Movies like Somersault

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Somersault (2004)
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Somersault (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Australian teenager Heidi is left with little choice but to leave home after she's caught red-handed with her mother's boyfriend. With few options, Heidi ends up in Jindabyne, a tourist community. Upon meeting Joe at a bar, she pursues a relationship with him and tries to find something resembling a normal home life. Heidi makes small strides by getting a job and finding a place to stay, but her relationship with Joe must overcome more than its share of hurdles.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, sexy, psychological, depressing, melancholic, lyrical, art house, erotic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, teenager, mother daughter relationship, self discovery, teenage life, unfaithfulness, runaway, love and romance, youth, dysfunctional family, solitude, visceral, adolescence, dysfunctional relationship, sexual awakening, cheating girlfriend, older man younger woman relationship, australian aboriginal, erotica, family drama, couples, love, autism, borderline personality disorder, guilt ...
Time: year 2004, contemporary
Place: australia, new south wales, california, new zealand
Keyword: feminist film, bruise, dreams, australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, coming of age, family relations, youth, kiss, couples and teenage girl mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres. Some movies like Somersault: Candy (2006), The Black Balloon (2008), Late August, Early September (1998), X+Y (2014), Dandelion (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Candy (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, romantic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heroin, drug abuse, addiction, junkie, drug addict, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, obsession, drug, love story, love, mental illness ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne
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The Black Balloon (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother, Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexual issues. Thomas finds Charlie an ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, emotional, indie film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, teenager, mental illness, social services, profanity, eccentric family, acceptance, autism, love and romance, human nature, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, birthday ...
Time: future, 90s, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Late August, Early September (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a ...
Style: talky, emotional, melancholic, ironic, meditative ...
Plot: friendship, betrayal, midlife crisis, unlikely friendships, complex characters, writers, couple relations, love and romance, human nature, couples, depression, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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X+Y (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: autism, mathematics, coming of age, teenager, child prodigy, prodigy, death of father, disability, genius, adolescence, mentor, family relations ...
Time: year 1996, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, taiwan, asia, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Dandelion (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, dysfunctional family, parents and children, young lovers, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, amor, fishing village, bad father ...
Place: idaho, usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Flirting (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic ...
Style: realistic, touching, romantic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, friendship, interracial relations, high school, bullying, male nudity, love, teenage life, male pubic hair, teenage love, character study ...
Time: 60s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1965
Place: australia, uganda, paris france, kenya, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Endless Love (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
Style: erotic, intense, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, mental illness, obsession, forbidden love, young lovers, arson, teen angst, mental institution, first love, teenage girl, sex scene, obsessive love ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: chicago, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Coming-of age feature, set in a New South Wales country town in the 1960s, about a 15 year-old boy. It follows his loves and how he copes with life's problems such as death and departure.
Style: sad, independent film, social, retro, sex comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: coming of age, small town, first love, childhood, friendship, love triangle, love, pregnant teenager, relationships, forbidden love, bittersweet, discrimination ...
Time: 60s, year 1987, 20th century, year 1962
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Rain (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Janey is on vacation with her brother, Jim, mother, Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsual in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit around in the back yard all day drinking whiskey and Janey and ...
Style: bleak, melancholic, emotional, sexual, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, vacation, boy, women, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, infidelity, youth, crumbling marriage, skinny dipping ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new zealand, iowa, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Summer of Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tasmin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together.
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, romantic, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, coming of age, teenage life, gays and lesbians, women, summer, sex, countryside, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004
Place: yorkshire, england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, first love, couples, teenage love, high school, family relations, love, classmate, drinking problem ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida
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31%
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Keith (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style: sad, romantic, psychological, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, terminal illness, cancer, love, youth, opposites attract, first love, teenager, love story, teen romance, teenage love, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
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30%
Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, ...
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, harsh, cynical ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, couples, coming of age, friendship, dysfunctional family, relationships, teenage love, love story, loneliness, family relations, youth, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, dominican republic, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Style: erotic, sexual, emotional, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, sexuality, lesbian love, coming of age, youth, lovers, lesbian relationship, lesbian teen, lesbianism, adolescence, gays and lesbians ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Very Good Girls (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, teen, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, loss of virginity, female friendship, friendship, youth, wooing, love and romance, teenage life, love triangle, teenage sexuality ...
Time: year 1992, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, wisconsin, tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Soldier's Girl (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The true story of Soldier’s Girl, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a beautiful transgendered nightclub performer was ...
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, erotic, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: transsexual, gay, gays and lesbians, gender bending, lgbt, transgender, gender, murder, gay soldier, lgbtq, love and romance, rules and policies ...
Place: kansas, kentucky, nashville tennessee, tennessee, missouri ...
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100%
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Stepfather (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: RĂ©mi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, RĂ©mi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock ...
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, sensual, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: forbidden love, age difference, incest, lolita, first love, incestuous relationship, girl man relationship, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, seduction, sex with a minor, older man younger woman relationship, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france
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100%
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Only the Brave (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Alex is in love with her best friend, Vicki, her mother has dissapeared and she sets fire to things in her spare time. Vicki comes from an abusive home and wants Alex to run away with her. Alex is a bit of a nerd and a teachers pet, so takes ...
Style: sad, realistic, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: lgbt, coming of age, erotica, incest, sexual abuse, friendship, drug abuse, teachers and students, life is a bitch, love and romance, self discovery, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia, melbourne
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28%
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To Our Loves (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men ...
Style: erotic, art house, anthology, retro, sensual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female nudity, infidelity, dysfunctional family, coming of age, bare breasts, extramarital affair, promiscuous daughter, nudity, sexual promiscuity, man hits a woman, looking for sex, loveless marriage ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Last Picture Show (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.
Style: black and white, sentimental, realistic, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, friendship, high school, older woman younger man relationship, self discovery, teenager, elopement, nostalgia, graduation, death, depression ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1971, year 1951 ...
Place: texas, usa, austin texas, midwest, oklahoma ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
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28%
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break ...
Style: erotic, sweet, romantic, sincere, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional marriage, obsession, small town, sex scene, adultery, love, working class, rich and poor, teenage girl, family relations, family feud ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: illinois, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Adore (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering ...
Style: sexy, emotional, romantic, erotic, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, infidelity, lust, older woman younger man sex, sexual tension, adultery, sexual relations, love affair, sex, older woman teenage boy relationship, mother son relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Goodbye First Love (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A 15-year-old discovers the joys and heartaches of first love with an older teen, but in the ensuing years, cannot seem to move past their breakup.
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: sex scene, lovers reunited, lovers apart, infidelity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, youth, older man younger woman relationship, bare chested male, childhood sweetheart, letter, love and romance ...
Time: 2010s, year 1999, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, marseille, normandy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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After (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young woman falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship.
Style: romantic, sexy, emotional, light, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama ...
Plot: love, college, opposites attract, teenager, teen romance, fall in love, teenage love, youth, high school hunk, teenage boy, couples, sexual relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Journey of Jared Price (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "The Journey of Jared Price" is a gay-themed coming-of-age 2000 film written, produced and directed by Academy Award winner Dustin Lance Black. Black won the Oscar award for Best Original Screenplay for "Milk". The Journey of ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: gay teenager, gay, fall in love, self discovery, blind woman, youth, couple relations, friendship, couples, teenage life, prostitute, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, southern california, santa monica california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Head-On (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style: psychological, depressing, bleak, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, marriage, immigrant, culture clash, love story, relationships, loneliness, sex, love affair, drug, self esteem, self destructing ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Last Night (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.
Style: melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental, sexy, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: infidelity, adultery, temptation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, love story, relationships, unfaithful husband, love and romance, old love, unfaithful wife, trust, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, france, philadelphia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Dear Frankie (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, ...
Style: heartbreaking, sweet, realistic, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: single parent, coming of age, disability, family drama, friendship, father son relationship, boy, stranger, passion, letter, youth, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: scotland, europe, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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