Best movies like Angel of Fire
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Plot Summary:
In a miserable circus, a young trapeze artist seduces her father, gets pregnant and decides to have her baby, so she leaves the circus and joins a group of puppeteers who make shows from passages of the Bible.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spiritual, realistic, manga, mystic, esoteric
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La India (1976)
Plot Summary:
Boy is traumatized from watching his sex-worker mother with her clients; he grows up with a particular grudge against that one guy that used to come to see her.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
Plot Summary:
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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This Night (2008)
Plot Summary:
A group of people try to flee from a dictatorship government.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, serious, realistic, surreal, gloomy
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The Prodigal Daughter (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Fallen Angel (1997)
Plot Summary:
Caught in a seedy underworld of lies, lust and murder, Antonelli, the local mob boss, and his sultry young wife, Michelle, share a game of deception and jealousy that soon turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Daddy, Darling (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young Danish girl seduces everything in sight after daddy refuses her naughty come-ons. She'll have a lesbian affair with her teacher, pretend that her teenage boyfriend is dear old dad and finally get to her stepmother.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, mind bending, thought provoking, psychedelic, surreal, grindhouse, independent film
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The Nude Princess (1976)
Plot Summary:
Ajita Wilson plays an African diplomat who comes to Milan to head a trade delegation. At the delegation she feels haunted by her past in which she appeared in a pornographic magazine. In a series of psychedelic scenes, we learn the sordid secrets of her racy past.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Mrs. Stone's Thing (1970)
Plot Summary:
A housewife wonders why her husband spends so much time at parties, then is all "sexed out" for days afterwards. She discovers that he's been going to swingers' orgies, and in an attempt to salvage her marriage, persuades him to take her to them. At first she doesn't care for it, but little by little she begins to get into it.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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The House of Lost Women (1983)
Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Jess Franco.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Passionate (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Emmanuelle on Taboo Island (1976)
Plot Summary:
Daniel is washed ashore after a shipwreck and discovers the beautiful Haydee in a tropical island paradise. However, Haydee's father and brother aren't as willing to accept their romance.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Venezuela
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, cult film
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Castle of Purity (1973)
Plot Summary:
The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: controversial, manga, avant garde, masterpiece, cult film
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Man, Woman and Beast (1977)
Plot Summary:
A small town in Italy is about to celebrate their patron saint. The city is full of people with different problems. A Communist in existentialist crisis that also must take care of his mentally ill wife. A woman who is tired of her husband's inability to show emotions and therefore more and more often slips into the world of dreams. A perverse butcher engaged in sex with the meat he sells when he's not peeping on young girls. A girl who became pregnant after having sex with her father. In this town a mysterious stranger show up and who turns on several of the inhabitants lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: erotic, experimental, disturbing, controversial, weird, sexploitation film
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Siren's Kiss (1995)
Plot Summary:
A painter has serious creative block. He decides that two nude models living in his house might help. His wife objects, or does she?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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7 Suns (2008)
Plot Summary:
A man called "The Black" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants to quit the smuggling business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors, now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger smuggler, to keep an eye on him. During the troubled crossing, the smugglers fight and eventually lose part of their human cargo. "The Black" escapes from his former associates but also needs to ecape from the Border Patrol.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Beatrice (1987)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family to abuse and humiliation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, period drama
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Steppenwolf (1974)
Plot Summary:
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and being a beast. He's decided to die on his 50th birthday, which is soon. He's rescued from his solipsism by the mysterious Hermine, who takes him dancing, introduces him to jazz and to the beautiful and whimsical Maria, and guides him into the hallucinations of the Magic Theater, which seem to take him into Hell. Can humour, sin, and derision lead to salvation?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: surreal, existential, philosophical, depressing, manga, esoteric, cult classic, independent film, mystic, psychological
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Os Sete Gatinhos (1980)
Plot Summary:
Noronha is a low middle-class civil servant who lives with his frustrated wife Gorda and their three elder daughters. The youngest one, virginal Silene, is unexpectedly sent back home. Noronha discovers she has been expelled from boarding school for having killed a female cat and her seven newborns in a hysterical fit. Many dark family secrets will emerge from that episode leading to tragic events.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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On the Edge (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three flatmates in Mexico City face uncertainties: Lucía who has a great job as an art director for TV commercials is abusing alcohol and cocaine. She risks losing her job, going to prison for assault, and she's woefully in love with a bullfighter who may be two-timing her. Carmen, an artist without income, can be manic - snorting lots of cocaine and hanging out with a gay man and a transvestite. What's her future? Hanna contemplates divorce from Abraham, a wealthy momma's boy, and she's disoriented by feelings of attraction to Sandra, a customer at her jewelry store. Can any of these poor little rich girls sort things out in a world of excess?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
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Burn the Bridges (2007)
Plot Summary:
Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. She is cared for by her daughter, Helena, who dreams of traveling the world and wishes she could be a glamorous pop star like her mother was. Helena’s younger brother Sebastian's dreams are simple and he merely wants to move to the beach. Helena is smart and pretty but she has no friends, male or female and is totally devoted to her mother's care and is also on the verge of initiating an incestuous relationship with Sebastian. Sebastian however, is falling in love with a boy at school named Juan who is the school roughneck and the son of a single father who owns a little bar. Juan is the nemesis of the school preppy named Ismael who comes from such a wealthy home that he has his own chauffeur and bodyguards. Ismael's ping-pong obsessed girlfriend Aurora rents a room at Helena and Sebastian's house where Ismael discovers he is also attracted to Sebastian.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy, queer cinema, weird
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Mimi (1979)
Plot Summary:
Guido is an international journalist with an unusually difficult relationship with his daughter, Mimi. He hasn't seen her for several years and has just taken her away from the boarding school she was immured in. She is now 15, and for some reason is doing everything in her power to get him to have sex with her. She even brings herself to orgasm while lying in the bed next to him. He goes nearly apoplectic trying to avoid her advances. Eventually, her school chum Therese comes to visit them, and Guido at last has a semi-suitable object for his by now quite overheated passions. The story is loosely based on a novel by Guido Morselli.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy
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That Lovely Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
Moshe and Tami are a couple, Moshe is in his fifties and Tami is in her early twenties. They live together in a cruel and violent relationship, from which Tami seems unable to set herself free. Tami and Moshe are father and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, psychological, bleak, disturbing, erotic, rough, realistic
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Without Destination (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour has arisen as a result of a contact with a single man when Francisco was 9 years old. This man, Sebastien, is an "artist" who initially claimed to want to photograph the boy, but it is clear that their relationship at one time extended far beyond that of photographer/model.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, surreal, gloomy, sexual
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Japan (2002)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: meditative, art house, melancholic, psychological, atmospheric, erotic, contemplative, slow cinema, spiritual, controversial
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Eros, the God of Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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That Splendid November (1969)
Plot Summary:
In the most traditional Sicilian, a 18 year old is in full arousal. His relationship with breathtaking mature woman will create a great controversy in the retrograde Sicilian society.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy
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Tis Pity She's a Whore (1971)
Plot Summary:
Annabella (Charlotte Rampling) marries Soranzo (Fabio Testi). She happens to also be pregnant by Giovanni (Oliver Tobias) - who also happens to be her brother. Destiny, and jealousies threaten to expose her past, and Soranzo plots revenge. Based on John Ford's play, "Pity she's a whore", respecting its poetic text, and careful Italian Renaissance settings.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, controversial
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The Cement Garden (1993)
Plot Summary:
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. Unfortunately she also dies and Julie and Jack (the older, teenage children) decide to hide her body in the basement so that they can have free reign of their household. Soon Tom has taken to dressing as a girl whilst Sue has become increasingly reticent, confiding only to her diary, meanwhile Jack and Julie sense an attraction developing for each other. However Julie's new beau, Derek, threatens to unearth the many dark secrets within this family as he becomes increasingly suspicious of Jack.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, sexy, talky, art house, compassionate, psychological, serious, realistic, controversial
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Chaleurs (1971)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story; Philippe (Patrice Pascal) has sex with their maid. But he also has incestuous desire for his mother, Nadia (Nicole Avril). His father also has sex with maid.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy
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Ken Park (2002)
Plot Summary:
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 enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: disturbing, art house, sexual, rough, explicit, sexy, realistic, serious, independent film, erotic