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Plot Summary:
Kurz vor Weihnachten ist das einst erfolgreiche Fotomodell Valerie, 29, in ihrer Heimatstadt Berlin gestrandet. Zwar hat sie ein Zimmer im exklusiven Hyatt, aber eigentlich ist sie völlig pleite und ohne Perspektive. Valerie ist unfähig, sich auf die neue Situation einzustellen. Ihrer befreundeten Kollegin Isa lügt sie eitel Sonnenschein vor, und weder der Chefin ihrer Agentur noch ihrem reichen Gönner Isenberg offenbart sie iher existenzbedrohende Lage. Als Valerie ihr Hotelzimmer verlassen muss, hat sie nicht einmal mehr das Geld, um die Gebühren der Tiefgarage zu bezahlen. Valerie landet Heiligabend in einer einfachen Bar, in der sie die etwas heruntergekommene 40-jährige Charlotte kennenlernt. Völlig betrunken findet sie ihren Wagen in der Tiefgarage nicht mehr. Der junge Tiefgaragenwärter André hilft ihr.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min
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10 Sekunden (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Watch the Birdie (1965)
Plot Summary:
Four girls in search of thrills find more than they bargained for when they get caught in a vice trap with no escape.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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The Love Machine (1971)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious TV newscaster has an affair with the wife of a network executive to get a promotion.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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Rage (2009)
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A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident on the runway becomes a murder investigation, and denial leads to devastation.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min
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The Call Girls (1977)
Plot Summary:
Exploitation film about prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
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Mitte 30 (2007)
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No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, hot
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Onnenpeli (1965)
Plot Summary:
Film by Risto Jarva.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
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Paper Star (1989)
Plot Summary:
Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the things that went wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 91 min
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Her Private Hell (1968)
Plot Summary:
A young Italian girl comes to London, and is tricked into posing nude for risqué magazines.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young girl arrives in New York City from Ohio determined to make it in the big city, but circumstances result in her becoming a waitress, then a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: independent film
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By Design (1981)
Plot Summary:
Angie and Helen are in love and they live and work together - they design women's clothes and run their own fashion business in Vancouver. Helen wants to be a mother. Angie loves Helen and if Helen can't feel fulfilled without a child she is willing for them to become parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Paper Dolls (1984)
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Paper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera which aired for 14 episodes on ABC from September 23, 1984 to December 25, 1984. Set in New York's fashion industry, the show centered around top modeling agency owner Racine, her conflicts with the family of cosmetics tycoon Grant Harper, and the careers of two teenage models. The series was based on a 1982 TV movie of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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The Curse M (2009)
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She's tantalizing. Spellbinding. Irresistible. And yet freelance photographer Uemura fights his attraction for the beautiful Mari with all his might. For not only is she the wife of the prominent head of a prestigious hospital, but all of those who've previously had affairs with this sensual succubus seem to have expired prematurely. It's a losing battle, however, and Uemura soon finds himself pulled into the arms of the voluptuous Mari and the jaws of a trap designed to suck men dry and spit out the husks. For it seems that Mari's husband, Ginjiro, is all too aware of who's been sleeping in his wife's bed, and the sexual predation that follows will pull Uemura into a world of bondage and depravity.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Illusion (2022)
Plot Summary:
Months after disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter begins her own increasingly irrational investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
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Beauty and the Beast (1983)
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When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship. Suddenly the father starts hanging out with Mette and her friends as they practice winter sports together - and there is hardly anything stranger, or more embarrassing, as far as Mette is concerned. It is clear that father and daughter are heading toward a change in their relationship as both have to adjust to her "growing up.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min
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Angel Express (1998)
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Angel Express is a film about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience. Set in late nineties Berlin, it shows images of radical change: Young urban heroes in the glare of flashlights; an environment in which coldness and affection or lust for power and friendship go hand in hand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Good Morning Karachi (2013)
Plot Summary:
Good Morning Karachi addresses the tension between religious extremism and modernity through the eyes of a young woman, Rafina, coming of age in Karachi city. Rafina comes from a poor background but dreams of making something of herself. She wants to become a model, but when the opportunity arises she faces resistance from both her Mother and fiance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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The Ideal (2016)
Plot Summary:
Octave Parango, the former concept creator/editor of 99 francs has become a model scout in Moscow. This cynical hedonist leads a very pleasant life in the arms of young Russian models and in the private jets of his oligarch friends... until the day that he is contacted by The Ideal, the world's leading cosmetic's firm, embroiled in a huge media scandal. Our antihero has seven days to find a new muse by traveling through the confines of post-Communist Russia, under the orders of Valentine Winfield, a hard and authoritarian visual director.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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The Unpolished (2007)
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Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their responsibilities, Stevie tries to make a good impression in town, spreading stories of grandeur and claiming to be the daughter of a diplomat. She makes progress. Yet the good weather doesn’t last and before long, she discovers that her parents have once more resorted to illegal means, as a way of supporting their leisurely lifestyle. As friends and hangers-on of her parents fill their new home, the chaos continually mounts. It is in this atmosphere of physical and emotional destruction, that Stevie must now start to define herself and perhaps even break free.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Bungalow (2002)
Plot Summary:
A German soldier who goes AWOL, returns home to more problems than before he left.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, captivating, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy, complex
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Plot Summary:
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Bliss (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, affectionate
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Pickup on 101 (1972)
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An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get to California.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, independent film
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In Hot Blood (1968)
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Rita, an ill-paid factory worker, is determined to make it as a model in New York City. She's an ordinary girl with an extraordinary body. She learns by watching other models, but she also knows that photographers will insist on gratifying their own pleasure if she's to get the jobs. With a voice-over narration supplying all the commentary, we watch her six-month descent, from first jobs to wild parties, from drug use to seduction. "Pain is their pastime," says the narrator. How far will the degradation take Rita?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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The Heart Is a Dark Forest (2007)
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This drama deals with a woman, whose life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family. Marie and Thomas, both musicians before their marriage, are an apparently happy couple, living together with their two children. One day, Thomas forgets his violin at home, so Marie follows him to bring him the instrument, but learns that he lives in another house with another woman and their son. Thus, she wants to know more about her husband's second life, which marks the end of her old life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Jessica (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Bergman sisters could not be more different. Jessica is a feisty tomboy who loves to help her father work their farmland. Her beautiful sister Meg is eagerly being groomed by her mother Hester (Lisa Harrow) to be the perfect wife, so that she can marry her way out of poverty. However, when the man, Jack Thomas, who Meg has set her sights on falls in love with Jessica and gets her pregnant, Hester schemes to wrench the couple apart to claim Jessica's son, Joey for Meg. Later she commits Jessica to a mental asylum. It is here that Jessica receives news of her lover's death and almost loses hope, but after enlisting the help of Mr. Runche, a down and out lawyer battling alcoholism, she is eventually released. Years later, it is the reformed Runche who gives Jessica the courage to fight for the return of her child. Eventually Meg and Hester call an uneasy truce with Jessica, and allow her to play a role in Joey's life as his aunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 196 min
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Perfume (2001)
Plot Summary:
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, captivating, sex comedy, sexual, sexy
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Paradise Kiss (2011)
Plot Summary:
Hyasaka Yukari only wants one thing: to enter the college that her mom wants. One day, she meets an extravagant group that loves fashion. They were searching for a model and Yukari fits their ideal model. From now Yukari will know the world of fashion and modeling, and what she really wants.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, shoujo, captivating, anime, realistic, crying, hot
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The Architect (2008)
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Accepting a prize, architect Georg Winter explains that an architect has the good fortune of measuring every completed building against the rightness of his original idea. Soon Georg himself is forced to take stock of the achievements and mistakes he has made in his personal life. An intense drama in which the four members of the family travel to a mountain village to bury Georg's mother. They get stranded in bad weather. This unexpected isolation throws new light on the past and present life of the parents and the two almost-adult children.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
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The Model (2016)
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When emerging fashion model Emma gets a chance to pursue her dream of becoming an international top model, she leaves her everyday life in Denmark behind, and moves to Paris. At a photo shoot in her new hometown, she meets the attractive photographer Shane White and they fall in love. But their relationship soon turns into a dangerous obsession for Emma.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, melancholic, talky, sexy, erotic, ambiguous ending, emotional