Movies like The Pornographer

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   Human Resources

   Strong story similarity

   1999 · 100 min · Drama

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   "Good son" Franck returns to his hometown to do a trainee managerial internship in the Human Resources department of the factory where his anxious, taciturn father has worked for 23 years.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Child

   Shared cast

   2005 · 96 min · Drama

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   A poor young Belgian mother wants her petty thief of a boyfriend to be gainfully employed to raise their newborn child, but he has other ideas.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a principal cast member

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   Wild Side

   Strong story similarity

   2004 · 93 min · Drama

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   A transgender woman returns — with her two male lovers — to her family home in the countryside to look after her dying mother.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong shared themes: eroticism and parent child relationship
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Saint Laurent

   Same director

   2014 · 150 min · Drama

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   1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Secret Things

   Strong story similarity

   2002 · 115 min · Drama

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   Two young women find themselves struggling to survive in Paris, street-wise Nathalie, a stripper, and naïve Sandrine, a barmaid. Together, they discover that sex can be used to their advantage, and pleasure.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   A Piece of Sky

   Strong story similarity

   2002 · 85 min · Drama

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   A woman struggles to acclimate to prison life while her friend organises a labour strike on the outside.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Irreversible

   Strong story similarity

   2002 · 97 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: love and paris, france
   • a closely matched era

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   C.R.A.Z.Y.

   Strong story similarity

   2005 · 126 min · Comedy · Drama

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   A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   A Love to Hide

   Shared cast

   2005 · 102 min · Drama · TV Movie

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   A young Jewish girl, Sara, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual in a clandestine relationship with his lover Philippe.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a principal cast member

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    Quills

    Similar atmosphere

    2000 · 124 min · Drama

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    In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the authorities tighten control, a clash unfolds between the Marquis’ unyielding imagination, the reformist ideals of the Abbé in charge, and the repressive measures of a doctor sent to silence him. Desire, power, and censorship collide in a battle over freedom of expression.

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    • a closely matched era

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