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The Vice of Hope (2018)
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The Vice of Hope (2018)
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, seine river, female full frontal nudity, motorboat, woman in bathtub, snake bite ...
Time: 2010s
Place: italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, erotic and psychological films with plots about female nudity, pregnant woman, pregnancy, female full frontal nudity, prostitution, brothel and female protagonist mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Vice of Hope: The Cricket (1980), Elisa K (2010), Tess (2016), The August Virgin (2019), Stranger (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Cricket (1980)
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
Plot: nudity, mother daughter relationship, murder, suicide by drowning, female nudity, parent child relationship, brothel, prostitute, maid, sex with friend's wife, horny wife, truck driver ...
Place: italy
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95%
 5.9
 227
Elisa K (2010)
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: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: child rape, troubled past, confronting the past, tragic past, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, family relations, sex crime, apache, school, restaurant, female nudity ...
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76%
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Tess (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When sex worker Tess falls pregnant, she has to fight to keep her past from swallowing her whole.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, erotic
Plot: sex worker, afrikaans, pregnancy, prostitute, unplanned pregnancy, changing lives, female protagonist, unwanted pregnancy, confronting the past, pregnant woman, social problems, prostitution ...
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The August Virgin (2019)
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, women, sex scene, female nudity, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, dancing, museum, female protagonist, baby, pregnant woman, river ...
Time: 2010s
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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There Is a Light: Il padre d'Italia (2017)
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, gays and lesbians, on the road, road trip, orphanage, bare butt, male pubic hair, bare chested male, pregnancy, man in underwear, cigarette smoking, topless woman ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 5.8
 251
Stranger (2004)
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.
Plot: dying father, pregnant woman, wedding, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, prostitute, classical music, quiz, pregnancy, abortion, unplanned pregnancy, alzheimer's disease ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Trance (2006)
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: suspenseful, touching, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: sex slavery, human trafficking, abduction, violence against women, organized crime, prostitute, humiliation, rape, russian abroad, mentally challenged, naivete, dog ...
Place: europe, st. petersburg russia, russia, germany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 27
La mia preda (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
Plot: nudity, female nudity, girl, sex, prostitution, sex scene, hairy vagina, labia, female full frontal nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 38
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 ⇓
58%
 7.3
 453
Top Hearts! (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A woman (Karin Viard) in the fourth month of her first pregnancy fights to save the baby while being treated for breast cancer.
Plot: pregnant woman, cancer, hospital, hopes, breast cancer, doctor, pregnancy, shaved head
Time: 90s
Place: france
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56%
The Divine Nymph (1975)
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: avant garde
Plot: erotica, incest, female nudity, sex, fascism, puffy nipples, woman, animal cruelty, nudity, female pubic hair, devil, female full frontal nudity ...
Time: year 1975, 1920s
Place: italy
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52%
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Paprika (1991)
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, sensual, sexy, romantic, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prostitute, female nudity, erotica, brothel, prostitution, sex, sexually liberated, sex scene, lust, femme fatale, true love, marriage ...
Time: 1950s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Three Floors (2021)
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: female pubic hair, family drama, bourgeoisie, car crash, madness, ego, psychosis, female nudity, hallucination, freudian, love affair, insanity ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Feather (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ferro and Cate, two kids trying to get to grips with an unplanned pregnancy, their families (rebellious Ferro’s hospitable, ‘normal’ family, and level-headed Cate’s unhinged, atypical one), exams at school, friends and a general lack of jobs.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: male female relationship, pregnant wife, relationships, lifestyle change, changing lives, couple relations, couples, pregnancy, slice of life, lifestyle, pregnant woman, unplanned pregnancy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ...
Plot: mental illness, mental disorder, female nudity, psychiatric hospital, cheating wife, womanizer, bare breasts, mental institution, adultery, sex, male full rear nudity, female pubic hair ...
Time: 1930s
Place: italy, tuscany
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47%
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Souvenir (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The enigmatic Isabel decides to rent her belly to give birth to the baby of Sara and Joaquin, a possessive couple obsessed with the idea of starting a family.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: motherhood, single parent, wanting a baby, surrogate mother, parenthood, pregnant woman, pregnancy, parents and children, surrogate family, social problems, husband wife relationship, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Thank You All Very Much (1969)
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. ...
Plot: childbirth, pregnancy, pregnant woman, maternity ward, oral sex, single mother, expectant father, birth, coat, young
Time: year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Looking for Her (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
Style: suspense, touching, suspenseful
Plot: racism, adoption, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, pregnancy, female protagonist, mother daughter reunion, pregnant woman, abortion, mother son relationship, dog, laptop ...
Time: year 2015
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44%
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New York Wildcats (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Chelsea Mundae runs an exotic New York club. Her star body-painted, exotic dancers include Kitty, Rattlesnake and Pleasure the Peacock.
Plot: group sex, masturbation, rough sex, brothel, prostitution, female nudity, female masturbation, gangster, mobster, cocaine, makeover, mafioso ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Having Babies III (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.
Plot: hospital, childbirth, pregnancy, expectant father, maternity ward, pregnant wife, newborn baby, birth, pregnant woman, gynecologist
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
House of Little Deaths (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Eight women wake up every morning, get dressed, eat, put on make-up, do their hair, dress up and get ready for a grueling, demeaning night of work. They're the staff at a brothel outside a major American city, serving the spoiled, rich, ...
Style: art house
Plot: bare chested male, pregnancy, very little dialogue, sex worker, alienation, prostitution, prostitute, women, brothel, pregnant woman, slapping, jogging ...
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Who's Child Am I? (1976)
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, pregnancy, nudity, judge, bare breasts, punched in the face, male nudity, doctor, husband wife relationship, priest, inheritance, courtroom ...
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40%
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Manuel (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An eighteen-year-old boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support, and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom; an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again. These are the characters taken ...
Plot: acting audition, defense attorney, techno music, drug abuse, bakery, working class, house arrest, juvenile detention, solidarity, social worker, painting, brothel ...
Time: 2010s
Place: italy, rome italy
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40%
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Maggie Black (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A successful, young writer's first pregnancy is overshadowed by her complicated relationship with reality.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: writers, pregnancy, family relations, social climber, unplanned pregnancy, writer's life, lifestyle, pregnancy and birth, problem, female protagonist, pregnant woman, male female relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Godsend (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman who desperately wants a baby asks a girl who is considering abortion to give her the baby instead. The two arrive at an isolated vacation home to spend time in seclusion until the girl gives birth to a baby, but they unexpectedly encounter a ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, dramatic, serious
Plot: woman in danger, pregnancy and birth, female protagonist, pregnancy, pregnant woman, danger, pregnant girlfriend, women, unplanned pregnancy, woman, unwanted pregnancy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Nowhereland (2016)
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: thought provoking, realistic, compassionate, serious, bleak ...
Plot: teenage prostitution, prostitution, underage, mother daughter relationship, abusive boyfriend, sex trafficking, teenage prostitute, human trafficking, violent man, drug use, life is a bitch, social decay ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Szerencse lányai (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 114 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.
Plot: woman, prostitute, mother daughter relationship, prostitute mother, female teacher, pimp, emigrant, prostitution, customer, russian immigrant, female pubic hair, stripper ...
Time: 90s
Place: moscow russia, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Angela's Decision (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Living in the middle of Australia's desolate landscape, Angela has been waiting all her life. Waiting for her boyfriend to return from the army and marry her, waiting for her mother to sober up, waiting for her life to begin. On the return of ...
Style: social
Plot: hopes, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, small town, friend, mother daughter relationship, army, pregnancy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Bye Bye Brasil (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he begs to come ...
Style: road movie, manga, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: on the road, female nudity, prostitution, circus, transformation, surrealism, male nudity, bare breasts, amazon jungle, performer's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.7
 609
Diving (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A restless photographer leaves her family to "find herself" and takes up deep-sea diving.
Plot: free diving, existentialism, scuba diving, husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking, pregnancy, nudity, bare breasts, loss of wife, night, baby, sex scene ...
Place: brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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