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Nelly (2016)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A film inspired by the life and work of Nelly Arcan. The portrait of a fragmented woman, lost between irreconcilable identities: writer, lover, call girl and star. Several women in one, navigating between great exaltation and great disenchantment. A film mirror of a violent life and a radical work; a tribute to a dense writing, chilling and necessary.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, exciting, touching, suspenseful, hot
Plot:
writers, seductress, love interest, prostitute, female sexuality, female protagonist, confession, customer, doctor patient relationship, female masturbation, teenage sexuality, female pubic hair, women, prostitution, girl, biopic, erotica, rape, pregnancy, depression, sex scene, escort, girlfriend, lesbian sex, cocaine ...
Place:
montreal, montreal quebec canada
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Most similar movies to Nelly
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, erotic and serious films with plots about female nudity, biopic, sex scene, female full frontal nudity, male nudity, sex and women mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like Nelly: Pleasure (2021), Day and Night (2010), Madame Claude (2021), An Angel at My Table (1990), Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Netherlands, France, USA, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
20-year-old Bella Cherry leaves the small town life in Sweden for Los Angeles with the aim to become the worlds next big porn star but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.
Style:
erotic, captivating, disturbing, underground film, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
porn industry, sex worker, prostitute, prostitution, interracial sex, sexploitation, porn actress, sexualized violence, teenage prostitute, seductress, porn star, sexual content ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
los angeles, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Rachel is a girl, adopted by an upper middle class family, who rebelled at 17 and left her family and studies at a traditional college in Sao Paulo to become a call girl. Shortly after starting work, she decided to write a blog about her ...
Style:
erotic drama, captivating, serious, realistic, sensual ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
prostitution, call girl, phone sex, sexual relations, sex, teenage prostitute, female nudity, teenage prostitution, prostitute, innocence lost, youth, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, sao paulo, brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
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55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An unreservedly matter-of-fact look at two young women who consider prostitution an adventure until reality catches up with them.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
prostitution, female pubic hair, relationship problems, coitus, sexual desire, male female relationship, female protagonist, sexual relations, women, menage a trois, sex scene, sex in an elevator ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Paris, the late 1960s. Madame Claude is at the head of a flourishing business dedicated to prostitution that gives her power over both the french political and criminal worlds. But the end of her empire is closer than she thinks.
Style:
erotic, tense, captivating, crying, period drama
Plot:
sex, prostitute, lesbian sex, madam, female nudity, prostitution, woman, bondage, criminal, women, brothel, outlaw gang ...
Time:
60s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
Style:
erotic, psychological, touching, neurotic, spiritual ...
Plot:
writers, mental illness, making love, depression, biopic, schizophrenia, children, art, women, mental disorder, female writer, woman ...
Time:
year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new zealand, london, paris france
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, queer cinema
Plot:
writers, secret identity, gay, fraud, women, secret, ghost writer, lie, aspiring writer, con trick, deception, personality change ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Emma, a French novelist aged 27, decide to go to Berlin and join a brothel to uncover the prostitution world, the subject of her new book. Such as gonzo journalism, Emma become a prostitute and her experience, which was supposed to last a few weeks, ...
Style:
erotic, psychological, captivating
Plot:
sexy woman, female nudity, prostitution, sex worker, sex, female pubic hair, sexual attraction, job, prostitute, writers, lesbian sex, society ...
Place:
france, berlin germany
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of masterpieces and a controversy that echoes to this day. The man was Yukio Mishima, one of ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
tragic hero, state affairs, political unrest, downfall, rebelliousness, writer's life, life is a bitch, idealism, heroes, writers, lgbtq, historical event ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 60s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
Style:
medical drama, thought provoking, neurotic, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
strong female lead, hospital, diagnosis, psychiatry, fighting illness, human brain, journalist, visual hallucination, doctor, female protagonist, newspaper reporter, catatonia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
america, new york
Similarity:
52%
722
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This film follows four young girls into the vibrant, hedonistic subculture of Berlin. Janaina, 17, earns money by making Internet pornography. Her best friend, Emmy, 18, finds the whole city intoxicating, without realizing that she's getting ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, hot
Plot:
drug use, sex scene, teenage prostitution, drug, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, youth culture, lifestyle, friends, girlfriend, teenager, social problems ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
51%
161
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
MarÃa Luisa Bombal is an underground writer in the early twenties trying to reconcile her passionate and very sexual lifestyle with her life as a socialite among Santiago's very conservative elite.
Style:
psychological, unusual plot structure, captivating, erotic, contemplative
Plot:
open marriage, infidelity, female writer, painter, fictional biography, sex scene, making love, literature, biopic, prison, artist, female nudity ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
chile, santiago chile
Similarity:
51%
862
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Nina is a young and very independent porno actress. She doesn't need the help of any agent or manager. She has a daughter and a lesbian relationship with Cristiana, a porno editor. Following a usual medical check she discovers she has a cancer. ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, explicit, hot, weird
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, sex, female nudity, porn star, lesbian, nudity, oral sex, adult filmmaking, adult film industry, explicit sex, real sex, making love ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dorothy Quick, A young girl befriends the famous writer, Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemans during the final years of his life.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
biopic, coming of age, intergenerational friendship, female protagonist, legacy, young girl, heartwarming, character study, family drama, aspiring writer, civil war, families ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, 20th century
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young Buenos Aires mother and sex worker suffers the hypocrisy of the laws that are supposed to protect her, in this compelling, profoundly political drama about the dismal choices foisted upon vulnerable women.
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, art house
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
mother and son, sex worker, prostitution, sex scene, feminism, money problems, social misfits, financial problem, life is a bitch, single mother, white trash, social problems ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
50%
44K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Style:
sexual, sexy, erotic, erotic drama, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, porn actress, redemption, sex, nudity, husband wife relationship, porn star, female nudity, orgasm, porn industry, skinny dipping, prostitution ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1970
Place:
usa, miami, new york, malibu california, florida ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1959, a young journalist ventures to Havana, Cuba to meet his idol, the legendary Ernest Hemingway who helped him find his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
writers, cuban revolution, revolution, cultural icon, historical figure, lifestyle, meeting, social problems, skinny dipping, world war one, journalism, art ...
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Austria, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation.
Style:
touching, sincere, captivating, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
supermodel, life is a bitch, immigrant, feminism, injustice, model, fashion, homelessness, un, female protagonist, circumcision, african ...
Time:
year 1997, year 2009, 60s, 21st century
Place:
somalia, africa, indiana, europe, london ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants only the best for his loving wife Zofia, neurotic son Tomasz and the ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious, art house ...
Plot:
painter, dysfunctional family, suicide, father son relationship, murder, family feud, suicidal tendency, art, artist, love letter, art history, biopic ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s, 2000s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
899
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Painting is an unacceptable vocation for a woman in provincial Germany in the year 1900, but budding artist Paula Becker is determined to make her own rules.
Style:
captivating, humorous, exciting, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot:
painter, childbirth, art history, extramarital affair, art class, nude model, art, female protagonist, german expressionism, female nudity, female artist, artist ...
Time:
edwardian era, victorian era, year 1900, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, germany
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Plot:
doctor, health, whistleblower, female protagonist, television, blood, death, danger, illness, woman, economist, biopic ...
Time:
year 2016, 2000s, 2010s, year 2009, year 2011 ...
Place:
france, brittany
Similarity:
49%
717
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the second half of the 19th century, Eadweard Muybridge, the father of motion pictures, embarks on an obsessive project to record on film "the motion of life" in all of its abundance. His epic quest is eclipsed only by the depth of his ...
Style:
thought provoking, period piece, educational
Plot:
photograph, photography, photographer, male nudity, sexist, nude women, nature, biopic, murder, older man younger woman marriage, darkroom, unhappy wife ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, 19th century, 1880s, 1870s
Place:
california
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A hate crime triggers disturbing flashbacks for a young veteran, finding herself reluctantly joining a PTSD support group. The eclectic group of women veterans encourages her to peel away her families' lies and confront her mother who holds the ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot:
childhood sexual abuse, lesbian, military, family relations, post traumatic stress disorder, friendship, love, violence, mother daughter relationship, veteran, hate crime, biopic ...
Place:
florida
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to produce, but he continued to ignore her. So she shot ...
Style:
independent film, disturbing, clever, edutainment, surreal ...
Plot:
art, artist, feminist, writers, lesbian, biopic, women, feminism, painter, true crime, art history, lgbt ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1996, year 1966, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Taavi,the enigmatic 18-year-old lead, has just inherited his long-deceased wealthy parents home and estate. It is high school graduation and Taavi's birthday, and after his fiends greet him au natural and are arrested, Taavi invites his friends ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gay, teenage sexuality, sexual relations, youth, coming of age, dangerous attraction, teenage life, voyeurism, life is a bitch, lifestyle, looking for sex, older woman teenage boy sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, finland
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The destinies of five young women from all over the world intertwine in Paris as they embark on a roller-coaster ride of extremes in their search for love, sex and money. Based upon true stories, Shanghai Belle tells the destiny of five young women ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot:
lesbian love, nightclub, women, social problems, prostitution, female protagonist, sex, seduction, forced prostitution, life is a bitch, sexual relations, model ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up photos made her the target of a Senate investigation into pornography, and transformed her into ...
Style:
erotic, melancholic, sexy, black and white, factual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
rape, photography, female nudity, sexualized violence, sex, photographer, bdsm, female protagonist, sexual abuse, investigation, sexual awakening, religion ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 2005, 1940s ...
Place:
usa, tennessee, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, controversial, sensual, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
sexuality, sex, writers, affair, open relationship, unfaithful wife, love triangle, sexual promiscuity, sensuality, lesbian, lesbian sex, adultery ...
Time:
1930s, year 1931, year 1932, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Romania, Germany, Belgium, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a ...
Style:
touching, sincere, disturbing, melancholic, medical drama ...
Plot:
hospital, sadness, summer, male objectification, disability, doctor, tuberculosis, love and romance, suffering, doctor patient relationship, bare chested male, male nudity ...
Time:
1930s, year 1937
Place:
black sea
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The disturbing true-story of Lisa McVey, who was abducted in 1984 but later released by her abuser, only to have people question her story.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, abduction, kidnapped, true crime, rape, child abduction, psychopath, kidnapped girl, autobiography, homicide detective, homicidal maniac ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
48%
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