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Picnic (2000)
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Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, tense
Plot: love triangle, love affair, social differences, friendship, fall in love, couples, rivalry, society, lifestyle, social relations, small town, stranger, friends, love and romance, small town life, wealthy family, beauty queen, romance
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, love affair, love triangle, society and small town mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Picnic: This Property Is Condemned (1966), Splendor in the Grass (1961), No Looking Back (1998), Crazy from the Heart (1991), Loving Leah (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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This Property Is Condemned (1966)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A railroad official, Owen Legate comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down much of the town's railway (town's main income). Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr. Alva and Owen then try to ...
Style: southern gothic, romantic drama, technicolor, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, railroad, dysfunctional family, boarding house, deep south, sad ending, mental disorder, mother and daughter, jazz, swing, revenge, railway ...
Time: 1920s, year 1966, 1930s
Place: mississippi, tennessee, australia, usa, new orleans
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100%
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Style: sad, touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, teenager, small town, adolescence, love story, sexual repression, mental illness, unrequited love, forbidden love, suicide attempt, small town life, promiscuity ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, future
Place: kansas, yale university, new york, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
No Looking Back (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, working class, rock, old love, waitress, love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, family relations, couples, friends, social relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Crazy from the Heart (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: high school, interracial relations, couples, workplace romance, social differences, love affair, looking for love, small town, small town life, opposites attract, society, self discovery ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Loving Leah (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A handsome Washington, D.C. doctor and a young New York woman fall in love at an unusual time...after they get married. Leah Lever is married to an Orthodox rabbi, Benjamin Lever, whose brother, Jake is a successful cardiologist and a non-practicing ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: marriage of convenience, fall in love, couples, death in the family, religions or cults, society, cardiologist, family relations, family tradition, friendship, love and romance, hopeless romantic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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45%
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God's Ears (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Noah Connelly is a boxer with a tireless opponent: Autism. But when he meets a dancer named Alexia, the two discover together that the toughest fight may be not be of the body, but of the heart.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, humorous, sexual ...
Plot: autism, love affair, unlikely couple, true love, athlete's life, social differences, friendship, fall in love, couples, society, mentally challenged, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Ordinary Sinner (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three friends encounter violence and bigotry in a small college town.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: gender, threesome, murder, friends, love and romance, friendship, introspection, society, clergy, moral dilemma, love triangle, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vermont, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Listen to Me (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dream. They had one thing in common...the will to win. A group of college debaters learn ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: college, friendship, disability, teenager, love, politics, opposites attract, college life, couples, power relations, social relations, fall in love ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Tempted (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The strain of juggling her responsibilities as wife, mother, and successful paralegal have worn Emma Burke (Virginia Madsen) out. Thus it is that Emma welcomes the opportunity to briefly take leave of her Boston home and head for sunny Hawaii. It is ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, romantic drama, sexual ...
Plot: adultery, love affair, fall in love, love triangle, family relations, parents and children, couples, infidelity, last wish, funeral, love and romance, bare chested male ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii, boston, usa, oceania
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43%
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G (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot: lovers reunited, unfulfilled love, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, tragic love, social differences, showbiz, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, society ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: High school student Jung-Won (Cha Ye-Ryeon]) works at an amusement park, dressed up as Dragon cartoon character. Then one day, a guy, standing among his friends, twists her dragon mask around, causing her to fall flat on her back. Shortly ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, romantic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friend, friends, love affair, fall in love, love triangle, music band, artists and showbiz, love and romance, one last chance, tragic love, couples, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Perfect Stranger (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A television movie based on "A Perfect Stranger," Danielle Steel's novel about an attorney who falls in love with the young wife of a wealthy man who is dying.
Style: serious, realistic, sexual
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, love affair, infidelity, feeling, bittersweet, dishonesty, fall in love, unfulfillment, opposites attract, love and romance, aging, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Swann (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, social relations, friends, countryside, murder, friendship, small town life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Violets Are Blue... (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie (Spacek), a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up
Style: sentimental, contemplative, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sailing, small town, high school, destiny, bittersweet, love, photojournalism, sea voyage, fall in love, family relations, photojournalist, friends ...
Time: year 1986, future
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Empty Days (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot: infidelity, unemployment, friendship, society, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, life is a bitch, friends, couples, love affair, sexual content ...
Time: 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Safe Harbour (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Melissa Gilbert stars in this film adaptation of Danielle Steel's bestselling novel, in which a young girl named Pip and her mother meet an artist on the beach in Safe Harbour, where they have retreated in order to recover from the devastating ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: love affair, haunted by the past, starting over, couples, love and romance, hopes, fall in love, lifestyle, death of husband, love, serial killer, embezzlement ...
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40%
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Mercy (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Style: sentimental, realistic, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: asthma, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, lifestyle, unfulfillment, couples, novelist, society, in love, womanizer, sexual content ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Peter and Vandy (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Flashbacks and flash-forwards illustrate the rise and fall of a love affair between two New Yorkers.
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, mind bending ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: sexual content, couples, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hopeless romantic, breakup, unfulfillment, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Playboys (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: love, circus, sin, society, fall in love, small town life, small town, social relations, human nature, pregnancy, beauty, theatrical troupe ...
Time: year 1992, 50s
Place: ireland, europe
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39%
Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Véronique Chambon (Sandrine Kiberlain), a single schoolteacher and Jean (Vincent Lindon), discover an unexpected bond that causes them to question the direction of their lives. They move in different social circles but their relationship develops ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sexual ...
Plot: family relations, love triangle, love affair, teacher, obsession, fall in love, infidelity, unfulfillment, small town, social differences, family problems, love ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Wonderful Town (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Takua Pa is a small town in the South of Thailand. Ever since the tsunami, people have lost their jobs and remember better times in the past. One day a stranger comes to town. His name is Ton, he is an architect. He rents a room in a small hotel ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love affair, social relations, fall in love, couples, seaside town, small town, hotel, secret, love and romance, family relations, small town life, handsome man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Light (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual
Audience: date night
Plot: island, love triangle, fall in love, love of one's life, love affair, dishonesty, lighthouse, family secret, lighthouse keeper, sensuality, storm, village ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: europe, france, brittany, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Style: contemplative, sentimental, emotional, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, memory loss, teenage love, love triangle, self discovery, fall in love, social relations, youth, society, couples, amnesia, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Touch Me (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Bridgette is an actress teaching aerobics, and she falls in love with idle playboy Adam, who runs his father's gym. One day she finds out that one of her ex-lovers died of AIDS and, thinking that Adam is having an affair with another woman, ...
Style: rom com, independent film, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: hiv, love affair, female protagonist, aids, aerobics, love, mortality, aspiring actress, playboy, sexually transmitted disease, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Outlander (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story: It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give his name, is dubbed The Outlander. A traveller who disdains conventional behaviour and ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: friendship, friends, love affair, social relations, village life, village, fall in love, family relations, stranger, rivalry, love and romance, alcoholism ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Lovin' Molly (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, open relationship, polygamy, suburbs, farm, friendship, widow, narration, friends, couples, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Polish Bride (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her past chases her.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot: couple relations, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, haunted by the past, countryside, farm, happy ending, forced prostitution, flashback, rural setting, prostitute ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Martha Horgan is a withdrawn, mentally disabled woman who lives with her aunt, Frances. One of Martha's unusual traits is that she doesn't lie, a quality that leads to her getting fired from a dry-cleaning shop thanks to the actions of the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, love triangle, betrayal, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, female protagonist, masturbation, aunt, stealing ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: friends, love affair, fall in love, wooing, couples, couple relations, looking for love, love and romance, urban, loneliness
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Falling Like This (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a compassionate examination of the ragged edge of suburban life as characterized by Boyd, a charming, ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, on the run, love and romance, youth, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, fall in love, couples, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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