Movies like Battle in Heaven

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Battle in Heaven (2005)
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Battle in Heaven (2005)
Original name: Batalla en el cielo
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in Mexico City, Carlos Reygadas's sexually explicit drama centers on a man in turmoil over his past actions. Chauffer Marcos feels compelled to reveal a dark secret to his boss's daughter, Ana, a wealthy woman who works as a prostitute just for the thrill of it. Marcos confesses that he and his wife committed a crime that ended in horrible tragedy. Haunted by his past, Marcos searches for redemption.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, contemplative, controversial, erotic, sexy, art house, cerebral, slow cinema ...
Audience: adult
Plot: husband wife relationship, teenage sex, infidelity, extramarital affair, kidnapped girl, double life, redemption, female pubic hair, nudity, erotica, kidnapping, sex, haunted by the past, adultery, kidnapper, introspection, crime gone awry, hopes, secret, explicit sex, death of child, guilt, ransom, sexual promiscuity, abduction ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: mexico city, latin america, mexico
Keyword: avant-garde

Most similar movies to Battle in Heaven

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, erotic and art house films with plots about female nudity, sex, male nudity, sex scene, pubic hair, nudity and female full frontal nudity mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Battle in Heaven: Silent Light (2007), Live Flesh (1997), Breaking the Waves (1996), Japan (2002), The Brown Bunny (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Silent Light (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, slow cinema, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, infidelity, redemption, fall in love, moral dilemma, religion, regret, couples, sin, clergy, human nature, love affair ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: mexico, latin america
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 7.3
 34K
Live Flesh (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
Style: sexy, psychological, intense, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, lust, unfaithful wife, nudity, disability, obsession, desire, older woman younger man, betrayal, sex, love triangle, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1970, year 1990 ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, sarajevo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 min.
Story: In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style: disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, psychological ...
Plot: sex, husband wife relationship, love, tragic love, marriage, disability, love story, self sacrifice, small town, psychology, sex with a stranger, paralysis ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 4K
Japan (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old religious woman. Although only a few words are spoken, love grows.
Style: meditative, art house, melancholic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: rocky mountains, suicide, depression, runaway, village, artist, erection, suicide attempt, painting, widow, farm, love of one's life ...
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Brown Bunny (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true ...
Style: road movie, independent film, controversial, sexy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: road trip, sex, sex scene, real sex, unsimulated sex, prostitute, controversy, explicit sex, redemption, rape, drug addict, oral sex ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, las vegas, new hampshire ...
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51%
 4.4
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Baise-moi (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Manu has lived a difficult life. Abused and violently raped, she sets off to find herself only to meet Nadine, a prostitute who has encountered one too many injustices in the world. Angry at the world, they embark on a twisted, rage-filled road ...
Style: sexual, erotic, disturbing, bleak, road movie ...
Audience: adult
Plot: strong sexual content, rape and revenge, explicit sex, rape, nudity, sex, femme fatale, misandry, violent sex, violence against women, depravity, murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, experimental, surreal ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: countryside, family life, dream, family relations, society, sex therapy, couples, hopes, couple relations, swinger couple, tragedy, exploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexual, sexy, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, sex addict, bdsm, lust, nymphomaniac, sexual perversion, explicit sex, nudity, nymphomania, sexuality, sex scene, erection ...
Time: year 2013, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but ...
Style: art house, dark comedy, allegory, surreal, black comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: food, cannibalism, restaurant, female nudity, surrealism, unfaithful wife, gangster, erotica, adultery, sexuality, public humiliation, revenge ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, future, 80s
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Traffic Department (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.
Style: psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot: adultery, marriage, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, infidelity, violence, winter, polish, racism, police, interrogation, snow ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.4
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Destricted (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.
Style: erotic, anthology, serious, avant garde, controversial ...
Plot: exhibitionist, erection, sexual promiscuity, coitus, sexual abuse, male pubic hair, sex scene, couple relations, lifestyle, destructive relationship, society, sexual relations ...
Time: 70s
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48%
 6.0
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Intimacy (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK, Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the ...
Style: sexy, sexual, sensual, erotic, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, explicit sex, erotica, strong sexual content, cheating wife, couple relations, obsession, sex scene, sexual relations, infidelity, oral sex, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.7
 3K
Fidelity (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Lena is a talented midwife and gynaecologist, her husband Serezha is an actor at a provincial drama theatre. They are close and gentle with each other, but there is no sex. Lena suspects that Serezha has an affair, but she worries quietly and does ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, serious, disturbing, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: sexual relations, extramarital affair, unsimulated sex, female nudity, cheating wife, looking for sex, jealousy, explicit sex, lust, unfaithful wife, sex, coitus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.8
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Ken Park (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his ...
Style: disturbing, art house, sexual, rough, explicit ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, sex, youth, explicit sex, strong sexual content, underage sex, incest, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, nude, nudity, teenage sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 8.0
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Dogville (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 178 min.
Story: A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style: art house, psychological, bleak, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Plot: rape, society, twists and turns, female protagonist, morality, rocky mountains, victim, vengeance, haunted by the past, brutality, storytelling, gangster ...
Time: 1930s, year 2003, 90s, year 2004, near future ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager ...
Style: erotic, sexual, disturbing, art house, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, lust, sexuality, sex addict, explicit sex, erection, sex scene, nymphomaniac, erotica, nudity, masturbation, deviant sex ...
Time: 90s, year 2013, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Anatomy of Hell (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man rescues a woman from a suicide attempt in a gay nightclub. Walking the streets together, she propositions him: She'll pay him to visit her at her isolated house for four consecutive nights. There he will silently watch her. He's ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, sexy, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: oral sex, female masturbation, voyeurism, coitus, male nudity, strong sexual content, sex, female pubic hair, obsession, isolation, gays and lesbians, gay man has sex with a woman ...
Time: year 2004
Place: france, europe
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47%
 5.2
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Romance (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Although deeply in love with her boyfriend - and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him - a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, disturbing, sensual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, bdsm, sexuality, female masturbation, explicit sex, love, adultery, male nudity, nymphomania, female nudity, masturbation, sexual promiscuity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Now & Later (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through ...
Style: contemplative, talky, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: explicit sex, male pubic hair, sex scene, male nudity, coitus, erotica, repression, poverty, unsimulated sex, bisexuality, free love, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nicaragua, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.0
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Dog Days (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In a suburb of Vienna during some hot summer days: A teacher who is in bondage to a sleazy pimp, a very importunate hitchhiker, a private detective on the run for some car vandals, a couple with a serious marriage problem and an old man, whose wife ...
Style: realistic, sexy, disturbing, controversial, depressing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexual perversion, longing, strong sexual content, couples, suburbs, real sex, sexual relations, couple relations, husband wife relationship, sex, erotica, relationships ...
Time: year 2003, year 2001, 21st century
Place: vienna, austria
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45%
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White Girl (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back.
Style: sexy, tense, controversial, suspense, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: drug addict, sexual promiscuity, blonde, drug dealer, violence, female protagonist, sex in office, black man white woman sex, partying, sex in car, nudity, sex scene ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.5
 20K
Havoc (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, nudity, teenager, sex scene, sex with a stranger, juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, hip hop, gang, gangster, erotica, female nudity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.6
 8K
Elles (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A journalist tries to balance the duties of marriage and motherhood while researching a piece on college women who work as prostitutes to pay their tuition.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, prostitution, female nudity, female masturbation, husband wife relationship, bare breasts, journalist, society, ambition, introspection, hopes, coitus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 7.0
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Hardcore (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in the porno pits of Los Angeles.
Style: neo noir, disturbing, erotic, psychological, art house ...
Plot: porn industry, sex, female nudity, private detective, making love, strip club, sex worker, father, sleaze, sexuality, prostitution, porn ...
Time: year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, san francisco, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Free Will (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 163 min.
Story: After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, ...
Style: bleak, psychological, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: sexual abuse, mental illness, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, couples, guilt, sex scene, moving, love letter, lgbt, mental disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.8
 2K
Fresh Bait (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs. Along with her boyfriend, Eric, and his friend Bruno, she concocts ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: female nudity, sexuality, robbery, victim, greed, promiscuous woman, nude girl, murder, friendship, sexual content, bait, money ...
Time: year 1995, 80s, 90s
Place: paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.9
 40K
Bully (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, sexy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: bullying, sexual abuse, rape, teenager, murder, nudity, sex, drug, rivalry, revenge, youth, teenage sex ...
Time: year 2001, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, bronx new york city, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.8
 702
Locust (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Story starts with a summer fling between a provincial guy and a big-city girl. The holiday is over, the beauty returns to the city and receives a marriage proposal from a rich admirer. The provincial boy comes back being unable to let her go. Things ...
Style: erotic, sexy, captivating, suspense, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex scene, adultery, love, female nudity, fall in love, extramarital affair, abusive husband, first love, infidelity, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 8.6
 796K
City of God (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.2
 3K
In Bed (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It all begins at a party in Santiago, Chile, when a seemingly innocent gesture -- the offer of a ride home -- ends in a passionate night of lovemaking and intense conversation for young singles Bruno and Daniela. Shacked up at a flea-bitten motel ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sensual, talky, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex, sexual pleasure, erotica, infidelity, lust, voyeur, love and romance, fall in love, couples, flirting, one night stand, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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