Movies like An Education
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An Education (2009)
138K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Style:
realistic, period piece, costume drama, romantic, feel good, talky, stylized, offbeat, indie film, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, lolita, self discovery, teenage girl, betrayal, virginity, teenage life, older man young girl relationship, oxford, culture, adolescence, nymphet, women, loss of virginity, relationships, teaching the ways of the world, teenager, direction and purpose, love and romance, love story, passion, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 1900s, year 1961, 60s, 1960s
Place:
london, france, oxford university, paris france, britain, united kingdom, europe ...
Keyword:
feminist film, educational film, jewish, french, latin, reading, dictionary, challenge, dreams, poster, eye candy
Most similar movies to An Education
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, independent film and serious films with plots about coming of age, teenager, teenage girl, youth, women, adolescence and girl mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like An Education: Palo Alto (2013), Brooklyn (2015), Lolita (1962), Towelhead (2007), Wildlife (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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31K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Style:
sentimental, touching, romantic, sweet, realistic ...
Audience:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's ...
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teens, teen drama, adult
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1940s, 20th century, year 1962, near future, 1950s ...
Place:
new hampshire, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
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disturbing, sensual, melancholic, controversial, compassionate ...
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teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
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31K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry—a housewife and a golf pro—in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job—and his sense of ...
Style:
melancholic, suspenseful, indie film, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
unemployment, coming of age, teenage boy, infidelity, parents and children, cheerleader, fired from the job, marital separation, family relations, family drama, father son relationship, unemployed ...
Time:
60s, 90s, year 1960
Place:
montana, sarajevo, idaho, portland oregon, washington state
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of ...
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, teenage life, siblings relations, human nature, youth, couple relations, love and romance, family relations, teenager, women, life ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 2001, 20th century
Place:
london, england, brighton, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
126K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, age difference, friendship, adolescence, graduation, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, blues, teen angst, best friend, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, indiana, los angeles
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100%
29K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style:
touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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547K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
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funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time:
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Place:
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31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style:
touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
usa, philadelphia, key west florida
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50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style:
stylized, sentimental, bad ending, romantic, emotional ...
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chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
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30%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style:
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Audience:
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michigan, detroit, yale university
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
615K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
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1940s, year 2004, 50s, post world war two, 20th century ...
Place:
south carolina, north carolina, iran, usa, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching ...
Style:
romantic, period piece, emotional, costume drama, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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29%
97K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
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Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
period piece, talky, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
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1920s, future, year 1991, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
italy, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. She can't help herself ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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29%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dave, a high school senior, spends most of his time pining away over a girl he can’t have. Aubrey, a junior with artistic aspirations, has a hot boyfriend who doesn’t quite understand her or seem to care. Although they go to different schools, ...
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teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
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28%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, romantic, stylized, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sincere, costume drama, dramatic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
44K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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83%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister, her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her ...
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50%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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