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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
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Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan Johnson), a hip, articulate, black high-school girl in Brooklyn, is determined not to become "just another girl on the IRT" (the IRT is one of NYC's subway lines). She dreams of medical school, a family, and an escape from the generational poverty and street-corner life her friends seem to have accepted as their lot. But personal and sexual challenges confront Chantel on her way to fulfilling these dreams.
Style: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, surprise ending, hood, black cinema
Audience: teens
Plot: black, pregnancy, urban, women of color, teenage pregnancy, homeless, poverty, woman, troubled youth, solace, black history, nudity, blaxploitation, urbanization, hip hop, youth, family relations, life is a bitch, high school life, teenage life, deadend life, social differences, society, down on your luck, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: brooklyn new york city, indiana, new york, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about society, youth, teenage life, hopes, urban, coming of age and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.: Our Song (2000), Precious (2009), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), Claudine (1974), How She Move (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Our Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, high school, teenager, asthma, adolescence, against the odds, lifestyle, musician's life, working class, life is a bitch, hopes, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Precious (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style: bleak, depressing, emotional, rough, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: rape, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, teacher, poverty, child abuse, aids, illiteracy, domestic violence, african american, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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100%
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Style: sad, social, meditative, serious, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, abortion, female protagonist, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, adolescence, teenager, feminist, abortion clinic, 17 year old ...
Time: year 2019, 2020s, 2010s
Place: pennsylvania, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Claudine (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Diahann Carroll was nominated for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe award for her gripping portrayal as the indomitable Claudine in this heartwarming comedy. While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for ...
Style: black comedy, grim, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: african american, black, single mother, blaxploitation, black history, love, teenage pregnancy, girl, women, homeless, poverty, black girl ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
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How She Move (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, dance, coming of age, youth, follow your dream, contests and competitions, teenage life, friendship, black people, ambition, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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Anne B. Real (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot: hip hop, lifestyle, introspection, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto, siblings relations, family life, urban ghetto life, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Zebrahead (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Interracial love story set in Detroit.
Style: multicultural, independent film, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: interracial relations, hip hop, interracial romance, urban, high school, forbidden love, racism, interracial, teenager, prejudice, school, love ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
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24%
Gas, Food Lodging (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, retro, cult classic ...
Plot: coming of age, waitress, small town, single mother, mother daughter relationship, love, women, friendship, adolescence, desert, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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On the Outs (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
Style: serious, emotional, rough, touching, anthology ...
Plot: asthma, teenage pregnancy, drug dealer, single mother, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, lifestyle, teenage life, kids in trouble, social misfits, drug dealing, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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22%
Imperial Dreams (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: going straight, life is a bitch, family relations, street kid, hopes, parents and children, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, black, blaxploitation, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, usa
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22%
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Strapped (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes deal with weapons cop to ...
Style: hood, grim, crime drama, realistic, serious ...
Plot: urban, ghetto, hip hop, gang, black, arms dealing, kids in trouble, african american, poverty, police, thug life, thug ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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22%
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Cooley High (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and ...
Style: hood, black comedy, entertaining, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, blaxploitation, african american, high school, black, teenager, urban, black history, exploitation, black cast, basketball, horny teenager ...
Time: year 1975, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, usa
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21%
Don't Let Me Drown (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, family relations, youth, society, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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21%
Knights of the South Bronx (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Style: uplifting, touching, realistic, serious, spiritual
Audience: family outing
Plot: chess, teacher, misfit, youth, against the odds, hardcase students, lifestyle, ambition, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, hopes, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, bronx new york city
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21%
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Poetic Justice (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.
Style: road movie, hood, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: road trip, african american, hip hop, friendship, black, ghetto, urban, writers, on the road, self discovery, starting over, violence ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, chicago, south central los angeles
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21%
Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out ...
Style: hood, independent film, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban, gang, black, hip hop, african american, hip hop culture, downbeat ending, blaxploitation, villain, thug life, thug, gangsta ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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21%
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Explicit Ills (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia
Style: serious, uplifting, emotional, touching, freeze frame ...
Plot: poverty, family relations, dysfunctional family, social decay, hopes, human spirit, youth, society, lifestyle, drug dealing, drug abuse, teenage life ...
Time: year 2008, year 2007, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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21%
Night Catches Us (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After growing up during the tumultuous 1960s, ex-Black Panther Marcus returns to his home in Philadelphia in 1976 and reconnects with Pat, the widow of a Panther leader. Marcus befriends Pat's young daughter and attempts to conquer his demons. ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: injustice, social relations, homecoming, social differences, haunted by the past, political unrest, society, working class, teenage life, corrupt law enforcer, black, black history ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: philadelphia, usa
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21%
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The Wood (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the ...
Style: realistic, feel good, touching, hood, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, wedding, high school, african american, black, hip hop, storytelling, homecoming, writers, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 80s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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20%
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1 Out of 7 (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, rough, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: homeless, teenage life, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, love, dysfunctional family, society, youth, family problems, pregnancy, escape, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon, portland oregon
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20%
To Sir, with Love II (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mark Thackeray (Poitier) is a West Indian, who in the 1967 film had taken teaching in a London East End school. He spent twenty years teaching and ten in administrative roles. He has taught the children of his former pupils, but is now retiring.
Style: political, realistic, serious, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: teacher, education, black, juvenile delinquency, african american, high school, idealism, hopes, society, youth, hardcase students, dedicated educator ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
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20%
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ATL (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.
Style: hood, stylized, talky, feel good, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hip hop, coming of age, friendship, urban, black, drug dealing, ambition, family relations, self discovery, social differences, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
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20%
Generation Now (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A multi-cultural celebration of young people triumphing in the face of adversity, societal pressures and difficult familial situations.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, independent film ...
Plot: gang, friendship, lifestyle, teenage life, family relations, society, life is a bitch, hopes, youth, rich and poor, drug abuse, against the odds ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Stella (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Barmaid Stella Claire and blueblood Stephen Dallas have very little in common -- except they've fallen in love. When their relationship fails, Stella decides to raise the child they had, Jenny, alone. But Jenny and Stella are far from the ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, captivating, sad ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single parent, working class, pregnancy, society, breakup, moral dilemma, love and romance, starting over, youth, family life, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Our America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, emotional, controversial ...
Plot: journalism, murder, uncover truth, juvenile delinquency, social decay, teenage life, human spirit, society, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, idealism ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, family problems, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, parent child relationship, sister sister relationship, youth, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Sunset Park (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A white school teacher takes over a talented, but undisciplined black high school basketball team and turns them into a winning team.
Style: hood, humorous, grim, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: basketball, high school, hip hop, underdog, black, urban, african american, teacher, student athlete, hip hop culture, danger, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Pregnancy Project (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, teenage life, high school, family relations, youth, dishonesty, parents and children, teachers and students, teenage pregnancy, teenager, teaching, teen social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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For Keeps? (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Darcy, editor at her highschool paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. ...
Style: sentimental, melancholic, romantic, sweet, light ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, coming of age, high school, unlikely friendships, justice, stereotypes, multiple storylines, underdog, happy ending, love story, depression ...
Time: 80s
Place: wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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For One Night (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combining the proms, which would also mean more money for decorations. However, her idea shook the town up, ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, sexual
Audience: teen drama
Plot: high school, racism, racial tension, family relations, small town, prom, teenage life, society, lifestyle, youth, friendship, african american ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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