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The Map That Leads to You (2025)
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Heather is a young woman traveling Europe with friends before starting her perfectly planned life. A chance meeting with Jack sparks an unexpected romance that leads to deep emotional discovery. As secrets and life choices test their bond, her path changes forever.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, reflective, melancholic, intercultural
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female nudity, chance meeting, coming of age, male nudity, personal growth, self discovery, introspection, soul searching, chemistry, young adult, bittersweet, slow burn, adaptation, meet cute, holiday, best friend, mysterious stranger, hidden truth, male star appears nude, bathtub, shower, mooning, best friends, romance
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, romantic drama, emotional and reflective films with plots about bittersweet, personal growth, coming of age, young adult, self discovery, slice of life and urban mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Map That Leads to You: Hold Fast, Good Luck (2020), Siddharth Roy (2024), Sidelined: The QB and Me (2024), None Like Us (2018), We Met in December (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Over a fleeting week and a half, twenty-somethings Michael and Laura find counterparts within each other and form a deep, intense connection that is tested by their inevitable separation.
Style:
melancholic, controversial, emotional, reflective, contemplative ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Revolves around an uninhibited young man and his journey with finding love, pain, and confronting his past.
Style:
romantic drama, sincere, melancholic
Plot:
love story, heartbreak, coming of age, self discovery, personal growth, bittersweet, slow burn, internal monologue
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The imperfections of love and its bitter consequences in Turin, Italy, during the ‘80s, before the social networks and smartphones. What happens to your heart when you discover that you're madly in love with your best friend? What happens to ...
Style:
romantic drama, thought provoking, sexy, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two strangers meet on a layover and fall for one another — but forget to exchange numbers. The next day, they fly to Chicago separately, just miss each other, and “embark on separate quests to find one another."
Style:
romantic comedy, romantic drama, feel good, lighthearted, wistful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holiday, christmas, meet cute, self discovery, serendipity, personal growth, urban, second chance, bittersweet, holiday romance, cross country, fall in love ...
Place:
chicago
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67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Freelance writer Aoi Teshigahara (Miho Nakayama) lives in Paris, France. Sen Yagami (Osamu Mukai) is a photographer who came to Paris, France due to his younger sister Suzume's (Mirei Kiritani) insistance. Over the next 3 days, Aoi Teshigahara ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, contemplative, atmospheric, intercultural ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fall in love, relationships, love story, long distance relationship, photographer, meet cute, urban, young adult, slice of life, intimate, serendipity, introspection ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A love story between a simple guy and a music star fails, but suddenly he notices somebody else...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, sentimental, melancholic, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
soviet union, ussr
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61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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59%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
All paths inevitably end, whether we want them to or not. This is a tale about one particular path, followed by two particular people, but this is not a tale about romance, this is simply a film about beginnings and endings. Daniel and Eve are a ...
Style:
melancholic, reflective, independent film, mumblecore
Audience:
adult
Plot:
young adult, personal growth, introspection, female protagonist, bittersweet, memory, coming of age, regret, male protagonist, slice of life, identity crisis, self discovery ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
scotland
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57%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
From her journey through high school and college, then out into the wider world, Ramya’s dream of finding the perfect guy is obstructed by societal mores, strict parents, unrequited love and the untrammeled chaos of her own mind.
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, emotional
Plot:
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54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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51%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, psychological, sincere, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
moral dilemma, chance meeting, love story, relationships, relationship problems, male female relationship, family relations, changing lives, couples, couple relations, marriage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
turkey
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48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 146 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Italy, Spain, Romania, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
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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Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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335
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two Moscow students are mostly concerned with scoring with women but their lives change radically when one of them falls for a Jewish girl whose family is being persecuted by anonymous anti-Semites and is preparing to emigrate to Israel.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
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