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Mai Ratima (2012)
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Mai Ratima (2012)
Original name: 마이 라띠마
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable thirtysomething man and Mai-Ratima, a 22-year-old Thai girl who accepts a mail order marriage in order to realize her Korean Dream. Into their relationship comes Young-jin, a hostess, slowly turning it into a love triangle.
Style: erotic
Plot: prostitution, theft, poverty, immigration, sexual harassment, attempted rape, homelessness, illegal immigration, sick mother, alzheimer's disease, refugee, mentally challenged person, mother in law, harassment, chase, pursuit
Place: east asia, thailand, south korea, seoul
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out erotic, captivating, disturbing and serious films with plots about female nudity, poverty, prostitution, sex, female full frontal nudity, prostitute and immigration mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Mai Ratima: Our House (2006), Born Equal (2006), The March (1990), La bambola (1991), Fighting for Freedom (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Our House (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A lonely socialite (Roberts) opens up her mansion to homeless people after a young woman (Reyes) saves her life.
Style: powerful
Plot: homeless, poverty, smuggling, suicide attempt, chore, drug trade, drinking, jail, medical examination, theft, wealth, kindness ...
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95%
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Born Equal (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.
Plot: love, jealousy, poverty, homeless, social worker, benefactor, single mother, homelessness, social injustice, beggar, pregnant woman, refugee ...
Time: future
Place: london
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87%
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The March (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We are poor because you are rich."
Style: independent film
Plot: migration, poverty, immigration, group, politics, european union, assassination attempt, refugee, global warming, desert, hunger, wandering ...
Place: africa
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79%
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La bambola (1991)
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: erotic, sex comedy
Plot: prostitute, girl, brothel, prostitution, female nudity, student, teacher student relationship, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Fighting for Freedom (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.
Style: hispanic
Plot: farmer, illegal immigration, immigration, national security, politics, amnesty, american dream, border patrol, patriotism
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65%
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Crocodile (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Crocodile is a 1996 South Korean film. It was the directorial debut of Ki-duk Kim and stars Cho Jae-hyun as "Crocodile".The film tells the story of a man living at the edge of the Han River in Seoul, who saves a woman trying to commit ...
Style: depressing, realistic, serious, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: monster, suicide, performer's life, life is a bitch, misfit, betrayal, mute or deaf, friends, friendship, male nudity, street kid, woman ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: korea, seoul, south korea
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62%
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Between Us (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious
Plot: poverty, immigrant, family relations, starting over, human spirit, urban setting, family problems, life is a bitch, american dream, single parent, hopes, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, new york, colombia, usa
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62%
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Cassiopeia (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Su-jin who tries to pursue a perfect life as a successful lawyer, single mother and daughter, plans to send her daughter Gina to study abroad in the United States, where her ex-husband lives. When Su-jin gets busier with work, Su-jin's dad, ...
Style: dramatic, disturbing, serious, captivating
Plot: memory loss, car accident, father daughter relationship, daughter, alzheimer's disease, family problems, illness, mother and daughter, father, terminal illness, sick mother, father and daughter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Red Bikini (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A couples' trip to Pattaya turns into hell when each others' secrets come out into the open! Soo-jeong and Tae-hyeon decide to go abroad with Sang-jin and Ji-hyeon to celebrate Ji-hyeon's birthday. However, Ji-hyeon can't make ...
Style: erotic, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: seductress, seductive woman, problem, secret, relationship problems, male female relationship, couples, love affair, seduction, husband wife relationship, marital problem, marital crisis ...
Place: thailand, korea
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58%
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Si-o-se Pol (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Released from prison and terminally ill, Parvis Karimpour is determined to be reunited with his daughter, Nasrin, who fled Iran for Europe many years before. Crossing the Mediterranean only to be unceremoniously dumped on the Spanish coast, ...
Style: road movie
Plot: migration, friendship, refugee, isolation, migrant, immigration
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56%
Cover boy: L'ultima rivoluzione (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Cover-boy racconta l’amicizia fra Ioan (Eduard Gabia) e Michele (Luca Lionello) l’uno rumeno e l’altro italiano. Due mondi che casualmente s’incontrano: l’esperienza di chi, figlio della rivoluzione post comunista, è fuggito dal proprio ...
Plot: gay, immigration, male nudity, gays and lesbians, lgbt, male pubic hair, skinny dipping, male prostitution, revolution, friendship, travel, poverty ...
Place: eastern europe
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54%
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The Whores (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The prostitutes of Palermo are pictured in this episodic Italian drama. The film lacks a real unifying thread as it presents scenes from the lives of 7 hookers. Five are women. One is a man, and one is a transvestite. In one episode, an aging ...
Style: erotic, gay cinema
Plot: making love, sex scene, prostitute, male prostitution, prostitution, lgbt, transgender woman, transgender, pimp, sex worker, gay interest, sex work
Place: italy, palermo italy, sicily
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51%
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The Wolves (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old and have just immigrated to the US with their mother. Their days pass inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to come back, as they hold on to the hope of traveling to Disney.
Style: controversial, sentimental, sincere, disturbing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, immigration, grownups, illegal immigration, immigrant family, bigger dreams, motive, mother son relationship, secret, female protagonist, immigrant, stealing ...
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50%
Iracema, Uma Transa Amazônica (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, West Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A girl from the countryside goes to the city of Belém to take part in the Círio de Nazaré celebrations. Led to prostitution, she wishes to move to the wealthiest Southeast region of Brazil. In a dance club, she meets a truck driver that ...
Style: road movie
Plot: prostitution, amazon river, environmental destruction, forest, amazon, ecology, deforestation, poverty, truck, truck driver, indigenous
Place: brazil
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49%
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The Life (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An anthropology student exploring the nature of prostitution is drawn deeper into that profession than she ever expected.
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, rough, sexual ...
Plot: prostitute, sex, interview, prostitution, women, bare breasts, sex talk, female nudity, nudity, couples, actor's life, aging ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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48%
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 40
On the Block (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s Baltimore, Maryland. -- KillerMovies
Style: independent film
Plot: cautionary tale, drug overdose, female nudity, prostitution, attempted rape, strip club, burlesque, stripper, black panties, g string, pasties
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47%
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Stuck (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Four people, four walls, four stories, four truths.
Style: erotic
Plot: sex scene, making love, locked in a room, sex in an elevator, drug, trapped in an elevator, junkie, attempted rape, petting, sex, elevator, molestation ...
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45%
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 115
The 40th Door (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Azerbaijan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Rustam lives with his mother in a village; his father was killed by the Russian mafia. After his father's death, Rustam tries to provide for himself and his mother without resorting to illegal money-making schemes. But his ...
Style: fairy tale
Plot: boy, stealing, telephone call, robbery, poverty, theft, stabbing, carpet
Place: azerbaijan, moscow russia
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44%
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Samaritan Girl (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. ...
Style: captivating, touching, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: prostitute, coming of age, murder, couples, vengeance, parents and children, revenge, female friendship, illegal prostitution, family relations, love and romance, redemption ...
Place: korea, east asia, europe, germany, south korea
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44%
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 690
The House (2022)
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: psychological, erotic, captivating
Plot: prostitution, sex worker, lesbian sex, female nudity, female pubic hair, writers, erotic fantasy, lifestyle, attempted seduction, job, seductress, female protagonist ...
Place: france, berlin germany
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43%
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Night Games (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Californian housewife is terrified of having sex because of a past assault. When this phobia threatens to destroy her marriage, she takes refuge in a series of erotic fantasies about a masked man. But is it really all just a fantasy?
Style: erotic, sexy, independent film
Plot: sex, skinny dipping, past, nudity, erotica, flashback, marriage, husband wife relationship, broken mirror, attempted rape, female nudity, rape victim ...
Time: year 1980
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42%
Call Girl '88 (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A depressing tale dealing with five women involved with prostitution and the effects it has on their love and family lives. High class or low class, each is just as sad.
Style: erotic, depressing
Plot: prostitution, dead body, car, tragedy, actress, castration, pimp, birthday present, filmmaking, runaway, wedding dress, hospital ...
Place: hong kong
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41%
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 5K
The Net (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.
Style: bleak, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: politics, human rights, poverty, spy, military, capitalism, corruption, money, husband wife relationship, breakdown, murder, prostitute ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: north korea, east asia, korea, seoul, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Price of Love (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 16 year old Bret lives with his indifferent father and a stepmother who abhors him. After yet another fight he leaves home. He meets two guys and a girl who are drifting around. He feels attracted to Roxanne and they decide to continue together to ...
Plot: poverty, homeless, runaway, male prostitute, bare chested male, teenage runaway, gay for pay, homeless teenager, gay interest, street kid, street life, male prostitution ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
In This World (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, ...
Style: bleak, road movie, inspirational, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: refugee, immigrant, politics, poverty, on the road, life is a bitch, friendship, hopes, danger, migration, society, death ...
Time: year 2002, year 2001
Place: middle east, afghanistan, iran, pakistan, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
I Am Frigid...Why? (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sultry Sandra Julien stars as a teenage virgin who is traumatized after being raped by her 2 "friends", a young man and his sister, leaving her with no interest in sex. Discouraged, she embarks on a journey of sexual awakening in hopes of ...
Style: erotic
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian rape, lesbian sex, prostitution, rape, sexual awakening, rape victim, sex, lesbianism, female nudity, psychiatrist, love interest, sex scene ...
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38%
The Story of Richard O (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Not for the easily embarrassed, “The Story of Richard O.” is an explicit take on sex as a way to connect with other people. Richard feels cornered and takes some time off from his girlfriend in order to come to terms with his relationship ...
Style: erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
Plot: coitus, erotic dream, male pubic hair, erection, sex, male nudity, sexual perversion, male female relationship, sexploitation, sexual awakening, attempted seduction, seduction ...
Place: paris france
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36%
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Live Show (2000)
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, erotic drama, captivating, thrilling, sexy
Plot: female nudity, sexual content, erotic scene, sex scene, eroticism, sexploitation, sex, asian, prostitute, suicide, male prostitute, poverty ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Beginning at Fifteen (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A story of the sexual adventures of three fifteen year old girls: Elisa, Marian and Susi.
Style: erotic
Plot: teenage prostitution, porn, prostitution, teenage girl, woman, family relations, friend, nudity, female pubic hair, sex scene, female nudity, cigarette smoking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.9
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Princesses (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set in Spain, the story is about friendship and love in the world of prostitution.
Style: serious, disturbing, sincere, erotic, captivating ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, friendship, lifestyle, self discovery, society, social differences, women, hopes, loneliness, migration, girl ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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