Movies like Christmas
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Christmas (2009)
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Original name: Navidad
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alejandro and Aurora, two young students, leave Santiago and are on their way to spend Christmas with family in Aurora. At the foot of the Andes, the frustrations of Alejandro and Aurora’s doubts about her sexual identity cause tension. The two teens are on the verge of collapse when they discover the presence of a young girl, Alicia, a fragile girl of sixteen years who has fled her home. Gathered around an improvised Christmas tree, Alejandro and Aurora are fascinated by the enigmatic Alicia, who is becoming the object of their desire.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, youth, young lovers, dysfunctional family, friendship, friends, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, introspection, teenage love, love and romance, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, lesbian sex, lesbian, first lesbian experience, christmas spirit, bittersweet, teenager, mountain, subway, summer, troubled teen ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
chile, argentina
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Most similar movies to Christmas
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about youth, coming of age, love and romance, teenage life, family relations, teenager and parents and children mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Christmas: Falling Like This (2001), Love is the Word (2013), Falla vackert (2004), The Summer of Sangaile (2015), Love Hurts (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, couples, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, on the run, youth, friendship, fall in love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, first love, first sexual experience, love and romance, youth, family relations, hopes, village, parents and children, teenager, age difference, teenage sex ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.
Style:
sexy, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, looking for love, teenage love, hopes, suburban life, love and romance, teenage life, lifestyle, society, summer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, freeze frame
Audience:
teens
Plot:
family relations, teenage love, eccentric family, love and romance, countryside, teenage life, fall in love, parents and children, estate, bittersweet, coming of age, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, France, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seventeen-year-old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at the summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents' lakeside villa. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds in her ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian love, teenage girl, lesbian interest, female nudity, coming of age, lesbian, lesbian sex, summer vacation, lgbt, self discovery, teenage love, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Renata is a young high-class girl and Ulises is a poor guy. They both fall in love, but they must fight against everyone, specially Renata's rich parents, who want to stop their love by sending her to Canada. The story remarks the difference ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
teenage love, poverty, wealth, social differences, forbidden love, against the odds, young lovers, youth, society, fall in love, parents and children, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico city, mexico, latin america
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
We’re in the middle of a heat-wave in Fenland England. Goob Taylor has spent each of his sixteen summers helping Mum run the transport cafe and harvest the surrounding beet fields. When Mum shacks up with swarthy stock-car supremo and ladies’ ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage boy, family relations, teenage love, youth, small town, parents and children, teenager, boy, hot guys, friendship, summer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, love affair, couples, unfulfilled love, teenage life, hopes, society, friendship, male female relationship, looking for sex, youth, loss of virginity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. ...
Style:
period piece, contemplative, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
young lovers, pregnancy, boat, female nudity, yacht, funeral, teenage crush, bittersweet, friendship, politics, society, teenage life ...
Time:
year 1985, 50s
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An awkward 13-year-old (Winona Ryder) leaves her cranky grandfather (Jason Robards) in rural Texas, to live with her mother (Jane Alexander) in Fort Worth.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
coming of age, young lovers, 13 year old, self harm, women, young love, estranged family member, intellectual disability, disabled child, family problems, couples, family relations ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style:
touching, realistic, gloomy, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friends, teenage life, life is a bitch, boy girl relationship, youth, family problems, friendship, high school life, social relations, dysfunctional family, school, social decay ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
French drama, the debut film from writer-director Eléonore Faucher. Teenager Claire (Lola Naymark) discovers she is pregnant and decides to keep it a secret. Abandoning her dead-end supermarket job, she is taken on as an apprentice by couturiere ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, coming of age, pregnancy, small town, friendship, single parent, youth, family problems, teenage life, human nature, employer employee relationship, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, family problems, hopes, youth, parents and children, teachers and students, coming of age, search for father, unknown father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's". The movie covers, teenage angst, ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian, family relations, teenage life, parents and children, family life, hopes, youth, human spirit, love and romance, rebelliousness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
47%
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:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
young lovers, french algerian war, friendship, teenage love, revolution, love and romance, political unrest, friends, youth, true love, love story, muslim girl ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 60s ...
Place:
algeria
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Julien and Emma are brother and sister, living in rural France with their father, who writes children's books. Julien is a gifted pianist but the loss of his mother has sucked the joie de vivre out of him; his best friend Alice knows it ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
love affair, fall in love, starting over, love and romance, hopes, teenage life, couples, human nature, family problems, gays and lesbians, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage love, love affair, family problems, love and romance, society, lifestyle, family life, life turned upside down, teenage life, farm ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
For as long as she could remember, Dakota Skye has been cursed with a super power. She has the ability to see the truth in any lie she hears. From small, harmless white lies, to the more devious kind, they have come from the people that she should ...
Style:
serious, independent film, captivating, indie film, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, teen angst, sex in car, friendship, teenage life, music band, supernatural power, coming of age, lie, self acceptance, teenager, self discovery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
friendship, racial discrimination, desert, ethnic, female pubic hair, immigrant, settler, social differences, culture clash, teenage life, teenage love, society ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory, twins, patient, terminal illness, hospital, couples, family problems, family relations, hopes, youth, life is a bitch, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A young girl named Ann moves with her mother to her mother's hometown after her parents go through a divorce. There, Ann meets her first love Daigo Kitamura. Daigo helps her get used to life in the country. Ann even gets through her ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, family problems, death in the family, small town, youth, couples, family relations, classmate, friendship, school, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming of age stories of four teen-age girls.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, independent film, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, boarding school, teenage girl, friendship, girls' boarding school, nymphet, female friendship, youth, friends, social relations, power relations, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
46%
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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, society, youth, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, siblings relations, self discovery, elderly, hopes, family problems, countryside, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane's troubles when Jane's ...
Style:
sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lgbtq, lesbian love, sapphic, high school life, lesbian sex, lesbian romance, youth, lesbian relationship, loss of virginity, lesbian couple, lesbian teen ...
Time:
90s, year 1989, year 1993
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol poisoning, Sydney's desperate single mother sends her off to the country to live with her father, Ben, and his new pregnant wife, Emma. Sydney ...
Style:
atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stepmother stepdaughter relationship, kleptomania, teenage life, self discovery, friendship, youth, parents and children, family relations, countryside, bittersweet, shoplifting, underage drinking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
lesbian, coming of age, lgbt, teenage girl, lesbian interest, lesbian teen, teenage love, sapphic, teenage sexuality, teenager, lesbian love, forbidden love ...
Place:
paris france, indiana, france
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
coming of age, love, deaf, starting over, boarding school, dealing with death, youth, single parent, hopes, love and romance, couples, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
46%
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:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, young lovers, parents and children, troubled teen, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, loner, amor ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
Similarity:
46%
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