Movies like Parthenope
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Parthenope (2024)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.
Style:
mythical, psychological, captivating, crying
Plot:
high society, seaside, brother sister relationship, relationships, life, lifestyle, italian woman, female pubic hair, seductress, professor, anthropology, female nudity, sea, studying, university, church, celebrity, power, abortion, dancer, mirror, funeral, pregnant woman, actress, exam ...
Time:
year 1950, 70s, year 1968, year 1973, 20th century, year 1975, year 1982
Place:
italy, naples italy, mediterranean sea
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, surreal and serious films with plots about female nudity, female full frontal nudity, male nudity, sex scene, family relations, bare chested male and pubic hair mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Romance genres. Some movies like Parthenope: The Hand of God (2021), Sun, Heart, Love (2016), The Great Beauty (2013), The Exterminating Angels (2006), Indian Summer (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
naples italy, nebraska, europe, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
friendship, female friendship, social issues, struggle, sisterhood, everyday life, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, life, women, female protagonist, girlfriend, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style:
philosophical, intellectual, visually stunning, breathtaking, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
stripper, writer's life, party, high society, passion, female nudity, friendship, artist, aging, surrealism, skinny dipping, male nudity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
François, a French director, is conducting a rather unorthodox casting. He tries to understand how women desire and especially how they get pleasure. But by getting too close to their fire, he hasn’t sensed the Angels coming.
Style:
erotic, sexy, serious, surreal, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
intimacy, erotica, lesbian, transgression, female masturbation, masturbation, lesbian threesome, female nudity, threesome, sodomy, hotel room, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
sex scene, female nudity, teacher, high school, teachers and students, forbidden love, poetry, older man younger woman relationship, bare chested male, seaside, unhappiness, boat ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An extremely mannered and increasingly preposterous tale of a fortysomething woman who has to deal with an abusive, double-dealing husband and a handsome, soap-actor lover who seems to be too good to be true.
Style:
captivating, black and white
Plot:
little girl, mother daughter relationship, parent child relationship, single mother, mother and son, family relations, relationships, mother and daughter, parents and children, bare chested male, female nudity, catacomb ...
Place:
naples italy
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.
Style:
iconic
Plot:
back in hometown, past, friend, city, mother son reunion, church, life, catholic priest, catacomb, death, mafia, photograph ...
Time:
70s, 2010s
Place:
naples italy, italy, cairo egypt
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, sincere, independent film
Plot:
friendship, beach, gay, society, life, social relations, lifestyle, relationships, rich and poor, gays and lesbians, gay subtext, nudity ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
Style:
captivating, controversial, psychological, sensual, erotic ...
Plot:
pope, vatican, religion, catholic church, god, satire, scandal, betrayal, infidelity, nun, conspiracy, orphan ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The debut feature by acclaimed Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) is a stylish and blackly comic look at the dark side of fame. Evocatively set during the eighties, the film charts the decline of two men both named Antonio Pisapia who lead ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
starting over, rising to stardom, vengeance, rise and fall, musician's life, follow your dream, showbiz, destiny, career change, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, naples italy, europe
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, factual, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
politics, society, lie, political corruption, sex trafficking, politician, party, sex scene, extramarital affair, family relations, anti communism, female nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
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109
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
poetic, visual, art film, aesthetic, stylized ...
Plot:
supermodel, fashion, photography, modeling, glamour, beauty, celebrity, behind the scenes, experimental narrative, intimate, psychedelia, erotica ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, captivating, psychological, thought provoking, stylized ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Similarity:
50%
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Death comes to take a beautiful young girl, and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.
Style:
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Plot:
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50%
18K
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, tuscany
Similarity:
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Country: Italy, France, Yugoslavia
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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TV show
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
italy, france, netherlands, paris france
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Country: Belgium, France, Costa Rica
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life.
Style:
captivating, psychological
Plot:
teenage girl, female protagonist, social problems, teenager, parents and children, family problems, grownups, sex scene, coming of age, 16 year old, singing, police ...
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