Movies like Beastie Boys
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Original name: 비스티 보이즈
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two friends are involved in the male escort business. One starts an honest relationship with one of his clients. The other cheats on his girlfriend and has his many scams catch up to him.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, bleak, sexual
Plot:
nightlife, love and romance, lifestyle, gigolo, prostitute, infidelity, unfulfilled love, buddies, wooing, destructive relationship, cons and scams, friends, couples, sexual content, urban, unfulfillment, female nudity, escort, dishonesty, bar
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
seoul, korea
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Most similar movies to Beastie Boys
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about couples, love and romance, sexual content, lifestyle, unfulfillment, female nudity and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Beastie Boys: Tokyo Noir (2004), Possible Changes (2004), Searching for the Elephant (2009), Charlie Says (2006), Power and Beauty (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, erotic drama ...
Plot:
couples, city life, lifestyle, singleness, strong female presence, prostitute, female sexuality, prostitution, sex work, loneliness, isolation, sexually liberated ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Two friends, Moon-ho and Jong-kyu, in their mid-thirties now, have known each other since childhood. As time passes, they feel more and more sorry of their younger years. In search of adventure they are ready for all kind of acrobatics, for example, ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
looking for love, friendship, friends, lifestyle, sexual relations, love, dating, rivalry, wooing, infidelity, thirtysomething life, looking for sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A freelance photographer Hyun-woo seems to live an enviable life with a successful career. But his inside is torn apart from the sorrow of being deserted by his ex-girlfriend Mari. He even gets unclear about what’s really happening in reality and ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, touching, dark ...
Plot:
foot fetish, friendship, sex addict, lifestyle, love and romance, life is a bitch, split personality, dishonesty, couples, dull life, addiction, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul, korea, asia
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The seemingly separate lives of a group of men intersect entwining the fates of each of them over the course of a week.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot:
lifestyle, love affair, social relations, celebrity culture, betrayal, couples, cons and scams, love and romance, dishonesty, teachers and students, infidelity, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, serious
Plot:
love triangle, politics, love affair, dishonesty, head of state, couples, infidelity, rivalry, state affairs, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love ...
Time:
50s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A couple in a failing marriage begin to cheat on each other using the power of the internet.
Style:
realistic, sexy, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
cheating wife, couple relations, infidelity, couples, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love and romance, crumbling marriage, sexual relations, affair, illicit affair, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A comedy centered on Beth and Mark, a couple struggling to conceive, and Mark's unexpectedly helpful affair with Louise.
Style:
realistic, sincere, captivating, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
couple relations, love affair, infidelity, moral dilemma, crumbling marriage, dull life, love and romance, dishonesty, family problems, couples, unfulfillment, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
confined, love affair, estrangement, unfulfillment, passion, prison, suicide attempt, prison guard, surveillance camera, moving, mission, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea, asia
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ten women give monologues to camera, each remembering a man who was important in their lives.
Style:
realistic, talky, clever, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
loss of virginity, gender, destructive relationship, lifestyle, love affair, looking for love, couple relations, dangerous attraction, unfulfilled love, sexual relations, male female relationship, monologue ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
41%
104
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Film examines the matters of labor and love. After losing her job, a single professional woman moves into her friend's flat -- where she develops an attraction to her friend's husband. Meanwhile, the friend finds herself falling for one of ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
love affair, ambition, fall in love, couples, destructive relationship, couple relations, under the surface, dishonesty, relationship vs career, love and romance, thirtysomething life, cheating wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couple relations, looking for sex, prostitute, swinger couple, destructive relationship, infidelity, sexual relations, couples, dishonesty, nudity, double life, sex with prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Shot on digital , HD and 8 mm. Filmed through both sides of North America. 'Vicious Circle' pushes the limits of what can be accomplished on a bike. Featuring the first ever 65 foot 'Double Road Gap' , some of the gnarliest ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, lifestyle, false accusation, teenage life, family relations, society, destructive relationship, youth, love and romance, chess, interracial relations, skater ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Delightfully comic exploration of the emotional and social geography of an art-house film director.
Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot:
lovers reunited, friendship, infidelity, friends, couple relations, haunted by the past, love triangle, mental disorder, filmmaking, art, movie business, lecture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jeju island, korea, asia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina, Spain, UK, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the city of Santiago, four characters struggle to reach their goals: a psychologist who wants to help other women and save their lives, a hairdresser who wants to buy a car, a musician who wants to play in a philharmonic orchestra, and a young ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
introspection, love affair, love and romance, couples, starting over, survival, hopes, couple relations, dysfunctional family, society, pregnancy, sexual relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, tense, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
erotica, strong sexual content, confined, writer's life, mysterious character, wooing, prison life, dishonesty, couples, cons and scams, twists and turns, lovers reunited ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
Style:
realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, couples, society, working class, introspection, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, kolkata
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Five interconnected stories set in modern-day Istanbul based on the fairytales Snow White, Cinderella, Pied Piper, Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
society, social differences, lifestyle, homeless, murder, hopes, prostitute, dwarf, sleeping beauty, muslim, turk, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young man stands in front of a mirror. The night belongs to him. Every evening, he appraises his appearance, attired in a new shirt, leaves his apartment and waits in a poorly lit alleyway for his johns. One night he meets a female prostitute of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, suspense, queer cinema
Plot:
society, gays and lesbians, prostitute, unlikely couple, love and romance, gender, social misfits, love triangle, fall in love, sexual relations, one night stand, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, china
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When the troubled son of an NGO worker refuses to take a test and announces that he is not leaving his room, his concerned mother asks one of her clients, a Cuban exile, for help in setting the boy straight. Gonzalo has decided to drop out of ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, sentimental
Plot:
infidelity, disability, couples, love and romance, dull life, unfulfillment, society, youth, down on your luck, parents and children, ex convict, chess ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, madrid, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
friends, unfulfillment, teenage boy, nightlife, lifestyle, freedom, coming of age, little boy, subculture, techno, stasi, berlin wall ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
germany, east germany
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lucien and Regina are foragers - they gather wild mushrooms and sell them to New York restaurants. They live simply, according to the seasons. When Regina seeks more stability, their marriage is put to a test.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, culinary ...
Plot:
couple relations, lifestyle, ambition, relationship vs career, couples, family problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage, life turned upside down, unfulfilled love, disorder, restaurant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. ...
Style:
erotic, captivating, touching, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitute, coming of age, murder, couples, vengeance, parents and children, female friendship, revenge, illegal prostitution, family relations, redemption, love and romance ...
Place:
east asia, germany, europe, south korea, korea ...
Similarity:
30%
474
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting ...
Style:
sexy, controversial, stylized, sexual, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian, murder, lifestyle, sexual relations, couples, destructive relationship, nightlife, gangster, lgbt, gays and lesbians, lesbian sex, prostitution ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style:
realistic, emotional, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, society, youth, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ronah's life unravels when she starts working with a new client, Johnny.
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, prostitute, women, female protagonist, couples, society, sex, female nudity, doctor patient relationship, sex therapy, psychotherapy, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
28%
260
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 146 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:
contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
arranged marriage, girl, minimal dialogue, family relations, nudity, religions or cults, family problems, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1992, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
28%
105
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hervé is a lonely man who lives only for his self-defense courses. Fired from the zoo where he works because he depresses the animals, he becomes a night watchman in a factory. To pass the time, he watches the comings and goings of a strange pair ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
obsession, pregnancy, unfulfillment, prostitute, nightshift, hospital, love, couples, society, lonely, gays and lesbians, dull life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lan Kwai Fong (LKF), a well-known party location in Hong Kong with loads of nightclubs and bars. Everyone likes to go to LKF for fun, one night stands or even true love. LKF has captured the joys and sorrows of many... One night, Steven - a regular ...
Style:
realistic, sexy, captivating, humorous, serious
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fall in love, stewardess, nightclub, wooing, sexual relations, nightlife, lifestyle, couples, sex, sexual content, true love, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" ("The blue parrot"). The innkeeper, Gabriel, dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his business to his godchildren : Nino and Marianne, whom father had been taken ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, offbeat
Plot:
sexual content, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, workplace, introspection, nude, hopes, wooing, family business, jazz, nightclub ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
french riviera, france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jun, a Japanese freelance reporter, discovers hidden gem of Korean traditional bakery "Moran-dang" by chance in the middle of the city of Seoul, while covering stories of the city. Moran-dang takes him back to his memory of childhood and ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, friendship, family business, family relations, friends, cooking and food, crime boss, training, lawsuit, save the day, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul, south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
26%
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