Movies like High 1968
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High (1968)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Tom, an amoral Montreal drifter who supports himself by peddling dope and fleecing lonely woman, hooks up with Vicky, a straight-laced librarian, and initiates her, all too well, into his criminal ways.
Style:
psychedelic, independent film, experimental, controversial, erotic drama, avant garde, art house, psychological, surreal, banned film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nudity, sexual content, counterculture, addiction, moral ambiguity, summer of love, social commentary, loneliness, manipulation, urban, initiation, sex work, exploitation, female nudity, erotica, group sex, couples, free love, outdoor sex, nude, censorship, young, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
quebec, montreal
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Most similar movies to High
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, controversial, erotic drama and independent film films with plots about female nudity, urban, exploitation, moral ambiguity, sexploitation, female full frontal nudity and erotica mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like High: Her Private Hell (1968), The Nude Princess (1976), Central Bazaar (1976), The Hookers (1967), Ixe (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young Italian girl comes to London, and is tricked into posing nude for risqué magazines.
Style:
erotic drama, controversial, period piece, independent film
Plot:
sexploitation, nudity, seduction, exploitation, manipulation, woman in peril, voyeurism, photography, scam, moral ambiguity, temptation, trauma ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ajita Wilson plays an African diplomat who comes to Milan to head a trade delegation. At the delegation she feels haunted by her past in which she appeared in a pornographic magazine. In a series of psychedelic scenes, we learn the sordid secrets of ...
Style:
erotic, psychedelic, sensual, erotic drama, controversial ...
Plot:
erotica, sexuality, exploitation, female protagonist, nudity, scandal, identity, taboo, sexploitation, voyeurism, female nudity, counterculture ...
Time:
70s
Place:
milan italy, italy
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like ...
Style:
avant garde, experimental, art house, transgressive, surreal ...
Plot:
female nudity, erotica, orgy, performance art, intimacy, voyeurism, role playing, eroticism, social experiment, makeover, counterculture, ritual ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
27%
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:
26%
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106
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
“Ixe (written X and pronounced EEKS – as it is pronounced in French –, like a scream, a wound) is an imploded, crucified film. Made to be projected on four screens at once, X is drawn and quartered. At the four points of the compass, at the ...
Style:
avant garde, experimental, art house, surreal, underground film ...
Plot:
zoophilia, heroin addiction, hallucination, violence, social commentary, anti establishment, counterculture, urban, gay subtext, lgbt, gay anal sex, drug ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
They're the erotic toys of the mindless generation... trapped in a never-neverland of distorted sexual practices
Style:
erotic drama, sensual, controversial, erotic, art house ...
Plot:
sexual exploration, lesbian sex, erotica, threesome, sexually liberated, love triangle, taboo, moral ambiguity, clown, collector, voyeurism, manipulation ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
25%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Experimental film.
Style:
experimental, avant garde, art house, non-linear, surreal ...
Plot:
counterculture, underground, college, found footage, travelogue, social commentary, performance art, autobiography, hallucination, ritual, intimate, male nudity ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Caught up in the swirling tide of student protests and riots, a young man becomes the unintentional murderer of a policeman. Handcuffed and enroute to jail, he escapes from the authorities and comes across a young woman on the beach, who is intent ...
Style:
erotic drama, crime drama, controversial, period piece, independent film ...
Plot:
rebellious youth, fugitive, sexual obsession, political unrest, moral ambiguity, accidental killing, anti establishment, beach, sexploitation, manhunt, suicide attempt, crime spree ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white ...
Style:
art house, experimental, avant garde, psychological, black and white ...
Plot:
paranoia, schizophrenia, identity, obsession, performance art, isolation, alien invasion, urban, feminist, sexuality, mental disorder, body horror ...
Time:
70s
Place:
west germany, vienna
Similarity:
24%
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:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Misty, a call girl working at a cathouse run by Tamiko. Tamiko runs her house like a mini-dictatorship, making all the girls follow a strict set of rules: No boyfriends, no orgasms, no taking tips, etc. Misty is the top girl in the house and is ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, erotic drama, tense ...
Plot:
seductive, sexploitation, sex scene, erotica, prostitution, sex work, brothel, call girl, male female relationship, relationships, sexual content, problem ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
Koichi is a gigolo who is paid by a madame to seduce and have sex with various women while she and her clients secretly watch. He doesn't like what he's doing, but he needs the money to take care of his seriously ill mother. One day ...
Style:
dark, intense, psychological, noir, controversial ...
Plot:
gigolo, prostitution, seduction, sex work, moral ambiguity, sick mother, character study, male prostitution, manipulation, tragic romance, forbidden romance, sacrifice ...
Time:
60s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Inspired by the writings of writer Fritz Fanon, who believed that a colonial population could only reach freedom by declaring violence towards their occupiers, Cavallone’s tale sees a white photographer (Erna Schurer) who seduces a black model ...
Style:
erotic drama, tense, intense, art house, controversial ...
Plot:
interracial relations, racial tension, racial violence, colonialism, lesbian, romantic triangle, identity crisis, emancipation, forbidden love, obsession, manipulation, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A pathetic Joe (Nick Nickerson) pays a bitter prostitute, Margo (Althea Curier) to have sex with him, and is abused endlessly. A woman sculptor and her live model try to suppress their lesbian longings for each other. Lonely, bespectacled ...
Style:
erotic drama, independent film, intense, controversial, psychological ...
Plot:
nudie cutie, prostitution, stripper, sexploitation, fetish, brothel, exploitation, infidelity, sexual frustration, abuse, voyeurism, sexual obsession ...
Time:
60s, 1920s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist encourages his female patients to tell him their sexual problems, each as each relates her particular case, we see it in flashback.
Style:
erotic drama, controversial, psychological, independent film, period piece ...
Plot:
sexploitation, exploitation, sexuality, nudity, sexual exploration, taboo, nymphomania, threesome, voyeurism, infidelity, promiscuity, casual sex ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
22%
172
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club ...
Style:
erotic drama, sinister, emotional, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
strip club, love triangle, female protagonist, seduction, sexuality, manipulation, danger, exploitation, ambition, jealousy, survival, urban ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, meditative, period piece, grim ...
Plot:
lumberjack, search for father, coming of age, sexploitation, identity, city life, naivete, frustration, alienation, manipulation, exploitation, nudity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
montreal, quebec
Similarity:
22%
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:
21%
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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:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale of a violent ex-cop searching for the man who killed his partner, the film takes an unexpected ...
Style:
surreal, avant garde, experimental, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
lsd, surrealism, trippy, counterculture, revenge, acid trip, ex cop, ambiguity, drug lord, obsession, metaphysics, urban ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
To satisfy her costumers, an owner of a luxurious bordello does whatever it takes. but the place’s efficiency is threatened when the most desirable of its ladies decides to quit. The owner set a diabolical plot to keep the girl working.
Style:
erotic drama, dark, crime thriller, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, female protagonist, female exploitation, exploitation, sex work, manipulation, lesbian sex, erotica, survival, mother daughter relationship, corruption ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Noémie (15 years old) has lived in a youth center for three years. When she loses all hope of being taken back by her mother, Noémie runs away in search of meaning and freedom. She goes to join her friend Léa, a former member of the center, who ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, teenage girl, pimp, female protagonist, social issues, exploitation, sexploitation, underage, teen romance, teenager, relationship problems, tragic love ...
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Babette and her sexual exploits, narrating her Emmanuelle-style lustful encounters in the big city. Babette needs cash, contacts a photographer, and enters a new society where she satisfies her carnal desires. Soon, as her lesbian awakening ...
Style:
erotic, independent film, sexploitation film
Plot:
sexploitation, prostitution, female protagonist, lesbian, lesbian romance, desire, female sexuality, sexual awakening, phone sex, lesbian sex, seduction, temptation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
21%
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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:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A sexy but cash-poor young working woman finally stands up for herself, not wanting to depend on "her man" all the time and not accepting the rules men around her want her to observe, by deciding to simultaneously take a walk on the wild ...
Style:
sensual, erotic drama, independent film, ambiguous ending
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lesbian sex, stripper, nightlife, sex work, ambition, sexploitation, seduction, aspiration, female empowerment, gender roles, sexual awakening, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The true story of seven 1960's call girls, taken straight from the accounts of a practicing Hollywood sex therapist.
Style:
period piece, bleak, art house, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
hollywood, exploitation, sex work, prostitution, intimate, biopic, urban, sex therapy, trauma, therapy, social commentary, empowerment ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story:
Brazilian native Priscilla Paredes is intent on staying in Montreal, despite the expiration of her student visa. Out of desperation, she takes a job as an exotic dancer at the Elixir, a downtown strip club, where she meets Milagro, a headstrong ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, art house, multicultural
Plot:
strip club, lesbian, survival, female protagonist, sex work, poverty, working class, immigration, friendship, desperation, realism, female empowerment ...
Place:
montreal, quebec
Similarity:
20%
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:
club, prostitution, sex work, strip club, exploitation, nightlife, character study, urban, branding iron, survival, moral ambiguity, friendship ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
20%
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