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Pretty Hurts (2025)
75
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
To win scholarship money for college, Lauren enters the same beauty pageant her mom once dominated in her youth. Lauren is thrust into a dark, toxic world of cutthroat competition and manipulation. Too preoccupied with the pageant, Lauren doesn’t realize that her best friend Rae is falling seriously ill with an uncommon and potentially deadly disease — meningitis B – prompting her to turn the pageant platform into a tool for awareness.
Style:
dramatic, tension, inspirational
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
competition, beauty pageant, friendship, illness, rivalry, manipulation, ambition, coming of age, betrayal, mother daughter relationship, self discovery, sacrifice, resilience, identity, empathy, young adult, tragedy, grief, small town, activism, body image
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, inspirational, realistic and captivating films with plots about coming of age, friendship, identity, small town, resilience, ambition and self discovery mostly in Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Pretty Hurts: Tenkiller (2022), Surviving Lunch (2019), The Final Contestant (2023), Making Maya (2003), Vikramadithyan (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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coming of age, grief, teenager, trauma, loss, mourning, family drama, family conflict, young adult, confrontation, friendship, anger ...
Place:
oklahoma city, oklahoma
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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uplifting, feel good, inspirational, dramatic, sentimental ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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192
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
women, fashion, mortality, identity, self discovery, cancer, makeup artist, modeling, immigration, ambition, resilience, betrayal ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, realistic, uplifting, emotional, romantic drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
high school, social media, popularity, revenge, investigation, death of best friend, psychopath, fame, teenage life, private investigation, murder investigation, ambition ...
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58%
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Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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232
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
57%
88
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: India
Story:
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Story:
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