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Girls Can't Swim (2000)
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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, sexy, touching, semi serious, sexual
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, human nature, teenage love, betrayal, lesbian subtext, lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lgbtq, age difference, woman, female nudity, teenage girl, voyeur, redhead, fishing boat, caught having sex, promiscuous daughter, sexual awakening, youth, friends ...
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, friendship, teenage life and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Girls Can't Swim: The Good Life (1996), Water Lilies (2007), Charlotte for Ever (1986), A Night with Sabrina Love (2000), An Easy Girl (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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coming of age, age difference, prostitute, friendship, hopes, dealing with death, prank, self discovery, youth, love and romance, couples, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, madrid
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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, ...
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sexy, romantic, realistic, serious, psychological ...
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teens, pre-teens, teen drama
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coming of age, lesbian, lgbt, teenage sexuality, teenage girl, lesbianism, youth, gender, lesbian love, forbidden love, loss of virginity, gays and lesbians ...
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Stan, screeplay writer, had his time of glory in Hollywood. Today, alcoholic with a certain envy for suicide, his only link to life is his daughter, Charlotte.
Style:
sexy, realistic, semi serious, sexual, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
widower, obscenity, forbidden love, coming of age, age difference, incestuous relationship, psychology, lesbian, teenage girl, gay friend, poet, family problems ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
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100%
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:
sincere, touching, humorous, sexy, realistic ...
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porn star, porn industry, lifestyle, self discovery, youth, love and romance, forbidden love, starlet, sexual relations, sexual initiation, porn actress, loss of virginity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
latin america, argentina
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100%
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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 ...
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erotic, meditative, controversial, melancholic, scenic ...
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sea, seaside, coming of age, 16 year old, summer vacation, older man younger woman sex, female protagonist, sex scene, muslim girl, seductress, teenage sexuality, teenage girl ...
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french riviera, south of france
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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.
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sincere, touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, couple relations, best friends, self discovery, youth, fall in love, small town life, teenage life, teenage love, human nature, gender ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, south carolina
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28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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, ...
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sincere, sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, parents and children, dysfunctional family, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, hopes, family problems, society, youth, teenage life, family relations, high school life ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
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27%
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 ...
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sexual, psychological, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens
Plot:
high school, coming of age, male teacher female student affair, teachers and students, lifestyle, relationships, fall in love, love triangle, love affair, teacher student romance, forbidden love, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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.
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semi serious, realistic, sincere, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, school, jewish girl, political protest, female protagonist, friendship, high school, children, troubled relationship, suicide, woman, relationships ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ...
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road movie, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, gender, punk, kidnapping, love and romance, self discovery, unlikely couple, human nature, dull life, on the road, lgbt, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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.
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sexy, realistic, sincere, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, lesbian, friendship, love and romance, family relations, youth, friends, couples, coming out, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, best friends ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ...
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multicultural, semi serious, realistic, feel good, clever ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, lesbian love, woman, family relations, male homosexuality, gays and lesbians, babies and infants, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
asia, new york, india, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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.
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realistic, semi serious, captivating, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, bittersweet, working class, youth culture, factory worker, teenage love, dysfunctional family, puberty, blue collar, oil refinery, proletarian, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
tuscany, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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, witty, realistic, humorous, stylized ...
Plot:
family life, siblings relations, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, love and romance, family problems, eccentric family, best friends, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ...
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sexual, sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
loss of virginity, love, coming of age, virgin, female nudity, teenage sexuality, nude, bittersweet, family relations, social relations, religions or cults, friends ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
africa, tunisia, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, Mexico, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
At the age of 13, Rafael Bregman has already lost his virginity, but has never kissed a girl. With his pimple-riddled face, his dysfunctional family, and a lowered self-esteem, getting this much anticipated first kiss proves trickier than expected. ...
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humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
coming of age, school, teenage sexuality, teenage boy, lifestyle, youth, society, sexual awakening, friendship, older woman teenage boy sex, self discovery, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ...
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realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, humorous ...
Plot:
youth, parents and children, teenage life, family life, coming of age, bittersweet, unfulfillment, illness, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, friendship, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. ...
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realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, youth, family problems, teenage love, teenage girl, troubled youth, drug abuse, woman, car race, motorcycle race, death in the family ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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 ...
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humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, erotic ...
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teen drama
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teenage girl, love triangle, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, love and romance, parents and children, teenage love, lifestyle, single parent, social relations, student life, college ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ...
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semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
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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 ⇓
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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, ...
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stepfather stepdaughter relationship, coming of age, erotica, female masturbation, cult, sexual awakening, voyeur, sexploitation, hippie, virgin, nude girl, teenage sexuality ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
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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.
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lolita, working class, coming of age, summer vacation, rebel, child prodigy, adolescence, friendship, children, teenage girl, crazy love, childhood ...
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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.
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sincere, light, humorous, entertaining, twisted ...
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teenage girl, sex, teenage life, sexual relations, love and romance, parents and children, teenage love, artists and showbiz, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, teen angst, family relations ...
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70s, 20th century
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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.
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semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
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Time:
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Place:
usa, california
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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 ...
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semi serious, witty, humorous, realistic, sex comedy
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blackmail, friendship, teenage love, love triangle, teenage life, lifestyle, youth, college, sexual relations, womanizer, pregnancy, sex with a minor ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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20%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Switzerland, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age tale centered around Hannah, a young girl who is living a troubled family life. Set in 1963, Hannah develops a fascination with Jean-Luc Godard's then-recent film "Vivre sa vie". As she begins to model herself after ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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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. ...
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humorous, sentimental, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
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Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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