
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Celebrity (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 113 min.
Story: The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one ...
Style: black and white, stylized, satirical, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: satire, writers, greed, loneliness, justice, desire for fame, artists and showbiz, ambition, lifestyle, showbiz, celebrity culture, spectacle ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day.
Style: heartfelt, independent film
Plot: nudity, womanizer, estrangement, friendship, existentialism, compassion, gay friend, caught cheating, lesbian, female friendship, roommate, love interest ...
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38%
 6.3
 19K
Made (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
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Story: Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.
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 6.1
 28
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37%
 6.9
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (1970)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 2.4
 38
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32%
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32%
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31%
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30%
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30%
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