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Boogie Nights (1997)
303K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.
Style:
sexy, stylized, erotic, cult classic, black comedy, sexual, talky, dark comedy, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
sex, porn industry, drug abuse, multiple storylines, addiction, drug, cocaine, adult filmmaking, adultery, drug addiction, voyeurism, nudity, porn actor, showbiz, porn, rise and fall, life philosophy, oral sex, rags to riches, bare breasts, casual sex, disco, fame, character study, dark humor ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, united states of america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sexy, erotic, realistic and melancholic films with plots about female nudity, pornography, nude, sex, male nudity, sex scene and dialogue mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Boogie Nights: Lovelace (2013), Havoc (2005), Sherrybaby (2006), Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Requiem for a Dream (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
44K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Style:
sexual, sexy, erotic, erotic drama, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, porn actress, redemption, sex, nudity, husband wife relationship, porn star, female nudity, orgasm, porn industry, skinny dipping, prostitution ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1970
Place:
usa, miami, new york, malibu california, florida ...
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22K
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:
sexy, sexual, erotic, disturbing, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
youth, nudity, sex scene, hip hop culture, sex with a stranger, society, teenager, juvenile delinquency, hip hop, female nudity, making love, brutality ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a ...
Style:
independent film, bleak, cult classic, sexual, depressing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
parole officer, drug abuse, fondling, prison, drug addict, orgasm, mother daughter relationship, support group, addiction, oral sex, starting over, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2006, 70s, 21st century
Place:
delaware, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, compassionate, melancholic, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teacher, nudity, sex, adultery, woman on top, sex in car, loneliness, one night stand, depression, sexual promiscuity, looking for love, sexual relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1977, year 1975, year 1976
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
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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 ...
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765K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, dark humor, counterculture, junkie, life is a bitch, subculture, dialogue, social misfits ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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26K
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Netherlands, France, USA, Denmark
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, disturbing, underground film, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
porn industry, sex worker, prostitute, prostitution, interracial sex, sexploitation, porn actress, sexualized violence, teenage prostitute, seductress, porn star, sexual content ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
los angeles, scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for ...
Style:
sexual, controversial, erotic, factual, non fiction ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, free love, courtroom, court, love, biopic, fighting the system, rebellion, drug addiction, sex, porn ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1996, year 1983, year 1979 ...
Place:
kentucky, ohio, georgia, usa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often ...
Style:
sexy, factual, intense, talky, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex addict, group sex, friendship, filmmaking, showbiz, adultery, actor's life, addiction, couple relations, homoerotic friendship, promiscuity, character study ...
Time:
70s, year 2002, y2k, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, arizona
Similarity:
100%
36K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mastermind behind the infamous disco, plucks Shane from the sea of faces clamoring to get inside his club, Shane not ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, atmospheric, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disco, nightclub, gay, drug abuse, clubbing, addiction, lesbian, father son relationship, party, drug, lifestyle, sex ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, bahamas, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
67%
199K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, philosophical, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychiatry, scientology, right hand man, drifter, sex, female pubic hair, mentor, religion, bare breasts, religions or cults, brainwashing, writers ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1950 ...
Place:
usa, phoenix arizona, san francisco, alabama, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, erotic drama, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
porn industry, adult filmmaking, porn star, porn actress, lesbian, sex, lesbian attraction, sexual assault, female protagonist, dysfunctional family, unrequited love, orgasm ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style:
road movie, homoerotic, art house, erotic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, male prostitute, friendship, homosexual, coming of age, unrequited love, male prostitution, male friendship, lgbt, homoerotic friendship, friendship between men ...
Time:
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Place:
idaho, portland oregon, oregon, italy, rome italy ...
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Country: France, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
porn industry, porn, sex, lust, adult filmmaking, male pubic hair, voyeur, making love, filmmaking, dysfunctional family, real sex, explicit sex ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic drama, erotic, stylized, art house, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
drug addiction, drug addict, male nudity, friendship, male prostitution, male prostitute, hedonism, addiction, drug, drug abuse, homosexuality, love triangle ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, palm springs california ...
Similarity:
50%
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, disturbing, sexual, sexy, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, sexuality, lust, sex addict, explicit sex, sexual relations, erection, nymphomaniac, sexual exploration, sexual perversion, erotica, sex scene ...
Time:
90s, year 2013, 80s, 20th century, 2010s ...
Similarity:
100%
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, erotic, psychological, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, lust, sex, nudity, desire, erotica, unfaithful wife, rape, older woman younger man, disability, obsession, strong sexual content ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, sarajevo ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Style:
controversial, realistic, cult classic, depressing, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, fish out of water, dream, loneliness, friendship between men, marijuana, flashback, sex, sexuality, homosexuality, homelessness, prostitute ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, 60s, year 1969, 50s ...
Place:
texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, florida ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Jim and Artie Mitchell, two brothers who entered the porn industry in the early 60's. After creating such legendary porn films as "Behind the Green Door" and "Inside Marily Chambers", they later ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, intense, cynical, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, addiction, drug abuse, porn actor, lust, rags to riches, greed, ambition, filmmaking, rise and fall, life is a bitch, showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa
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50%
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Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, melancholic, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
filmmaking, redemption, drug, obsession, multiple storylines, addiction, lifestyle, downfall, life is a bitch, showbiz, human nature, infidelity ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 70s
Place:
israel, los angeles, middle east, usa, california ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
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43K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up ...
Style:
psychedelic, psychological, surreal, black comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, drug addict, drug, drug addiction, masturbation, drug trip, methamphetamine, bondage, drug use, drugged, manic ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, emotional, melancholic, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, stepmother stepson relationship, incest, sex with stepmother, adultery, older woman younger man sex, sex with stepson, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman teenage boy relationship, cheating wife, unfaithful wife, mature woman ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A racially mixed single mother accepts an amateur porn gig to take care of her daughter and herself.
Style:
independent film, tense, melancholic, sexy, erotic
Plot:
single mother, trust, sex work, survival, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, character study, poverty, social commentary, sexuality, desperation, working class ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
204K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.
Style:
costume drama, visual, thrilling, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
film history, filmmaking, hedonism, orgy, party, hollywood, movie star, film industry, gambling, profanity, sex scene, graphic violence ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 2020s, 1930s, year 1932 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style:
psychedelic, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, stripper, afterlife, trippy, drug trip, lsd, sex scene, hallucination, life after death, incest, abortion, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts.
Style:
erotic, surreal, art house, cult classic, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
lovers on the run, sex, forced sex, voyeurism, satanist, on the road, gay, male nudity, making love, surrealism, torture, sex in car ...
Time:
near future, 90s
Place:
seattle, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
"Slice of life" take on life of international porn celebrity, Moon, and her musings on modern life, love and loss.
Style:
erotic, psychological, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
porn actress, infidelity, porn industry, sexual relations, public sex, investigation, life is a bitch, lifestyle, actor's life, human nature, starlet, family problems ...
Similarity:
35%
91K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style:
disturbing, independent film, controversial, bleak, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, aids, innocence lost, youth, drug abuse, virginity, underage sex, teenage boy, street kid, puberty, sex, teenager ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, seattle, los angeles, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
35%
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:
controversial, road movie, sexy, independent film, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
sex scene, longing, road trip, controversy, sex, prostitute, unsimulated sex, drug addict, rape, redemption, explicit sex, lovers apart ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, las vegas, new hampshire ...
Similarity:
34%
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