Movies like Next Stop Paradise

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Next Stop Paradise (1998)
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Next Stop Paradise (1998)
Original name: Terminus paradis
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Romania, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The level of disinterest in personal affairs has become so cynical in Bucharest that people cheer even an inept army and police manhunt. Meanwhile, Mitu and Elena get to know each other in the course of a vodka drinking contest and discover that they are both dissatisfied with the status quo. Mitu is about to begin military service and Elena is to be married to a man she does not love. They decide they are meant for each other and plan on a different future, one that is on a collision course with the authorities, and start a mad affair.
Style: iconic
Plot: social injustice, love, army, police, helicopter, chase, father son relationship, manhunt, male female relationship, waitress, drinking, public nudity, male nudity, male pubic hair, drinking alcohol, forced to strip, naked outdoors, pubic hair
Place: eastern europe, bucharest
Keyword: romanian, oldies

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, serious, realistic and captivating films with plots about love, police, male female relationship, father son relationship, female nudity, family relations and male nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Next Stop Paradise: Eine ganz hei?e Nummer (1989), Verso sud (1992), Fast, Fast (1981), Romeo & Juliet (1994), Those Who Pay with Their Lives (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Eine ganz hei?e Nummer (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Al and Elsa have been a couple for some time, but the chances that their relationship will be long-lived are few. For one thing, Al is appallingly dependent on Elsa for his every emotional need. For another, Elsa is an incredibly elusive person, ...
Plot: love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, controversy, betrayal, filmmaking, separation, subway, actor, trauma, improv, male female relationship
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.0
 47
Verso sud (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Pasquale Pozzessere's debut, a woman just out of prison falls in love with a man who saw steaing form a collection box in a church. Some critics saw a dry style next to Pasolini's as the director shows the two desperate individuals ...
Plot: job seeking, released from prison, pursuit, love, drinking, drunkenness, kidnapping, police, boy, alcoholic, on the road, theft ...
Place: southern italy, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 7.0
 2K
Fast, Fast (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.
Style: hood, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: gang, juvenile delinquent, bank robbery, robbery, coming of age, gangster, ghetto, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, disorder, love and romance, danger ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: iberian peninsula, madrid, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Romeo & Juliet (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
Plot: shakespeare's romeo and juliet, shakespeare, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, love, father daughter relationship, family relations, male female relationship, teenager
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Those Who Pay with Their Lives (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An uncompromising journalist obsessed with the idea of absolute justice ends up committing suicide after reading his father's biography.
Plot: female nudity, theater, intrigue, unrequited love, ex soldier, publisher, poet, peeping, male female relationship, newspaper, politician, love ...
Time: post world war one
Place: bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 7.6
 12K
Cholera Street (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, Hungary, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The film is set in a rundown, crime ridden neighborhood of Istanbul dubbed "Cholera Street" (Kolera Sokağı). Salih is a mechanic and son of a respected barber Ali. A woman Tina arrives at Cholera street where she takes up residence and ...
Style: lgbt cinema, art house, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: turk, serial killer, women's issues, lgbt, murder, revenge, gangster, prostitute, violence, sexual abuse, junkie, alcoholic ...
Time: 90s
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
I Hope for You (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belarus, Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After abandoning her newborn child a woman goes through very difficult times and starts working in a foster house.
Plot: social injustice, drinking, priest, drunkenness, child abuse, love, suicide attempt, railway, new job, church, unhappiness, orphanage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.4
 115
Great Love (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Начало шестидесятых годов. Грядёт сокращение вооружённых сил. Бравый генерал, убежденный холостяк и отчаянный бабник Антон Улыбабов ...
Plot: soviet army, male female relationship, flying, runaway, domineering mother, flowers, love, vodka, drinking, wedding, friend, military officer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Dotonbori River (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
Plot: youth, college, love, stripper, striptease, billiards, river, first sex, painter, father son relationship, female nudity, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Who's Your Daddy (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When one of them is about to become a father, three friends must make a decision that will change their lives forever.
Style: humorous, captivating, serious, realistic, feel good ...
Plot: kidnapping, friendship, love, father son relationship, family relations, friends, male female relationship, romantic friendship, group of friends, parenthood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
An Unforgettable Summer (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian ...
Style: meditative, melancholic, talky, light, atmospheric ...
Plot: unlikely friendships, politics, military, soldier, state affairs, moral dilemma, political unrest, wartime life, military life, injustice, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1994, 1920s
Place: eastern europe, bucharest
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Donovan Slacks (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 1928 and Donovan Slacks, a man with a fragile head, is sent to an English Sea Bathing Hospital. But when he falls in love with a local fishergirl, he discovers the bitter truth about his past and life goes into freefall. In the eye of the storm he ...
Style: independent film, period drama
Plot: public speaking, sex, love, violence, police, hospital, middle class, identity, psychiatry, class struggle, psychoanalysis, social injustice ...
Time: 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.1
 34K
Queen & Slim (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: An exploration of America’s social and political climate through the lens of a genre-defying love story. The film centers on a black man and black woman who go on a first date that goes awry after the two are pulled over by a police officer at a ...
Style: road movie, thought provoking, exciting, sad, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: racist cop, on the run, first date, african american, black, police officer killed, riot, dysfunctional family, police officer, dating, manhunt, black american ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: florida, cleveland ohio, cuba, georgia, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.9
 352
Under the Skin (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Peru, Spain, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Passion, criminal instincts and traditions melt together in this film that shakes our understanding of crime.
Plot: female nudity, dead body, nudity, museum, femme fatale, father son relationship, guilt, police, death, obsession, jail cell, violence ...
Place: peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.4
 426
Angel (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old homosexual Angelos, who works in a jewelry shop, lives very discreetly in a rather hostile social environment. When he falls in love with a sailor, Michalis, he decides to leave home, abandoning his alcoholic father, his hysterical ...
Plot: gay, lgbtq, greek, drug, glbt, transgender, erotica, gay subtext, male nudity, murder, male objectification, soldier ...
Place: greece, ireland, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Ragman's Daughter (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. Tony, a worker at a cheese factory, is also a petty thief. He moves from robbery after robbery until he meets Doris, the daughter of the local ragman. Slowly, he falls in love with her and must decide whether ...
Style: independent film, poliziottesco
Plot: petty theft, girl horse relationship, motorcycle, kitchen sink realism, classism, young lovers, love, female nudity, police, thief, slice of life, horse riding
Time: year 1972
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
She Good Fighter (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Dennis Davids is a young, talented and idealistic lawyer in Antwerp, who takes every case at heart, even the pro-deo clients the court assigns for a meager fee. Needless to say he really goes the extra mile, risking his life and his career as his ...
Plot: kickboxer, boxer, bare butt, friendship, on the run, violence, friend, gym, female nudity, kickboxing, lawyer, male nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Generation Gap (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Ling Xi (David Chiang) is a rebellious youth whose liaison with underage girlfriend Cindy (Agnes Chan) is the spark which lights the eventual flame of his rebellion. Against the wishes of her parents, Ling Xi and Cindy move in together, and the two ...
Plot: singer, family relations, young man, gangster, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, bad influence, male female relationship, fight, coming of age, tragedy, karate ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 5.5
 230
Summer Affair (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted ...
Style: ambiguous ending, surprise ending, freeze frame
Plot: erotica, young love, hippie, island, desert island, love, coming of age, rich girl, parents, nudity, bare chested male, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.4
 19K
The Child (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
Style: sincere, emotional, harsh, rough, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: homeless, poverty, dysfunctional family, youth, baby, black market, social decay, going straight, life is a bitch, human nature, society, petty criminal ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: belgium, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Wedding Murders (2016)
Genre: Crime, Romance
Country: Canada
Story: Serial Killer Henry Sparks fall in love with his childhood sweetheart Detective Prospect Jenkins who is after him.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: homosexual, deception, family relations, infidelity, gay, violence, murder, police, serial killer, couples, love, police officer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.5
 560
In Motion (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Modern Russian take on Felinni's "La Dolce Vita" focuses on a few days from one popular Moscow journalist's life and the essential attributes of his life: Sex, betrayal, love, friendship, murders, etc.
Plot: father son relationship, boy, capitalism, male nudity, reporter, nudity, bare butt, self identity, towel, shower
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Last Passport (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: THE LAST PASSPORT takes place in a passport office...or so you think. George Miller is a 70 year old man who through a variety of encounters, takes us on a journey through his mysterious past to show us we are not all that different.
Style: independent film
Plot: alcoholics anonymous meeting, male female relationship, gay interest, family relations, military, husband wife relationship, police, love, marriage, father son relationship, friendship, post office ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 7.5
 203
Frameup (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ricky, a dim-witted ex-con, meets Beth, a dim-witted waitress, in an Idaho diner. They take off in his car to Washington and begin an affair. Beth, a lonely romance-novel addict, is hopelessly enamored; Ricky is just in it for the (constant) sex. ...
Style: road movie, dark comedy, black comedy, independent film
Plot: ex convict, robbery, waitress, female nudity, erection, male nudity, dildo
Place: idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Midnight My Love (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film features a change of pace for comic actor Petchtai, who offers a sombre, dramatic portrayal of a taxicab driver who develops a relationship with a young woman (Woranut, in her debut feature film role) who is working in a massage parlor. The ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Plot: taxi driver, friendship, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, couple relations, male female relationship, love story, relationships, romantic relationship, loneliness, working class ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Gang Money Run (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A struggling musician falls for a charismatic burlesque dancer while getting entangled with hired guns and a border town gang bent on killing him.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot: chase, stolen money, car chase, musician, police, violence, betrayal, fbi, gang, greed, hitman, burlesque ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.7
 120
Line of Life (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Philippe meets the beautiful Oksana during a long layover in Moscow. Unfortunately, Oksana is the granddaughter of a murderous mafia don looking to trap a French speaking man to pull off a massive con.
Plot: father daughter relationship, money, drinking, party, composer, russian mafia, intrigue, femme fatale, healing, gangster, revenge, kidnapping ...
Place: paris france, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Wounded Man (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the object of his affection, Henri builds up ...
Style: erotic, serious, psychological, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, nudity, gay love, gay erotica, traumatic childhood, lgbtq, family relations, obsession, male nudity, male pubic hair, gay interest ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, frankfurt germany, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.7
 96
Keys (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.
Plot: child kidnapping, interracial relations, african american, black american, missing person, female protagonist, police detective, disappearance, haunted by the past, missing child, investigation, kidnapping ...
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.0
 555
Heaven in Hell (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Olga and Maks are 15 years away. She is a successful woman with an established position, the mother of an adult daughter, he is a handsome young man who enjoys his life in a handful and lives only in the moment. It might seem that these two ...
Style: captivating, dramatic, suspenseful, erotic, entertaining
Plot: male nudity, female nudity, sex scene, couple relations, sex, sexual relations, love, love affair, male female relationship, love story, landlady tenant relationship, female judge ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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