20 movies like Live Flesh, ordered by similarity : Woodpeckers(2017), Carol(2015), Life Is a Miracle(2004), Cloud 9(2008), Middle of Nowhere(2012), Melissa P.(2005), Your Friends & Neighbors(1998), Eyes Wide Shut(1999), Fool for Love(1985), From the Life of the Marionettes(1980), Paris Awakens(1991), Rosario Tijeras(2005) ...
Drama
Spain|France
1997
103 Minutes
Javier Bardem Francesca Neri Liberto Rabal Ángela Molina José Sancho Penélope Cruz Pilar Bardem Álex Angulo
ex-convict paraplegic wife police officer prostitute dark disturbing spain prison orphanage adultery addiction sex wheelchair basketball revenge love transformation 1990s
After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun...
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
prison guard prisoner prisoners messenger gangsters love interest romantic interest romantic rival rival dark disturbing emotional engaging gripping intense moving passionate powerful raw tense
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Comedy, Drama, War
Serbia|France|Italy
2004
154 Minutes
Slavko Stimac Natasa Solak Vesna Trivalic Vuk Kostic Aleksandar Bercek Stribor Kusturica Nikola Kojo Mirjana Karanovic Davor Janjic Adnan Omerovic Obrad Durovic
engineer wife son soldier nurse lover madcap dark charming chilling bosnia serbia railroad tracks battlefield house war star-crossed lovers railroad prison life love
What could be better for the village than a scenic railway to bring in the tourists? What could be worse for tourism than war? Luka builds the railway and shuts his eyes to war. Then Luka's wife runs off with a musician and his son is called up to the army. Luka's life is a war zone. Then he meets Sabaha..
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Romance, Drama
2012
101 Minutes
Emayatzy Corinealdi David Oyelowo Omari Hardwick Lorraine Toussaint Edwina Findley Sharon Lawrence Dondré Whitfield Troy Curvey III Maya Gilbert
wife husband couple medical student convict emotional endearing engaging gripping inspiring prison united states america prison prison life self-discovery journey marriage relationships incarceration
A med student (Emayatzy Corinealdi) considers leaving her long-imprisoned husband (Omari Hardwick) for a charming bus driver (David Oyelowo).
Drama
Italy|Spain
2005
120 Minutes
María Valverde Primo Reggiani Fabrizia Sacchi Marcello Mazzarella Claudio Santamaria Geraldine Chaplin Elio Germano Alba Rohrwacher Giulio Berruti Pier Giorgio Bellocchio Letizia Ciampa
young woman dominatrix sex addict sex columist man mother cheeky confident disturbing emotional intense rousing italy sicily sex sexual awakening sexual fantasy relationships love scandal
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Comedy, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
1998
99 Minutes
Amy Brenneman Aaron Eckhart Catherine Keener Nastassja Kinski Jason Patric Ben Stiller Josh Dotson Lola Glaudini
husband wife writer professor lover doctor witty disturbing emotional raw united states city household art gallery hotel adultery marital problems love triangle bad behavior sex
Unhappy couples fall apart and hop into other beds with other people.
Drama
UK|USA
1999
159 Minutes
Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman Sydney Pollack Marie Richardson Rade Serbedzija Todd Field Vinessa Shaw Alan Cumming Sky Dumont Fay Masterson Leelee Sobieski
doctor curator husband wife sexy man sexy woman chilling sultry tense shocking new york city apartment mansion city apartment bedroom street husband/wife relationship sex cult sadomasochism
A New York City doctor embarks on a harrowing, night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife reveals a painful secret to him.
Drama
USA
1985
105 Minutes
Sam Shepard Kim Basinger Harry Dean Stanton Randy Quaid Martha Crawford Louise Egolf Sura Cox Jonathan Skinner April Russell Deborah McNaughton Lon Hill
woman man half brother lover ex-boyfriend adult brash dark intense emotional melodramatic gripping united states motel las vegas love relationships incest fighting past loves
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. The situation soon turns complicated.
Drama
1980
103 Minutes
Robert Atzorn Christine Buchegger Martin Benrath Rita Russek Lola Muethel Walter Schmiedinger Heinz Bennent Toni Berger
husband wife love interest prostitute police officer murderer dark disturbing munich brothel police station jail family home germany marriage adultery crime mental breakdown murder family dysfunction
A businessman (Robert Atzorn) wants to kill his wife (Christine Buchegger) but instead ravishes and kills a prostitute.
Drama
France|Italy
1991
95 Minutes
Judith Godrèche Jean-Pierre Léaud Thomas Langmann Martin Lamotte Ounie Lecomte Antoine Basler
middle-aged man junkie son friend drug dealer lover gritty passionate emotional bleak dark sad paris park apartment party family home public space young love drug addiction
Adrien is 19 years old. He has not met his father, Clément for 4 years. Adrien returns home and the two try to better understand each other. Clément lives together with Louis, a ... See full synopsis »
Crime, Drama, Romance
Colombia|Mexico|Spain|Brazil
2005
126 Minutes
Flora Martínez Unax Ugalde Manolo Cardona Rodrigo Oviedo Alonso Arias Catalina Aristizábal Alejandra Borrero Juan David Restrepo Pablo Montoya Cristina Lilley Helios Fernández
playboy brother friend femme fatale love interest assassin dark gritty engaging slum disco hospital organized crime sexual abuse loss violence love contract killing love revenge
Two friends meet and are seduced by sensuous hit woman Rosario Tijeras. Full of hatred, violence is her way of life. The trio loose themselves in a passionate love triangle where the pain of love will be confused with that of death.
Drama
USA
1992
99 Minutes
Glenn Plummer Byron Keith Minns Lexie D. Bigham Vincent Craig Dupree LaRita Shelby Kevin Best Allan Hatcher Christian Coleman Ivory Ocean Starletta DuPois Carl Lumbly
gang member girlfriend son best friend convict father gripping brutal moving south central los angeles prison street gangs drug addiction mentorship father/son relationship self-discovery prison transformation
A former gangster fresh out of prison wants to change his life for the better and must save his 10 year old son who has already chosen a gang life.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
Israel|Germany
2017
105 Minutes
Sarah Adler Zohar Strauss Tim Kalkhof Sandra Sade Roy Miller Stephanie Stremler Tagel Eliyahu Tamir Ben Yehuda Eliezer Shimon
baker married man widow lover son family member solemn emotional creative moving passionate bakery jerusalem berlin house kitchen love infidelity homosexuality loss
A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
Drama
USA
1986
75 Minutes
Tim Streeter Doug Cooeyate Ray Monge
store clerk illegal immigrant lover hustler prostitute gritty sultry gutsy passionate portland, ore. convenience store gas station love passion sexual taboo sexual awakening poverty homosexuality discovery love
A story of amour fou. Walt is madly in love/lust with a young illegal Mexican immigrant. However, the object of his unrequited affection doesn't even speak any English and finds Walt really... See full summary »
Biography, Drama
UK|USA
1978
121 Minutes
Brad Davis Randy Quaid John Hurt Bo Hopkins Paul L. Smith Mike Kellin Norbert Weisser Irene Miracle Paolo Bonacelli Michael Ensign Kevork Malikyan
prison guard prisoner police officer girlfriend judge bleak gutsy shocking istanbul prison airport prison life prison break drug trafficking foreign relations torture escape transformation wretched excess 1970s
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
Adventure, History, Biography, Drama
USA|Czech Republic|Spain
2017
133 Minutes
Charlie Hunnam Rami Malek Roland Møller Nina Senicar Tommy J. Flanagan Eve Hewson Christopher Fairbank Brian Vernel
convict innocent man prison guard prisoner escape artist friend tense bleak thrilling suspenseful incredible intricate prison island prison cell paris french guiana apartment prison prison break
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
Crime, Drama
Canada|USA
1994
90 Minutes
Gary Busey Kim Cattrall Darlanne Fluegel Jeff Griggs Blu Mankuma Leam Blackwood Laurie Briscoe Michael Tiernan Douglas H. Arthurs Deryl Hayes Philip Granger
serial killer woman man surgeon police officer retired detective brutal rousing thrilling suspenseful dark intense united states sex sexual fantasy serial murders law enforcement crime revenge escape
A retired police detective reluctantly returns to action to stop a serial killer dubbed "The Surgeon".
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
79 Minutes
Cornel Wilde Patricia Knight John Baragrey Esther Minciotti Howard St. John Russell Collins Charles Bates Gilbert Barnett Frank Jaquet Ann Shoemaker King Donovan
convict parole officer ex-convict love interest elderly person dark melodramatic prison bedroom family home parole prison trust second chance murder temptation forbidden love rivalry 1940s
A Parole Officer falls in-love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and he's determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend.
Drama
USA
1966
135 Minutes
Marlon Brando Jane Fonda Robert Redford E.G. Marshall Angie Dickinson Janice Rule Miriam Hopkins Martha Hyer Richard Bradford Robert Duvall James Fox
sheriff businessman fugitive wife lackey son tense dark brutal striking thrilling melodramatic texas small town prison swamp on the run home american south prison break
The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.