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A Szerencse lányai (1999)
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Original name: Córy szczęścia
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 119 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.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, intense, art house, tension, period piece, tragic
Plot:
prostitution, survival, poverty, motherhood, sacrifice, female protagonist, mother and daughter, class struggle, moral dilemma, resilience, branding iron, social realism, sex work, loneliness, taboo, sexuality, women's rights, urban, coming of age, identity, female empowerment, intimate, surrogate family, female bonding, bittersweet ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
moscow russia, warsaw poland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and art house films with plots about poverty, intimate, female protagonist, survival, urban, character study and coming of age mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Szerencse lányai: Her Way (2021), The Cricket (1980), Waitresses Wanted (2008), The Hookers (1967), Tess (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raise her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of ...
Style:
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Plot:
prostitution, mother son relationship, prostitute, prostitute mother, female protagonist, single mother, motherhood, family drama, financial problem, blind ambition, money problems, life is a bitch ...
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Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
italy
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
montreal, quebec
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls.
Style:
realistic, period piece, psychological, intense, retro ...
Plot:
sex work, prostitution, sexuality, character study, women's issues, prostitute, exploitation, survival, taboo, branding iron, urban, social realism ...
Time:
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326
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When sex worker Tess falls pregnant, she has to fight to keep her past from swallowing her whole.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
pregnancy, afrikaans, female protagonist, sex worker, prostitute, motherhood, sex work, unwanted pregnancy, troubled past, changing lives, prostitution, unplanned pregnancy ...
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, tense
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man and a kid are discovering beauty in life.
Style:
art house, emotional, melancholic, existential, period piece
Plot:
father daughter relationship, children, loneliness, loss, getting home, relationships, bonding, alienation, intimate, nostalgia, humanism, mourning ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
hungary
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man who has lost his wife and daughter finds a baby in a garbage. He decides to save her.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house, independent film ...
Plot:
grief, child abandonment, loss, family tragedy, single father, rescue, redemption, compassion, loneliness, character study, bittersweet, social realism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, tense, melancholic, sexy, erotic
Plot:
single mother, trust, sex work, survival, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, character study, poverty, social commentary, sexuality, desperation, working class ...
Place:
new york
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Country: Thailand
Story:
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Style:
mystical, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
mother, children, parent child relationship, motherhood, house, mysticism, supernatural, salvation, supernatural power, orphan, supernatural horror, mother and daughter ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"I am" tells the story of Kundel, a boy searching for his place in life, his identity. After running away from an orphanage where he is treated as an outcast among outcasts by both his peers and the adults in charge, and being rejected a ...
Style:
realistic, poignant, emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, children, childhood, child protagonist, youth, friendship, self discovery, orphanage, adolescence, boy, survival, intimate ...
Place:
poland
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147
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray ...
Style:
emotional, art house, melancholic, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
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Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of male and female prostitutes make preparations for a big event happening at a shady club where audiences will come to watch them perform sexual acts on stage. As the big night looms, they begin to feel the consequences of their profession.
Style:
melancholic, controversial, tension
Plot:
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Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
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205
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This retelling of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist may be populated by drug pushers, pimps and prostitutes, but the book's classic themes remain the same. Caught under the thumb of a lecherous brothel owner, 10-year-old Lee befriends an ...
Style:
intense, realistic, independent film, dark, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
new york, california
Similarity:
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237
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
As far as they can remember, Marion, Claire and Louise have been living at the pace of their mother Alice’s ups and downs. Now, love is everything that they have left to fight the spiral of self-destruction in which Alice is sinking even more ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Switzerland, Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Similarity:
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153
Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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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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Time:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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