Movies like Killing Heat

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Killing Heat (1981)
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Killing Heat (1981)
Original name: The Grass Is Singing
Genre: Drama
Country: Zambia, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A city-woman moves to a foreign country with her future husband, giving up all the comforts of cosmopolitan life. Life in the countryside finally takes its toll on her, and she finds herself involved sexually with another man
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: colonialism, black man white woman sex, marriage crisis, rural area, misfit, love and romance, couples, love affair, infidelity, culture clash, fish out of water, losing-it hero, dull life, nudity, violent content, tragedy, farmer, farm, death of protagonist, city, girl, heat wave, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, scandal ...
Time: 1940s, year 1981, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: zimbabwe, africa, south africa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and gloomy films with plots about couples, love and romance, infidelity, unfulfillment, love affair, dishonesty and couple relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Killing Heat: Summer Heat (1987), Separate Ways (1981), Dancing in the Dark (1986), The Fringe Dwellers (1986), You (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Summer Heat (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: female nudity, murderous pair, destructive relationship, love and romance, dishonesty, looking for love, infidelity, love affair, dull life, farm, couples, violent content ...
Time: year 1987, 1930s
Place: usa, north carolina
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95%
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Separate Ways (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
Style: cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: nude model, infidelity, marital crisis, nightclub, bare breasts, female nudity, unfaithful wife, nudity, unfulfillment, unsupportive spouse, lifestyle, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1981, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Dancing in the Dark (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: feminist, hospital, infidelity, murder, mental illness, violent content, unfulfillment, feminism, love and romance, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Style: political, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: australian aboriginal, native, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native american, family relations, segregation, couples, love and romance, youth, misfit, coming of age ...
Time: 70s
Place: africa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 180
You (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Michèle shares her life with Paul, her husband and work colleague. She has a lover, Thomas, a musician with whom she has been having a passionate affair for some time. Attracted by Thomass non-conformity and lust for life, Michèle abandons her ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, gloomy
Plot: love triangle, breakup, sexual promiscuity, life turned upside down, love affair, family relations, couples, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Pretty Things (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lucie, who works as a white-hot fashion model, exhibits a dominant, often controlling, "Type A" personality, whereas identical twin Marie consistently projects a backward, reserved, laconic and unassuming attitude. When Lucie receives a ...
Style: serious, psychological, stylized, suspenseful, deep ...
Plot: singer, family relations, musician's life, switching roles, lifestyle, twins, physical appearance, love affair, betrayal, rescue, mentally unstable, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Anita B. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.
Style: realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love affair, starting over, haunted by the past, auschwitz, youth, small town, hopes, family relations, adoption, post war, self discovery, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.0
 3K
Trishna (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?
Style: emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: tragic love, fall in love, couple relations, injustice, culture clash, society, innocence lost, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, power relations, social injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Sofie (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story: From 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, religions or cults, couples, family problems, couple relations, hopes, fall in love, society, love and romance, introspection ...
Time: year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Betrayal (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story: While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, sexy, detective ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, confession, love affair, dishonesty, love and romance, affair, sex scene, lust, grief, funeral ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Limbo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Sonia arrives in Trinidad with her two children to join her husband Jo who is working as an oil engineer. On the surface she lives a life of luxury in a large houses with servants. The days are uneventful and blend together into an everlasting ...
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: infidelity, couples, family problems, introspection, social relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, unfulfillment, children, love affair, monastery, strong female presence ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 298
7 Years (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A devoted young woman becomes ensnared in a web of sexuality and betrayal in Jean-Pascal Hattu’s consistently unpredictable and finely wrought character study. A vividly realistic psychosexual drama, the film’s sharp emotional honesty heralds a ...
Style: sincere, tense, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: sex scene, moral dilemma, confined, cheating wife, prison life, love triangle, couples, sexual content, love and romance, crumbling marriage, infidelity, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Sleeping Sickness (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ...
Style: atmospheric, emotional, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: losing-it hero, couples, couple relations, heroes, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, plague, getting home, homecoming, family relations, doctor, colonialism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Istanbul (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: self discovery, love affair, life turned upside down, family problems, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
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40%
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Jewel (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, family problems, family life, couples, social relations, couple relations, society, babies and infants, youth, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: mississippi, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Les corps impatients (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Paul and Charlotte are in love. Charlotte discovers she has a grave malady and Paul supports her. But Paul is also attracted to Ninon, another girl. Charlotte accepts Paul to have an affair with her, and the three start a difficult and ambiguous ...
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: betrayal, life is a bitch, tragic hero, infidelity, love triangle, love and romance, terminal illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, unfulfillment, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, menage a trois ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
We Won't Grow Old Together (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Jean has been married to Francoise for years, but his relationship with his wife has been all but over for a long time. She's hardly ever around, always traveling to Russia for work, and she drifts in and out of the film as well, reflecting the ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, summer, love story, marital problem, couples, breakup, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, toxic relationship, male female relationship, complicated relationship, husband wife estrangement ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: europe, normandy, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Abraham's Valley (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Switzerland
Duration: 187 min.
Story: Ema is a very attractive but innocent girl, so pretty that cars crash in her presence. Young marries Dr. Carlo Paiva, who she is not attracted to, but is her father's friend. They move to the Valley of Abraham. Carlo loves her, but decides to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious
Plot: family problems, couples, obsessive quest, couple relations, society, introspection, unfulfillment, love and romance, destructive relationship, crumbling marriage, obsession, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 1993
Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Deceit (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ellen's life is turned upside down after her wealthy hubby vanishes at sea. Everyone close to her is a liar - especially Ellen's missing spouse. Was this a case of an affair gone bad? A corporate cover-up? Or something far more sinister? ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending
Plot: infidelity, murder, love affair, couple relations, life is a bitch, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, who done it, couples, alcohol abuse, father figure, debt ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Cowards who Looked to the Sky (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people — a depressed housewife, her high-school-aged lover, and his best friend, who is struggling to ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: infidelity, couples, estrangement, love affair, love and romance, strong sexual content, unfulfillment, japanese woman, cosplay, relationships, love interest, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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35%
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Sweet Rush (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: As an aging woman married to a workaholic doctor by chance meets a young man who makes her feel young again. All of this is films by a director making a film about her which cuts in and out of the on camera and off camera drama.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, sincere, emotional, serious ...
Plot: mature woman, small town, dying, love affair, tragic love, love and romance, infidelity, couples, dealing with death, couple relations, dishonesty, terminal illness ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: poland, europe
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34%
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The Touch (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home.
Style: art house, independent film, realistic, serious, psychological
Plot: infidelity, love affair, crazy love, art, love story, nudity, affair, female nudity, church, wedding ring, hospital, extramarital affair ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, london
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34%
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The Letter (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A well-bred, lovely, spiritual, sad young woman marries an attentive physician who loves her. She feels affection but no love. Soon after, without design, she falls in love with Pedro Abrunhosa, a poet and performance artist. He also loves her. She ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: fall in love, couple relations, unfulfillment, love and romance, moral dilemma, couples, love triangle, unfulfilled love, singer, car accident, concert, nun ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: portugal, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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An Eye for Beauty (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged.
Style: sexy, captivating, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: extramarital affair, sexual relations, infidelity, life turned upside down, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, dishonesty, love triangle, architect, sex scene, alienation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada, montreal, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Phobidilia (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After suffering an emotional breakdown in a public place, a young man vows to quit the chaotic city life and never leave his apartment. He quickly discovers that in todays world all his needs can be easily met: sexual satisfaction via the internet, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, offbeat ...
Plot: losing-it hero, opposites attract, confined, impossible love, isolation, mental illness, love and romance, misfit, estrangement, couples, eviction, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
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33%
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Daybreak (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sweden, shortly before Christmas. Surgeon Rickard is told the job he expected goes to a Dane, because of his substance abuse. It's too late to cancel dinner with his in-laws. The guest couple announces their in-vitro is a success. Then ...
Style: realistic, psychological, touching, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, family problems, vengeance, crumbling marriage, love affair, parents and children, family relations, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, redemption, introspection ...
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Emilienne (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Emilienne is an elegant and seductive study of a ménage-a-trois based on the novel by Claude Des Olbes. Nouky, a young artist, shows up at Emilienne's art gallery with her portfolio of erotic sketches. Emilienne is greatly impressed, unaware ...
Style: erotic, sensual, serious, realistic, sexual
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, menage a trois, polyamory, bisexual woman, infidelity, lesbian sex, husband wife relationship, lesbian seduction, couples, dishonesty, unfulfillment ...
Time: 70s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Mister Johnson (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity -- an educated black man who doesn't really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the local British magistrate, and considers himself English, though he has never been ...
Style: sad, independent film, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: worker, wife beater, world history, blaxploitation, 007, trade, colonialism, world war one, human spirit, society, misfit, boss and employee ...
Time: 1920s
Place: africa, nigeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Harem (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a North African desert hideaway by Selim, an Arab mogul.
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: stockholm syndrome, sheik, kidnapping, sexual relations, relationships, culture clash, couples, obsession, harem, nudity, moral ambiguity, age difference ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: ottoman empire, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Belonging (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, touching
Plot: family relations, love affair, family problems, betrayal, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, infidelity, working class, couples ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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