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Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Story of Guy Maddin, hockey player for the Maroons, and son of a local hairdresser/abortion doctor. Guy tries to overcome his own cowardice (and multiple head-knocks) as he navigates through a dream-like Winnipeg.
Style:
surreal, homoerotic, black and white, romantic, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, mind bending, dark comedy, sexual ...
Plot:
pregnancy, murder, abortion, psychopath, tragic love, dangerous attraction, investigation, obsession, prodigy, addiction, couple relations, surrealism, hockey, relationships, male female relationship, love story, love interest, romancing a criminal, stepmother stepson relationship, sex, dog, apocalypse, incest, ghost, killer ...
Time:
year 2003, contemporary
Place:
winnipeg, canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sexy and sexual films with plots about couples, love and romance, sex, female nudity, nude, nudity and kiss mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Cowards Bend the Knee: Sun Kissed (2006), Little Lili (2003), My Winnipeg (2007), In This Tricky Life (2001), Perfect Love (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Teddy, a young writer, ventures to an isolated desert house to complete his first novel, where he meets and seduces the mysterious caretaker, Leo. Layers of memory and hallucination unfold that intertwine the two men.
Style:
sexy, surreal, psychological, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DV art-film starring his girlfriend Lili ...
Style:
serious, realistic, erotic, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
surrealism, life philosophy, relationships, eccentricity, haunted by the past, loneliness, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, art, mother, metaphor, city life ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, winnipeg
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Uruguay, Cuba, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, romantic ...
Plot:
infidelity, prostitute, hopes, transsexual, love and romance, dysfunctional family, fall in love, social decay, looking for love, unrequited love, womanizer, downfall ...
Place:
spain, barcelona, catalonia, europe, uruguay
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33%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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sexual, controversial, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
nudity, male pubic hair, sodomy, rape, male nudity, bare breasts, minimalism, age-gap relationship, wedding, couples, crimes of passion, disco ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, black and white, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
sex scene, cafe, love triangle, friendship, infidelity, obsession, introspection, love and romance, love affair, tragic love, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, new york, hamburg germany, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, controversial, cult classic, sensual, erotic ...
Plot:
erotica, oral sex, male nudity, erotic scene, love, strong sexual content, sensuality, brain tumor, nudity, hardcore, hitchhiker, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
black and white, cult classic, visual, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, surrealism, young lovers, sodomy, peasant, male nudity, priest, nudity, amnesia, wartime, great war, world war one ...
Time:
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Place:
russia
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
male nudity, gay, unrequited love, gay anal sex, prostitute, lgbt, nightlife, love triangle, lifestyle, self discovery, couples, looking for love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexual, touching, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, transvestism, lgbt, homosexual, friendship, self discovery, couples, lifestyle, introspection, social misfits, society, discrimination ...
Time:
90s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe, baghdad iraq
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, anthology, eros ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
vienna
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, erotic drama ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
dangerous attraction, erotica, sex, sexual obsession, young lovers, sexual relations, love, love story, unfaithful wife, nudity, couples, voyeur ...
Time:
80s
Place:
southern usa, alabama
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
spain, barcelona
Similarity:
32%
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Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, atmospheric, talky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, borderline personality disorder, sexuality, sex scene, nudity, obsessive love, mental illness, love story, crazy love, public nudity, desire, sex ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, spain
Similarity:
31%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
valencia spain, spain
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, sexy, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA, Mexico, UK, Colombia
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teens
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Place:
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Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
black and white, art house, philosophical, visual, neorealism ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, psychological, talky, anthology ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, sexy, depressing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
australia, sydney australia, melbourne, new zealand
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, psycho sexual, sensual, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, prostitution, surrealism, sexuality, sexual perversion, sex, sexual relations, infidelity, brothel, unfaithful wife, female nudity, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, emotional, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe, italy, egypt
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sergio is a brooding, alienated man who works as a trash collector in Lisbon by day and roams the city streets by night seeking rough, anonymous sex with men. One night he meets an man who seems to be the embodiment of his tormented fantasies, and ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, erotic, art house, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
fetish, peeping tom, gay, gay sex, gay lead character, erotica, lgbt, sadomasochism, anonymous sex, male rape, sex, garbage collector ...
Time:
90s
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
Similarity:
30%
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