Movies like The Cleaner 2015

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The Cleaner (2015)
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The Cleaner (2015)
Original name: Čistič
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Just out of prison, Tomáš, a taciturn loner, takes a job cleaning houses where people have recently died. Things take an alarming turn when he begins putting in overtime: hiding behind closet doors after hours to secretly watch the homes’ residents. His voyeuristic ways soon lead to a romantic obsession with a woman in distress—but in order to help her, Tomáš will have to come out of the shadows.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, ambiguous ending, crying
Plot: socially awkward, stalking, dysfunctional family, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, employer employee relationship, hiding, estrangement, death, stolen money, therapy, fired from the job, hiding place, neighbor neighbor relationship, murder, loner, prison, gambling, rape, fight, prostitute, money, loneliness, violence, bdsm, striptease ...
Keyword: bruise, visit, outburst

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, psychological, suspense and disturbing films with plots about bare chested male, barefoot male, female nudity, sex scene, undressing, male nudity and male objectification mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Cleaner: Filthy (2017), Under Your Bed (2019), Consequences (2018), Voyeur Confessions (2001), The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Filthy (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lena is a 17-year old girl, experiencing her first love, secret night- time adventures, and magical mornings at the river in Bratislava. Her dream world is shattered after being raped by her math teacher. Lena must set out on a journey that is not ...
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, sincere, crying ...
Plot: teenage rape, teenage girl, coming of age, first love, suicide attempt, teacher student sex, doctor, mental institution, older man younger woman relationship, teenage protagonist, traumatic experience, female friendship ...
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Under Your Bed (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Naoto was ignored by other people. During his school days, Chihiro was the first person who called his name. Naoto dreams of seeing her again and tries to find her. Finally, after 11 years, he locates her, but she is a totally different person now. ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, crying
Plot: peeping tom, obsession, husband rapes wife, rape, violent husband, following someone, awkward situation, possessed human, uninvited guest, visitor, socially awkward, social problems ...
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Consequences (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
Style: lgbt cinema, realistic, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: male nudity, closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, troubled youth, bare chested male, gay interest, lgbtq, homophobic slur, bisexual, bisexual man, teenage boy ...
Time: 2000s
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86%
Voyeur Confessions (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: It doesn't hurt to look... or does it? Lisa Morrison is a beautiful researcher studying voyeurism. Why are some people compelled to spy on the erotic moments of others for their own sexual pleasure? Why does this compulsion threaten to overtake ...
Style: erotic, psychological, disturbing, sexy, sexploitation film
Plot: erotica, male pubic hair, sexploitation, voyeurism, sexual promiscuity, secretly observing, sex, sexual desire, sex addict, sexual obsession, sexuality, sexual awakening ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an ...
Style: non-linear, period piece, disturbing, bleak, emotional ...
Plot: mental disorder, disability, nordic, summer, illness, farm, murder, death of mother, revenge, speech impediment, nazi, farmer ...
Time: future, 1930s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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86%
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Style: independent film, freeze frame, crying
Plot: interracial sex, teacher student sex, interracial rape, older woman younger man relationship, interracial, age difference, older woman younger man, exploring sexuality, janitor, caught having sex, rape, sexual harassment ...
Time: year 1979, year 1954, year 1956, 1950s, year 1955
Place: kansas
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La Casa que Arde de Noche (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
Style: erotic
Plot: erotica, male nudity, woman, stripper, manipulative behavior, striptease, port, tractor, boy, donkey, multiple deaths, dog ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Cross the Line (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A good-natured man has an unexpected deadly confrontation. Instincts kick in to clean up the mess caused in the name of self-defense but does one really get away free after killing someone?
Style: suspense, psychological, surprise ending, ambiguous ending, crying ...
Plot: mad woman, passion, crime scene, sex scene, runaway, dead father, evidence, prosecution, violent, dying, travel, murder ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s
Place: barcelona, catalonia
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84%
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Birdcage Inn (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: With a red-light district in Seoul being demolished, the residents there find they have to relocate. Jin-a opts to leave Seoul and heads to the eastern city of Pohang. There she takes up residence in a boarding house run by a small family. Besides ...
Style: sad, avant garde
Plot: prostitution, lesbian, prostitute, female homosexuality, melancholy, sensuality, social injustice, gays and lesbians, unrequited love, attempted rape, eavesdropping, solitude ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Psychobitch (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Frida is different. Self chosen different. Marius, on the other hand is the most perfect boy in class, and likes to show off. When they have to work together at school, it's the start of a turbulent and challenging relationship. Generation ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: emotional abuse, group of friends, mother daughter relationship, school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, socially awkward, classmate classmate relationship, shyness, small town, chase, photographer, friend ...
Place: eastern europe
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83%
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Places (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A coming of age story about love, loss and revenge centers around two teenage friends, Adam (Vladimír Polívka) and Marek (Jan Cina), whose aimless lives in a small town are suddenly disrupted by the appearance of Anna (Johana Matousková), the ...
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, sexy, tense, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, small town, love, love triangle, friendship between men, murder, teenage girl, father son relationship, prank, father daughter relationship, secret, best friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: central europe
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82%
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Sleep Tight (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Apartment concierge Cesar is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara ...
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, stalking, apartment building, obsession, domestic disturbance, caretaker, maniac, woman in danger, danger, concierge, cruelty, blackmail ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain, iberian peninsula, europe
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82%
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Sole (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two very different teens involved in a surrogate motherhood scheme learn how to live.
Style: mumblecore, crying
Plot: newborn baby, orphan, pretend relationship, petty criminal, immigrant, bare chested male, nightclub, doctor, mother daughter relationship, infertility, mechanic, uncle nephew relationship ...
Place: italy
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81%
The King of Havana (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Dominican Republic
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: reformatory, adolescence, poverty, murder, sex scene, sexuality, gay erotica, life is a bitch, gay, survival, rivalry, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: cuba
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81%
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Caged Men (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Elliott was a loser who robbed the bank only to land in jail. In prison, he encounters homosexuality as every inmate wants to turn Elliott into a mate!
Style: poliziottesco, independent film, crying, lgbt cinema, gay cinema
Plot: prison rape, traumatized man, rape, prison, exploitation, male star appears nude, sex scene, gang rape, friendship between men, gay rape, corporal punishment, anal rape ...
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80%
The Streetwalker (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.
Style: erotic, mad
Plot: erotica, sex, call girl, emmanuelle, prostitute, oral sex, female nudity, sensuality, male nudity, male objectification, sex scene, man in underwear ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, france
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80%
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Ostia (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two anarchistic brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their Catholic upbringing. Bandiera (Laurent Terzieff) and Rabbino (Franco Citti) were children when they pushed their drunk of a father out of a window for killing their pet ...
Style: crying, black comedy, independent film, dark comedy
Plot: brothers, street dance, striptease, drinking wine from a bottle, nudity, horniness, dead body, rural setting, bare butt, bare chested male, bad father, trauma ...
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Green Butterflies (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mateo is an intelligent boy who falls in love with Daniel, but when everyone reveals that relationship, Mateo is at a crossroads, and he will have to decide between fighting his adversities or giving up everything, even his life.
Style: touching, psychological, disturbing, sincere, serious ...
Plot: gay, first gay sexual experience, gay slur, friend, lgbt, closeted gay, lgbtq, dysfunctional family, humiliation, sexual tension, secret, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Nudity (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee and for stealing material but actually by the blame for this crime was pinned on ...
Style: crying
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, foster parent, czech village, cheating girlfriend, childless couple, caught cheating, old man, skull, rabbit, hysterical woman, old woman, tank ...
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80%
Let The Old Folks Die (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kevin lives in a time and place where everything is permitted and accepted. He wants to rebel – but against what? A tragicomedy about youth gasping for air in a cotton-candy world. A generation seeking a reason for its malaise and a way to shed ...
Plot: public nudity, photography, striptease, horniness, bare chested male, bare butt, male pubic hair, man in underwear, exhibitionism, punk, selfie, exhibitionist ...
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79%
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System Crasher (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The wild and energetic journey of 9-year-old girl Benni through all possible stations of German Child Proctective Services.
Style: realistic, psychological, disturbing, sincere, intense ...
Plot: problem child, teenager, social problems, parents and children, outcast, social outcast, fighting the system, society, school, family problems, life is a bitch, rebel ...
Time: year 2019
Place: germany, central europe
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79%
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Almost 18 (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Almost 18 is a charming and unaffected film about five 17-year-old guys from Helsinki in 2010. Karri, Peter, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, touching, homoerotic, non-linear
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, teenager, coming of age, family relations, adulthood, father son relationship, father son estrangement, parenthood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of father, mother son relationship, friendship between men ...
Place: eastern europe, helsinki finland
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79%
The Catholic School (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, period piece
Audience: teen drama
Plot: rape and murder, sex with friend's mother, male pubic hair, sexualized violence, raped woman, male nudity, violence, catholic school, lgbt, graphic violence, massacre, strong violent content ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: rome italy
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79%
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The German Lesson (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
Style: crying
Plot: male pubic hair, world war two, corporal punishment, coming of age, teenager, boyhood, wartime life, nazi, male nudity, striptease, cycling, death ...
Time: year 2019
Place: germany
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78%
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Wild (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young man sometimes acts like a dog...
Style: queer cinema
Plot: oedipus complex, male pubic hair, male full rear nudity, female voyeur, sensuality, awkward situation, naked in public, voyeurism, voyeur, male objectification, erotica, brother brother relationship ...
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78%
Beauty and the Beast (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Decameron-style collection of entertaining short stories with such diverse themes as nymphomania, bestiality, and masochism.
Style: anthology, erotic, psychotronic, sex comedy, crying ...
Plot: bestiality, high school student, father daughter incest, dog sex, teenage sexuality, exhibitionist, older man younger woman sex, female exhibitionist, nymphomania, reading the bible, public nudity, sadomasochism ...
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78%
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Eva Nova (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Eva would do anything to regain the love of the one she hurt the most - her son. She is a recovered alcoholic but decades ago she was a famous actress.
Style: sincere, captivating, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: alcoholic, mother son conflict, group therapy, addiction, female alcoholic, ex husband ex wife relationship, dysfunctional family, estranged mother, estranged son, manipulative person, rehabilitation, family relations ...
Place: vienna
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78%
Breaking the Surface (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Having just landed a gig with a trendy magazine, young photographer Nadja celebrates at the local disco, where she bumps into Darius, a 20-year-old skateboarder. Although her frankness at first scares him, the two quickly become a couple, and as ...
Style: erotic, emotional, atmospheric, sensual, art house ...
Plot: strong sexual content, sex scene, love and romance, couple relations, couples, clubbing, looking for sex, sex, erotica, woman peeing, doomed love, making love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Open Future (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A 16 year old boy growing up in the 60's, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
Style: freeze frame
Plot: lgbt, woods, bare butt, bare chested male, nudity, male pubic hair, photography, drug, cycling, striptease, anti conformist, passive aggressive woman ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unable to accept or even recognise moral boundaries. Their actions move inexorably towards a truly ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, brutal, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: rape, teenage rape, gang rape, gang, cruelty, brutality, teenager, juvenile delinquency, drug abuse, drug use, violent, drugged ...
Place: britain, new haven connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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