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The Vice of Hope (2018)
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Original name: Il vizio della speranza
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
To support her family, Maria works as a trafficker of surrogate mothers, transporting them from place to place along a river — but when one disappears, Maria is left with the task of finding her and must enter deeper into a world she wishes to escape.
Plot:
pregnant woman, child trafficking, pregnancy, female nudity, prostitution, brothel, childbirth, human trafficking, heroin, child rape, mother daughter relationship, river, amusement park, unplanned pregnancy, death of dog, hopes, human exploitation, nativity, christmas, coast, female full frontal nudity, motorboat, woman in bathtub, snake bite, looking at self in mirror ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
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Most similar movies to The Vice of Hope
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, captivating, psychological and art house films with plots about female nudity, female full frontal nudity, pregnant woman, pregnancy, childbirth, coming of age and female protagonist mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Vice of Hope: The August Virgin (2019), Small Body (2021), The Cricket (1980), Princess (2022), The Rye Horn (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, ...
Plot:
summer, female protagonist, women, neighbor neighbor relationship, baby, dancing, pregnant woman, neighbor, river, female nudity, museum, sex scene ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
madrid
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Slovenia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young woman in early-1900s Italy searches for a mystical sanctuary where her stillborn child can be brought back to life long enough to be baptized.
Style:
breathtaking, weird
Plot:
journey, mountain village, miraculous event, birth, cave, mountain, death, priest, childbirth, pregnancy, catholic priest, female exploitation ...
Time:
1900s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Paolo and Mia, an introverted clerk and a unconventional pregnant woman, go on a journey looking for the father of Mia’s unborn daughter.
Plot:
pregnant woman, on the road, gays and lesbians, road trip, bare butt, male pubic hair, bare chested male, orphanage, man in underwear, beach, male objectification, topless woman ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
86%
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 ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, brothel, prostitution, female friendship, sexploitation, character study, sexual awakening, tragedy, betrayal, small town, loneliness, coming of age ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
75%
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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:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Portugal, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with special dedication and care. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee and begins a dangerous ...
Plot:
breast feeding, nudity, pregnant woman, female nudity, female protagonist, pregnancy, motherhood, village life, femininity, existentialism, home birth, death ...
Similarity:
57%
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:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
Plot:
bourgeoisie, family drama, psychosis, mother son conflict, newborn, neighbor neighbor relationship, pregnant woman, father son relationship, birth, newborn baby, ego, hallucination ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
55%
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303
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An overweight teenage girl walks in on her mother having a three-way. She later confronts her mother and gets her birthday cake shoved in her face. She then tries to commit suicide, but survives and loses a lot of weight. Now attractive to boys and ...
Plot:
prostitute mother, sex, rape, defloration, suicide attempt, sexual attraction, mother daughter relationship, bisexual, lesbian sex, nudity, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A daughter helps her estranged father who's lost his memory.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, touching, entertaining
Plot:
pregnant woman, estranged father, memory loss, parent child relationship, family reunited, family relations, pregnancy, teacher, single parent, father daughter relationship, breakup, recovery ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
54%
643
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.
Plot:
female nudity, husband wife relationship, existentialism, scuba diving, free diving, pregnancy, nudity, beach, husband wife conflict, nightmare, sex scene, radio ...
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Russia, France, Portugal
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Sonia, a girl from St Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. She will be dragged from country to country and ...
Style:
tense, touching, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex slavery, organized crime, prostitute, humiliation, abduction, violence against women, zoophilia, rape, russian abroad, naivete, mentally challenged ...
Place:
europe, st. petersburg russia, russia, germany, italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Franck, a scrap merchant, and Meriem have five children, a sixth on the go, and serious money issues. Julien and Anna are lawyers and cannot have a child. This is the story of an inconceivable agreement.
Plot:
female nudity, breast feeding, baby, police station, catholic, newborn baby, courtroom, hospital, money problems, trial, pregnant woman, van ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A doctor's (Stefano Accorsi) life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, psychological, tense, intense ...
Plot:
ambulance, hospital, accident, surgeon, trauma, couples, paramedic, loss, grief, guilt, relationships, investigation ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Paul Freeman (of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK fame) and Kate O'Mara plays a couple who can't have a baby, so they go to the doctor to have an artificial insemination...blackmail, dark secrets and drama ensue.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
incest, male nudity, pregnancy, nudity, punched in the face, childbirth, trial, newborn baby, judge, little girl, priest, feminism ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant, her boss offers to adopt the child.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy, career, ambitious woman, problem, male female relationship, relationships, relationship vs career, foster child, fashion model, fashion industry, empire fashion ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
Style:
realistic, period piece
Plot:
pregnancy, domestic drama, unplanned pregnancy, character study, family relations, middle aged, gender roles, slice of life, women's issues, ethical dilemma, career woman, middle class ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rosamund Stacey (Sandy Dennis), a young 'bookish' girl in London society, spends her days studying for a doctorate in the British Museum and her nights avoiding the sexual attention of the men in her life. But one day, all that changes. ...
Style:
period piece, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
pregnancy, unplanned pregnancy, female protagonist, feminism, female friendship, character study, coming of age, friendship, social commentary, social realism, female empowerment, solitude ...
Time:
60s, year 1969
Place:
london
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
House for Two is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Miloš Zábranský. This film stars two of the most recognized Czech actors, Ondřej Vetchý who plays Dan, and Jiří Schmitzer as Bóza. (From Wikipedia)
Plot:
hallucination, female nudity, male nudity, brother brother relationship, death of brother, birthday, family relations, man in underwear, insanity, pregnant woman, sex scene, adopted son ...
Similarity:
42%
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:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
friendship, female friendship, social issues, struggle, sisterhood, everyday life, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, life, women, female protagonist, girlfriend, lifestyle ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to ...
Plot:
stepfather, female nudity, child abuse, bare breasts, pregnant teenager, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, nudity, male pubic hair, rural setting, bare butt, pregnant woman, sexual relations ...
Place:
finland
Similarity:
40%
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:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s and always stayed in ...
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
childhood love, platonic, telephone call, suicide, death of daughter, airplane, fencing, airplane crash, baby, female nudity, loss of daughter, tennis ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.
Style:
iconic
Plot:
back in hometown, past, friend, city, mother son reunion, church, life, catholic priest, catacomb, death, mafia, photograph ...
Time:
70s, 2010s
Place:
naples italy, italy, cairo egypt
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Born into the seedy, underground world of prostitution, 15-year-old Shara has known no other life. Her mother is an aging, career escort, who is now looking to Shara to make the kind of money she made in her youth.
Style:
realistic, compassionate, thought provoking, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
teenage prostitution, mother daughter relationship, prostitution, human trafficking, underage, abusive boyfriend, sex trafficking, teenage prostitute, violent man, drug use, life is a bitch, teenage life ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sensual, cult classic, manga ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, erotica, brothel, prostitution, sex scene, female nudity, sex, sexually liberated, female pubic hair, femme fatale, lust, passionate sex ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hanna is a girl completely abandoned to herself, is not at all inhibited sexually, and is attracted to the attention of unscrupulous people like Miguel, who takes advantage of Hanna, turning her to prostitution to obtain her drug fix. Until she ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, sexual humiliation, prostitution, lust, prostitute, misogynist, exhibitionist, voyeur, female nudity, dysfunctional family, heroin addict, sexual abuse ...
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
37%
237
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:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
child rape, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, family relations, troubled past, confronting the past, tragic past, shame, haunting, coming of age ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup. At the same time, her best friend, Salomé, announces to her that she is pregnant and asks her to follow her pregnancy. The day Lydia meets Milos, a one-night stand, while ...
Plot:
pregnant woman, female best friends, postpartum depression, police arrest, hotel, midwife, painting, beach, caught in a lie, childbirth, motherhood, police ...
Place:
paris france, normandy
Similarity:
36%
259
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb.
Style:
heartfelt, life affirming, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
pregnancy, female protagonist, personal growth, coming of age, self discovery, everyday life, slice of life, domestic drama, family conflict, bittersweet, isolation, urban ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
35%
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