Movies like Born Black
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Born Black (1969)
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Original name: Der verlogene Akt
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A convoluted roundelay of sexual encounters and unwitting fluid exchanges results in a white woman giving birth to a black baby.
Style:
dramatic, tense, art house
Plot:
infidelity, adultery, interracial relations, mature, racial prejudice, family drama, miscegenation, sex scandal, class differences, black ops, one night stand, identity crisis, taboo subject, jazz club, trumpet player, prostitute, racism, corruption, paparazzi, exploitation, ostracism, interracial sex, awkward, simulated sex
Place:
germany
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Most similar movies to Born Black
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, melancholic, art house and emotional films with plots about betrayal, infidelity, moral ambiguity, family drama, identity crisis, mature and female nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Born Black: Kiskisan (2024), The House of Doves (1972), Angel Express (1998), Trust (2024), Aurora (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
A steamy tale of love, lust, and betrayal. When Adele's sister Bea returns with her girlfriend Cheska, a secret affair begins between Cheska and Adele's boyfriend, Rener, leading to a climactic ending when they're caught.
Style:
steamy, erotic, sensual, romantic drama, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
black ops, mature, lust, sexual tension, infidelity, love triangle, betrayal, temptation, forbidden romance, jealousy, passion, desire ...
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love affair until Alexandra finds that he is being paid to be ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
love triangle, erotica, extramarital affair, mother daughter relationship, infidelity, betrayal, deception, jealousy, secrets, moral ambiguity, desire, loneliness ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Angel Express is a film about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience. Set in late nineties Berlin, it shows images of radical change: Young urban heroes in the glare of flashlights; an environment in which coldness and affection or ...
Style:
dark, existential, neo noir, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
nightlife, moral ambiguity, alienation, identity crisis, police corruption, corruption, loneliness, youth culture, underground, friendship, violence, haunting ...
Time:
90s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
Similarity:
81%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, ...
Style:
romantic drama, art house, melancholic, tense, ambiguous ending
Plot:
teacher student relationship, forbidden love, moral ambiguity, guilt, reputation, infidelity, betrayal, character study, literary, shame, obsession, emotional manipulation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
75%
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329
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Aurora, the daughter of a religious leader, enters into a secret affair that changes her life. She tries to please everyone but when it's time for a lavish wedding anniversary celebration, an uninvited guest arrives.
Plot:
black ops, female protagonist, family drama, forbidden love, uninvited guest, scandal, hypocrisy, confrontation, identity crisis, betrayal, wedding anniversary, dysfunctional family ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and an interesting job: she has no motive to be troubled, but she decides to join him and to become his lover. She ...
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, tense, suspenseful, art house ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, years of lead, female protagonist, infidelity, adultery, marriage crisis, secret lover, betrayal, obsession, tragic romance, moral ambiguity, fate ...
Place:
naples italy, sicily
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Twins, identical in appearance but different in soul. A double female point of view, narrated between Italy and the Middle East, between the affirmation of identity and the risks that people are willing to take to get what they want.
Style:
emotional, intercultural, multicultural, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
twins, identity, self discovery, female protagonist, identity crisis, character study, sisterhood, risk, ambiguity, secrets, family drama, coming of age ...
Place:
italy, middle east
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, sinister, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, domestic drama, betrayal, infidelity, moral ambiguity, character study, symbolism, jealousy, guilt, midlife crisis, mature ...
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, Greece, Latvia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Renowned German organist Anna discovers her Latvian husband's involvement in a corruption scandal, shaking the foundation of their life together. Can she come to terms with this new reality about her husband?
Style:
emotional, psychological, reflective, tense, intercultural
Plot:
organist, relationships, betrayal of trust, marriage, secrets, scandal, trust, marital crisis, betrayal, female protagonist, family drama, corruption ...
Place:
germany, latvia
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An ihrem 5. Hochzeitstag haben Albert und Birgit ihre drei engsten Freunde zu einem Festessen in ihr Haus auf dem Land eingeladen. Die Idylle entpuppt sich als schwer vermintes Gelände. Ungeahnte amouröse Verwicklungen kommen nach und nach auf den ...
Style:
captivating, tense, dramatic, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
cuckold, adultery, swingers, failed marriage, unfaithful husband, infidelity, extramarital affair, party, marital problem, marriage crisis, family problems, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.
Style:
period piece
Plot:
father son conflict, prostitution, family drama, forbidden love, scandal, family secret, infidelity, betrayal, rebellion, mature, reputation, urban ...
Time:
60s, year 1961
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As a noted filmmaker’s infidelity becomes a media firestorm, his fractured family privately navigates the fallout of his actions for years to come.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
family drama, infidelity, extramarital affair, family relations, social problems, family reunited, love affair, life is a bitch, love interest, lifestyle, eccentric family, male protagonist ...
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Black Horses is a film about the destiny of Serbian people who are forced to endure the "rule from the North" against their will. The empress Maria Theresia has designated their region of Banat to be the dungeon for insubordinate citizens ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
national identity, social injustice, identity crisis, moral dilemma, oppression, occupation, nationalism, ethnic conflict, class conflict, resistance, betrayal, revenge
Similarity:
56%
172
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of Cecilia is a story of the society that dominated 19th-century Cuba, a society divided between whites, blacks, and those who were mixed, the mulattos. (Since the Spanish conquistadors killed off the Indian population in Cuba not long ...
Style:
historical drama, slasher, tragic ending, tense, art house ...
Plot:
slavery, interracial relations, tragic romance, plantation, class conflict, forbidden love, courtesan, family honor, racial prejudice, domestic drama, resistance movement, gender roles ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
cuba, latin america
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Drama about airline pilot who is married to two separate women in separate towns and who eventually takes on a third wife. Much to his dismay, the separate worlds he lives in begin to collide, and the truth of his womanizing and bigamy begin to come ...
Style:
romantic drama, suspense
Plot:
bigamy, airline, adultery, double life, infidelity, deception, family drama, family secret, polygamy, travel, character study, moral dilemma ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
55%
231
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman falls in love with a famous novelist and travels with him to his home in Southern Italy. There, her obsession with the memory of his dead wife begins to consume her.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, art house, tense, moody
Plot:
obsessive love, obsession, character study, mediterranean, romantic obsession, loneliness, grief, female protagonist, jealousy, memory, tragic romance, mourning ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
An offbeat yet serious family drama about coming home, arrested development and infidelity.
Style:
reflective, serious, realistic, melancholic, offbeat
Plot:
infidelity, getting home, family drama, arrested development, betrayal, house, homecoming, midlife crisis, mature, personal growth, intimate, loss ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A major turnaround of events takes place in the lives of Aravind and Poorni, a newly married intimate couple, when her sister visits for a job interview. Aravind mysteriously disappears, leading to revelations of his affair with a client. As ...
Style:
tense, suspense, twisted, psychological, realistic
Plot:
affair, infidelity, marriage, suspicion, deception, disappearance, betrayal, secret, family drama, family conflict, mistrust, black ops ...
Similarity:
52%
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281
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A sexually frustrated policeman starts investigating the doings of his wife.
Style:
psychological, bleak, tense, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
jealousy, sexual frustration, adultery, infidelity, humiliation, shame, character study, moral ambiguity, betrayal, chinese culture, machismo, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Married couple Tom and Julie begin to question the stability of their relationship when an old friend comes to visit... with his latest mistress in tow.
Style:
melancholic, sexploitation film
Plot:
infidelity, marriage, mature, adultery, affair, bittersweet, sexual jealousy, midlife crisis, betrayal, social realism, mistress, unfaithful husband ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation-owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of them heaving no other choice but to rebel. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
slavery, racism, slave, black slave, civil war, oppression, social injustice, interracial relations, plantation, sadism, brutality, violence ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
kentucky
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finished. He doesn't have any ideas for his next work. His situation seems bleak, with his editor seeming to not care about him anymore and his ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, dramatic, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
infidelity, desperation, relationships, prostitute, secret, job, life, business, melancholy, writer's block, loneliness, downfall ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Handsome and successful Jim appears to have it all: he's married to the beautiful and supportive Lisa, has a healthy baby, and works a cool gig as the director of hardcore porno fare. Jim's seemingly perfect life starts to fall apart when ...
Style:
cult classic, serious, realistic, sexual, suspenseful ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
adultery, exploitation, adult filmmaking, couples, dishonesty, infidelity, life turned upside down, filmmaking, love affair, behind the scenes, male pubic hair, wine ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
student, moral ambiguity, escapades, problem, lawyer, criminal, gambling, criminal underworld, mature, identity crisis, law student, obsession ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Monaco
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ...
Style:
erotic, ambiguous ending, tense, noir
Plot:
voyeurism, hotel, suicide, female protagonist, loneliness, alienation, melancholy, sex, obsession, tragic romance, political unrest, sexual tension ...
Place:
west berlin west germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Rosa is in her late 30s, a child of the 1970s with divorced parents. She lives with her own family in São Paulo. Overwhelmed by an eruption of individual passions, lies and the expectations of three generations, she tries to discover who she really ...
Style:
touching, psychological, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, lgbt, family relations, death of mother, cancer, mother daughter relationship, loss of mother, terminal illness, lesbian, sex scene, teenager ...
Similarity:
43%
142
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, dramatic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
family drama, family secret, secrets, small town, friendship, outsider, isolation, motherhood, betrayal, racism, intimate, identity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, canada
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, tense, art house, indie film
Plot:
coming of age, character study, mature, social realism, survival, isolation, escape, alienation, street life, slice of life, identity crisis, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia
Similarity:
41%
730
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Familiye tells the story of an ex-con who, after his release from prison, has to care for his two younger brothers. One of whom is a gambling addict, the other has Down Syndrome.
Style:
bleak, serious, captivating, dramatic, crime drama ...
Plot:
addiction, down syndrome, gambling, family drama, brothers, brother brother relationship, prison, terminal illness, released from prison, illness, little brother, brother ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.
Style:
thought provoking, dramatic, serious, intense, tense ...
Plot:
civil rights, trial, rape accusation, racial tension, courtroom drama, racial injustice, racial prejudice, social commentary, ethical dilemma, african american protagonist, sexual assault, social realism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
texas, dallas texas
Similarity:
37%
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