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Confessions Among Actresses (1971)
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Original name: 告白的女優論
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them has experienced a traumatic event which contributes to their particular enjoyment of becoming someone else in dramatic roles.
Plot:
extramarital affair, suicide attempt, nightmare comes true, rape, agent, female nudity, photographer, past, jealousy, adultery, dream, father daughter relationship, pills, memory, bare breasts, mother daughter relationship, psychoanalysis, mirror, car accident, rivalry, blood, actress, nightmare, acid, interview ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out erotic, avant garde, weird and psychological films with plots about female nudity, bare breasts, infidelity, husband wife relationship, adultery, rape and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Confessions Among Actresses: A Story Written with Water (1965), Heroic Purgatory (1970), Woman of the Lake (1966), Affair in the Snow (1968), Eros + Massacre (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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95%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
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Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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89%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had platonic feelings.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
Style:
erotic, erotic drama, avant garde, political, weird
Plot:
anarchist, anarchy, anarchism, sex scene, asian, memory, revolt, chaos, erotica, trauma, japanese culture, society ...
Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
hiroshima japan
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82%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The setup here is a couple. They are both Japanese. She is married to a European, is haunted by the Nagasaki bomb which killed her father. The two are in love.
Style:
road movie, light
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film
Plot:
bare chested male, death of father, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, sex scene, wedding, argument, marital strife, bare breasts, marriage, marital separation ...
Time:
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Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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303
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
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Style:
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japan
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Country: West Germany
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