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A Gap in the Skin (2004)
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A Gap in the Skin (2004)
Original name: 肌の隙間
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot: murder, couples, teenager, violence, domestic violence, life is a bitch, runaway, teenage boy, relationship problems, family problems, young couple, murder of family, juvenile delinquency, murder of mother, rape, female nudity, bare breasts, cuckold, river, fish, junk food, sexually aggressive woman, sexually frustrated woman, aunt nephew relationship, incest ...
Place: tokyo

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, disturbing, psychological and captivating films with plots about family problems, life is a bitch, relationship problems, family relations, female nudity, violence and male female relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Gap in the Skin: Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009), Great Plains (2016), Tropical Manila (2008), The Choice (2015), Father Is a Dog (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
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, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, teenage girl, teenage life, money problems, violence, family problems, teenage protagonist, society, teenager, juvenile delinquency, social problems
Place: indonesia
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95%
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Great Plains (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inspired by True Events An abused wife and mother to a young boy escapes her violent husband and heads for California with her son. She soon learns that her husband has accused her of kidnapping and the law is in hot pursuit. Now a fugitive, she ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: abusive husband, relationships, life is a bitch, parents and children, false accusation, marital problem, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, accusation, child abuse, violence, domestic violence ...
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Tropical Manila (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, Philippines
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Kim-Dusik, who committed a murder in Korea, fled to Manila and has lived there nearly 15 years. He lives with his Filipino wife, Medusa, and their 15-year old son, Philip. Dusik, his irresistible yearning for his mother, turns into violence ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: father son relationship, marital abuse, murder, rape, male female relationship, domestic violence, violence, dysfunctional family, father and son, murderer, violent, life is a bitch ...
Place: manila philippines, korea
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The Choice (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: couples, husband wife relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, family relations, marital reconciliation, marriage, pregnancy, marital problem, violence, pregnant wife, sexual abuse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Father Is a Dog (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A mentally-handicapped young man, a sex-obsessed tortured artist, and their responsible but somewhat prideful brother are all grief-stricken in the wake of their mother's death. The three brothers live with their father, a withdrawn and abusive ...
Style: captivating, suspense, bleak
Plot: family problems, relationship problems, domestic violence, domineering father, violence, brother brother relationship, abusive relationship, father and son, father, child abuse, power relations, life is a bitch ...
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The Animal's Wife (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: violent, violence, tragic love, forbidden love, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, dysfunctional family, relationships, relationship problems, male female relationship
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Jan Dara: The Finale (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Based on a famous Thai erotic novel, the film tells the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. Set in the 1930′s the story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies ...
Style: erotic, sexy, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: brothel, prostitute, revenge, rape, hate, violence, life is a bitch, domestic violence, vengeance, family problems, violent, social problems ...
Time: 1930s
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand
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Hectopascal: Sensual Call Girl (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Mio is a woman who owns a funeral parlor in a small port town. After losing her husband, her libido suddenly awakens. A typhoon rips through the town. Not only does she provide funeral services for the grieving parties but also attends to their ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, suspense, psychological, erotic
Plot: relationship problems, star crossed lovers, love story, love affair, sexually dissatisfied wife, small town, male female relationship, love interest, fall in love, loss of husband, relationships, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Oscuro animal (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Greece
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. Each of their journeys, marked by terror, takes them on a trek from the deep jungle to the outskirts of Bogotá, where they will gather new ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: murder, soldier, women, life is a bitch, violence, wartime, violent, jungle, female protagonist, female nudity, river, little girl ...
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Greshnik (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Vlad was five his mother was killed. And the only person whom Vlad blames for her death is his father . On the 20th anniversary of the tragedy the young man decides to gather all his relatives together to dot all the i's and cross all the ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: murder mystery, uncover truth, family secret, father son relationship, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, family tragedy, character change, changing lives, family relations, murder, family problems ...
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84%
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Guilt (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: After being sexually assaulted by an acquainted and incapable of dealing with the situation, a woman leaves her whole life behind and hides herself away in an isolated cabin in the mountains.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot: violence against women, sexualized violence, rape and revenge, troubled past, tragic past, rape, traumatic past, psychological trauma, violence, emotional abuse, confronting the past, traumatic experience ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Young Adult Matters (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: homeless teenager, pregnant teenager, troubled teen, teenager, life is a bitch, social problems, teenage life, social misfits, society, relationship problems, female homosexuality, poverty ...
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Isy Way Out (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
Plot: friendship, youth, friend, teenager, classmate, teenage boy, family relations, mother daughter relationship, friends, rape, rape victim, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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83%
Before the Rooster Crows (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot: coming of age, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, living with parents, teenage life, family relations, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, love interest ...
Place: puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Father's Acre (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Love makes a bad relationship between father and son all the more rancorous in this drama from Hungarian director Viktor Oszkar Nagy. A convict (Janos Derzsi) returns home after a long stretch in prison to a less than enthusiastic welcome; his son ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: parent child relationship, father son relationship, father son estrangement, father son reunion, father and son, estrangement, male female relationship, life is a bitch, relationships, relationship problems, family relations, family problems ...
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The Brutal Hopelessness of Love (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Famous movie actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband Yosuke has an affair with a young actress Junko whereas in the movie, Nami acts as an actress whose ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: actress, adultery, family relations, infidelity, husband wife relationship, family problems, adulterer, cheating on husband, relationship problems, cheating wife, prostitute, prostitution ...
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Otilia Rauda (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Otilia is both blessed with a body that is the epitome of feminine perfection and cursed by an ugly mole that mars her beautiful face. The juxtaposition between fabulous beauty and disfigurement proves unsettling for the villagers and she grows up ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
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Lost Girl (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend's mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance.
Style: enigmatic, captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: relationship problems, secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, marital problem, family problems, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, uncover truth, female nudity
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83%
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Beware of Children (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story: During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high profile right-wing politician.
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: fatal accident, school, social problems, teenager, political unrest, life is a bitch, relationship problems, political intrigue, tragic event, family problems, politics, juvenile delinquency ...
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A Distant Cry from Spring (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Distant Cry from Spring (TV Movies)
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
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Tag (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Billy is the self-designated leader of a group of teenagers living in a shelter. Jacob and Rae, Billy's oldest childhood friends, live there as well as part of "the family". Billy has an AIDs-like virus, which he has passed on to his ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
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Place: usa
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82%
My Mom's Darkest Secrets (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When 21-year-old Ashley Beck-Ford finds her biological mother, Sara Hillman, online, she is shocked and thrilled… But building a relationship with her long-lost mother proves to be more dangerous than Ashley could have ever imagined. Soon after ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: tense, suspense, disturbing
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Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
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Style: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, tense ...
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The Shame (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young married couple, not knowing how to deal with their new adopted son's behavior, decides to give him back.
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing, suspense
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Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
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Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, sexy, experimental
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Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, controversial, scary
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Place: japan
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81%
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