Movies like Exotica
Exotica (1994) is a drama movie directed by Atom Egoyan. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Basic Instinct (1992)
★ 7.0 · 4,575 votes · Thriller, Mystery
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
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2. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
★ 7.0 · 309 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.
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3. Road House (1989)
★ 6.8 · 1,609 votes · Action, Thriller
The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than capable – busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping hot spot. But Dalton's romance with the gorgeous Dr. Clay puts him on the bad side of cutthroat local big shot Brad Wesley.
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4. Enter the Void (2010)
★ 7.3 · 2,068 votes · Fantasy, Drama
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.
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5. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
★ 7.5 · 7,387 votes · Drama, Thriller, Mystery
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
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6. Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
★ 6.7 · 3,283 votes · Drama, Mystery
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
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7. Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
★ 6.6 · 441 votes · Drama
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
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8. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
★ 6.7 · 2,163 votes · Drama
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.
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9. Charm City Kings (2020)
★ 7.8 · 508 votes · Drama
Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
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10. Monster (2003)
★ 7.2 · 2,649 votes · Crime, Drama
In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her back on the corner. She's raped by a trick, who she kills. A string of murder and robbery follows that ultimately leads Aileen to becoming America's first female serial killer.
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11. Scarecrow (1973)
★ 7.0 · 363 votes · Drama
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
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12. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
★ 6.4 · 652 votes · Mystery, Crime, Drama
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
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