Movies like Pain of Love

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Pain of Love (1992)
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Pain of Love (1992)
Original name: Kærlighedens smerte
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young woman who falls in love with her teacher is hit by heartache and challenges she is not prepared for and struggles to escape her dark frame of mind.
Plot: age difference, mental illness, teacher student relationship, suicide attempt, parenthood, love, teacher, escape, pregnancy, depression, female nudity, sex scene, seduction, mental institution, suicide, teenage girl, childbirth, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, insomnia, girl, flirting, male female relationship, exam, woman ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, crying, disturbing and serious films with plots about female nudity, love, teenage girl, teenager, coming of age, young and father daughter relationship mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Pain of Love: Beauty and the Beast (1983), Painful Secrets (2000), Aching Hearts (2009), Filthy (2017), Tree of Knowledge (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Beauty and the Beast (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until ...
Plot: christmas, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, jealousy, coming of age, grownups, teenage sexuality, new year's eve, friends, daughter, female nudity, friend ...
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95%
Painful Secrets (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dawn isn't like other kids her age full of typical teenage angst about boys, school and parents. Her pain goes far deeper, and to deal with her emotional overload she physically cuts herself. The problem of adolescent girls committing ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, sad, teen ...
Plot: mental illness, self mutilation, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, self harm, psychiatrist, bullying, physical abuse, female friendship, depression, trouble, problem ...
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61%
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Aching Hearts (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Set in the early 1960s, the story evolves around highschool sweethearts Jonas and Agnete, their friendships and families, trials and tribulations. Jonas fails to give Agnete the kind of attention she craves, and when she decides to start a new ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, first love, grownups, teenager, graduation, loss of virginity, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, friendship, teenage love, love and romance, teenage life ...
Time: 60s
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57%
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 641
Filthy (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lena is a 17-year old girl, experiencing her first love, secret night- time adventures, and magical mornings at the river in Bratislava. Her dream world is shattered after being raped by her math teacher. Lena must set out on a journey that is not ...
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, sincere, crying ...
Plot: teenage rape, teenage girl, coming of age, first love, suicide attempt, teacher student sex, doctor, mental institution, older man younger woman relationship, teenage protagonist, traumatic experience, female friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Tree of Knowledge (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, children, bullying, female nudity, troubled relationship, nordic, adolescence, school, classmate classmate relationship, new student, sexual tension, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1958, 1950s
Place: denmark, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Into Dad's Woods (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gina, 15, lives in a city on the edge of the forest. She admires her father, unpredictable and whimsical, able to take his children at night in the woods, even to forget them. Jimmy's more and more frequent skids end up alarming his wife ...
Style: captivating
Plot: mental illness, family relations, mental institution, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, relationships, family problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, love affair, parents and children, couple relations ...
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51%
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Una (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
Style: psychological, cynical, thought provoking, disturbing, sad ...
Plot: pedophilia, pedophile, teenager, female nudity, child abuse, sex scene, confrontation, teenage sexuality, forbidden love, teenage girl, unsettling, love ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Werther (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This adaptation of Geothe's The Sorrows of Young Werther offers a chilly and remote view of love and its passions. The setting is changed to Spain, and Werther (Eusebio Poncela) has taken a job tutoring the son of an estranged husband and wife. ...
Plot: boy, teacher, husband wife relationship, suicide, father son relationship, love, male female relationship, surgeon, tutor, tragic event, house, young
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48%
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 6.3
 286
Boys (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This non-narrative film unveils three episodes in the psychosexual life of a neurotic man, beginning with a trip he took to the countryside over the holidays as a small boy, to visit a cousin. Later, he is shown as a high-school boy (Mads Ole ...
Style: no music
Plot: childhood, high school, boy, teenager, teenage girl, teenage boy, school, girl, children, swing, undressing, ladder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Barbara (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious ...
Style: historical drama
Plot: yacht, girl, boat, love, widow, priest
Time: 18th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?
Style: serious, talky, psychological, clever, sexy ...
Plot: dogme 95, mental illness, depression, family problems, starting over, family relations, mentally unstable, dogma, real world, dysfunctional family, human nature, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
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46%
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 364
Tuscaloosa (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Twenty-two and on the verge of entering high society, college graduate Billy Mitchell finds his plans changing when he falls in love with an inmate with multiple personalities at his father's mental institution.
Style: christian film
Plot: mental illness, illness, hound dog, multiple personality disorder, rebellious youth, psychiatric ward, sheriff, doctor, father son relationship, father son estrangement, racism, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1972
Place: southern usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.4
 21
Amir (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Amir, a young musician retired from the scene, must face a tough decision: To stay by Ely's side, his girlfriend, during an unwanted pregnancy or Jeanette, cute lead singer of a band that will restore not only his passion for music, also for ...
Style: independent film
Plot: female nudity, love, pregnancy, love affair, male female relationship, sexual relations, family relations, love and romance, young love, couple relations, sex scene, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.9
 484
Love Life (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Israel
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
Style: captivating, sentimental, emotional, romantic, witty ...
Plot: horny wife, cheating wife, sexually dissatisfied wife, unfaithful wife, age difference, midlife crisis, love, unrequited love, older man younger woman sex, relationships, dysfunctional marriage, friendship between men ...
Place: israel, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Levelland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A coming-of-age drama, with skateboards, set in Texas.
Style: crying
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, punk rock, age-gap relationship, punk, unfaithfulness, bare butt, nudity, psychiatric hospital, sex, infidelity, gay slur, loss of father ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Lover for a Day (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 76 min.
Story: The story of a father, his 23-year-old daughter who goes back home one day because she has just been dumped, and his new girlfriend, who is also 23 and lives with him.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, captivating, rough, art house ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, father daughter relationship, couples, lovers, betrayal, bare breasts, older man younger woman relationship, love, lie, age difference, coming of age, women ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Passion Fever (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min.
Story: This and The Hot Month of August, both made in Greece, were acquired by DORIS WISHMAN for release in the United States. However, she somehow or other lost the dialogue sheets needed for dubbing the films into English. With the original dialogue a ...
Style: independent film
Plot: desertion, mistress, pregnancy, female nudity, seduction, sex, neighbor, suicide, exploitation, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Earth Is a Sinful Song (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is ...
Style: crying
Plot: sapmi, lapland, female sexuality, exploring sexuality, sauna, sexuality, reindeer, sexual awakening, winter, funeral, skinny dipping, male female relationship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites ...
Style: melancholic, disturbing, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot: incest, father daughter relationship, single parent, depression, single father, isolation, parents and children, incestuous relationship, rebelliousness, teenage life, coming of age, family drama ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1986
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 685
Circle of Two (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the impossible love between a schoolgirl and a 60-year old painter
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, age difference, coming of age, art, young love, age-gap relationship, female nudity, teenage girl, painter, topless woman, attempted rape, may december romance ...
Time: year 1981
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.4
 896
Little Lips (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 ...
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, serious, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lolita, puberty, underage girl, coming of age, age difference, sex with a minor, sexuality, forbidden love, adolescent girl, girl man relationship, suicide, older man young girl relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 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 ⇓
32%
 5.7
 696
Baby Love (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When her mother dies, her attractive young daughter hungry for love moves into the dead woman's house as a quest to seduce its tenants in her desperate search for love.
Style: surreal, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: lolita, teenage sexuality, sex, nymphet, coming of age, sleaze, teenager, age difference, young love, exploitation, suicide, older woman younger woman sex ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Molly Maxwell (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At Phoenix Progressive School, students take notes lying on parlor couches and are encouraged to explore their gifts through electives like break-dancing and graphic-novel writing. In the midst of all this liberal pedagogy and budding talent, Molly ...
Style: captivating, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher student relationship, age difference, male teacher female student affair, older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, coming of age, teacher, forbidden love, teenager, first love, teacher student romance, teacher student sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.3
 60
Playtime (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor, he runs over and kills a man, and she witnesses it.
Plot: sculptor, american abroad, seduction, adultery, infidelity, unfaithfulness, school, girl, coffee, hit and run, older man younger woman relationship, marriage ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
No Mercy No Future (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she searches for Jesus. She has sent a letter to a filmmaker ...
Style: art house, controversial, disturbing
Plot: schizophrenia, berlin wall, psychiatric ward, schizophrenic, mental illness, delusion, immigrant, sick woman, rich father, suicide attempt, killing an animal, bare breasts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.4
 380
Brotherly Love (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also ...
Plot: madness, love, psychiatric hospital, female nudity, mental illness, mental institution, farm, incest, brother sister relationship, sibling relationship, dance, shooting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Nel giardino delle rose (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A successful businessman is haunted by the memories of his mother.
Style: suspense, soap opera
Plot: mother, loneliness, mother son reunion, husband wife relationship, friend, boy, yuppie, letter, father son relationship, dog, tragic event, teacher ...
Place: milan italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.2
 12K
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Denmark, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
Style: serious, sincere, stylized, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: political protest, teenage girl, cuban missile crisis, cold war, coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenager, teenage life, rebelliousness, rebellion, society, youth ...
Time: 60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1962
Place: cuba, england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
A Caretaker's Tale (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A custodian in a housing project discovers that a naked, mute woman he found in one of his apartments has miraculous healing powers.
Style: serious, disturbing, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: older man younger woman sex, father son relationship, sexual relations, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, nudity, hot and sexy, age difference, young love, older man young girl relationship, female nudity, mute or deaf ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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