Movies like Don't Let Me Drown
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Don't Let Me Drown (2009)
442
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, psychological, sentimental, captivating, touching, serious, gloomy, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, youth, family relations, parents and children, society, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, african american, opposites attract, young love, teenage love, 9/11, misfit, love and romance, profanity, fall in love, couples, teenage life, young lovers, sexual content, urban, dealing with death, romance ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york
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Most similar movies to Don't Let Me Drown
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about love and romance, youth, society, family relations, parents and children, couples and coming of age mostly in Drama, Romance and Action genres. Some movies like Don't Let Me Drown: Mamitas (2011), Face (2002), Year of the Nail (2007), Liar's Moon (1981), Of Boys and Men (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
498
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A teenager in Echo Park deals with the loss of his mother and his attraction to a girl not considered "cool" by his friends.
Style:
realistic, sincere, captivating, light, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage love, youth, high school, couples, teenage life, social relations, friendship, society, self discovery, poverty, homeless ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
forbidden love, teenage love, young lovers, teenager, young couple, coming of age, love, bittersweet, computers and web, infidelity, small town life, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
texas, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hopes, follow your dream, parents and children, family relations, young lovers, coming of age, teenage life, unfulfillment, human nature, mother son relationship, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style:
realistic, emotional, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, society, youth, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
100%
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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:
100%
639
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Adapted from a stage play by Christopher Shinn, the debut feature from Joshua Sanchez is a provocative rumination on race and sexuality set on a sweltering 4th of July evening.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, gay sex, coming of age, gay african american, interracial relations, gay, couples, couple relations, society, teenage life, family relations, gender ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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%
342
Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A smart poor girl and a inmature rich boy get their life twisted when they accidently have a baby.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
young lovers, pregnancy, family relations, couples, youth, society, teenage life, love, teenager, grownups, responsibility, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
costa rica, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, ...
Style:
touching, cynical, stylized, harsh, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
couples, coming of age, sexual relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, relationships, teenage love, love story, loneliness, family relations, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, dominican republic, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"Washington Heights" tells the story of Carlos Ramirez, a young illustrator burning to escape the Latino neighborhood of the same name to make a splash in New York City's commercial downtown comic book scene. When his father, who owns ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, emotional, tense, touching ...
Plot:
opposites attract, family relations, couples, young lovers, parents and children, urban ghetto life, lifestyle, human nature, heist, love and romance, society, disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, las vegas, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Casper (Gijs Blom) has never met his father and lives alone with his mother Marit (Birgit Schuurman). He likes to spend his free time playing the piano, so he is thrilled when he is chosen to become a pianist in a youth orchestra – and especially ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
absent father, family relations, parents and children, single parent, coming of age, youth, teenage life, friendship, love and romance, terminal illness, friendship between boys, medical examination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, prague, europe, central europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Estonia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
30-year old Kertu has lived under her father's power her whole life. Because of her gentle nature, she is thought by locals to be a little simple-minded. The young woman makes her first timid attempt to change something in her life - she send a ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, parents and children, unlikely couple, society, social misfits, village life, self discovery, family relations, drunkenness, summer, tourism, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The tragic struggle of an undocumented Latino family in Los Angeles after they have sent their eldest son to war.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
gang, immigrant, teenage life, family relations, urban ghetto life, life is a bitch, parents and children, society, coming of age, love and romance, social problems, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, south america, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern means of communication.' All that changes when she meets her new boyfriend's teenage kids, who are going through their own journeys of ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, self discovery, couple relations, teaching the ways of the world, profanity, bittersweet, love and romance, society, power relations, couples, computers and web, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
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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:
21%
1K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young novelist tries to write about love, but realizes he will first need some real-life experience before taking on the subject.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, sincere, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
asthma, fall in love, self discovery, novelist, love affair, lifestyle, couples, unfulfillment, young lovers, society, in love, womanizer ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
Style:
contemplative, sentimental, emotional, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, memory loss, teenage love, love triangle, self discovery, fall in love, social relations, youth, couples, society, amnesia, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, usa, asia
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
A boy and a girl who are friends from their childhood fight and break up during their school and college. They meet again at the age of 25 and fall in love.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, entertaining
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, true love, teenage love, wooing, parents and children, rejection, family relations, young lovers, youth, school, love, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
19%
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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:
19%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sasha is a young Russian violinist on a scholarship to Juilliard, living with his affectionate but overbearing father, a cellist determined to manage his son's career. While Sasha prepares for a critical recital that will launch him on a path ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fall in love, musician's life, follow your dream, culture clash, self discovery, family relations, hopes, love and romance, parents and children, lifestyle, music band, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
621
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style:
realistic, touching, erotic, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
city life, immigrant, self discovery, friendship, restaurant, diner, family relations, social misfits, workplace romance, workplace, lonely, unfulfilled love ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
At a crossroads in his life, Doc Jennings goes home to celebrate his mother's birthday and uncovers dramatic family secrets. Lies, affairs and afflictions bubble to the surface of his seemingly perfect family. Can they come back together or is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot:
family relations, family problems, couples, family in crisis, parents and children, wedding anniversary, life turned upside down, love, father son relationship, hospital, society, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
19%
591
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Preppy and wealthy Whitt Sheffield is in his last semester of law school when a professor assigns him to act as an advocate for a young, single mother who needs help finding - and keeping - a job. Whitt, whose snooty father wants Whitt to follow him ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
single parent, law student, fall in love, couples, rich and poor, society, parents and children, law school, lawyers and clients, lawyer, social differences, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A between-the-sheets peek at Black Love and Sexuality
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
couples, sexual relations, teenage life, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, society, teenage love, twentysomething life, city life, gender, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
18%
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