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The Lowlife (2017)
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The Lowlife (2017)
Original name: 最低。
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, “The Lowlife” shows the stories of three women who work in Japan’s adult video industry .
Style: captivating
Plot: porn actress, japanese schoolgirl, women, female protagonist, erotica, relationships, life, family relations, mother daughter relationship, social problems, porn, female nudity, teenage girl, porn star, pornography, female full frontal nudity, mini skirt, woman wearing a miniskirt, girl wearing a miniskirt
Place: japan, tokyo
Keyword: eye candy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and thrilling films with plots about family relations, female protagonist, relationships, social problems, women, female nudity and mother daughter relationship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Lowlife: My Mother is a Belly Dancer (2006), Care (2018), The Eternal Feminine (2017), Sun, Heart, Love (2016), Adopting Audrey (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Mother is a Belly Dancer (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A story of four women who take belly dancing lessons to escape from their lives.
Style: captivating
Plot: women, dancer's life, family relations, belly dancer, relationships, coping, problem solving, parents and children, dancehall girl, kids and family, lifestyle, life ...
Place: east asia
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95%
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Care (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: single mother, life is a bitch, family problems, female protagonist, single parent, women, social problems, family relations, single woman, mother daughter relationship
Place: united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Eternal Feminine (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn't seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female ...
Style: psychological, captivating, hispanic, art film, period drama
Plot: biopic, social relations, society, relationships, female protagonist, writer's life, female writer, changing lives, male female relationship, lifestyle change, family relations, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Sun, Heart, Love (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: female friendship, social issues, friendship, girlfriend, life, female protagonist, friends, social problems, lifestyle, women, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, workplace ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Adopting Audrey (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family. Based on a true story.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological
Plot: foster home, social problems, patriarchy, female protagonist, family life, relationships, patriarch, social issues, family relations, lifestyle, foster parent, women ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 7.0
 426
Villon's Wife (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the ...
Style: semi autobiographical, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: family relations, male female relationship, writers, man-woman relation, family problems, dysfunctional family, social problems, relationship problems, family life, outcast, human relationship
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Journey to a Mother's Room (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The movie about a daughter, who leaves home for the first time. Her mother, left behind, doesn't know how to fill the empty place.
Style: captivating, social, independent film
Plot: coming of age, mother daughter relationship, family relations, loneliness, female protagonist, lifestyle change, life, grownups, changing lives, relationships, birthday, fire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Mio on the Shore (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: family business, female protagonist, problem, loss of job, hotel manager, bathhouse, hotel owner, life is a bitch, social problems, hotel, poem, japanese schoolgirl ...
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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A Girl Like Grace (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Raised by a single mother, a bullied 17 year-old girl seeks guidance from her best friend and the girl's older sister.
Style: captivating
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenager, lesbian, lgbtq, bullying, social problems, single mother, teenage life, family problems, single parent, teenage protagonist, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Youtopia (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman decides to sell her virginity to pay off her mother's debts when she realises that her earnings as an online x-rated model are not enough.
Style: captivating, psychological, sincere
Plot: defloration, family relations, loss of virginity, parents and children, financial problem, money problems, debt, mother daughter relationship, family problems, dysfunctional family, virgin, social relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
North to Home (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Suzanne McBride is excited to spend her birthday with her family. It will be the first time that her three adopted daughters will be together in years. This seems like a great time for a family reunion, but the sisters are each wrestling with unique ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: family reunited, confrontation, mother daughter relationship, family problems, mother daughter reunion, sister sister relationship, family relations, sisters, relationship problems, family secret, eccentric family, mother and daughter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
April, May and June (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: To inform each personally about her impending death, Mies summons her three daughters home. The three half-sisters April, May and June, each of whom has a different father, start to question their lives: "Where are we at in life? What do we ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: mother, sisters, mother daughter estrangement, family problems, sister sister relationship, family relations, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, estrangement, women, estranged sister, estranged family member
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Falls (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: family conflict, family life, mother and daughter, social isolation, family problems, isolation, quarantine, living together, conflict, mother daughter relationship, relationships, social problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Little Girl Blue (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Julie is a woman who seemingly has everything. A handsome husband, teenage daughter and a thriving, undemanding job as a translator and now even a new dream house ... But she also has a secret that is slowly changing her idyllic life...
Style: captivating, sincere
Plot: family relations, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, changing lives, relationships, family life, lifestyle change, teenage girl, relationship problems, kids and family, new life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Blue Hour (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: japanese woman, relationship vs career, thirty something, problem, changing lives, career, life is a bitch, female protagonist, lifestyle change, relationship problems, family relations
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Teppan (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: Teppan is a Japanese television drama that aired on NHK in 2010–2011. It was the 83rd Asadora. It starred a new actress, Miori Takimoto, in the role of a young woman raised by an adopted family in Onomichi who learns of her real grandmother and ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, asadora
Plot: restaurant owner, mother daughter relationship, businesswoman, changing lives, relationships, female protagonist, chinese restaurant, family business, family problems, family relations
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Wilderness: Part One (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, psychotronic
Plot: boxing, friendship, criminal, japanese man, life is a bitch, social problems, poor, boxer, social issues, society, poverty, female nudity ...
Time: near future
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Strands (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Isabel and Clara are two childhood friends separated by fate. Isabel is a naive provincial lass who works as an indigenous fabric weaver while Clara is the liberated city girl. Clara has gone wild after her mother runs off with another man. The two ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, tagalog
Plot: murder, family relations, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, relationship problems, culture clash, life is a bitch, female protagonist, relationships, dysfunctional family, friends ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Ito (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A shy country girl chooses a part-time job at a maid cafe where she serves customers while dressed up as a maid.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: teenage girl, musician's life, teenager, teenage life, self doubt, self confidence, female protagonist, lifestyle, social problems, musician, uncertainty, japanese girl ...
Place: japan, mount fuji
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.9
 227
Elisa K (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Elisa (Claudia Pons) lives with her father (Hans Richter) in Spain following the breakup of her parents. Elisa goes to a fair with her father, and meets one of his friends (Jordi Gracia), a successful jeweler. Days later, a change ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: child rape, troubled past, confronting the past, tragic past, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, family relations, sex crime, apache, school, restaurant, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Lady Improper (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A woman with a seemingly ideal life, Siu Man is abandoned by her husband partly due to her fear of intimacy. After several life crises, she decides to reboot her life by taking over her father’s restaurant. Siu Man eventually finds herself ...
Style: sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: relationships, couple relations, family problems, romantic relationship, life, restaurant, chef, cooking and food, restaurant owner, female protagonist, love and romance, male female relationship ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Three Sisters (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most ...
Style: captivating
Plot: three sisters, sister sister relationship, family relations, relationships, coping, male female relationship, dream, sisters, life, sister, anton chekhov, dysfunctional family ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 543
Jessica (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 196 min.
Story: The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she ...
Style: captivating, thrilling
Plot: outback, female protagonist, relationships, unplanned pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, secret, intrigue, love affair, male female relationship, life is a bitch, family relations, pregnancy ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
In the Company of Women (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Summer of 1976. Bea is 16 years old and she collaborates with a group of women to make visible the feminist cause and achieve the approval of the right to abortion. The rebellion she feels in the blood will mix with an unexpected feeling that will ...
Style: psychological, serious, thrilling, captivating, social ...
Plot: women, women's rights, fight for justice, social commentary, fighting the system, women's wrestling, social problems, female protagonist, social issues, civil rights, fight, social injustice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.9
 320
Dead Run (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: life is a bitch, male female relationship, faith, family relations, problem, priest, relationships, brothers, brother brother relationship, brother, yakuza, japanese woman ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 3K
Hala (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Meet 17-year-old Hala, who struggles to balance being a suburban teenager with her traditional Muslim upbringing. As she comes into her own, Hala finds herself grappling with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, inspirational
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, muslim girl, muslim woman, muslim, religious conflict, teenage sexuality, religion, family relations, teenager, secret, girl, social problems ...
Time: year 2019
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Perfect Education 6 (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her husband. Fumiya has no choice but to kill Mr. Hosoi. Unfortunately he's see by a neighbor. In ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot: bondage, money problems, slavery, gambling debt, gigolo, gambler, female bondage, life is a bitch, male female relationship, social problems, relationships, cheating wife ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.0
 122
Torso (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A seemingly "normal" office worker Hiroko has a secret. At home she lives with a prosthetic torso - no head, arms or feet, just body and penis. Hiroko bathes with the torso and she also makes love with the torso at night. Hiroko's ...
Style: psycho sexual, thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: single woman, sister sister relationship, sex toy, fetish, problem, tragic love, star crossed lovers, relationships, family relations, life is a bitch, social issues, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Days of Morisaki Bookstore (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Unable to accept being dumped by her colleague, Takako quits her job and moves into the used bookstore owned by her uncle, Satoru, in Jinbocho. Despite her initial lack of interest in novels, Takako is slowly drawn into the world of books as she ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: dumped, bookstore, library, workplace situations, workplace, life, lifestyle change, relationships, relationship problems, women, librarian, changing lives
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A timid young woman who lives with her domineering mother accepts an Adult Video scout's offer to "become somebody else" by performing in porn videos. As she rises in popularity, the boundaries between her two lives begin to ...
Style: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: porn industry, suicide, alienation, stalking, japanese woman, porn actress, popularity, jealousy, self discovery, interview, employer employee relationship, sex work ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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