Best movies like Miss Julie
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Plot Summary:
Julie is a young tennis star who falls in love with his trainer - because she yearns for love and because she wants to liberate themselves from the ambitions which the father has on her behalf. Birgitte Hjort Sørensen has a conflict and fragile Juliet, and Rolf Hansen is the coach who tries to keep Julie from life. Other actors, Jesper Christensen as ambitious and indebted father, Trine Appel as the coach's disdain fiance and Niels Skousen as a nightclub owner. "Julie" is a modern update of August Strindberg's "Miss Julie".
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
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Touched in the Head (1974)
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Baker's apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
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Heads or Tails (1983)
Plot Summary:
A village fella tries to make it big in the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min
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Triple Dare (2006)
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Rebekka, Claudia and Sofie are freshmen in high school and will no longer accept being treated as juniors. Taking matters into their own hands, they devise a rite of passage, the 'fortune teller', symbolizing their entry into adulthood. As they take turns challenging each other's sexual boundaries, they eventually have to ask themselves whether performing weird rituals is the easiest way to get to know themselves and feel grown up.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, sexy, humorous, absurd
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A Minute of Silence (1998)
Plot Summary:
In a dying French mining town near the German border, the last miners are preparing to strike. Marek and Mimmo, two young miners and friends, have different views on the impending strike.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
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Rich Kids (2007)
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A story about a group of rich kids, from old money families, north of Copenhagen, from a world where people with ambition and power rule. Away from the superficiality and pretention of their social class, they live a secret life, in which power, money, sex, drugs and endless secrets dominate. A lifestyle only a few of them can survive and where most become scarred for life.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying
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Comrade Pedersen (2006)
Plot Summary:
A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: philosophical, political
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Team Hurricane (2017)
Plot Summary:
A punk chick flick about teen girls that mixes highly stylized fictional elements with documentary material: loneliness, pussy-power, Kawaii, electric green, hentai, graffiti, vibrators, friendship, teddy bears, resting bitch face, ART, fire, fear, bubble-gum, mom & dad, anorexia, cactuses, homemade piercings, nail art, cherries, cutting, dolphins, Lolita, secret diaries and daydreaming. Radical girls in an ordinary world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min
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Proxy (2015)
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On a Sunday afternoon in July, eight people's lives become connected and forever changed by the choices one man makes. As these characters' lives intertwine within the film we discover one of them is HIV positive and how their individual choices affect more than just those closest to them but, by proxy, so many others.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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In the Blood (2016)
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It’s summer in Copenhagen, it’s a time of endless days and careless nights. Simon is a 23-year-old medical student. He and his friends party and drink and chase girls and wake up the next day to do the whole thing all over again. But it’s also a time of unrest and change among the boys. Dreams shatter, love hurts, and friendships dissolve.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: homoerotic, romantic, thought provoking, touching, captivating, compassionate
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Truly Human (2001)
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P. is a little girl's imaginary friend who lives inside the wall of her room. But one day he magically materialises and so must learn to live in the world like everyone else - a world where he is met with suspicion and hate but also with wonder and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, offbeat, realistic, gloomy
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Secrets (1971)
Plot Summary:
A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Hotel St. Pauli (1988)
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Jor and Gerda is a loving couple that lives together in Copenhagen. Jor is trying to make a breakthrough as a writer, without any luck so far. His struggles have caused Gerda to provide for them by selling sexual favors on the street. Jor is filled with resentment towards Gerda and because of what she has to do to provide food for the two. One day though, their lives change completely when the small city boy Morgan comes walking into their lives. Hotel St. Pauli is considered by many to be one of the biggest cinema turkeys ever produced in Norway. The film is done by Svend Wam and Petter Vennerød, partners in crime that are responsible for several films that have a main purpose of delivering social commentaries.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Copacabana (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Daisy Diamond (2007)
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A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4 month old daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, culminating in a desperate act that has fatal consequences for Anna and her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, psychological, rough, brutal, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, sexy, crying
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Windows on Monday (2006)
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A new house in a new town could mean the beginning of a phase of domestic bliss for a small family. Nina, a doctor, has taken a few days off. Her husband Frieder is busy laying tiles, while their daughter Charlotte plays in her new room. But Nina is having her doubts; she stands about in the half-empty rooms, feeling thoroughly alienated. Suddenly, without saying a word, she decides to leave.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Ciudad de Ciegos (1991)
Plot Summary:
Over more than thirty years, a department of the Condesa in Mexico City, is the setting in which they are carried out ten stories, mixed, form one whose only constant is the rupture. The passage of time and the outside world only guess through the windows and objects that come with the characters. The set is a great solitude, possible in a city of the blind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
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She Deserved It (2010)
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Linda is a teenage girl whose own insecurities and frustrations lead her to viciously act out against others. By inviting Linda‘s boyfriend to her birthday party, Susanne unknowingly sets off a chain of horrific events. Is Linda a product of environment and circumstance or was she simply (in her own mother’s words) “born evil”?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Needle Boy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Life has become unbearable for 23 year old Nick who is convinced that he's an evil person. Consequently, he shows up at Aarhus University with a gun in his pocket wanting to shoot his fellow students.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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In Your Arms (2015)
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When Maria (Lisa Carlehed) meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a single wish - to go to a Swiss nursing home for euthanasia. But in order to get there, he needs a volunteer escort.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 88 min
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Someone You Love (2014)
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Someone You Love is a story about world famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob who lives in Los Angeles. He is a successful man with a lot of burned bridges. After years abroad Thomas travels back to Denmark to record a new album. There his estranged daughter Julie suddenly turns up with his 11-year-old grandson, Noa. Soon, Thomas is forced to take care of the boy. Against all odds the two of them slowly begin to connect through music. But disaster strikes, forcing Thomas to realize he has to make a choice that will change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, emotional, realistic
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Traps (1994)
Plot Summary:
An erotic thriller set in 1950 French Occupied Indo-China.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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With These Hands (1971)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful massage parlor/sex clinic owner financially & emotionally mistreats her customers.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Karina, Object of Passion (1982)
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A stripper is arrested for killing her gigolo who exploited her as a prostitute under the name of Karina. Her despair turns to ardent passion when she meets a lady lawyer who promises her that she will be able to get her out of jail very quickly. But both ladies will have to fight an outlaw who will do whatever he can to possess Karina.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min
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The Sleepwalker (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are renovating Kaia's secluded family estate. Their lives are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia's sister, Christine, and her fiancé, Ira.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, emotional, realistic, serious, erotic, gloomy
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The Elite (2015)
Plot Summary:
Before their youth is definitively over, a writer and his artist friends move into a mansion in the countryside where they begin a seemingly endless party which pushes their art and friendship to the limit.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, light, feel good, humorous, crying
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Wild Awakening (2016)
Plot Summary:
Toni and Emma are brother and sister who owns a stable farm. Ramon and his son, Aaron works for them. Toni is openly gay and loves to party, Emma has a crush on Aaron who is a closeted gay who is afraid that his father might find out, but his father also has a secret.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, homoerotic, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Dear Prudence (2010)
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After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. Prudence’s newfound lease of freedom becomes complicated when she falls for a boy Franck who wastes no time in taking advantage of her naivety.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, teen, exciting, sincere, touching, serious
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Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tomas is happy as family father, raising teen son Milan (as his knavish buddy) and running-especially gastronomically- a club with his mother Nike, whose absences to take course aiming for career progress causes tension. Covering for Milan's systematic class dodging to pursue a musical ambition, Tomas discovers going trough Nike's stuff the knave isn't biologically his son, feels utterly cheated by wife Nike, and feels like wrecking their relationship, family and livelihood musical bar. Former common study friend Clemens, a divorced MD, confides he wasn't interested in Nike, being gay, and advises 'getting laid' without commitment, but finding that out hurts utterly confused Milan even more. The spouses must pull together when son Milan (16) decides to seek his genetic father, a former GDR literature professor Dr. Karoly Gaál, who is now in a home for demented seniors.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Boy (2011)
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18-year old Christian has just graduated from high school. At his summer job he is seduced by the 36-year old single mother Sanne. Soon he is drawn into a world of sensuality and his acquaintance with Sanne turns into an intense love affair which forces Christian to deal with his newly discovered sides.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, exciting, hot
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Schoolgirl Report Part 8: What Parents Must Never Know (1974)
Plot Summary:
Tis is the 8th part of series. Another story based on what real-life German teenagers schoolgirls of the day were up to.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, fake documentary