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Thirty Years of Adonis (2017)
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Thirty Years of Adonis (2017)
Original name: Adonis
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Yang Ke, a Beijing Opera actor, is fatefully driven into the underworld of masculine sex workers, and becomes a class of his own. He finds himself on a roller coaster between heavenly love with both men and women, and a living hell ensnared by devious villains and hypocrites. Despite his faith, endeavor and willingness to give, he remains a prisoner to his karma. Hell awaits when heaven seems near, and the ultimate truth is revealed only in a heartbreaking moment from which there is no return.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, touching, suspense, erotic, art film, weird, queer cinema
Plot: gay, masseur, sex slavery, bondage, actor, sexuality, sex worker, captive, erotica, rape, bisexual, slavery, sex slave, slave, captivity, life is a bitch, slave trade, enslavement, lgbt, director, prostitute, forest, bdsm, female nudity, reincarnation ...
Place: hong kong

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, erotic, queer cinema and disturbing films with plots about male nudity, gay, lgbt, gay interest, male pubic hair, pubic hair and female nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Thirty Years of Adonis: Utopians (2015), Voyage (2013), Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2020), Selina's Gold (2022), Angels of the Sun (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Male Gaze: Nocturnal Instincts (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, Israel, China, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Strap yourself in for an exhilarating journey into darkness with these five award-winning short films from across the globe that delve into heart-pumping escapades varying from the intensely erotic to the ultra-violent to the warm-inside feels. The ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, anthology
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, gay interest, male homosexuality, nightlife, sexuality, homosexuality, violence, seduction, one night stand, relationships ...
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Utopians (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, Thailand
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This visually stunning erotic drama follows a young man who finds himself unexpectedly attracted to his handsome, outspoken male professor. Despite — or perhaps because of — his conservative upbringing, Hins is intent on getting close enough to ...
Style: sexy, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: gay teacher, lgbt, gay, teacher student sex, wife swapping, homosexuality, swinger couple, sexuality, male nudity, bisexuality, love, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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Voyage (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young psychiatrist ventures into a lone voyage to fight his depression. On the sea he records stories of people departed from this world prematurely, while what awaits him on the shore is the ultimate irony of life. Shot in Mongolia, Malaysia, ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: naked in public, lgbt, social problems, life is a bitch, introspection, disturbed individual, psychiatrist, relationship problems, self discovery, nude model, sadness, female pubic hair ...
Time: 60s
Place: mongolia
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44%
Dangerous Drugs of Sex (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Katsuragi, an elite office worker who fell from a perfect life, drunkenly attempted to jump and commit suicide. Suddenly, he was helped by a mysterious man, Yoda, but that was the beginning of a horrible life of confinement training...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: gay rape, sexual sadism, lgbt, suicide attempt, bondage, office worker, love and romance, sadism, sadist, sadistic violence, mysterious stranger, mysterious man ...
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Selina's Gold (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Selina's father sells her to Tiago who makes her a sex slave. With the help of Domeng, Tiago's blind slave, she plans their way out of this living hell.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, erotic
Plot: sex slave, female nudity, sex slavery, slave, slave girl, slavery, female protagonist, life is a bitch, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, 17 year old, male full rear nudity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: the philippines
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Angels of the Sun (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Northeastern of Brazil, the father of the twelve years old illiterate Maria sells his daughter to Tadeu to be employed as a housemaid and have a better life. However, the girl is resold to the farmer Lourenço that deflowers her, and he gives the ...
Style: rough, psychological, suspense, serious, disturbing
Plot: child prostitution, prostitution, prostitute, teenage prostitute, sex slave, slave girl, slave trader, sex slavery, child abuse, brothel, slave trade, slavery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: brazil
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I Am Happiness on Earth (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, erotic, queer cinema
Plot: bisexual, male masturbation, filmmaker, gay sex, dancer, erection, gay, gay interest, male pubic hair, movie business, prostitute, lgbtq ...
Place: mexico
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Amphetamine (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Openly gay banker Daniel debates whether to return to Australia or stay in Hong Kong when he meets Kafka, a straight swimming instructor. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference in ...
Style: realistic, homoerotic, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: gay, gay asian, lgbt, gender, love affair, haunted by the past, tragic love, addiction, self discovery, male pubic hair, couples, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, indiana, asia
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New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A secretary is introduced to the world of BDSM by her boss. She becomes his personal slave as they take a walk on the wild side of experimentations. This film is based on main actress Rinako Hirasawa’s personal experiences.
Style: erotic, psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: bdsm, masochism, sadomasochism, sex, watching sex, sex in office, bondage, female nudity, slavery, eroticism, erotica, rape ...
Place: japan
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Cal (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Twenty-year-old Cal returns from France to Britain after receiving news that his mother is ill. His finds his home city of Bristol facing hard economic times brought on by the global economic crisis, with poverty and crime on the rise and rioting ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, tense ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, love affair, life is a bitch, society, gay interest, coming of age, age difference, lgbtq, male nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Old Narcissus (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 74-year-old Yamazaki, having been handsome as a young gay man, grows narcissistic of his beauty and is unable to bear his own aging. One night, Yamazaki meets a young and beautiful man named Leo. Having loved only himself during his long tumultuous ...
Style: psychological, captivating, sexual, serious
Plot: sex worker, gay sex, gay, gay interest, homosexual, conflict, male nudity, prostitution, prostitute, male prostitute, gay couple, homosexuality ...
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The Masseur (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Following the death of his father and a chance meeting with an abusive romance novelist, a masseur working in a gay massage parlor struggles to make sense of his unfulfilling relationships while simultaneously assisting his mother in preparing his ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot: gay, masseur, male prostitute, sexual relations, prostitute, dysfunctional family, death of father, family problems, self discovery, family life, parents and children, massage parlor ...
Place: the philippines, asia
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Sauvage (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here... longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.
Style: rough, melancholic, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, male nudity, male prostitute, violence, gay hustler, male pubic hair, sex work, hustler, gay interest, gay sex, homeless, erection ...
Time: 2000s, future
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New Dubai (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 55 min.
Story: In a middle class neighborhood in a city in the countryside of Brazil, the real estate speculation is a menace to the affective memory of a group of friends. Their answer to this imminent transformation is to fuck in the construction sites. And what ...
Style: avant garde, experimental, explicit, queer cinema, gay cinema
Plot: gay latino, male nudity, gay love, lgbt, male rape, gay sex, gay, erection, male masturbation, gay erotica, gay interest, fetishist ...
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Love in the Time of Civil War (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lauded Quebec filmmaker Rodrigue Jean (Lost Song) takes a fearless, unflinching look at the reality of addiction in this tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.
Style: realistic, touching, disturbing, bleak, serious
Plot: gay, prostitute, male prostitute, male nudity, gay interest, gay sex, life is a bitch, misfit, drug abuse, male pubic hair, drug addict, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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Speechless (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A guy is found by the police swimming naked. He can't, or refuses to, speak and is sent to a hospital. Since no diagnosis can be made, he will be transferred to a mental hospital, when his male nurse decides to take another route. Slowly the ...
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Plot: gay, lgbt, mental institution, gays and lesbians, small town life, small town, erotica, foreigner, lgbtq, homoeroticism, nude, gay love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong
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Daydream Obsession 3: Legacy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: While visiting his recently-divorced father, Wylie discovers the camera and video diaries of Clayton. With his college friends over, Wylie begins to explore his desires through daydreams and reality. His roommate Greg is the object of his obsession. ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
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Rule 34 (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Simone is a young law student who studies criminal law and advocates for women's rights. On her free time, she's a cam girl that makes live sexual performances on the Internet. One night, she watches a video that awakens her interest in ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, erotic, realistic ...
Plot: bdsm, female nudity, pervert, sexual awakening, sexual content, sex scene, eroticism, erotica, problem, female protagonist, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Place: brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Brazil, Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Lalo is a sex influencer: he posts photos of his naked body and homemade porn videos for his thousands of social media followers. Lalo directs his own life, but in private, when out of character, he seems to live in constant melancholy.
Style: thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: male nudity, sex worker, porn star, porn industry, hiv positive, social issues, social problems, porn actor, sexploitation, life is a bitch, sexual content, erection ...
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The Ages of Lulu (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Ages of Lulu is a gruelling sensual odyssey from Spanish director Bigas Luna, made immediately prior to his popular trilogy Jamón, jamón (1992), Golden Balls (1993) and The Tit and the Moon (1994). Starting as the somewhat queasy story of the ...
Style: erotic, sexy, emotional, sensual, eros ...
Audience: adult
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Teenage Kicks (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Miklós is at the age when everything feels high-stakes. He is coming to terms with his own sexuality, and when his best friend Dan reveals that he has a new girlfriend, this puts an end to their plans to run away together.
Style: lgbt cinema, homoerotic, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, gay interest, coming of age, homosexual, gay youth, bisexual, accidental death, gay teenager, unrequited love, gay crush, friendship, lgbt ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
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Minor Freedoms (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Set in the Greek highlands, the story presents a violent, domineering man who deals in the trafficking of emigrants and young, Balkan prostitutes. Addicted to drugs and mentally unstable, the man's teenage daughter Fanny succumbs to her ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: prostitution, forced prostitution, sex slavery, slave girl, child prostitution, domineering father, sexual awakening, overbearing parent, teenage prostitute, slave trade, power relations, life is a bitch ...
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My Fair Son (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When young art student Ray moves in with his estranged businessman father after years of separation, the two tentatively begin to reconcile their many differences -- including Ray's revelation that he's gay, which his father struggles to ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: gay, gay son, gay teenager, dysfunctional family, father son estrangement, single father, homosexuality, father son relationship, homosexual, gay couple, gay love, gay lead character ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Love Actually... Sucks! was inspired by real-life events, and opens with a dramatic wedding feast. It tells a variety of stories about love that has gone wrong: a brother and sister in an illicit relationship, a married painter who falls in love ...
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, disturbing, erotic ...
Plot: sex, sex with sister, gay, sex with brother, taboo, teacher student relationship, incest, explicit sex, brother sister sex, forbidden sex, love, lesbian ...
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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
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A Man's Job (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. But one day Juha is fired from his job. Ashamed, he weaves a web of lies to hide the fact from his ...
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, psychological, serious ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, unemployment, sex work, male prostitution, family relations, hidden identity, couples, family problems, life is a bitch, dishonesty, career change ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, finland
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José (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Guatemala
Duration: 85 min.
Story: José (19 years old) lives with his mother (50s) in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, disturbing, queer cinema
Plot: gay, gay interest, gay relationship, lgbt, sex scene, religion, male pubic hair, gay sex, lgbtq, gay slur, love, grandmother ...
Place: guatemala
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Justine de Sade (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually ...
Style: erotic, suspense, sensual, controversial, serious ...
Plot: lesbian sex, hedonism, female nudity, libertine, debauchery, misogyny, monk, rape, sex, erotica, sexploitation, gang rape ...
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Shanghai Belle (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The destinies of five young women from all over the world intertwine in Paris as they embark on a roller-coaster ride of extremes in their search for love, sex and money. Based upon true stories, Shanghai Belle tells the destiny of five young women ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: lesbian love, bdsm, prostitute, nightclub, women, social problems, prostitution, sexual relations, sexual content, life is a bitch, female protagonist, sex ...
Place: paris france
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Permanent Residence (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved ones.
Style: romantic, philosophical, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot: gay sex, gay love, gay romance, unrequited love, gay, romantic friendship, brother brother relationship, gay lead character, male pubic hair, countdown, death, gay interest ...
Place: hong kong, china, australia, jerusalem, tel aviv israel
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