Movies like Pleasures of the Flesh

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Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
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Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
Original name: 悦楽
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in one libidinous rush—fully expecting to be tracked down and killed.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, sexual, black comedy, dark comedy, sexy ...
Plot: prison, murder, obsession, criminal heroes, betrayal, embezzlement, political corruption, materialism, jail, money, rape, secretary, morality, sadness, martial artist, sex crime, pink film, prostitute, wedding, gangster, forced sex, eroticism, college, couples, sex ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, deadly, gangster, criminal heroes, dishonesty, betrayal and rivalry mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Pleasures of the Flesh: Gate of Flesh (1964), My Kingdom (2001), Three Walls (2003), Chandni Bar (2001), Swallowtail Butterfly (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what ...
Style: political, psychological, serious, realistic, surreal ...
Plot: anarchist, anarchism, suicide, killing spree, death, murder, sexuality, yakuza, held captive, captive, anarchy, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Style: grindhouse, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, betrayal, mafia, gang, female nudity, samurai, mafioso, battles, tough guy, humanity, japanese mafia ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place: hiroshima japan, japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place: tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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My Kingdom (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: rivalry, family relations, betrayal, dishonesty, drug dealing, vengeance, murder, parents and children, prostitute, shakespeare, tragic love, gangster ...
Place: england, europe
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Three Walls (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for ...
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Plot: prison, introspection, prison life, criminal heroes, hopes, redemption, twists and turns, murder, death row, family problems, prisoner, escaped prisoner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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Chandni Bar (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Chandni Bar, a film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar depicts the gritty life of the Mumbai underworld, including prostitution, dance bars and gun crime.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: female protagonist, rape, gangster, political unrest, vengeance, rich and poor, tough heroes, criminal heroes, prostitute, family relations, dancer's life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Swallowtail Butterfly takes place in an alternate Japan, in a ghetto where immigrants from all over the world have come to live and make their fortune. The city is called Yentown, and it is much like Tokyo. Sixteen-year-old Ageha (Ito), a young girl ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, forgery, dysfunctional society, outsider, sex, melancholy, money, money laundering, illegal prostitution, gangster, immigrant, disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Violence at Noon (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hakuchu no Torima" is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, Eisuke (Kei Sato) encounters Shino (Saeda Kawaguchi), who works as a maid in a house. She is a ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: sexual abuse, beast, suicide, psychopath, murder, rapist, pink film, sex, rape, couple relations, society, criminal heroes ...
Time: 60s
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Vengeance is Mine (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic ...
Style: disturbing, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, father son relationship, parents and children, on the run, prostitute, violence spree, violence, sex scene, killer, female nudity, sociopath, sex ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Red Letters (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: college, prison, law enforcement, dishonesty, obsession, destructive relationship, amateur detective, murder, escaped prisoner, nudity, life is a bitch, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, mojave desert
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58%
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Boulevard (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.
Style: erotic, independent film, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: lesbian sex, juvenile delinquency, prostitution, sex scene, making love, sex crime, black, lgbt, prostitute, adoption, rape, female nudity ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Wolves (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it ...
Style: crime drama, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: yakuza, samurai, mobster, gangster, gang, conspiracy, violent content, tough heroes, heroes, rivalry, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Bloodlines (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: investigation, murder, dishonesty, intrigue, rivalry, law enforcement, danger, righting the wronged, parents and children, police, family relations, ritual ...
Time: 21st century
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Halla Bol (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He joins a street theatre group run by a reformed dacoit Sidhu (Pankaj Kapur) who uses street theatre as a medium to bring about an awakening in the ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, tense, suspense
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Agitator (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min.
Story: When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death fo a prominent crime boss. Devastated by htis turn of ...
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Crazy Joe (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
Style: grim, realistic, serious, captivating, rough ...
Plot: mobster, mafia, blaxploitation, criminal, prison, gangster, restaurant, jail, godparent, heist, store, murder ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1960
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The Bull (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The 1990s. Empty shelves in the shops, an economic abyss and criminal dramas that unfold literally at every corner. The young leader of a criminal gang Anton Bykov, with the nickname “Bull”, must make money in whatever way to provide for his ...
Style: realistic, harsh, serious, bleak, tense ...
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Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Witness Protection (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career criminal Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore); on the outs with the mob and facing ...
Style: crime drama, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witness protection program, organized crime, gang, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, criminal heroes, rivalry, ghost, couple relations, murder, witnessing a crime ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Tycoon (2002)
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Country: Russia, France, Germany
Duration: 123 min.
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Style: serious, cynical, suspenseful, realistic, political thriller ...
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The Woman Sharper (1963)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of ...
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Flipping (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: no overview found
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Audience: boys' night
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend wants her new boyfriend to kill him. Only trouble is the boyfriend knows that the fault was ...
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Screwed (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: rough, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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R: Hit First, Hit Hardest (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the ...
Style: tense, realistic, captivating, rough, disturbing ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Trapped (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The suicide was easy, getting away with everything else could be murder.
Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Coast Mafia (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
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Plot: gangster, criminal heroes, family business, murder, money, mob
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Place: usa
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35%
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