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Broken Dreams (2010)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Johnny, Elisabeth, and Ryan grew up best friends. Things change when Ryan asks Elisabeth to marry him, sending Johnny down a dangerous path.
Style:
captivating, realistic, sentimental, psychological, independent film, melancholic, tension, tense, touching, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, coming of age, best friend, obsession, youth, filmmaking, adolescence vs adulthood, love, friendship, rivalry, unrequited love, addiction, jealousy, self destructing, realism, slice of life, bittersweet, young adult, personal growth, urban, male protagonist, moral ambiguity, nostalgia, security guard, friends ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
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 friendship, coming of age, youth, friends, bittersweet, love and romance and love triangle mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Broken Dreams: Not Waving But Drowning (2012), 3 Nights in the Desert (2014), A Trip (2011), Cherry. (2010), The Disobedient (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, female friendship, coming of age, personal growth, character study, society, couples, small town, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three former band mates enter a cave after hearing it has the power to give them what they need. As unsettling desires rise to the surface, they all wonder if the cave has real power.
Style:
sincere, touching, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
desert, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, introspection, love triangle, love and romance, twentysomething life, bittersweet, art, coming of age, friends, road not taken ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
67%
934
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Style:
emotional, realistic, road movie, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, journey, love triangle, on the road, coming of age, youth, nomad, lesbian, lgbt, picnic, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovenia
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When Brian Cherry, a sweet, sensitive young Los Angeleno, falls for the beautiful, electric, and damaged Jules, she turns his ideas about women and sex upside-down. Slowly, he is drawn into a twisted love-triangle that includes Jules and his best ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, sexy, independent film ...
Plot:
love triangle, couples, fall in love, best friend, love, friendship, escapades, revenge, youth, love and romance, male female relationship, generation y ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
As children, Leni and Lazar were best friends. When Lazar returns from extensive travels abroad for his father's funeral, Leni yearns to reconnect with her childhood soulmate but still feels the sting of their years of estrangement.
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, serious, reflective ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, best friend, hopes, introspection, twentysomething life, road trip, personal growth, coming of age, countryside, slice of life, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The lives of a Hollywood actress battling drug addiction, a teen with a violent past, a teacher fighting to keep a dream alive, and a cop caught in a love triangle are brought together by fate.
Style:
realistic, serious, independent film, tense, touching ...
Plot:
addiction, redemption, hopes, love triangle, haunted by the past, dedicated educator, youth, hollywood, rehabilitation, trauma, celebrity, recovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Syd is an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine. He caused a rift 5 years ago between his bohemian housemates and the family next door, but now tries to recruit his 14-year-old neighbor as a collaborator.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, drug, teenage boy, coming of age, death threat, depression, couples, love and romance, love, youth, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On Skeet’s twelfth birthday his older brother Randy buys him his first surfboard. Suddenly his summer turns to the endless search for the perfect wave, wild times and beach parties and eventually, finding his own daring adventures when Randy’s ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, disturbing
Audience:
kids
Plot:
surfing, father figure, boy, youth, coming of age, brother brother relationship, gang, friendship, best friend, parents and children, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Place:
california, usa, mexico
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, teenage love, rebelliousness, best friend, love and romance, youth, rebellion, boarding house, opera singer, friendship, reconciliation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
beijing china, china, asia
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Judy, Alex and Nick are three friends in their early twenties who haven't quite figured things out. Judy is stuck at a dead-end job and is about to make a big move in her life when her boyfriend unexpectedly proposes to her via voicemail. The ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, romantic comedy, melancholic, lighthearted
Plot:
friendship, confusion, love triangle, unrequited love, loyalty, coming of age, personal growth, slice of life, young adult, bittersweet, aspiring writer, creative block ...
Time:
90s
Place:
southern california
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The peaceful cohabitation of two 30-something bachelors is disrupted when they both fall in love with the charming young woman who moves in with them.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, love triangle, partner, fall in love, bittersweet, lifestyle, love and romance, buddies, loner, lgbt, gay, advice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
47%
276
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Flats tells a cautionary tale of friendship and desire played out among a group of 20-somethings transitioning into adulthood. Main character Harper and his buddies make the most of their freedom prior to an impending court-ordered jail ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, coming of age, love triangle, love and romance, human nature, unemployment, friendship between men, moral dilemma, loss of innocence, betrayal, regret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington state, oregon, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The solid friendship between two men takes a beating when a woman enters their lives.
Style:
sentimental, dramatic, entertaining, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
friendship, childhood friend, relationships, group of friends, young woman, friends, friend, friendship between men, best friend, young girl, brotherhood, love triangle ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a friend. The two get closer and fall in love, but face turmoil.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
city life, couples, society, immigrant, redemption, friendship, youth, love, love story, family relations, age difference, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1978, five teenagers in Shelbyville, Tennessee look to meet the actress Sondra Locke, who's rumored to return to town for the local premiere of her big Hollywood movie.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, teenage love, society, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, friendship, teenage life, parents and children, small town, suburbs, best friend ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Basketball is the backdrop against which this coming of age lesbian Indie flick is set. A touching story of young ladies irresistibly drawn together against their will.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, basketball, self discovery, friendship, meaning of life, lgbt, best friend, female protagonist, coming of age, youth, lgbtq, young love ...
Similarity:
42%
752
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, understanding, friendship, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend, sex
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, britain
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Strawberry Fields is the story of two sisters who both like the same man but in different ways and is a bold and inventive melodrama that offers a distinctively refreshing spin on a complex story of lust, rivalry and liberation. A seemingly carefree ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
rivalry, family relations, siblings relations, coming of age, love and romance, youth, countryside, farm, love triangle, fall in love, innocence lost, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, culture clash, love and romance, society, pregnancy, youth, hopes, coming of age, road not taken, small town, wooing, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story:
Aftermath the last final decision that affect every people's life around them. What is gonna happen to our beloved childhood friend?
Style:
romantic comedy, sentimental, feel good, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, second chance, proposal, travel, flashback, nostalgia, love triangle, young adult, heartwarming, coming of age, regret, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Heaven Burns follows a young man as he attempts to navigate first love in a backdrop of suburban adolescent drug addiction.
Style:
sexy, thrilling, psychological, captivating, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
addiction, love affair, drug abuse, couple relations, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, relationships, coming of age, first love, youth, adolescence ...
Similarity:
40%
18
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Scorn takes a look into the trials and tribulations of a group of people dealing with relationships, love, pain and friendship during the course of one year.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
bittersweet, love, family problems, introspection, couples, couple relations, human nature, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, urban, abuse, friendship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of friends travels to the beach to encourage Jason, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. The journey is rooted in nostalgia and desire for a meaningful farewell, although the friends avoid the subject of Jason's illness. Some time ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, buddies, terminal illness, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, friends, dealing with death, fighting illness, illness, relationship problems, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story follows Abby, a thirty-something artist living in Rhode Island caring for her husband William after he's tragically injured in a bar fight. As she attempts to coax him back to health, James, her childhood sweetheart and unrequited ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, psychological, indie film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
renewed love, lovers reunited, love triangle, moral dilemma, life turned upside down, couples, friendship, wounded, choice, disorder, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, rhode island
Similarity:
37%
659
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, power relations, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, hopes, society, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A single father balances his work as an attorney with the care of his five year old son and his work as a high school basketball coach in rural Kansas, where he moved after his wife abandoned him in Chicago. Just as he starts to develop a new ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
small town, love triangle, coming of age, divorce, single father, friendship, bittersweet, love, voyeurism, blonde, voyeur, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
kansas, usa, texas
Similarity:
35%
355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, youth, car accident, grief, accidental death, society, love, dealing with death, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friends, friendship, obsession, family relations, social relations, interracial relations, family life, society ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
35%
234
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, unfulfillment, friendship, university, college, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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