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Il corpo dell'anima (1999)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ernesto is doomed to loneliness since the loss of his wife. He is a writer who lives alone without any children, and is an antisocial person. However, he is as satisfied with his life. Although he has not been working for a while, a film director asks him to prepare a scenario on the life of "Teresa of Ávila". Meanwhile, a young peasant girl, Luana starts working with him as a maid. Now the time has come for an affair which he has ignored for some years.
Style:
reflective, psychological, art house, sensual, erotic, moody, nostalgic
Plot:
female masturbation, loneliness, isolation, grief, melancholy, midlife crisis, male protagonist, social isolation, intimate, literary, creative block, sexual tension, sexual awakening, maid, watching sex, older man younger woman sex, forgiveness, humanism, redemption, small town, adaptation, religious, biopic, erotica, writers ...
Time:
90s, contemporary, 1990s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, melancholic, psychological and independent film films with plots about female nudity, female full frontal nudity, intimate, loneliness, female pubic hair, small town and isolation mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Il corpo dell'anima: Testing the Limits (2000), A Lustful Mind (1986), Daughters (2014), The Bitches (1973), Day and Night (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mike and Toni are on their way to the mountains for a romantic weekend, when their car breaks down. The couple take shelter in an empty cabin, unaware that it is being used by bisexual photographer Jan who is on an erotic shoot with model Kristin. ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, erotic, independent film, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male nudity, male pubic hair, sex, female masturbation, stranded, lesbianism, photographer, female nudity, lesbian sex, lesbian, nudity, obsession ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Alessio, a young man from a well to do family, has been mute since the death of his mother two years ago. His father, who has subsequently remarried, sends him to his sister-in-law's house in the country to recuperate. While staying there ...
Style:
erotic, sexploitation film
Plot:
sex with stepson, sex with stepmother, brother in law sister in law sex, stepmother stepson relationship, erotica, illicit affair, cuckolded husband, stepmother, female masturbation, incest, erotic art, affair ...
Time:
1930s
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100%
147
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray ...
Style:
emotional, art house, melancholic, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, character study, identity, missing person, grief, loss, motherhood, intimate, obsession ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wealthy bourgeois, bored in her immense property, to pass the time engages a gigolo to answer all her wishes, from the most unfulfilled to the most hidden ... But when the young man takes an interest in the sister of his boss, the latter becomes ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, erotic drama, intense, art house
Plot:
sexual tension, lust, castle, gigolo, jealousy, erotica, lesbian sex, intimate, manipulation, luxury, sexploitation, obsession ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, dramatic, sensual, moody
Plot:
writers, midlife crisis, melancholy, seduction, love triangle, obsession, infidelity, retreat, adaptation, exile, passion, ambition ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man who is a theater director and music composer picks up a young homeless woman off the street. But as soon as she starts living with him she becomes his object of desire. Soon his ex-girlfriend finds out about his new lover in his life and ...
Style:
erotic, erotic drama, sensual
Plot:
lesbian sex, seduction, sexual tension, obsessive love, love triangle, obsession, emotional manipulation, homeless woman, romantic rivalry, loneliness, sexual jealousy, manipulation ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hannah is the intimate portrait of a woman’s loss of identity as she teeters between denial and reality. Left alone grappling with the consequences of her husband’s imprisonment, Hannah begins to unravel. Through the exploration of her fractured ...
Style:
psychological, reflective, melancholic, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
character study, female protagonist, grief, loneliness, isolation, coping, midlife crisis, identity crisis, mature, claustrophobia, small town, everyday life ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A painter has serious creative block. He decides that two nude models living in his house might help. His wife objects, or does she?
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, erotic, sensual, independent film
Plot:
painter, artist, house, domestic drama, creative process, inspiration, creative block, modeling, male protagonist, reconciliation, introspection, jealousy ...
Similarity:
21%
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130
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In late XIX century, rich and bored Maria (Paola Senatore) is after a more sexually interesting life and gets involved with Alessio who shows her other kinds of love. She soon becomes his sex slave but some unexpected consequences will arise from ...
Style:
erotic
Plot:
gambling, lesbian sex, cuckolded husband, masturbation, female masturbation, female nudity, sexless marriage, dysfunctional couple, older man younger woman marriage, loveless marriage, older man younger woman sex, sexually frustrated woman ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
Style:
erotic, sensual, melancholic, art house, retro ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, brothel, prostitution, female friendship, sexploitation, character study, sexual awakening, tragedy, betrayal, small town, loneliness, coming of age ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Laura, a young and successful writer of erotic novels, gets to know and love the player Paul. Not surprisingly, her new lover has not only fallen victim to the gambling but also to the sexual abysses. Her beguiling beauty is getting more and more ...
Style:
sensual, erotic, erotic drama, independent film, atmospheric ...
Plot:
older man younger woman sex, seductive, erotica, female sexuality, mature, desire, female protagonist, prostitution, sexual awakening, longing, intimacy, double life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
20%
112
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of ...
Style:
anthology, erotic, dramatic, controversial, period piece ...
Plot:
adultery, jealousy, sexuality, forbidden love, infidelity, social commentary, religious conflict, loss of innocence, moral dilemma, gender roles, literary, intimate ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two one-act plays explore love and loneliness. In "Table by the Window" an aging fashion model contrives a reunion with her ex-husband, a politician ruined by scandal, and their passion is rekindled. In "Table Number Seven" a ...
Style:
melancholic, emotional, psychological, tense, reflective ...
Plot:
hotel, loneliness, scandal, small town, female protagonist, love, boarding house, moral dilemma, reputation, bittersweet, intimate, unrequited love ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An Italian film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's classic erotic novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she ...
Style:
erotic, f word
Audience:
adult
Plot:
outdoor sex, female masturbation, erotica, lesbian sex, lesbian, voyeur, coitus, female nudity, infidelity, unfaithful wife, bare breasts, lesbianism ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
small town, redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, family relations, lifestyle, hopes, homecoming, parents and children, going straight, social relations, male protagonist ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
idaho, america, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.
Style:
atmospheric, art house, independent film, period drama, moody
Plot:
magician, jewish culture, stage magic, european, theater, character study, ambition, obsession, moral ambiguity, midlife crisis, existential crisis, melancholy ...
Time:
year 1979, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
172
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to ...
Style:
independent film, disturbing, psychological, reflective, art house ...
Plot:
filmmaking, self discovery, director, actor, surrealism, creative process, lifestyle, social problems, life philosophy, filmmaker, existentialism, character study ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares. ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, poignant, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
urban, connection, loneliness, anger, humanism, social realism, intimate, slice of life, city life, isolation, working class, companionship ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
19%
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79
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
existential, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
grief, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, character study, search for father, alienation, minimalism, intimate, regret, male protagonist, urban ...
Similarity:
19%
307
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around Paris with him and his other female companion, experiencing a broad range of sexual encounters.
Style:
sensual, erotic, independent film
Plot:
lesbian sex, female pubic hair, girl, travel, love, supermodel, steamy romance, nudity, female masturbation, older man younger woman sex, bare breasts, orgy ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A once thriving reception hall has been reduced to catering to the funeral business and the somber rituals of death. The owner, Soleimani, is a sour, lonely and unloved old man who treats his workers with contempt, inflicting small cruelties ...
Style:
realistic, psychological
Plot:
empathy, character study, humanism, working class, resilience, slice of life, social realism, dignity, mortality, solidarity, hopes, melancholy ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years, their bond grows stronger, as Marcel seems to be the only person she can connect to.
Style:
emotional, controversial, psychological, art house, aesthetic ...
Plot:
organ, teenage girl, gardener, coming of age, children, female protagonist, taboo, small town, female sexuality, intimate, moral ambiguity, mute character ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
relationships, true love, university, self discovery, grief, widow, new life, lifestyle change, sister sister relationship, love, changing lives, loss of husband ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Andreas arrives in the remote valley in the Austrian Alps, he is only about four years old - nobody knows for sure. He grows up to become a skilled farmhand and, as a young man, joins a work crew that builds one of the first mountain railroads, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
mountain, lifestyle, orphan, hardship, village life, poverty, bittersweet, tragic romance, resilience, isolation, coming of age, loneliness ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A retired police officer, despondent over the loss of his family, contemplates a dramatic decision which will change his life forever, until he meets a mysterious woman who, through her personal stories, gives him a reason to re-examine what is most ...
Style:
christian film, sincere, suspenseful, inspirational, reflective ...
Plot:
faith, grief, healing, father son relationship, christian, family relations, love, father, husband wife relationship, fatherhood, integrity, redemption ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, grief, suicide, seaside, empathy, loneliness, trumpet player, salvation, healing, intimate, mourning, redemption ...
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns ...
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
elderly man, pilgrimage, character study, self discovery, walking, journey, grief, changing lives, lifestyle, lifestyle change, life, bittersweet ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, estrangement, coming of age, reconciliation, family drama, father son estrangement, estranged father, family problems, absent father, estranged son, journey ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Diego is a film director very close to death, surrounded by people who are having trouble dealing with his current tempestuous mood. Chances are he won't survive, but if he does, that means he needs to relearn how to live. live.
Style:
captivating, emotional, existential, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
cancer, illness, female masturbation, wedding ceremony, hospital, family problems, death, survival, cancer patient, fighting illness, friends, treatment ...
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A therapist and a lawyer (a couple) and a female erotic stories writer talk about various sex stories of some couples.
Style:
erotic, erotic drama, sensual, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
sex, mature, sexuality, desire, relationships, intimate, couples, voyeur, therapy, exploration, therapist, storytelling ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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