Movies like Chakra

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Chakra (1981)
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Chakra (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Amma (Smita Patil) is a woman who has been raped and then forced to flee her home with her husband and child after her husband kills the rapist. Her life plunges even lower in the overwhelming and crowded city when her husband, in turn, is killed by smugglers. Left alone to fend for herself and her little boy, she desperately tries to instill moral values in her son in spite of the immorality of life all around them. She is indirectly aided in this effort by a dubious hero-type, but there does not seem to be much hope for her future and that of her son.
Style: art film, parallel cinema, ambiguous ending
Plot: teenager, brothel, truck driver, poverty, slum, syphilis, realism, miscarriage, sexual awakening, sex, fight, prostitute, wedding, police, pregnancy, death, murder, prostitution, dream, smuggler, desperation, drunkard, death of child, lecher, pharmacy ...
Place: mumbai india

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sexual and independent film films with plots about prostitute, police, sex, murder, death, prostitution and female nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Chakra: Woh Chokri (1994), On the Verge of a Fever (2004), The Mourner (1993), Dushmun (1971), Kalyug (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Woh Chokri (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Woh Chokri (वह छोकरी) is a Hindi movie starring Pallavi Joshi, Neena Gupta, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri and is directed by Subhankar Ghosh .
Style: art film
Plot: indian woman, alcoholism, family relations, school expulsion, murder, school, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, drunkenness, death, betrayal ...
Place: delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
On the Verge of a Fever (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Against the backdrop of poverty, fear and the brutal dictatorship of Haiti in 1971, ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER is about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy who just wants to experience life for himself with his streetwise friend Gégé. Having lived a somewhat ...
Plot: prostitute, dictatorship, dictator, sexual initiation, poverty, coming of age, pimp, girl next door, overprotective mother, bare breasts, sex, female nudity ...
Time: 70s
Place: haiti
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The Mourner (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In a small village in Rajasthan, India, a woman named Shanichari was born - so named, as shortly after her birth her father died; & her mother, Peewli, ran away with a rich lover, the owner of a drama company, abandoning her. When Shanichari ...
Style: art film, offbeat, crying, weeping
Plot: indian woman, female protagonist, death, prostitute, grief, landowner, death of husband, desert, death of mother, orphan, pregnancy, bollywood ...
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71%
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Dushmun (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Film starring Meena Kumari, Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz
Style: retro
Plot: manslaughter, drinking, judge, truck driver, courtroom, prostitute, redemption, farming, courtesan, loss of husband, farm, punishment ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Kalyug (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: The film is tale of intrigue, plots and the inevitable war between the two families. Ramchand and Bhishamchand were two pioneering brothers in business. Bhishamchand, a lifelong bachelor brought up the two sons of Ramchand on his demise. He also ...
Style: parallel cinema
Plot: police, dinner, matriarchy, business rivalry, killing, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, honeymoon, suicide, funeral, sex, restaurant ...
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66%
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Glue Sniffer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, homelessness, child in peril, survival, poverty, children, misery, street life, street kid, desperation, brutality, police brutality ...
Place: venezuela
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65%
Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
Style: neorealism, depressing, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, adolescence, children, orphanage, fascism, escape, orphan, freedom, poverty, psychological abuse, family abandonment ...
Time: 60s
Place: buenos aires argentina
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59%
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Lolita's Club (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The plot follows the story of twin brothers, one is a coldhearted violent police officer, the other is a helpless romantic with a mental disability. The two brothers are tragically involved with a prostitute who works in the bordello that gives the ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: prostitute, twins, nudity, police corruption, murder, family relations, on the run, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, nightclub, brother brother relationship, teenage prostitute ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Scrounger (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Style: neorealism, realistic, serious, disturbing, talky ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, poverty, unemployment, robbery, family relations, life is a bitch, italian neorealism, couple relations, dishonesty, downfall, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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56%
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Subarnarekha (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Made in 1962 (but not released until 1965), Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s film starts soon after the 1947 partition of Bengal. At a socialist refugee colony, Ishwar and his younger sister, Sita, adopt a low-caste boy, Abhiram, who has been ...
Plot: refugee, sadness, immigrant, teaching, suicide, mythology, prostitution, symbol, river, hopes, prostitute, death of sister ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
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Diary of a Chambermaid (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: France, around 1900. Coming from the vibrancy of Paris, pert Célestine is procured as a chambermaid in Normandy. In the Lanlaire's villa she encounters the lecherous man of the house and his asexual, tyrannical and jealous wife. Célestine is ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, period piece, sexual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: master servant relationship, master and servant, maid, seaside, domestic servant, chambermaid, power relations, social differences, class differences, murder, nightmare, lust ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1900s
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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The Balcony (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in ...
Style: political, sex comedy, sexy, independent film, grotesque ...
Plot: sex, dominatrix, revolution, brothel, madam, satire, surrealism, police, soldier, prostitute, lesbian, judge ...
Time: year 1963
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51%
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Loverboy (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Scholiere Denise is ontevreden met haar leven en als ze de 19-jarige charmante Michael tegenkomt lijkt haar verlangen naar luxe en romantiek vervuld te worden. Maar Michael investeert in haar uit eigen belang.
Style: captivating
Plot: teenage prostitution, street prostitution, prostitute, manipulative person, teenage love, teenage life, in love, sexual manipulation, manipulation, teenager, sex worker, prostitution ...
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Lakshmi (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Based on true events, Lakshmi is a story of heroism and untold courage. Lakshmi, a 13 year old girl is kidnapped and sold into prostitution. Thrown into this horrific, inhuman world where she is raped and brutally beaten she barely survives with the ...
Style: serious, tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: cruelty, prostitution, police raid, female protagonist, brutality, pimp, whistleblower, underage, lawyer, human spirit, society, strong female character ...
Place: india
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46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Raji is forced into prostitution to support her brother's education after their parents' death. She falls in love with Babu, who faces social ridicule after their affair becomes public.
Style: sexual
Plot: sexuality, false accusation, prostitution, attraction, police brutality, remorse, see through clothes, theft, love, prostitute, gang rape, death of brother ...
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Gate of Flesh (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After World War II, some Tokyo prostitutes band together with a strict code: no pimps, attack any street walker who comes into our territory, defend the abandoned building we call home, and punish whomever gives away sex (who falls in love). Maya, a ...
Style: erotic, erotic drama, grindhouse, sexy, tense ...
Plot: prostitute, yakuza, female nudity, sex, brothel, sexploitation, japanese history, whore, bondage, pimp, world war two veteran, fugitive ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A rich, spoiled young man encounters a prostitute, and gets confused about the nature of his feelings for her; he can't decide between attraction, and repulsion.
Plot: sex with stepson, teenage sexuality, affair, stepmother, lgbt, prostitution, wedding, nudity, homosexual, aunt, gay, widower ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Funes, un gran amor (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
Plot: tango, brothel madam, game, brothel, prostitution, sex, lesbian, mafia, female nudity, group, saloon
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Godaan (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 1963 Indian Film
Plot: estranged brother, murderer, milkman, pregnancy, village, tragic event, honor, cow, poverty, farmer, poison, wealth ...
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Goodbye Trainmen (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Veturimiehet heiluttaa on 4. syyskuuta 1992 ensi-iltansa saanut suomalainen elokuva. Elokuva on kuvattu suurimmaksi osaksi Porissa. Veturimiehet heiluttaa sai ensi-iltansa Ruotsissa 26. maaliskuuta 1993.
Plot: train, male female relationship, self destructing, childhood friend, teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rain, friendship, drinking, friend, death, flashback ...
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Poids léger (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man tries his way in boxing, supported by a coach. He meets a girl, falls in love and she becomes pregnant.
Style: crying, sensitive
Plot: boxer, brother sister relationship, boxing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mentor protege relationship, interracial romance, fall in love, interracial relations, emotionally unstable, self destructing, funeral, death ...
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Larger Than Life (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A mother and her daughter—who are both victims of incest-rape perpetrated by the same man now languishing in jail—are approached by a couple of filmmakers with an offer to produce a movie based on the two women’s true story. They hesitate on ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: sexualized violence, filmmaking, exploitation, teenager, mother daughter relationship, cinema, producer, seduction, grandfather, interview, sex, police ...
Time: 2000s
Place: the philippines
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42%
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Blue Eyes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Before his compulsory retirement, on his last day of work, Marshall, JFK airport's chief Immigration officer, detains a group of Latin Americans and expose them to a series of humiliating situations. Blinded by prejudice, Marshall ends up by ...
Style: realistic, thought provoking, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot: redemption, haunted by the past, prostitute, introspection, society, police, racism, xenophobia, murder, journey, released from prison, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
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Marquis de Sade's Justine (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely sadistic monk. It's a twisted tale of strange ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, erotic, sadistic, sexual ...
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Dharma Durai (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
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Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
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Plot: teenage pregnancy, friendship, poverty, female friendship, homeless, fish, death of son, beach, pregnant woman, baby, death, santa claus ...
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A Report (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
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Plot: love, media, doomed romance, fight, ship, sailor, young adult, tragic romance, reporter, female nudity, suicide, harbor ...
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Katie Tippel (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
Style: cult classic, touching, sexual, disturbing, serious ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
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Style: enigmatic, captivating, psychological, touching, independent film ...
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Time: year 1997, 90s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
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