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Love's a Bitch (2000)
272K
Original name: Amores perros
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Three different people in Mexico City are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a gunshot Rotweiler.
Style:
bleak, emotional, depressing, tense, psychological, realistic, non-linear, mind blowing, philosophical, independent film ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, dog, forbidden love, violent, rottweiler, multiple perspectives, siblings relations, relationships, betrayal, vengeance, hitman, life is a bitch, marital problem, melancholy, marriage, divorce, robbery, human nature, violence, machismo, young woman, danger, accident, trapped, sex ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 90s, year 1999, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary ...
Place:
latin america, mexico city, mexico, south america, ohio, japan, france ...
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Most similar movies to Love's a Bitch
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out complex, realistic, cerebral and bleak films with plots about death, storytelling, brutality, depression, dialogue, psychological drama and violence mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Love's a Bitch: Babel (2006), 21 Grams (2003), Wild Tales (2014), Parasite (2019), No Country for Old Men (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
328K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France, Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style:
emotional, breathtaking, inspirational, sincere, cerebral ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, redemption, woman urinating, cultural difference, deaf girl, desert, mexican border, sex, death, destiny, language barrier, multiple perspectives ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
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80%
253K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, clever, gloomy, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, tragedy, drug addiction, drug addict, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, grief, redemption, drug, loneliness, drug abuse, loss ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
Similarity:
100%
236K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
Style:
suspense, dark comedy, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
multiple storylines, revenge, dark humor, twists and turns, sex scene, human nature, vengeance, violence, corruption, destiny, wedding party, comedy of errors ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place:
argentina, south america, persia, latin america
Similarity:
88%
1.1M
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, psychological thriller, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, scam, wealth, basement, plot twist, rich snob, driver, unemployment ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, asia, india
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
hitman, psychopath, shooting, serial killer, peril, desert, human nature, brutality, death, sheriff, cruelty, bounty hunter ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, america, austin texas ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom. The stories of a girl living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and two teen gang members, for whom ...
Style:
road movie, serious, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, immigrant, u.s. mexico border, street gang, juvenile delinquency, gang member, social problems, family reunited, mexican drug cartel, illegal immigrant, rape, death ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, south america, central america, mexico city ...
Similarity:
71%
13K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, philosophical, stylized ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, bipolar disorder, murder, sodomy, oral sex, redemption, starting over, prison, society, unlikely criminals, self control, violence ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, drug, junkie, loneliness, mental illness, depression, dream, subculture ...
Time:
year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
britain, america, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
Style:
mindfuck, suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
dementia, suicide, winter, farm, relationships, high school, waitress, blizzard, road trip, elderly couple, estrangement, haunted by the past ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
america, oklahoma
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Style:
sexy, road movie, erotic, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, sexuality, sex, hot and sexy, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, age difference, friendship between men, on the road, threesome, male friendship, gay ...
Time:
year 2001, near future, year 2002, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, mexico city, acapulco mexico ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?
Style:
touching, sexy, emotional, melancholic, stylized ...
Plot:
teenage love, adultery, secret relationship, mother daughter reunion, caught having sex, unhappy wife, redemption, family drama, infidelity, breast cancer, abandonment, child abandonment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, portland oregon, new mexico, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
L.A. screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife, Amy, to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
Style:
psychological, tense, sexy, brutal, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, home invasion, sex scene, self defense, gang rape, cheerleader, small town, revenge, vigilante, rape and revenge, vengeance, teasing ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, new orleans, california
Similarity:
100%
44K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially ...
Style:
psychological, cerebral, sexual, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
couples, manipulation, prison, infidelity, seduction, redemption, twists and turns, dangerous attraction, danger, confined, cons and scams, jail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, michigan, detroit, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
100%
276K
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Australia
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartbreaking, crying, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
divorce, muslim, poverty, alzheimer's disease, marriage, court, marital problem, hospital, religion, islam, justice, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
iran, persia, nebraska, maghreb, middle east ...
Similarity:
100%
882K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
50%
461K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, sexy, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, redemption, prejudice, plot twist, racial tension, racist, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, social injustice, class differences, interracial relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia, puerto rico ...
Similarity:
25%
439K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, depressing, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insomnia, insanity, uncover truth, obsession, mysterious character, paranoia, losing-it hero, twists and turns, schizophrenia, life is a bitch, secrets, alienation ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, persia, los angeles
Similarity:
24%
348K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style:
cerebral, clever, depressing, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, social problems, human nature, child prodigy, coincidence, depression, sex, cancer, fictional game show, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, terminal illness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, reno nevada
Similarity:
24%
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709K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bleak, neo noir, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, incest, violence, psychopath, captivity, older man younger woman relationship, hypnosis, mind game, plot twist, psychological torture, torture ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, distant future, near future, y2k ...
Place:
south korea, korea, stockholm sweden, oceania, east asia ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, art house, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, obsession, dream, alternate reality, parallel universe, hollywood, filmmaking, lesbian sex, nightmare ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california, mulholland drive
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, suspense, sexy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, writers, husband wife relationship, abortion, murder, divorce, rape, loss of family, infidelity, flashback, rape and murder, art ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
texas, los angeles, new york
Similarity:
22%
2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
Similarity:
22%
229K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine ...
Style:
suspense, political, realistic, thought provoking, anthology ...
Plot:
drug traffic, organized crime, drug abuse, drug dealer, drug lord, addiction, drug addiction, drug cartel, drug, war on drugs, politics, corruption ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
mexico, latin america, california, ohio, los angeles ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
revenge, obsession, haunted by the past, murder, hit and run, loss of daughter, tragedy, vengeance, redemption, car accident, tragic event, justice ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, nebraska, los angeles, glendale california, california
Similarity:
22%
122K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family ...
Style:
disturbing, black comedy, sexy, psychological, art house ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, brother sister incest, paranoia, sadism, brother sister sex, child abuse, overprotective father, eccentric family, abuse, isolation ...
Time:
2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe
Similarity:
22%
518K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, suspense, depressing, twist ending, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, vengeance, police, police investigation, investigation, death in the family, police detective, sexual abuse, loss of child, child abuse, loss of daughter ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
Similarity:
22%
1.4M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, neo noir, confusing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
memory, vengeance, memory loss, plot twist, revenge, murder, amnesia, whodunit, twists and turns, paranoia, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2001, future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, america, usa ...
Similarity:
22%
325K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, philosophical, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, depression, life philosophy, self sacrifice, life changing experience, motivation, true love, sacrifice, existentialism, life & death, melancholy, love ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Style:
disturbing, depressing, erotic, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
incest, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, father son relationship, rape, sex, sex with daughter, dysfunctional family, incestuous relationship, sodomy, incest rape, loneliness ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
22%
77K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Style:
apocalyptic, disturbing, bleak, intense, depressing ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, blindness, epidemic, plague, survival, dystopia, distopia, catastrophe, pandemic, isolation, chaos ...
Time:
year 2008, distant future, 21st century
Place:
portugal, sao paulo brazil, canada
Similarity:
22%
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