Best movies like The Bodyguard
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Plot Summary:
Attractive uncompromising politician Mona Dengler is investigating the tobacco industry. Tomboyish bodyguard and single mother Johanna Sieber is assigned to protect her. This endangers Johanna's son. Mona unexpectedly falls for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Matsumoto Seicho Special: Fingers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Fukue Yumiko is a struggling actress who isn't afraid to lie, cheat, or exploit her own sexuality if it means her own success. But as she becomes a big star, one TV reporter decides that it's time someone uncovered her dark past and reveal just how far she was prepared to go for her own fame.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Whoever Dies, Dies in Pain (1998)
Plot Summary:
A botched police raid on a crack house turns into a 36 hour long siege in which the junkies share their perspective to the cameraman of a reality program.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: inspirational, fake documentary
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The Great Swindle (1971)
Plot Summary:
A seductive woman gets involved in relationships with several people. All of the characters play games of deceit with one and other and things get more and more dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, cult film
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Out of Annie's Past (1995)
Plot Summary:
Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a secret. As the stakes increase, though, so do the ruthless and brutal actions of all those involved. Soon, deaths of some major players in the game change the stakes from dollars and cents to life and death.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Nothing Else Matters (2007)
Plot Summary:
Carla, the runaway with high aims. Lucie, the street girl. Interchanged identities and a shared baby. Collage of a fateful year.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Blackheart (1998)
Plot Summary:
Crime - Ray and Annette are a couple who scam, lie and seduce to get wealth from unsuspecting wealthy people. Annette also has a penchant for bisexual encounters and serial murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Women in Cell Block 7 (1973)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, poliziottesco
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Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the portrait of two recently released prisoners (Pierrette Robitaille and Romane Bohringer) who learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, slow cinema, aesthetic, offbeat, queer cinema
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Summer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Anne grows up in the isolated Biesbosch area, where spacious fields and power pylons define the landscape. With a group of friends, she spends a sultry summer holiday there trying to make the leap to maturity. But this shared experience turns into a conflict situation when Anna develops feelings for the tough girl Lena. Coming-of-age drama about growing pains, the inevitable end of childhood and choosing your own life - no matter how confusing your environment may find it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Ghosts (2005)
Plot Summary:
Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the meantime, Francoise is picked up at a psychic department of a Berlin hospital by her husband, Pierre. After seeing Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but neither Toni nor Pierre believe her. Nina is unsure about what to think.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Fish Child (2009)
Plot Summary:
A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely different social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, captivating, surreal, serious, sexy, non-linear, gloomy, crying, queer cinema
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Tick Tock (2000)
Plot Summary:
Stunning trophy wife Rachel Avery is stuck in a cold, loveless marriage with her millionaire husband, Holden. So when Holden goes away on a trip, Rachel hooks up with her close friend Carla, and the two hatch a plan to murder Holden and collect on his vast assets. But the girls don't want to commit the crime themselves, so at a bar they seduce a stranger, Travis Brewer, and convince him to do their bidding.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, rough, tense, sexy, suspenseful, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, sexual
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Beautiful Women (2004)
Plot Summary:
"Schöne Frauen“ handelt genau davon: von schönen Frauen. Fünf Schauspielerinnen finden sich nacheinander zum Casting für einen Fernsehfilm ein. Sie schweigen, taxieren sich, begutachten sich und ihre Gegenüber. Und kommen sich mitnichten näher. Das Casting allerdings, das findet einfach nicht statt. Irgendwo hinter einer unheilvoll dräuenden Tür müßte sich zwar das Filmteam befinden, aber aus unerfindlichen Gründen wird keine der fünf hineingerufen. Die fünf beginnen, sich zu unterhalten. Erst zögernd, dann offener. Tauschen sich über das betreffende Drehbuch aus, über ihre berufliche Situation, über ihr Privatleben. Jede von ihnen hat einleuchtende Gründe, die Rolle bekommen zu müssen. Aber irgendwann stellt sich auch heraus: Keine von ihnen hat Lust, in diesem Film zu spielen. Also folgen sie einem spontanen Impetus - und gehen. Alle bis auf eine.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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A Woman Like Eve (1979)
Plot Summary:
Eve lives with her husband Ad and two children somewhere in Amsterdam. Eve seems reasonably happy although she sometimes has the feeling that there's something missing in her life. Her husband – thinking Eve is depressed – sends her on a holiday to France with her girlfriend Sonja. In the south of France, on the beach, Eve meets Liliane, a young feminist and commune-dweller. Eve feels strangely drawn to Liliane.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Three Veils (2011)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three young Middle Eastern women intertwine as they struggle to defy tradition and create their own realities. From an arranged marriage and a lesbian love affair to an abusive family situation, the film delicately tackles some of the issues Middle Eastern women are confronted with today.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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Kamikaze Hearts (1986)
Plot Summary:
Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore's 1986 documentary about a lesbian couple working in the porn industry—a cynical older woman (Sharon “Mitch” Mitchell), who is a seasoned porn star, and her lover (known as Tigr), who is an uneasy newcomer to this world, where drugs play a significant role—offers a disturbing glimpse of the modification of bodies, feelings, and lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, sensual, independent film, queer cinema
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A Marine Story (2010)
Plot Summary:
Marine officer Alexandra is tough enough to kick any guy's ass in a bar fight, but there's one opponent she can't beat: military policy. When she returns to her conservative hometown from Iraq with a mysterious personal life, she finds herself charged with preparing a tempestuous teenage girl to boot camp.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, uplifting, serious, realistic, independent film, queer cinema
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Die Konkurrentin (1997)
Plot Summary:
Katharina, a successful management consultant, has to face Maren as a new assistant. The young woman is very ambitious but has been employed by junior Boss Grosser to spoil Katharina's career. Despite all circumstances they work perfectly well as a team - and fall in love. Katharina, wife and mother to teenage twins, is shaken up by the new situation. Is she willing to live her life with Maren, an open lesbian?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Two Mothers (2013)
Plot Summary:
The unexpected difficulty of becoming mothers through the means of artificial insemination slowly erodes the relationship between Katja and Isabella.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: captivating, lgbt cinema, independent film, entertaining, queer cinema
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Girls in Prison (1994)
Plot Summary:
Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, erotic, campy
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The Eiffel Tower Mystery (2015)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, historical drama, queer cinema, period drama
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Kill for Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rent’s a bitch. And that is why, six months after her best friend went missing, Amanda finally gives in to getting another roommate, Hailey. The two college students turn out to have something in common, however: abusive men. For Hailey, it’s her dad. For Amanda, it’s a stalkery ex-boyfriend. But problems can be solved and, you know, you scratch my back, I scratch yours. In other words, Kill for Me, I kill for you.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, sexual, independent film, erotic, sexy, queer cinema
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Louise and her Lover (2011)
Plot Summary:
A lesbian wanna-be model falls dangerously in love with an up and coming painter. The relationship goes too far too fast and the lines between art and sex get blurred.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Black Tar Road (2016)
Plot Summary:
On a Black Tar Road between nowhere and somewhere, two misunderstood women find love in between the cracks of hardships.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, sexual, sensual
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Breaking the Girls (2012)
Plot Summary:
A naive college student loses a scholarship at the hands of a classmate and makes a pact with a mysterious friend to kill off each other's enemies.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, serious, sexual, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, erotic
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.45 (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous and self-indulgent rage, beats her. Three friends encourage her recovery: Vic, a woman who would like to be Kate's lover; Reilly, who runs with Al but also is attracted to Kate and repulsed by Al's violence; and, Liz, the counselor assigned to Kate from a battered-women's program. Vic and Reilly talk about killing Al, Liz gives pep talks; Kate remains frightened. Will Al's menace and Kate's dependency hold sway?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, sexy, erotic, serious, realistic
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Mel & Jenny (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eternal daydreamer Mel can't wait to quit her sucky catering job and fly to her dream destination: Portugal. Things change when the beautiful Jenny literally crashes into her life when Mel nearly runs her over in her classic BMW. It is love at first sight, however there is just one problem: Jenny mistakenly assumes Mel to be a boy. Despite this, the pair become boyfriend and girlfriend. With Mel attempting to disguise her true gender at every turn, her journey from tomboy to out lesbian is fraught with life-defining dilemmas and sweet surprises.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, lgbt cinema, touching, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Woman's Lake (2012)
Plot Summary:
What could be lovelier than Women's Lake - a magical summer setting near Berlin? Rosa, perhaps. She's the slightly melancholy guardian of the lake, spending her days in a boat, trapping fish and watching for poachers. Or her lover, the polished and prosperous Kirsten, with her perfect cottage on the shore of Frauensee. How does their relationship work, and what effect will the two young lesbians in the canoe have on it all? Thoughtful, complex and beautiful.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, sexy, touching, unusual plot structure, melancholic, queer cinema
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Fine Dead Girls (2002)
Plot Summary:
Iva and Maria, a young lesbian pair, rent a favorable, nice dwelling in a less good area of Zagreb, Croatia. But unfortunately, included in the rent are the neighbors, the neighbors from hell. The curious landlady, foreigners flogging nationalists, an old man, who live with his dead wife and a man, who beat his wife regularly, are just one part of this neighbourhood. When one of the neighbors falls in love with Iva, the situation escalates - with the result of three dead people at the end.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Croatia
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, lgbt cinema, suspense, neo noir, tense, mind bending, bleak, serious
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Ride or Die (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, suspense, sexy, lgbt cinema, crying, road movie, queer cinema