Movies like Happening

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Happening (2021)
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Happening (2021)
Original name: L'Événement
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An adaptation of Annie Ernaux's eponymous novel, looking back on her experience with abortion when it was still illegal in France in the 1960s.
Style: sad, independent film, crying, cult film
Plot: abortion, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, illegal abortion, post war, women, summer, feminism, sexuality, chaos, woman, sexual repression, abortion rights, student, sex scene, doctor, female protagonist, dormitory, college student, unplanned pregnancy, injection, nudity, final exam, female college student, dancing ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 1960s
Place: france
Keyword: dutch, latin

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Most similar movies to Happening

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, realistic and crying films with plots about pregnancy, female nudity, female protagonist, pregnant woman, nudity, woman and female full frontal nudity mostly in Drama, History and Thriller genres. Some movies like Happening: Pleasure (2021), 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Invisible Life (2019), True Things (2021), The Young Lovers (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pleasure (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Netherlands, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 20-year-old Bella Cherry leaves the small town life in Sweden for Los Angeles with the aim to become the worlds next big porn star but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.
Style: erotic, captivating, underground film, disturbing, hot
Audience: adult
Plot: porn industry, prostitution, sexploitation, prostitute, porn star, seductress, teenage prostitute, interracial sex, sex worker, porn actress, sex work, sexuality ...
Place: los angeles, eastern europe, scandinavia
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100%
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, melancholic, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: abortion, sexual abuse, friendship, unwanted pregnancy, communism, rape, realism, communist, doctor, coming of age, young woman, character study ...
Time: 80s, year 2007, 2000s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: romania, transylvania, eastern europe, europe
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37%
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Invisible Life (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s. The life of Guida and Euridice Gusmão, raised to be invisible in the eyes of the Brazilian society of that time, like all the other women of that generation.
Style: captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female nudity, family relations, sister sister relationship, woman urinating, sex scene, sisters, erotica, masturbation, life is a bitch, escapades, ambition, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 50s, year 2019, 2010s, 1950s, 1940s
Place: rio de janeiro, iberian peninsula, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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True Things (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young woman living on the fringes of society becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, erotic, crying
Plot: male female relationship, relationships, lifestyle change, social misfits, changing lives, female protagonist, love interest, lost soul, women, sexual attraction, ex convict, female masturbation ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Young Lovers (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
Plot: love, virgin, mother daughter relationship, virginity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, doctor, marriage, beach, professor, party, sex ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Through The Fire (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Centres around a Paris fire-fighter, an everyday hero, who, after being involved in a serious accident during a major fire, must rebuild his life with the love of his wife — and accept that, sometimes, even saviours need saving.
Plot: fireman, fire, firefight, nudity, pregnancy, killed in a car crash, homelessness, suicidal thoughts, arson, balloon, accident, hospital ...
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Heat Wave (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: One hot afternoon in the south of France, several paths are converging towards a tragic conclusion. Those involved are: Stéphane and Luigi, two cousins who have just emerged from adolescence; Georges, a retired old man; Amélie, Luigi’s ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, introspection, unplanned pregnancy, family relations, human nature, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, elderly, coming of age, hot guys, nude women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, marseille, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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24 Weeks (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Astrid is a comedian who makes people laugh for a living; her husband Markus is her manager and the two of them work well together. They have a nine-year-old daughter and are expecting their second child. When they learn that their child will not be ...
Style: tragic ending, sad, disturbing, suspense, existential ...
Plot: family relations, sex scene, pregnancy, dilemma, pregnant woman, society, death, psychology, disability, sexual intercourse, maternity ward, heart condition ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Earth Is a Sinful Song (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is ...
Style: crying
Plot: sapmi, lapland, female sexuality, exploring sexuality, sauna, sexuality, reindeer, sexual awakening, winter, funeral, skinny dipping, male female relationship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Call Jane (2022)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Style: historical drama, independent film
Plot: abortion, illegal abortion, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, propaganda, housewife, woman, abortion rights, feminist, doctor, female protagonist, baking cookies ...
Time: 60s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Lost Daughter (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Israel, Greece
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: motherhood, female masturbation, vacation, female nudity, adultery, depressed woman, beach, sex scene, greek island, girl, women, flashback ...
Time: 90s, 2020s
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Nenette and Boni (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, art house, sexy, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, obsession, sexuality, siblings relations, teenage life, love and romance, single parent, coming of age, runaway, siblings, incest, character study ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: vietnam, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Ask for Jane (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of college students develop an underground network that helps women get abortions in the pre-Roe vs. Wade Chicago.
Style: thrilling, tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: abortion, illegal abortion, abortion rights, pregnancy, male female relationship, female protagonist, social issues, social problems, women, feminist, feminism, unwanted pregnancy ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Style: sad, social, meditative, serious, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, abortion, female protagonist, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, adolescence, teenager, feminist, abortion clinic, 17 year old ...
Time: year 2019, 2020s, 2010s
Place: pennsylvania, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
34%
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Papicha (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage ...
Style: independent film, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: violence against women, teenage girl, muslim girl, female protagonist, hijab, sea, attempted rape, friendship, arranged marriage, university, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: algeria, maghreb, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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 ⇓
34%
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Kings for a Day (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: not available
Plot: shakespeare, criminal, pregnancy, stealing, theft, improv, pregnant woman, extortion, con artists, debt, theater, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Sibyl (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Sibyl, a jaded psychotherapist, returns to her first passion: writing. But her newest patient Margot, a troubled up-and-coming actress, proves to be a source of inspiration that is far too tempting. Fascinated almost to the point of obsession, Sibyl ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, crying, surprise ending ...
Plot: adultery, nudity, sex scene, psychotherapist, psychoanalysis, writers, aspiring writer, psychoanalyst, bare breasts, drunkenness, inspiration, female writer ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Jessica (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 196 min.
Story: The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she ...
Style: captivating, thrilling
Plot: outback, female protagonist, relationships, unplanned pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, secret, intrigue, love affair, male female relationship, life is a bitch, family relations, pregnancy ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Documenteur (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: After separating from the father of her son, a young French woman tries to find lodging and a fresh start in L.A. for herself and her son.
Style: independent film, mockumentary
Plot: youth, woman, empathy, typist, single mother, nudity, female pubic hair, female nudity, frenchwoman, mother son relationship, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Meetings of Anna (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, West Germany
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Anna is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents ...
Style: art house, contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian, on the road, women, feminist, female nudity, underground, lgbtq, filmmaking, woman, modernism, woman peeing, nudity ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: france, brussels, belgium, europe, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Therese (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
Style: serious, realistic, sad, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, dull life, suburban life, unfulfillment, female protagonist, bourgeoisie, women in society, marriage of convenience, envy, deception, depression, women ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Tomboy (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gender, childhood, transsexual, youth, child protagonist, children, summer, friendship, lgbt, tomboy, sexual identity, society ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, indiana, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: If These Walls Could Talk follows the plights of three different women and their experiences with abortion. Each of the three stories takes place in the same house in three different years: 1952, 1974, and 1996.
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: abortion, moral dilemma, pregnancy, family relations, unwanted pregnancy, women's rights, couples, society, life is a bitch, lesbian, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Ogres (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 142 min.
Story: There's drama aplenty for the travelling theatre company Chekhov Cabaret. The actors share the good times and the bad as a nomadic tribe where work and private life always mingle. They don’t mince words, these obstreperous actors with a ...
Style: existential, semi autobiographical
Plot: couples, sexuality, woman, newborn baby, dead son, bare breasts, stage play, suicidal thoughts, stage actress, falling from height, jealous wife, adulterous husband ...
Time: 2010s
Place: south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.3
 7K
Wild Reeds (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Style: realistic, sad, lgbt cinema, homoerotic, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, male homosexuality, coming of age, friendship, homosexual, gay interest, masturbation, adolescence, homosexuality, small town, lgbtq, betrayal ...
Time: 60s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: france, algeria, africa, europe, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.3
 67
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 ⇓
32%
A Real Young Girl (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bored and restless, Alice spends much of her time lusting after Jim, a local sawmill worker. When not lusting after him, Alice fills the hours with such pursuits as writing her name on a mirror with vaginal secretions and wandering the fields with ...
Style: sexy, disturbing, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot: puberty, eroticism, taboo sex, coming of age, interspecies sex, country girl, exploring sexuality, nymph, voyeur, erotica, animal sex, zoophilia ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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