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Bubu (1971)
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Original name: Bubù
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 is permanently haunted by the possibility of an incurable and fatal venereal infection - and the humiliations the girl endures strain their relationship and lead to conflicts.
Style:
crime drama, bleak, melancholic, realistic, period piece
Plot:
pimp, prostitution, exploitation, tragedy, venereal disease, sexploitation, dysfunctional relationship, poverty, female victim, social realism, character study, survival, violence, betrayal, jealousy, desperation, shame, guilt, hopelessness, prostitute, bakery, sadness, fatalism, money, street life ...
Time:
70s, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
paris france
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Most similar movies to Bubu
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, melancholic, realistic and period piece films with plots about poverty, social realism, survival, prostitution, character study, moral ambiguity and exploitation mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Bubu: Memoirs of a French Whore (1979), The Whores (1994), Downfall (1997), Seaburners (2014), Er Moretto - Von Lieben leben (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A girl, Marie is led into prostitution by her pimp boyfriend, Gerard. She must not only give money to him but to the gangsters that explore him as well. Marie, together with a friend, Maloup, will try to become independent. They start to work the ...
Plot:
prostitution, exploitation, masochism, violence, pimp, brothel, girl, sex, women, relationships, streetwise, seduction ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The prostitutes of Palermo are pictured in this episodic Italian drama. The film lacks a real unifying thread as it presents scenes from the lives of 7 hookers. Five are women. One is a man, and one is a transvestite. In one episode, an aging ...
Style:
erotic, realistic, melancholic, controversial, period piece ...
Plot:
making love, pimp, sexuality, survival, mature, working class, character study, street life, city life, social realism, exploitation, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, palermo italy, sicily
Similarity:
32%
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:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, tense, crime drama, bleak ...
Plot:
human trafficking, secrets, moral ambiguity, exploitation, desperation, smuggling, poverty, betrayal, social realism, survival, isolation, character study ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, black sea
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This is the story of a runaway desperate poor 14 years old boy, becoming a prostitute and suffering all kinds of tribulations in Rome in the 80s. And the gay scene is somewhat accurate of those days
Style:
controversial, independent film, melancholic, ambiguous ending, period piece ...
Plot:
prostitution, poverty, sexploitation, male prostitution, gay, survival, urban, street life, social realism, colosseum, teenage runaway, exploitation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Feature film
Style:
bleak, melancholic, tragic ending, intense, art house ...
Plot:
poverty, hopelessness, drug addiction, pain, desperation, prostitution, illness, isolation, alienation, self destructing, character study, sacrifice ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Just as Moses was found in the river Nile, an infant is rescued from a river, and adopted by Miraj, Karim and Sajib in turns over the years, only to be abandoned at the various stages of his life. From innocence to becoming a gangster, the ...
Style:
crime drama, realistic, emotional, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
river, male protagonist, orphan, adoption, identity, coming of age, abandonment, loss of innocence, street life, moral ambiguity, gangster, survival ...
Similarity:
26%
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, intense, controversial, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
pimp, sexploitation, suicide, self destructing, exploitation, desperation, moral ambiguity, loneliness, character study, alienation, obsession, mental illness ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
So-young, an elderly prostitute working in Seoul, tries to take care of a young Korean-Filipino child she meets in a hospital and make ends meet. So-young's life takes a dark turn when several of her old clients try to reconnect with her.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, grim, melancholic ...
Plot:
prostitution, prostitute, social realism, social problems, life philosophy, society, social relations, elderly, elderly woman, aging, moral ambiguity, loneliness ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Thappu Thalangal is a saga of emotional and selfish world of human feelings. Devu, a local thug whose weapon of choice is a bicycle chain he sports casually around the neck. On one of his nightly rounds, Devu is pursued by a cop and seeks refuge at ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, intense, period piece
Plot:
redemption, societal hypocrisy, social realism, tragedy, prostitution, moral dilemma, gangster, sacrifice, regret, star crossed lovers, loss, forbidden love ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A young couple move into an expensive new apartment after the husband gets a big pay raise. Unfortunately, he is soon stricken with a mysterious ailment and becomes bedridden. The wife, unable to find a job and with bills piling up, runs into a ...
Style:
grindhouse, grim, bleak, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
financial difficulty, illness, desperation, domestic drama, moral dilemma, poverty, female protagonist, sacrifice, survival, urban, social realism, gender roles ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
SILHOUETTE: Nigerian prostitutes dealing with miscellaneous customers EUGLEN & GERTIAN: Daily recruitment of Albanian immigrants seeking work but without working residency permit. SELF SERVICE: a night with Ahmed, egyptian illegal gas ...
Style:
realistic, neorealism, melancholic, intercultural, semi documentary ...
Plot:
immigrant, social commentary, immigration, social realism, survival, exploitation, prostitution, sex work, slice of life, street life, poverty, city life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
23%
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:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Gilberto, a young man from the countryside, arrives in the city with the aim of carving out a future for himself. Initially he is dazzled by the sparkling image of the city, the spoiler of civilization, which will batter him until his personality ...
Style:
realistic, dark, bleak, intense, melancholic
Plot:
drug addiction, urban decay, moral ambiguity, loss of innocence, social realism, coming of age, poverty, nightlife, character study, violence, corruption, identity crisis ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
23%
53
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Grim tale of marginalized souls in an apocalyptic Dublin inner city. Jimmy takes up residence in a derelict and once elegant house in a no-go inner area. He is soon joined by other squatters, George a business man trying to retain some dignity, ...
Style:
bleak, grim, independent film, apocalyptic, melancholic ...
Plot:
social realism, poverty, urban decay, homelessness, unemployment, desperation, paranoia, survival, moral ambiguity, prostitution, violence, estrangement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
dublin ireland, ireland
Similarity:
23%
72
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An ordinary day in Romania. Under a highway exit close to Bucharest, Lidia and Denisa are changing their clothes; warm pullovers and sneakers are exchanged for tight tops and heels. The two are then waiting for clients, an icy wind gusting around ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, slow cinema
Plot:
prostitution, sex work, poverty, social realism, everyday life, working class, survival, character study, desperation, female friendship, resilience, humiliation ...
Place:
romania, bucharest
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Story:
A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
violence, female friendship, life is a bitch, teenage life, teenager, teenage girl, family problems, money problems, juvenile delinquency, social problems, society, teenage protagonist ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
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205
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
sex trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, female protagonist, illegal immigrant, african, exploitation, resilience, street life, illegal immigration, trauma, poverty ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into giving it away. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at ...
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, bleak, neorealism ...
Plot:
poverty, greed, homelessness, tragedy, survival, compassion, drifter, loneliness, class conflict, empathy, desperation, character study ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
22%
105
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A tragic tale of an individual teen prostitute as seen from the lens of her Buddhist neighbor.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
compassion, prostitution, character study, poverty, loss, empathy, social realism, loneliness, urban, slice of life, street life, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
22%
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:
22%
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:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rouh is living in Boulak Al Dakrour, a poor neighborhood , when she bankrupt and broke she try to make a living by singing in a nightclubs , she starting to suffer from the people around her that are attracted by her beauty
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, foot fetish, singing, beauty, slum, poverty, love interest, money problems, love, female singer, male female relationship, relationships ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cairo egypt
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A couple purchases an eleven-year old girl who cannot walk, with the intention of using her to earn money through begging.
Style:
bleak, grim, independent film, slow cinema
Plot:
begging, poverty, desperation, child protagonist, abuse, manipulation, disability, human trafficking, disabled child, economic inequality, ethical dilemma, survival ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
china
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Romania arrived in Italy 30 years ago. He sells drugs and lives in criminal contexts. His dream is to see his child, Nicu, whom he raised without a ...
Style:
crime drama, emotional, intense, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
fatherhood, drug dealing, immigration, father son relationship, social realism, street life, illegal drugs, moral ambiguity, poverty, urban decay, violence, survival ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Eight women wake up every morning, get dressed, eat, put on make-up, do their hair, dress up and get ready for a grueling, demeaning night of work. They're the staff at a brothel outside a major American city, serving the spoiled, rich, ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, art house
Plot:
brothel, women, prostitution, exploitation, sex work, sexploitation, social realism, working conditions, class conflict, trauma, poverty, survival ...
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died of tuberculosis, Ilya, after robbing a merchant, committed suicide. And Pavel, who let the woman ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, emotional, dramatic, art house ...
Plot:
friendship, death, loss, tragedy, fate, suicide, regret, pain, desperation, brothel, guilt, fatalism ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
After the death of her prostitute mother, a young woman travels to New York City only to find herself in the clutches of lecherous men and deviate women. She tries to avoid the fast nightlife lifestyle, but she finds it more difficult than it sounds.
Style:
controversial, melancholic, grindhouse, black and white, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
exploitation, prostitution, sexploitation, female protagonist, nightlife, loss of innocence, survival, brothel, street life, desperation, vice, voyeurism ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
21%
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