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Slingshot (2005)
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Slingshot (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
Style: serious, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, sentimental, touching, exciting, light, captivating ...
Plot: infidelity, family relations, fall in love, dysfunctional family, breakup, crumbling marriage, couple relations, missing child, couples, single parent, criminal heroes, cons and scams, cheating wife, con men, age-gap relationship, suburbs, womanizer, youth, friends, on the road, love and romance, best friend, family problems, suburban life, small town ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, new york, connecticut

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, independent film, serious and touching films with plots about couples, love and romance, family relations, husband wife relationship, friendship, infidelity and sex mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Slingshot: Other Voices (2000), Love the Hard Way (2001), Tart (2001), Personal Velocity (2002), Charlotte Sometimes (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Other Voices (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Phil and Anna are a young, married couple, who begin to suspect one other of an affair. When a shady private investigator gets involved in their relationship, things begin to spin out of control, in this turn-of-the-millennium thriller.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, independent film ...
Plot: couples, private detective, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, family problems, city life, breakup, stalking, couple relations, unsupportive spouse, love and romance, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Love the Hard Way (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, bleak, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love and romance, student life, cons and scams, destructive relationship, college, lie, dancing, police, friendship, friend, secret ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa
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47%
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Tart (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, dysfunctional family, coming of age, rich girl, friends, girls' school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, teenage life, teenage crush, high school life, teenage love ...
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Style: independent film, psychological, meditative, surreal, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, obsession, suicide attempt, loneliness, philosophy, family relations, love affair, life turned upside down, marriage, breakup, parents and children, couple relations ...
Time: year 1951, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city, new haven connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Charlotte Sometimes (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young roommate.
Style: sincere, sexy, light, captivating, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, friendship, love and romance, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, youth, infidelity, nightclub, aunt nephew relationship, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Falling in Love Again (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style: sweet, romantic, melancholic, intense, light ...
Plot: infidelity, fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, lifestyle, self discovery, love ...
Time: 1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place: usa, bronx new york city, new york
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42%
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Married Life (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The late 1940s. Richard Langley, a bachelor playboy, narrates a story that starts when his best friend, Harry Allen, invites him to lunch to tell Richard he's in love. Trouble is, Harry's already married to Pat; he worries Pat would be ...
Style: stylized, talky, melancholic, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: relationships, friendship, fall in love, love story, in love, jealousy, adultery, love and romance, crumbling marriage, love affair, infidelity, unrequited love ...
Time: 1940s, 2000s, year 2007, year 1949, year 1947 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Earthly Possessions (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A bored wife, who is planning to run away from her minister husband, is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in the chase and becomes an accomplice to helping the younger robber escape his pursuers. As ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, sincere, talky ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, hostage, escape, on the road, heist, pregnancy, love and romance, money, bank, kidnapping, kidnapped, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
Style: captivating, realistic, tense, psychological, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, youth, teenage life, social relations, drug, police, harvest, couples, teenager, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Style: witty, melancholic, touching, clever, sexy ...
Plot: sex, infidelity, writers, seduction, pimp, love affair, family problems, open marriage, adultery, money problems, love, betrayal ...
Time: year 2001
Place: santa monica california, pasadena california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Twice in a Lifetime (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midlife crisis, starting over, infidelity, love triangle, working class, breakup, dysfunctional family, extramarital affair, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, human nature ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: washington state, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Simian Line (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita (Tyne Daly) predicts that one of the three couples present at the party will break up by the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating, sex comedy ...
Plot: breakup, family relations, ghost, introspection, looking for love, lifestyle, love and romance, supernatural ability, battle of the sexes, dull life, couples, family problems ...
Time: 1920s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Artworks (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A police chief's daughter, a sales agent for a home-security firm, meets an art gallery owner. Love and envy lead them to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from her wealthy clients.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, melancholic ...
Plot: couples, love and romance, love affair, cons and scams, partner, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, thief, theft, artwork, parents and children, art collection ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Disco Pigs (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: couples, friendship, friends, youth, love and romance, teenage life, couple relations, teenager, love, male female relationship, violence, jealousy ...
Time: 2000s
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. ...
Style: emotional, stylized, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, extramarital affair, marriage, friendship, adultery, love affair, betrayal, lust, cheating on husband, cheating, forbidden love ...
Time: year 2004
Place: europe, england, portland oregon, oregon
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41%
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The Good Girl (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.
Style: dark comedy, realistic, sincere, independent film, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: small town, older woman younger man relationship, dull life, mental illness, dysfunctional marriage, suicide, workplace, infidelity, adultery, dark humor, lie, blackmail ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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41%
 6.8
 16K
Intermission (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, touching, witty, melancholic ...
Plot: infidelity, justice, unlikely friendships, multiple storylines, eccentricity, couple relations, heist, love and romance, caper, existentialism, gangster, profanity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
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41%
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Intentions (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Renee leads a fulfilling life as a professor of theater, mother of two girls, and wife to a kind and successful husband. Her life of contentment is changed forever when she discovers an undeniable attraction between herself and a female graduate ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, sincere, independent film
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, sexual content, family relations, college, infidelity, love and romance, forbidden love, couples, life turned upside down, teachers and students, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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40%
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Traveller (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended. He is at first rejected, but cousin Bokky takes him on as an apprentice. Pat learns the game while Bokky falls in love and ...
Style: road movie, neo noir, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: home invasion, funeral, drifter, grandmother grandson relationship, trailer home, female bartender, widower, single mother, mentor protege relationship, con men, gypsy, cons and scams ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: north carolina, louisville kentucky, usa
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40%
Jack Goes Boating (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples.
Style: emotional, romantic, talky, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, loneliness, multiple storylines, love story, character study, complex characters, lifestyle, couple relations, looking for love, dishonesty, singleness, death ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, seattle, harlem, australia ...
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40%
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XX/XY (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of ...
Style: melancholic, intense, psychological, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex, infidelity, threesome, friendship, love triangle, betrayal, loneliness, complex characters, college, haunted by the past, buddies, couple relations ...
Time: year 2002, year 1993, 90s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 3K
Texasville (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. ...
Style: independent film, crying, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: depression, dysfunctional family, small town, midlife crisis, homecoming, wealth, husband wife relationship, nostalgia, mental illness, reconciliation, dysfunctional marriage, dog ...
Time: 80s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Snow Angels (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's ...
Style: melancholic, meditative, independent film, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: small town life, small town, depression, dysfunctional family, abusive husband, teenage love, loneliness, life philosophy, snow, family problems, parents and children, first love ...
Time: year 2007
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The River (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, love and romance, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, hopes, introspection, gays and lesbians ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Julie Johnson (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Julie discovers her abilities and finds the courage to make dramatic life changes. This is a story of ...
Style: sincere, realistic, clever, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, self discovery, friendship, follow your dream, forbidden love, lifestyle, lgbt, human nature, love and romance, feminism, couples, parents and children ...
Place: new jersey, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Four Sheets to the Wind (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, romantic comedy ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, last wish, native, american indian, indians, indigenous people, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.
Style: sexy, touching, romantic, sensual, sentimental ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cheating wife, infidelity, hippie, bittersweet, coming of age, love affair, summer vacation, lust, erotica, family relations, secret relationship, sex in car ...
Time: 60s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century, year 1969
Place: new york, usa, woodstock, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Hurricane Streets (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gang, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy, children, violence, teenager, runaway, worship, smuggling, theft ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, new mexico, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
In This Tricky Life (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, exciting, romantic ...
Plot: infidelity, prostitute, hopes, love and romance, fall in love, social decay, dysfunctional family, looking for love, downfall, womanizer, single parent, life is a bitch ...
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, uruguay, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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