Movies like Looping 1981
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Looping (1981)
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip show, with her as the main attraction. Her act attracts customers in droves, but it turns out that the girl has her own agenda, and it isn't to help out the carnival.
Style:
sensual, tension, period piece
Plot:
femme fatale, carnival, striptease, seduction, sexuality, manipulation, betrayal, circus, deception, showbiz, female protagonist, scheming, exploitation, sexploitation, attraction, survival, revenge, ambition, moral ambiguity, intimate, loss of innocence, outsider, small town, dark humor, nostalgia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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172
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
new york
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece
Plot:
beauty pageant, sexploitation, female protagonist, modeling, ambition, exploitation, cautionary tale, frustration, manipulation, showbiz, corruption, seduction ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, texas
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64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bruno is a cynical but attractive business man, owner of a strip-club. He has to replace his best dancer, Katy, after her suicide. Applicants would do anything to get this job, but only Damy, gorgeous and mysterious girl, catches his attention. What ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Similarity:
56%
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104
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two seedy producers work to make a star out of a former stag-film actress while an aging rival conspires to ruin her.
Style:
erotic drama, period piece, psychotronic, ambiguous ending, grindhouse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hollywood, casting couch, sexploitation, exploitation, showbiz, sexual manipulation, manipulation, female protagonist, voyeurism, corruption, ambition, nudie cutie ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Innocent young Marianne works in a ski resort high in the French Alps. One night she agrees to go on a date with Bob, a young guy on vacation. Bob excites her in ways that her oafish boyfriend never could.
Style:
erotic, romantic drama, sensual, sex comedy, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dog sex, bestiality, female protagonist, seduction, mature, manipulation, deception, moral ambiguity, character study, sexual awakening, naivete, blackmail ...
Place:
paris france, alps
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
A seedy striptease club in London's West End becomes the target for unpleasant crooks.
Style:
suspense, tension, noir, period piece, sex comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
striptease, strip club, exploitation, mature, blackmail, cabaret, burlesque, danger, red light district, organized crime, sexploitation, mob boss ...
Time:
70s
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, sensual, sex comedy, period piece, independent film
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Similarity:
45%
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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:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
70s
Place:
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Similarity:
35%
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Country: Yugoslavia, UK, Argentina
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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33%
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
31%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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31%
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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london
Similarity:
30%
567
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Country: Romania, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Saya had planned a scheme so that Sakiko, who works under Makoto, would witness her sexual affair with Makoto in the office. Makoto’s home is about to become a broken one when his wife Sachiko is told of her husband’s unfaithful doings. Saya, ...
Style:
erotic, romantic drama, sensual, dark, intense
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, betrayal, love triangle, revenge, sexual obsession, manipulation, mature, seduction, jealousy, scandal, female protagonist ...
Time:
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Similarity:
30%
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Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
suspense, intense, tense, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
29%
266
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, period piece, psychological, intense, retro ...
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic drama, sensual, dark, art house, twisted ...
Plot:
slave, greek mythology, apollo program, enslavement, mythology, sexual manipulation, taboo, nudity, seduction, romantic obsession, scheming, depravity ...
Place:
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Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Yugoslavia
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
sensual, erotic, independent film
Plot:
seduction, exploitation, love triangle, sexploitation, infidelity, adultery, sexual jealousy, sexual exploration, obsession, sexual awakening, moral ambiguity, unrequited love ...
Place:
greece
Similarity:
28%
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