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The Cricket (1980)
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Original name: La cicala
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
Style:
erotic, sensual, melancholic, art house, retro, road movie
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, brothel, prostitution, female friendship, tragedy, sexploitation, sexual awakening, character study, loneliness, betrayal, small town, coming of age, moral ambiguity, bittersweet, european, female nudity, murder, suicide by drowning, nudity, obsession, poverty, prostitute, maid, parent child relationship, cheating wife ...
Place:
italy
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Most similar movies to The Cricket
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, erotic, melancholic and period piece films with plots about female nudity, female full frontal nudity, moral ambiguity, prostitution, character study, nudity and urban mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Cricket: A Szerencse lányai (1999), La bambola (1991), The Verdict (1974), The Hookers (1967), Gift Girls (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
Style:
emotional, realistic, intense, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
prostitution, female protagonist, sacrifice, survival, poverty, mother and daughter, motherhood, social realism, branding iron, moral dilemma, class struggle, resilience ...
Time:
90s
Place:
moscow russia, warsaw poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A man without scruples mistreats his lover and her daughter, a teenager. also in his mind a diabolical plan to force the girl into prostitution.
Style:
dark, bleak, intense, erotic, art house ...
Plot:
prostitution, brothel, sexual abuse, victimization, forced prostitution, abuse, loss of innocence, sexploitation, teenager, abusive stepfather, domestic violence, human trafficking ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, mother love, blackmail, death penalty, rape, judge, loneliness, abrupt ending, justice, gangster ...
Place:
lyon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls.
Style:
realistic, period piece, psychological, intense, retro ...
Plot:
sex work, prostitution, sexuality, character study, women's issues, prostitute, exploitation, survival, taboo, branding iron, urban, social realism ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three women are secretly plush prostitutes. They are successively called by a mysterious person to have sex with three different men and assuage their weird fantasies.
Style:
erotic, sensual, anthology, sexy, psychological
Plot:
nudity, prostitution, seduction, sexploitation, taboo, desire, lesbian sex, fetish, role playing, moral ambiguity, voyeur, underground ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three erotic stories from classic writers Marguerite de Navarre, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne and Guy de Maupassant.
Style:
anthology, erotic, erotic drama, sensual, period drama
Plot:
seduction, literary, sexual content, sexual tension, revenge, nudity, jealousy, adultery, infidelity, marital strife, manipulation, forbidden love ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century, 18th century
Similarity:
51%
202
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young truck driver from a small, nameless Russian town sets off on a spiritual journey that has no actual purpose and no verifiable destination, encountering lonely women and small time crooks along the way.
Style:
road movie, existential, contemplative, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
truck driver, loneliness, character study, soul searching, spiritual journey, intimate, minimalism, slice of life, bittersweet, provincial life, small town, isolation ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
50%
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:
50%
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205
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
sex trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, female protagonist, illegal immigrant, african, exploitation, resilience, street life, illegal immigration, trauma, poverty ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It s Christmas Eve in London, 1974 - and seven lonely people are on the town, looking to grab that elusive slice of enjoyment. So who better to contact than an escort agency- providing high-class ladies and gentlemen for anyone willing to pay the ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, erotic, comedy drama, sexploitation film
Plot:
loneliness, christmas eve, racism, prostitution, isolation, sex work, urban, multiple storylines, sex, nightlife, metropolis, rejection ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Laura, a young and successful writer of erotic novels, gets to know and love the player Paul. Not surprisingly, her new lover has not only fallen victim to the gambling but also to the sexual abysses. Her beguiling beauty is getting more and more ...
Style:
sensual, erotic, erotic drama, independent film, atmospheric ...
Plot:
older man younger woman sex, seductive, erotica, female sexuality, mature, desire, female protagonist, prostitution, sexual awakening, longing, intimacy, double life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
49%
147
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Agnes, a teacher from the Hessian provinces, has come to Berlin to identify a dead girl who might be Lydia, her runaway daughter. It turns out not to be Lydia, but Agnes stays in the city anyway. Still frantically looking, she comes a young stray ...
Style:
emotional, art house, melancholic, independent film, existential ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, character study, identity, missing person, grief, loss, motherhood, intimate, obsession ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A teacher, Sakiko Kurata (Yuki Kazamatsuri), receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko (Ayako Ôta) is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help. This minx seduces random strangers for sex, but ...
Style:
tense, dark, erotic drama, suspenseful, noir ...
Plot:
rape victim, sexploitation, female protagonist, teacher student relationship, school, victimization, assault, sexual abuse, dark past, prostitution, moral ambiguity, sexual tension ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ajita Wilson plays an African diplomat who comes to Milan to head a trade delegation. At the delegation she feels haunted by her past in which she appeared in a pornographic magazine. In a series of psychedelic scenes, we learn the sordid secrets of ...
Style:
erotic, psychedelic, sensual, erotic drama, controversial ...
Plot:
erotica, sexuality, exploitation, female protagonist, nudity, scandal, identity, taboo, sexploitation, voyeurism, female nudity, counterculture ...
Time:
70s
Place:
milan italy, italy
Similarity:
49%
587
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Zurich is a musical roadmovie about Nina, who discovers after the death of her great love, truckdriver Boris, he led a double life. Struggling with her feelings she comes to an almost unforgivable deed, and flees. She submerges into the truckers ...
Style:
road movie, melancholic, sincere
Plot:
grief, double life, mourning, female protagonist, road trip, loss, journey, loneliness, escape, secret life, self discovery, betrayal ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, art house, ambiguous ending, poignant
Plot:
prostitution, corruption, female protagonist, alienation, existentialism, minimalism, moral ambiguity, character study, small town, shadow, urban, bittersweet ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young girl interned in reformatory lives the lesbian relationship with another partner, which makes her an object of desire ...
Style:
erotic, controversial, erotic drama, intense, dark ...
Plot:
bdsm, male nudity, erotica, lesbian, sexploitation, sexual abuse, taboo, female protagonist, manipulation, teenage sexuality, emotional abuse, underage ...
Similarity:
49%
326
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and ...
Style:
sensual, erotic
Plot:
erotica, horny wife, female pubic hair, see through clothes, female nudity, girl, renaissance, fetish, sexploitation, nudity, sex with stepson, rape ...
Time:
1880s
Place:
eastern europe, london
Similarity:
48%
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157
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jacob Berger’s film shows a day in the life of a family. People meet and leave, and wonder, will they find themselves again? At daybreak, Serge believes he has committed a crime. Pietra realises that she has been betrayed around midday. At one ...
Style:
reflective, existential, art house
Plot:
infidelity, guilt, family drama, melancholy, hit and run, multiple perspectives, accident, regret, loneliness, moral dilemma, slice of life, conscience ...
Similarity:
48%
112
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Scripted by four of Australia’s greatest authors (David Williamson, Thomas Keneally, Hal Porter and Craig McGregor), this quartet of carnal desires explores adultery and jealous fantasies, the end of innocence, the moral and spiritual conflicts of ...
Style:
anthology, erotic, dramatic, controversial, period piece ...
Plot:
adultery, jealousy, sexuality, forbidden love, infidelity, social commentary, religious conflict, loss of innocence, moral dilemma, gender roles, literary, intimate ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Thirty year old virgin Sybille meets the man of her dreams. Or is he?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, psychological, dark, tension ...
Plot:
suburban life, insecurity, shyness, virginity, loneliness, female protagonist, character study, love story, manipulation, seduction, cohabitation, intimate ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
48%
105
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A tragic tale of an individual teen prostitute as seen from the lens of her Buddhist neighbor.
Style:
poignant, melancholic, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
compassion, prostitution, character study, poverty, loss, empathy, social realism, loneliness, urban, slice of life, street life, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Franck, a former young hopeful at the Nantes soccer club, has stayed on to help the team for ten years after an injury,but becomes especially frustrated when he meets a seductive young woman.
Style:
melancholic, art house
Plot:
soccer, infidelity, love triangle, character study, jealousy, small town, seduction, midlife crisis, sexual tension, slice of life, bittersweet, unrequited love ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Style:
romantic drama, period piece, tragic ending, sensual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female nudity, erotica, love triangle, seduction, femme fatale, passion, romantic rivalry, fascism, jealousy, obsession, manipulation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1920s, year 1975
Place:
italy
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ernesto is doomed to loneliness since the loss of his wife. He is a writer who lives alone without any children, and is an antisocial person. However, he is as satisfied with his life. Although he has not been working for a while, a film director ...
Style:
reflective, psychological, art house, sensual, erotic ...
Plot:
female masturbation, loneliness, melancholy, grief, isolation, midlife crisis, male protagonist, literary, social isolation, intimate, creative block, sexual tension ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
180
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Story revolves around the sad plight of the live sex performers Rolly (Paolo Rivero), Gigi (Klaudia Koronel), Rosita (Ana Capri), Sandra (Hazel Espinosa and Vio (Simon Ibarra) and what drives them to do the inexplicable.
Style:
erotic, captivating, thrilling, controversial, independent film ...
Plot:
sexual content, sexploitation, female nudity, poverty, passionate sex, prostitution, eroticism, sex scene, exploitation, sex, desperation, taboo ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The revealing story of the shocking exploits of those who fulfill the most bizarre fantasies.
Style:
grindhouse, intense, controversial, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
pimp, sexploitation, suicide, self destructing, exploitation, desperation, moral ambiguity, loneliness, character study, alienation, obsession, mental illness ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Billy - young photographer engaged spicy photo shoot. Its main customers - women who want to revive the feelings and desires in their husbands. Three girlfriends are asked to photograph them: first - Janet, the wife of a police officer, the second - ...
Style:
erotic, erotic drama, independent film, sexploitation film
Plot:
fetish, spying, female pubic hair, sexploitation, blackmail, cuckolded husband, male full rear nudity, cheating wife, nude model, sexually dissatisfied wife, neglectful husband, neglected wife ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, sexy
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, prostitute, dysfunctional family, family problems, mother daughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, single mother, family secret, family relations, single parent, social problems ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
To satisfy her costumers, an owner of a luxurious bordello does whatever it takes. but the place’s efficiency is threatened when the most desirable of its ladies decides to quit. The owner set a diabolical plot to keep the girl working.
Style:
erotic drama, dark, crime thriller, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, female protagonist, female exploitation, exploitation, sex work, manipulation, lesbian sex, erotica, survival, mother daughter relationship, corruption ...
Similarity:
47%
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