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Diary of a Sinner (1974)
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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, bleak, disturbing, controversial, intense, independent film, existential, crime drama, erotic, period piece ...
Plot:
pimp, sexploitation, suicide, self destructing, loneliness, desperation, alienation, exploitation, moral ambiguity, character study, obsession, prostitution, mental illness, nihilism, urban, fatalism, anti hero, violence, friendship, betrayal, working class, counterculture, sex, erotica, rape ...
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Most similar movies to Diary of a Sinner
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, intense, independent film and period piece films with plots about female nudity, character study, urban, moral ambiguity, desperation, sexploitation and obsession mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Diary of a Sinner: Thar She Blows! (1968), Too Much Too Often! (1968), Action (1980), Loser (1996), The Dream of Garuda (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A crazed sea captain goes on a bloody rampage after his vessel is commissioned by a sleazy film producer and a trio of vixens.
Style:
sex comedy, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexploitation, ship, lesbian sex, women, sex scene, exploitation, nudity, male nudity, female nudity, sex, prostitute, yacht ...
Similarity:
100%
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, bleak, crime drama, intense, tragic ending ...
Plot:
sexploitation, exploitation, nudity, sadism, female nudity, prostitution, addiction, male escort, violence, desperation, self destructing, redemption ...
Similarity:
81%
456
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is ...
Style:
surreal, erotic, sexy, erotic drama, dark drama ...
Plot:
female nudity, absurd humor, rape, surrealism, sexual abuse, violent, alienation, hallucination, desperation, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, character study ...
Similarity:
68%
185
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
23 year old Jame Dean Ray is a small time drug dealer bent on self destruction. The product of a broken home, Jimmy refuses help from those around him and spends his final hours hanging out and selling drugs with of course and occasional robbery.
Style:
dark, crime drama, grim, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, drug dealer, self destructing, tragic hero, moral ambiguity, anti hero, character study, violent death, tragedy, downbeat ending, addiction, regret ...
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. So obsessed is he with revenge he sees her in every woman he meets. After carrying out vicious attacks on a prostitute and a young girl he finally ...
Style:
disturbing, dark, crime drama, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
sexploitation, violence, revenge, rape, obsession, sexual abuse, sexual content, massage parlor, prostitution, tragedy, mature, stalker ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
53%
180
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Story revolves around the sad plight of the live sex performers Rolly (Paolo Rivero), Gigi (Klaudia Koronel), Rosita (Ana Capri), Sandra (Hazel Espinosa and Vio (Simon Ibarra) and what drives them to do the inexplicable.
Style:
erotic, captivating, thrilling, controversial, independent film ...
Plot:
sexual content, sexploitation, female nudity, poverty, passionate sex, prostitution, eroticism, sex scene, exploitation, sex, desperation, taboo ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims apparently chosen at random
Style:
disturbing, intense, tense, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
violence, working class, class conflict, moral ambiguity, character study, cruelty, celebrity, social commentary, humiliation, obsession, machismo, alienation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
50%
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:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Redemption and damnation share a bed of hope in a love story between a suicidal psychiatrist and a drug addicted homicidal cop. How far can one fall, how bad can one become and still find forgiveness?
Style:
intense, emotional, existential, grim, tense ...
Plot:
redemption, addiction, forgiveness, character study, guilt, mental illness, moral ambiguity, curse, desperation, self destructing, love story, obsession ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that ...
Style:
erotic, bleak, intense, psychological, period piece ...
Plot:
pink film, widow, exploitation, mistress, debt, forced prostitution, sexploitation, rape, forbidden love, domestic drama, manipulation, love triangle ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
47%
182
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 ...
Style:
bleak, intense, period piece
Plot:
prostitution, red light district, sex trafficking, exploitation, sexploitation, abuse, human trafficking, forced prostitution, pimp, female protagonist, survival, character study ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 80s
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
46%
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:
60s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A young woman gets sexually used and abused by every man she meets while on her way to rising to the top of Hollywood's entertainment industry.
Style:
grindhouse, disturbing, dark, controversial, erotic drama ...
Plot:
rape, sexploitation, showbiz, sexual abuse, hollywood, mature, aspiring actress, casting couch, voyeurism, predator, manipulation, desperation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles, las vegas
Similarity:
45%
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:
45%
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:
38%
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 ...
Style:
dark, erotic drama, bleak, controversial, intense ...
Plot:
businessman, character study, driven mad, sexual dysfunction, mental breakdown, midlife crisis, high society, loneliness, troubled marriage, paranoia, jealousy, infidelity ...
Time:
year 1981
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It s Christmas Eve in London, 1974 - and seven lonely people are on the town, looking to grab that elusive slice of enjoyment. So who better to contact than an escort agency- providing high-class ladies and gentlemen for anyone willing to pay the ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, erotic, comedy drama, sexploitation film
Plot:
loneliness, christmas eve, racism, prostitution, isolation, sex work, urban, multiple storylines, sex, nightlife, metropolis, rejection ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Claire, Romy, Magali, Loete, and Jim are typical Brienen’s characters: their excessive lifestyle rhythmed by sex and drugs puts them in the margins of society, refusing to believe in love or any kind of happiness. Lacking a better alternative, ...
Style:
erotic, disturbing, suspense, transgressive, bleak ...
Plot:
sex, performance art, sexploitation, art, addiction, drug abuse, nude, sexual fantasy, alcohol abuse, eroticism, orgy, erotica ...
Place:
amsterdam, berlin germany
Similarity:
37%
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272
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 ...
Style:
crime drama, melancholic, bleak, realistic, period piece
Plot:
pimp, prostitution, exploitation, sexploitation, dysfunctional relationship, venereal disease, tragedy, female victim, poverty, character study, social realism, survival ...
Time:
70s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Noboru Tanaka returned to direct the third of Nikkatsu's pinku eiga melodramas examining prostitution in various Japanese cities. This one focuses on modern-day Osaka, and although it is still a softcore film, is the most outrageous of the lot. ...
Style:
bleak, controversial, dark, period piece, independent film ...
Plot:
prostitution, exploitation, incest, street prostitution, pimp, sexploitation, survival, sexuality, taboo, character study, mother daughter conflict, poverty ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
36%
189
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot ...
Style:
crime drama, bleak, realistic, crime thriller, tense ...
Plot:
addiction, drug traffic, temptation, drug dealer, drug use, loss of innocence, family tragedy, urban, cautionary tale, moral ambiguity, desperation, character study ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of Mostaganem, Algeria. He is addicted to a famous psychotropic, nicknamed “Madame Courage”: Artane tablets, very popular among young Algerians, for their euphoric effect of ...
Style:
intense, bleak, realistic, crime drama
Plot:
drug addiction, street crime, unrequited love, poverty, coming of age, moral ambiguity, urban decay, social realism, alienation, desperation, male protagonist, character study ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
algeria
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Monaco
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ...
Style:
erotic, ambiguous ending, tense, noir
Plot:
voyeurism, hotel, suicide, female protagonist, loneliness, alienation, melancholy, sex, obsession, tragic romance, political unrest, sexual tension ...
Place:
west berlin west germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The compelling story of two young 'alives' -- facing a moral self-destruction they dare not admit!
Style:
dark, bleak, psychological, independent film, emotional ...
Plot:
street life, urban, manipulation, toxic relationship, desperation, obsession, social commentary, alienation, coercion, power struggle, realism, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her 15 years earlier.
Style:
emotional, psychological, melancholic, controversial, intense ...
Plot:
painter, guilt, introspection, character study, memory, moral ambiguity, flashback, artist, betrayal, male protagonist, identity crisis, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
32%
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:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Feature film.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, bleak, noir ...
Plot:
exploitation, sex work, prostitution, poverty, social problems, problem, life is a bitch, pimp, realism, street life, urban, survival ...
Similarity:
31%
233
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Jordi is going to make it big, cost what it may, juggling a stock exchange portfolio; Cristina combines booze, drugs and sex in the celebration of her birthday; and Pau, in search of strong emotions, turns to violence, xenophobic attitude. Three ...
Style:
melancholic, intense, existential, independent film, erotic
Plot:
coming of age, frustration, youth, violence, xenophobia, drug use, alienation, youth culture, realism, urban, alcohol abuse, recklessness ...
Place:
barcelona
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set amongst the backdrop of the towering, concrete-clad estates of south London ‘Zebra Crossings’ blends a diverse mixture of characters that all share one thing in common: The incredible loneliness of living alongside 7 million other people.
Style:
atmospheric, tense, intense, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
loneliness, coming of age, friendship, urban, social commentary, drug addiction, alienation, realism, character study, social realism, father figure, mentor ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
29%
160
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story:
Ambiguous is a 2003 Japanese Pink film directed by Toshiya Ueno. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony. Five suicidal people meet on the Internet and form a 'suicide group'. They all have reasons for which ...
Style:
bleak, dark drama, reflective, tense, controversial ...
Plot:
suicide, loneliness, desperation, isolation, mental illness, character study, self harm, confession, regret, ethical dilemma, existentialism, intimate ...
Similarity:
29%
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