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Ashamed (2010)
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Ashamed (2010)
Original name: 창피해
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Arts professor Jung Ji Woo is searching for a nude model for a video clip that will be played at her exhibition. When Hee-jin, one of her students, recommends Yoon Ji Woo for the job, the three woman head to the beach to shoot the video. As they spend time together, Yoon Ji Woo begins to share pieces of her past relationship with Kang Ji Woo. The film weaves the pasts and presents of the three Ji Woos and focuses on their intersecting relationship.
Style: emotional, sentimental, atmospheric, surreal, contemplative, sincere, serious, realistic, non-linear
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, self discovery, love affair, introspection, coming of age, gender, youth, beach, couples, gays and lesbians, storytelling, gay, lgbtq, female homosexuality, sex scene, male nudity, lesbian relationship, mountain, love and romance, profanity, sexual content, urban, bittersweet, hopes, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: asia, korea
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about love and romance, gays and lesbians, couples, lgbt, lesbian, lgbtq and lesbian relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Ashamed: Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001), Finn's Girl (2007), Maggie and Annie (2002), Hannah Free (2009), Therese and Isabelle (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A newly unemployed salaryman meets a particularly sexual woman.
Style: surreal, sexy, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: sex, sexuality, couple relations, relationships, adultery, love affair, self discovery, sexual relations, mysterious character, starting over, unlikely couple, couples ...
Time: year 2001, post world war two, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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100%
 5.2
 275
Finn's Girl (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's". The movie covers, teenage angst, ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, family life, teenage life, parents and children, family relations, rebelliousness, love and romance, human spirit, youth, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Maggie and Annie (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Annie has it all in life. A wonderful husband and a darling little girl. All is going well until she goes to a softball practice and meets Maggie. Maggie -- cute, athletic, and openly gay -- touches feeling deep down inside Annie that she has no ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, independent film
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, introspection, love affair, fall in love, love and romance, hopes, family life, couples, sport team, lesbian mother, lesbian relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.4
 414
Hannah Free (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.
Style: sincere, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lgbtq, forbidden love, parents and children, family relations, elderly lovers, nurse patient relationship, lgbt, love and romance, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Therese and Isabelle (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two young girls experience awakening sexuality in the heated atmosphere of a Swiss girls' boarding school.
Style: sensual, black and white, realistic, erotic, serious ...
Plot: lesbian, erotica, lgbt, lgbtq, sexploitation, nudity, boarding school, self discovery, eroticism, lesbian relationship, best friend, couples ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Love Is Not Perfect (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Elena is a beautiful, 35-year-old accomplished woman who has an unhealthy obsession with perfection. Elena's well-ordered life is thrown into chaos, however, when she meets Adriana, an 18-year-old seductive young woman who offers passion and ...
Style: sexy, contemplative, psychological, light, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian sex, love, lesbian relationship, lesbian interest, bisexual girl, couples, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, female protagonist, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Summer of Sangaile (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, France, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at the summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents' lakeside villa. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds in her ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian love, teenage girl, coming of age, lesbian, lgbt, self discovery, teenage love, summer vacation, lesbian relationship, youth, love affair, lesbian sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: lithuania
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Lovers & Leavers (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: This movie is about Iiris Vaara. She turns 30 and meets young director Marko. All dreams come true but does Marko share her dreams?
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot: innocence lost, sex scene, hopes, introspection, looking for love, couples, couple relations, love affair, male female relationship, insomnia, love, male nudity ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Mountain (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 73 min.
Story: This is the story of Nora and Solveig, a grief-stricken couple on a hike through the mountain range where they had a traumatic experience two years prior. Nora and Solveig are hiking through a snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: mountain, lesbian relationship, lesbian, hopes, introspection, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, couple relations, dealing with death, gender, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.4
 115
Doubt (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A gaggle of friends and observers ponder the fate of a relationship as they watch it collapse in this independent drama from the Philippines. Cris (Andoy Ranay) is a documentary filmmaker with a well-regarded body of work and a large community of ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: love affair, breakup, couples, gender, fall in love, sexual relations, bittersweet, trust, love, gays and lesbians, friendship, deception ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Claire of the Moon (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Claire of the Moon is set in the 1990s in the Pacific Northwest. Claire Jabrowski, a famous heterosexual author, decides to attend a retreat for all-female writers. Claire's rommate at the retreat is Dr. Noel Benedict, author of a book called ...
Style: sexual, independent film, erotic, contemplative, serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, gays and lesbians, lesbian sex, lesbian love, passionate sex, lgbt, lgbtq, nudity, lesbianism, love triangle, homosexuality ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Lover's Concerto (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lee Ji-hwan receives photographs in the mail that reminds him of how he met two girls, Shim Su-in and Kim Gyeong-heui, one summer five years ago. He shares his memories with his friend Cheol-hyeon. He recalls initially being in love with Su-in, but ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, romantic, captivating ...
Plot: love story, love triangle, couples, friendship, friends, love and romance, romantic relationship, relationships, couple relations, love affair, terminal illness, lesbian ...
Time: year 1996, 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
 848
Antarctica (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Set in Tel Aviv, focuses on an interconnected group of friends and their various relationships. At the center is the adorably bookish Omer, about to turn 30, who still hasn't found himself, and his free-spirited best friend Miki, who both end ...
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay relationship, dancer, family relations, introspection, hopes, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tel aviv israel, israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.3
 1K
Lost in Time (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sui Wai lost her fiance Ah Man in a car accident. With the obligations of life sitting heavy on her shoulders, she lives on only to find herself confiding in her beloved through a phone call. Dai Fai. a mini-bus driver who witnessed Ah Man's ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, coping, couples, hopes, workplace, bittersweet, workplace romance, strong female presence, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Desert Hearts (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The story of straight-edge literature professor Vivian who travels to Reno to get away from a relationship breakup when she falls in love with an attractive and unconventional girl named Cay.
Style: sexy, touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, divorce, gender, self discovery, lesbianism, gay, lesbian sex, lgbtq, desert ...
Time: 50s, year 1985, year 1959, 60s, 1950s
Place: nevada, indiana, usa, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.0
 581
Just Say Love (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Physical attractions appear to be the obvious explanation for two people to become a pair. But are they really the reflection of something sublime, everlasting or dare we say, spiritual? Do relationships start in the bedroom or in the heart? In this ...
Style: contemplative, touching, realistic, serious, double entendre ...
Plot: gay, gay interest, couples, gays and lesbians, love and romance, homosexual, couple relations, introspection, gender, love affair, lgbtq, insecurity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
In My End Is My Beginning (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Jung-ha loses her husband in an accident, Naru, her husband's secret lover, comes to her. Naru begs Jung-ha that she will do anything if only she will let her stay at her house. Jung-ha denies her at first, but eventually their strange ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: lesbian, first lesbian experience, lesbian interest, mistress, lesbian relationship, couple relations, lgbt, female homosexuality, asian lgbt, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, lesbian sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.9
 140
Open (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: OPEN is a hallucinogenic journey through gender, identity, the body, love and how those can be shared by two people. The film consists of interlocking stories lines- the first about two transwomen in a pandrogynous relationship in which they ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: gender, transsexual, lgbt, intersex, self discovery, love affair, introspection, couples, society, gender bending, gay, transgender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Intentions (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Renee leads a fulfilling life as a professor of theater, mother of two girls, and wife to a kind and successful husband. Her life of contentment is changed forever when she discovers an undeniable attraction between herself and a female graduate ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, sincere, independent film
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, sexual content, family relations, college, infidelity, love and romance, forbidden love, couples, life turned upside down, teachers and students, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Perfect Ending (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.
Style: touching, sexy, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, self discovery, lesbian interest, couples, lesbian couple, prostitute, first lesbian experience, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Shelter Me (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them.
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, lesbian, lgbt, love and romance, immigrant, family relations, couples, society, family life, social differences, eccentric family, factory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Drifting Flowers (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot: gender, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian, feminism, fall in love, love affair, couples, gays and lesbians, love and romance, teenage life, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Firefly (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After her estranged brother's sudden death, young wife Lucia bonds with his fiancée through their shared grief and finds herself falling in love.
Style: sincere, psychological, disturbing, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian friend, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lesbian romance, gays and lesbians, love, lgbtq, lesbianism, lesbian attraction, lesbian couple, lesbian interest ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Romeos (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lukas, 20, is a prisoner in his own body. As a pre-op transgendered person, he is constantly finding himself trapped in uncomfortable, compromising positions. His best friend, Ine introduces him to the gay scene in Cologne where he meets the ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, gender, transsexual, transgender, lgbt, gay couple, secret, friendship, sexual attraction, self discovery, lifestyle, love affair ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
How to Disappear Completely (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Gerda meets Little Robber Girl in the Berlin subway. There’s only ten, twelve hours until they’ll part ways. The mutual interest turns into love affair and all that ends in the morning. But still there’s a sea of the city to float by night.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, melancholic, romantic ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, love, female nudity, female female relationship, big city, love and romance, lesbian romance, young lovers, lesbian relationship, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Anatomy of a Love Seen (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: From Writer/Director Marina Rice Bader (Executive Producer Elena Undone, A Perfect Ending) comes this film within a film that explores love in all its painful and messy glory. Six months ago Zoe and Mal fell for each other while filming a love ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sexy, erotic ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, lesbian romance, couples, lesbian love, love affair, love and romance, lgbt, woman woman relationship, gays and lesbians, rising to stardom, lesbian couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Fish and Elephant (2001)
Genre: Romance
Country: China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story follows the elephant keeper in the Beijing Zoo who maintains an aquarium of fish in her home (hence the two-animal title), and her lesbian lover, a fabric saleswoman in an outdoor market. Her relationship is tested, however, when her ...
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, life turned upside down, parents and children, lesbian relationship, disorder, family relations, couples, love and romance, couple relations, eligible bachelor, lgbtq, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.3
 796
My Normal (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: "My Normal" is the story of Natalie, a young lesbian from the Lower East Side, who's struggling to find a balance between her dreams of becoming a film maker and her lifestyle as a dominatrix. Her exotic looks and unconventional ...
Style: sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: lesbian, dominatrix, friendship, lesbian relationship, follow your dream, ambition, fall in love, lifestyle, love and romance, couples, workplace, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Ava's Impossible Things (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When her mother makes a shocking request, sheltered Ava struggles with reality, escaping into a dream world where she summons up old friends and long forgotten desires.
Style: melancholic, psychological, romantic, touching, sexy ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lgbt, dream, love and romance, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, lesbian couple, youth, lesbian relationship, couples, lesbianism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.6
 468
Nuts for Love (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: En 1975, unos meses antes del comienzo de la dictadura militar argentina, Alicia y Marcelo se conocen en un concierto de Sui Géneris. El amor surge inmediatamente entre ellos, pero el retorno del novio de Alicia provoca la separación. En 1982, en ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, talky ...
Plot: love affair, lovers reunited, social differences, couples, unfulfilled love, political unrest, destiny, love and romance, state affairs, politics, bittersweet, concert ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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