Movies like Girls Can't Swim

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Girls Can't Swim (2000)
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Girls Can't Swim (2000)
Original name: Les filles ne savent pas nager
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Gwen is a teenager living in a small coastal town. Lise is her best friend, a city girl who comes every year with her family to spend the summer. This year things are different though; at first Lise might not come at all, and when she does it is obvious that Gwen grew up faster than she did.
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, disturbing, sentimental, touching, semi serious, sexual, sexy
Audience: teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, lesbian subtext, teenage life, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, human nature, teenage love, betrayal, lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, age difference, woman, young love, glbt, female nudity, teenage girl, voyeur, redhead, teenage sexuality, fishing boat, caught having sex, promiscuous daughter ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, europe, brittany

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and humorous films with plots about coming of age, love and romance, youth, family relations, teenage life, friendship and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Girls Can't Swim: The Other Side of Sunday (1996), Water Lilies (2007), A Night with Sabrina Love (2000), An Easy Girl (2019), The Good Life (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Other Side of Sunday, also known in Norwegian as "Søndagsengler", is a movie that criticizes the small, and often tight, church community. We follow the Preacher's Daughter, Maria, on her journey to liberate herself from the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, atmospheric, humorous, crying ...
Plot: coming of age, church, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, religion, rebellion, teenager, parents, atheism, woman, friendship between girls, nudity ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: europe, scandinavia
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100%
 6.7
 13K
Water Lilies (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, ...
Style: realistic, serious, sexy, psychological, sexual ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, lesbian, lgbt, teenage girl, gender, teenage sexuality, lesbian teen, teenage love, youth, lesbian love, lesbianism, forbidden love ...
Place: paris france, indiana, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Night with Sabrina Love (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France, Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Curuguazu, located in the Argentinian countryside, seventeen year-old Daniel Montero has been raised by his grandmother for three years since the death of his parents in a car accident. Daniel has a boring life, working in a poultry processing ...
Style: humorous, touching, sincere, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: porn industry, porn star, lifestyle, self discovery, starlet, youth, forbidden love, love and romance, sexual relations, sexual initiation, porn actress, adult film industry ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 6K
An Easy Girl (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Naïma has just turned 16. This summer, she will have to decide what she wants from life if she doesn’t want to miss out. Then her cousin Sofia arrives, with an amazing body and a dangerously seductive lifestyle. Naïma desires only to follow her ...
Style: erotic, realistic, melancholic, controversial, scenic ...
Plot: seaside, sex scene, 16 year old, coming of age, sea, summer vacation, female protagonist, muslim girl, older man younger woman sex, seductress, teenage girl, bare breasts ...
Place: french riviera, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Good Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, chess, age difference, family relations, prostitute, friendship, loss of virginity, friends, couples, self discovery, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: madrid, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 946
Swimming (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, couple relations, fall in love, self discovery, teenage life, teenage love, small town life, best friend, lesbian sex, human nature ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Beautiful Person (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie (Léa Seydoux) transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her the attention of the entire male student ...
Style: sexual, psychological, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: male teacher female student affair, high school, coming of age, teachers and students, lifestyle, nymphet, relationships, adolescence, fall in love, love triangle, unrequited love, teacher student romance ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Peppermint Soda (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, school, jewish girl, female protagonist, political protest, friendship, high school, children, woman, relationships, suicide, troubled relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Hardboiled Egg (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of Piero, from when he was a kid to fatherhood, over the background of the town of Livorno, Tuscany, where the director Virzì was born.
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, gloomy, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bittersweet, working class, youth culture, dysfunctional family, factory worker, teenage love, blue collar, oil refinery, proletarian, puberty, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tuscany, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.3
 886
Suddenly (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Marcia (Tatiana Saphir), a frumpy and overweight salesgirl who seems to lead a banal and dreary existence, goes to work one day. As she walks she catches the eye of a feisty butch punk woman named Mao (Carla Crespo) who tells Marcia she wants to ...
Style: road movie, touching, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, gender, punk, kidnapping, self discovery, love and romance, human nature, unlikely couple, dull life, on the road, lgbt, lesbian relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Chutney Popcorn (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Reena is a young Indian American lesbian who lives and works in New York. Her sister Sarita, who is happily married, discovers that she is infertile. Reena offers to be a surrogate mother for her sister's baby, hoping to improve her ...
Style: multicultural, independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, woman, sapphic, family relations, lesbian mother, male homosexuality, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.5
 2K
These Girls (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the humorously edgy play by Vivienne Laxdal, These Girls is the story of three teenage girls who, in turn, seduce and then attempt to share Keith, an older married man. It is a tale of innocence, jealousy and friendship told as a ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: blackmail, friendship, teenage love, teenage life, love triangle, youth, lifestyle, college, sexual relations, womanizer, sex with a minor, farce ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.8
 322
Sonja (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Sonja is struggling to deal with her parent separation, and find her feelings for her best friend might not just be a phase.
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, sexy, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teens
Plot: coming of age, lesbian, friendship, love and romance, family relations, youth, friends, couples, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, best friend, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
A Summer in La Goulette (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual ...
Style: sexual, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: teenage sexuality, loss of virginity, love, coming of age, female nudity, virgin, bittersweet, best friend, nudity, social relations, religions or cults, friends ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: tunisia, africa, middle east, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.7
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Actresses (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Comédienne hantée par son rôle de Nathalia Petrovna, l'héroïne de la pièce de Tourguéniev Un Mois à la campagne qu'elle répète difficilement, Marcelline tente de noyer ses angoisses dans une piscine sur un air de Glenn Miller. ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, psychological, talky ...
Plot: unfulfillment, midlife crisis, family relations, actor's life, theatre director, lifestyle, parents and children, theater, rivalry, friendship, love of one's life, theatre play ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Whole New Thing (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Socially isolated by his parents (Rebecca Jenkins, Robert Joy), an androgynous teen (Aaron Webber) enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher (Daniel MacIvor).
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: coming of age, gays and lesbians, gay teenager, youth, lgbt, teachers and students, gender, bullying, gay teacher, gay, school, high school ...
Place: canada, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.0
 458
Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot: siblings relations, dysfunctional family, teenage love, teenage life, family life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, eccentric family, love and romance, family problems, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
An Impudent Girl (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlotte is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: working class, coming of age, summer vacation, rebel, child prodigy, teenage girl, adolescence, friendship, age difference, children, childhood, first love ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 3K
Girl (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Andrea Marr is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy for a look into the local rock and roll scene as a groupie to ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, musician's life, innocence lost, groupie, young lovers, best friend, lifestyle, teenage life, teenage love, music band, suburbs ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Father Is a Cleaning Lady (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Polo is 16 and has all the worries of a teenager his age. Between a bedridden mother and a sister who dreams of being a Miss, the only one he can look up to is his father. Unfortunately, he works as a maid ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: teenage life, parents and children, family relations, youth, family life, introspection, teenage love, buddies, social relations, kids and family, nursing, humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Cindy and Donna (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Seventeen-year old Cindy is in awe of big sister, Donna’s sexual exploits, but she just doesn’t get it. Whether she’s spying on Donna, parked and “makin’ it” in the driveway with her boyfriend, or watching her bang dear ol’ stepdad, ...
Style: erotic, cult classic, grindhouse, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: stepfather stepdaughter relationship, teenage sexuality, coming of age, erotica, sexual awakening, voyeur, sexploitation, sexy girls, hippie, virgin, female pubic hair, lesbian sex ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
 520
Pieces of Me (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crazy father old before his time, a tyrannical, sick mother, a sister who disappeared four years ago and me, Erell, who films everything, all the time... A fine family portrait. I live in the same town I've always lived in. You're born ...
Style: realistic, touching, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: youth, teenage life, parents and children, coming of age, family life, bittersweet, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, illness, sister sister relationship, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, hopes, youth, parents and children, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 5K
Cherry (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ivy League Freshman, Aaron Milton (17) gets a different kind of education when he falls for Linda (34) a vivacious former wild-child who has returned to college to straighten out her life. The curriculum gets more challenging when Aaron meets ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, independent film, light, teen ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, love triangle, coming of age, love and romance, parents and children, teenage love, male virgin, milf, social relations, lifestyle, single parent, student life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.9
 545
Alex in Wonder (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents.
Style: sincere, light, entertaining, humorous, twisted ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, sex, love and romance, sexual relations, teenage life, teenage love, parents and children, artists and showbiz, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teen angst, father daughter relationship, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
 856
My Life on Ice (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Etienne is crazy about ice skating and videoing his daily life with a digital camera. He records his mother, friends, and geography teacher. Initially his intention is to setup a date between his mother and his teacher, however, he starts to realize ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, sexy, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, gay teenager, friendship, teachers and students, lgbt, obsession, high school, couples, lifestyle, human nature, self discovery, contests and competitions ...
Place: france, normandy, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Best Things in the World (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, gay, lgbt, gay interest, father son relationship, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Bye Bye Blondie (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bye Bye Blondie tells the tale of Gloria and Frances, who first met when they were both patients in the same psychiatric hospital back in the 1980s, and decided to run away together. At the time their love affair was defined by youthful intensity. ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, humorous, gloomy ...
Plot: lesbian love, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lovers reunited, midlife crisis, lgbt, family problems, love and romance, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.5
 1K
Last Weekend (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, eccentric family, parents and children, siblings relations, dark humor, family gatherings, gay, friendship, dysfunctional family, lgbtq, lgbt, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Nico and Dani (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.
Style: stylized, realistic, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gay, coming of age, friendship between boys, gay teenager, friendship, self discovery, best friend, teenage love, innocence lost, lgbt, summer vacation, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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