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The Southern Chronicles (2024)
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Original name: Pietinia Kronikas
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
It follows Rimants who is more interested in playing rugby, listening to music and dealing on the black market than studying for school, but when he falls in love with Monika, his faith in love and the future is tested.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, nostalgic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, first love, rugby, personal growth, young love, youth culture, character study, friendship, rebellion, high school life, moral dilemma, identity, peer pressure, slice of life, hopes, intimate, black market, small town, social realism, desperation, urban, love, school life
Place:
eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, romantic drama and realistic films with plots about coming of age, slice of life, intimate, bittersweet, friendship, identity and first love mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Southern Chronicles: We Started Together (2022), Love and Happiness (2005), Summer Days, Summer Nights (2018), Dream Boy (2022), Untangle (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A coming of age story, in flashback, of a group of high school students graduating in 2011. Each will take a different path from here on.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, youth, coming of age, grownups, graduation, friendship, flashback, self discovery, nostalgia, bittersweet, identity, classmate ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
About 19-year-old Minna, this is a funny, tender, and emotional movie about searching for love and yourself. About taking control of your life.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, heartfelt, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Plot:
looking for love, personal growth, coming of age, self discovery, young adult, slice of life, teenage love, young woman, identity, first love, teacher student relationship, longing ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
eastern europe
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84%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
On the south shore of Long Island in the summer of 1982, a group of working-class teenagers and 20-somethings work their summer jobs, fall in and out of love, and wrestle with what the future holds when the summer ends and the real world beckons.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic drama, period piece ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
long island
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A 2022 Indian Telugu movie.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Priscilla is 16 and if you think a normal girl too, especially when repairs to your friends. When her mother goes to work and she stays alone at home, he decides he'll get in your square attitude and will fund that idea. Among the many changes ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, satirical, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
grownups, female protagonist, coming of age, teenager, self discovery, teenage sexuality, adolescence, satire, changing lives, lifestyle, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle change ...
Place:
rio de janeiro
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
summer, coming of age, self discovery, personal growth, introspection, friendship, identity crisis, identity, getting home, small town, university student, intimate ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A pair of high school sweethearts face challenges in their relationship when they take different directions in life.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, young love, young adult, high school, first love, bittersweet, nostalgia, slice of life, teen angst, breakup, heartbreak, longing ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, satirical, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
19-year old Ah Loong is in charge of a street stall selling pirated VCDs. Ah Loong is an incurable romantic with a unique hobby – he loves to read and write poetry. Quite content to carry on being the Romeo of the slums, Ah Loong's life takes ...
Style:
romantic drama, intercultural, melancholic, emotional
Plot:
interracial relations, young lovers, coming of age, poetry, youth, first love, teen romance, intimate, bittersweet, character study, poverty, identity ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A film about a boy who does not know how to love, and the hardships he goes through when he starts falling in love with the encouragement of his friends - Based on true incidents an innocent village love story.
Style:
heartfelt, romantic drama, emotional, realistic, pastoral ...
Plot:
village life, friendship, slice of life, personal growth, young love, self discovery, youth, small town, first love, coming of age, heartwarming, bittersweet ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Roy, a village boy who's a failure at studies, joins Christy's tuition. They become good friends, but later when Christy gets a job abroad, Roy's life changes
Style:
emotional, realistic, reflective, melancholic, intercultural
Plot:
friendship, slice of life, village life, coming of age, nostalgia, relationships, personal growth, longing, aspiration, bittersweet, education, separation ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, heartfelt, period piece
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
sexual intercourse, coming of age, first love, adolescence, young love, sexual awakening, bittersweet, male protagonist, longing, female nudity, slice of life, sexual frustration ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
belgrade, former yugoslavia, eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, earnest
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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2000s
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
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Story:
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Country: Indonesia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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